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• Richmond Enquirer, 10 June 1806
  ...ept as a lawyer he was self-taught) he acquired a knowledge of the ancient languages critically correct. Not only was the father of poetry his intimate companio
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• Chancellor Wythe's Death
  ...ge of the modern languages. In writing to friends who were versed in those languages, even in ordinary letters or notes, he often mingled sentences, first in on
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• Dean Bibliography
  ...ritus and Terence. Wythe also made a detailed study of the Greek and Latin languages. He kept a notebook containing "[[Etymological Praxis|notes of his personal
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• Great American Lawyers
  ...nt to which he added an extensive knowledge of mathematics and the ancient languages. In 1682 he came to East New Jersey, and in 1689 he he removed to Philadelp <blockquote>the study of law, of the dead languages, and of the liberal sciences. He was admitted to the bar of the General Cou
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• Wythe's Lost Papers
  ...eir beauties for frequent reference. In 1833 he was called to the Chair of Languages at Washington College, Pennsylvania, and in 1837 was transferred to that of
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• Biographical Sketch of the Judges
  ...ention to the acquisition of knowledge. After accomplishing himself in the languages and sciences, he studied law, and commenced its practice. At the opening of ...reat assiduity, unassisted by any tutor, to the study of the law, the dead languages, and liberal sciences, until the death of his mother; and that of his broth
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• Lempriere's Universal Biography
  ...ention to the acquisition or knowledge. After accomplishing himself in the languages and sciences, he studied law, and commenced its practice. At the opening of
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• Virginia Convention of 1776
  ...ed knowledge for its own sake. To undertake the acquisition of the learned languages late in life was a heroic aim, from which Pendleton would have shrunk, unle
  35 KB (5,968 words) - 14:34, 6 September 2018
• Eulogium on the Late Chancellor Wythe
  ...of ancient literature rarely to be met with. His knowledge of the ancient languages was critically correct. The poetical and philosophical productions of antiq
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• Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall
  :''Professor of Modem Languages''&mdash;Charles Bellini.<br />
  41 KB (7,028 words) - 13:44, 15 November 2017
• Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
  ...parting instruction to a negro boy, whom he had taught the Latin and Greek languages, and who was considerably advanced in science, but unfortunately died a few
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• History of the Harvard Law School
  ...Law and Police, one of Anatomy, Medicine and Chemistry, and one of Modern Languages; and, the charter confining us to six Professors, we added the Law of Natur
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• Biographia Americana
  ...uirements, superintended his education, and taught him the Latin and Greek languages. To grammar, rhetoric, and logic, he added by his own exertions, at an earl
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• Notes of Major William Pierce
  ...study of general learning he has acquired a compleat knowledge of the dead languages and all the sciences. He is remarked for his examplary life, and universall
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• Literary Inquirer
  ...oved by Jones, Hemphill, and Bazile.</ref> He mastered the Greek and Latin languages without an instructor, and applied himself to the study of law, in the offi
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• Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  ...glas, a clergyman from Scotland, with the rudiments of the Latin and Greek languages, taught me the French; and on the death of my father, I went to the Reveren ...ng the Grammar school, and the two professorships of Divinity and Oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of Law and Police,
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• Teaching of George Wythe
  ...The Scottish Keith was "a promising mathematician and student of Oriental languages" before becoming a Quaker and joining the ministry.<ref>Id. at 4.</ref> Com ...and natural history; ancient languages, oriental and northern; and modern languages. The professor of law and police would be responsible for teaching municipa
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• Aylett v. Aylett
  ...y question in any field of knowledge using prose or verse in any of twelve languages; then that judge's decision should be considered decisive authority. Becaus
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• Wythe's Early Life
  ...iceship, Wythe returned home to Chesterville and studied law and classical languages on his own for a few years. <ref>Ibid., 39.</ref> After his mother died in
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• Appendix to the Notes on Virginia
  ...ography: Being a Catalogue of Books, Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages, Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature, and Origin of the American Indians, i
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• Anatomical Exposition of the Structures of the Human Body
  ...one of the mainstays in anatomy at that time and was published in several languages.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Winslow spent the rest of his life in Paris doing lectures
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• Jefferson-Carr Correspondence
  ...ning under Wythe: A 30 minute walk to begin the day, law before breakfast, languages until noon, philosophy until dinner, history after dinner, and poetry until ...rtheless, Carr expressed the opinion that the time spent learning the dead languages might be better spent on other subjects that were more applicable to modern
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• Character and Service of George Wythe
  ...Law of Nations, and of Fine Arts; and Charles Bellini, Professor of Modern Languages. Wythe filled this chair for twelve years and thereby became "the first uni
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• Randolph's History of Virginia
  ...laboured through an apprenticeship, but almost through a life in the dead languages. In his [[Wythe's Judicial Career|pleadings at the bar]], it was a foible t
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• George Wythe, America's First Law Professor
  ...ng, having no peer among contemporary Virginians in the realm of classical languages and literature; second, that there occurred in his legal study an event whi ...duity to the broad studies (ranging from the classic literature of several languages through mathematics, philosophy, and the liberal sciences to a most profoun
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• William and Mary, the First American Law School
  ...ing the Grammar School and the two professorships of Divinity and Oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of law and police, one of Anatomy, Medici ...ust also have a competent knowledge of Geography and of Ancient and Modern languages."
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• Intimate Pen Picture of George Wythe
  ...d the more advanced study of the Latin and Greek and of some of the modern languages.
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• Discourse Refuting Statements
  ...ention to the acquisition of knowledge. After accomplishing himself in the languages and sciences he studied law and commenced its practice." ...ntil his death, and the statement that "after accomplishing himself in the languages and sciences, he studied law and commenced its practice." Every other state
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• Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
  ...tive, rapidly unfolded. He became accurately versed in the Latin and Greek languages, and made honourable attainments in several of the solid sciences, and in p
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• Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
  ...young negro boy, and instructed him. to some extent in the Latin and Greek languages, intending to give him a literary education; but he died a short time befor
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• Lives of the Presidents of the United States
  ...r, who was a woman of superior acquirements, instructed him in the learned languages, and he made considerable progress in several of the solid sciences, and in
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• Virginia Gazette (Clarkson & Davis), 18 December 1779
  ...ral Philosophy and Mathematics, Moral Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Modern Languages, and the master of the Indian School, the Brafferton. The faculty members w ...y, the laws of Nature and of Nations, and the Fine Arts; the fifth, Modern Languages; and the sixth for Brafferton.
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• Honorary Degree Conferred on Jefferson by the College of William and Mary
  ...10, no. 4 (April 1902), 274.</ref> Professor Bellini, Professor of Modern Languages, would also be a candidate for providing the Latin text. Charles (Carlo) Bellini, Professor of Modern Languages
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