Excerpt from Noah Porter: A Memorial by Friends In his early childhood children's books were few, but books on various subjects were early a delight to him. The village library furnished many which his father's library did not contain - various travels, the Waverley novels, and for science the Edinburgh Encyclopedia. The Library meetings held once every month were an informal village club, where, with Governor John Tread well, Hon. Timothy Pitkin and Edward Hooker as leaders, national, state, village and farm matters were ...
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Excerpt from Noah Porter: A Memorial by Friends In his early childhood children's books were few, but books on various subjects were early a delight to him. The village library furnished many which his father's library did not contain - various travels, the Waverley novels, and for science the Edinburgh Encyclopedia. The Library meetings held once every month were an informal village club, where, with Governor John Tread well, Hon. Timothy Pitkin and Edward Hooker as leaders, national, state, village and farm matters were discussed, while he and other boys were attentive listeners. At his father's fireside he heard the talk of these same men on morals and manners, religious truth and benevolent enterprises. Clerical friends of his father were also frequent visitors, and their not infrequent conversation on theological subjects made him familiar with and interested in these matters. Thus he grew studying his Latin and Greek and mathematics in the academy under the genial care of Mr. Simeon Hart; never away from home for study with the exception of one summer in Winsted, under Dr. Hart's care and one winter in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the family of his uncle and aunt, President and Mrs. Heman Humphrey - Mrs. Humphrey being his father's only sister. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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