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Excerpt from The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Account of His Life
To Henry however, the Opportunity of distinguishing himself, even in the 'juveorle Library, was useful, if he had acted with a man's foresight, he could not have done more wisely' than by aiming at every distinction within hit little sphere. At the age of fifteen, he gained a silver medal for a translation from Home and the following year a pair of twelve inch globes. Fbr ao imaginary Tour from lioudou to Edinburgh. He determined upon trying for this prize one evening when at tea with his family. And at supper be read to them his performance, to which seven pages were granted in the magazine, though they had limited the allowance of room to three. Shortly afterwards he wen several books for ex_ercises on different subjects. Such honours were'of great importance to him 3 they were testimonies of his ability, which could not be suspected of partiality, and they prepared his father to regard with less reluctance that change in his views and wishes which afterwards took place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
