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The total amount of his bequeathments was 16,600L.* About one-fourth of the whole he set apart for educational purposes, 2000L. to the Civil Engineers' Institute, and 1000L. each to the ministers of Langholm and Westerkirk, in trust for the parish libraries.
The lives of such men have become part of the public life of England, and their deeds and thoughts are regarded as among the most cherished bequeathments from the past. So Washington left behind him, as one of the greatest treasures of his country, the example of a stainless life of a great, honest, pure, and noble character a model for his nation to form themselves by in all time to come.
But a far nobler arrangement was made by that greatest of modern legislators, Napoleon whose code entitles the daughters of a house to share, equally with sons, in its property and bequeathments; and in France, a woman with a dowery is as sure of courtship and marriage, as of death and burial.
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