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Cornelius Tacitus, A Dialogue on Oratory (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) 2 0 Browse Search
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Cornelius Tacitus, A Dialogue on Oratory (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), chapter 28 (search)
embrace, and it was her special glory to study her home and devote herself to her children. It was usual to select an elderly kinswoman of approved and esteemed character to have the entire charge of all the children of the household. In her presence it was the last offence to utter an unseemly word or to do a disgraceful act. With scrupulous piety and modesty she regulated not only the boy's studies and occupations, but even his recreations and games. Thus it was, as tradition says, that the mothers of the Gracchi, of Cæsar, of Augustus, Cornelia, Aurelia, Atia, directed their children's education and reared the greatest of sons. The strictness of the discipline tended to form in each case a pure and virtuous nature which no vices could warp, and which would at once with the whole heart seize on every noble lesson. Whatever its bias, whether to the soldier's or the lawyer's art, or to the study of eloquence, it would make that its sole aim, and imbibe it in its fullness
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], [Associated press Summery.] (search)
to leave her. Captain Maffit and officers showed them every attention, and seemed desirous of making them as comfortable as possible. Capt. Maffit mentioned having passed the Vanderbilt in pursuit of him; but being night and the Florida lying so low, with sails furied and smoke stack down, she was not discovered. A Bermuda paper, of the 28th ult, notices the arrival at St. George of the neutral British steamer Columbia, from Wilmington, N. C., with a cargo of cotton and tobacco. The Cornelia reports having been hotly chased by four of the blockading fleet, but escaped by superior fleetness. The Herald's correspondent from on board the Vanderbilt says, from information obtained at Havana just before that vessel left, on the 4th that the pirate Alabama had gone to Kingston, after her encounter with the Hatteras. The Vanderbilt arrived there on the 8th and expected the "210" was cornered at last, but learned that she had sailed two weeks before, Kingston is deeply tainted wi