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send him and every soul with him into eternity; fighting a fleet of twice his numbers backed up by bristling land batteries; yet working so effectively that he coolly suspends the battle for twenty minutes till his men have breakfast; and then makes such thorough work of it that the whole civilized world looks on in amazement; and he awakens to the satisfaction that he has done more than any other man in this century to knit the hearts of his fellow-countrymen together as one man. And he, the New York Herald says, at sixty-one "one of the finest-looking men in the navy, which is saying a great deal; known as 'Gentleman George.' A great club-man and a huntsman of no mean repute; in riding to the hounds he has often distinguished himself, while as a daring horseman he probably has no superior in this country. He is also an all-round athlete."
But we need not offer more proof, save one instance—a more magnificent one in some respects than any of the rest. A man whose virtues we know; whose life we know; whose work we know; but whose preparation for that work, in the field now under consideration, is not generally known.
WASHINGTON (1732–1799)
"At eleven years old left an orphan to the care of an excellent but unlettered mother, he grew up without learning. Of arithmetic and geometry he acquired just knowledge enough to be able to practise measuring land; but all his instruction at school taught him not so much as the orthography or rules of grammar of his own tongue. His culture was altogether his own work, and he was in the strictest sense a self-made man; yet from his early life he never seemed uneducated. At sixteen he went into the wilderness as a surveyor, and for three years continued the pursuit where the forests trained him in meditative solitude to freedom and largeness of mind. In his intervals from toil he seemed
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