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Excerpt from English Premiers From Sir Robert Walpole to Sir Robert Peel, Vol. 2 of 2
The health of the precocious child did not keep pace with his understanding, and it was only by means of horse exercise and port wine that his strength was sustained till fifteen years of age. The tonic regimen appears to have suited him Well, for at that age he acquired fresh vigour, and was little molested by sickness during the rest of his life. His early debility deprived him of the advantage of a public school, for which, generally speaking, no private tuition can compensate. A clergy man named Wilson instructed him at home, and at fifteen his knowledge of the classics and mathematics exceeded that of most men who enter at college. He was also well acquainted with the Book of Books - the inexhaustible mine of sacred lore - which his father had been in the habit of reading with him daily.
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