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Excerpt from John Marshall: An Address Delivered at the College on February 4, 1901, the Centenary of the Installation of John Marshall as Chief Justice of the United States
His early education was Obtained at home, at first under his father's tuition and then with a tutor, a Scotch clergy man who lived in the family. At fourteen he attended school One term at a classical academy in Westmoreland County, where his father and General Washington had been pupils. Returning home, he read Horace and Livy with his old preceptor; and this completed his early scholastic train ing. But he had acquired a love for good literature, and especially poetry, which has been a food to many noble minds; and at the early age of twelve, it is said, he knew by heart a large portion of Pope's writings, and had made him self familiar with Dryden, Shakespeare, and Milton.
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