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And after that 'Arry was like a man-eating tiger in his desire for German blood. He used another illustration in his bayonet lectures. "You may meet a German who says, 'Mercy! I have ten children.... Kill him! He might have ten more." Col. I liked him better in that job, and saw the real imagination of the man at work, and his amazing, self-taught knowledge of psychology.
But, in reality, he was self-taught and self-formed, on the lines of an Evangelical tradition, which had owed something, a couple of generations back, among his Danish forebears, to the influence of Emanuel Swedenborg. This tradition had not only been conveyed to him by a beloved and saintly mother; it had been appropriated by the man's inmost forces.
This wondrous boy, of a genius beyond all comparison the greatest that ever yet was developed and extinguished at the age of eighteen, self-taught, self-struggling, self-immolated. Nothing in literature like that life and that death! And, turning from the history of the imposture to the poems themselves, the young reader bent before their beauty, literally awed and breathless.
But in no other of Motley's writings do we get such an inside view of his character with its varied impulses, its capricious appetites, its unregulated forces, its impatient grasp for all kinds of knowledge. With all his university experiences at home and abroad, it might be said with a large measure of truth that he was a self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy.
Yes... yes.... The writing-table and the mahogany cupboard here were made for my father by a self-taught cabinet-maker Glyeb Butyga, a serf of General Zhukov's. Yes... a great artist in his own way." Listlessly and in the tone of a man dropping asleep, he began telling me about cabinet-maker Butyga. I listened.
The coming years were to show that a great leader had taken his fitting place. Washington, born in 1732, had been trained in self-reliance, for he had been fatherless from childhood. At the age of sixteen he was working at the profession, largely self-taught, of a surveyor of land.
She asked him how he had got so much money so much! and then he told her how, self-taught, he had learned to cut out figures dogs and landscapes in coloured paper, which he had taken to the bazaars and stationers' shops, and there disposed of for a mere trifle truly.
It is the hard fate of the self-taught that their learning must cost them twice as much labor as it would if they were taught by others; the very books they study are grudging friends if not insidious foes.
I prudently took a few moments before I answered; for the equalling our immortal Lawrence to a most vile dauber stuck in my throat; I could not say Amen; so for some time I said nothing; but, at last, I remarked on the frequency with which I had heard this phrase of self-taught used, not as an apology, but as positive praise. "Well, madam, can there be a higher praise?"
But in no other of Motley's writings do we get such an inside view of his character with its varied impulses, its capricious appetites, its unregulated forces, its impatient grasp for all kinds of knowledge. With all his university experiences at home and abroad, it might be said with a large measure of truth that he was a self-educated man, as he had been a self-taught boy.
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