Memoir of Robert Wheaton: With Selections From His Writings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Robert Wheaton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330180801 ISBN 13: 9781330180808

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from Memoir of Robert Wheaton: With Selections From His Writings Robert Wheaton, the youngest child of Henry and Catherine Wheaton, was born in New York on the 5th of October, 1826. A few months after his birth his father was appointed Charged d'Affaires to Denmark, and sailed for that country in June, 1827. The first ten years of Roberts life, with the exception of a short visit to this country at too early an age for him to receive any durable impression, were spent in Copenhagen. Every facility for education is afforded in that capital; teachers are numerous and moderate in their charges, being for the most part young men studying for the different professions, and bearing the expressive title of Candidal., who are glad of an opportunity to acquire the means of pursuing their own studies. Robert and Henry Edward, his elder and only brother, therefore received private instruction from teachers qualified for the task. Their mother was almost invariably present at their lessons, and exacted from her sons that respect and submission towards those who taught them, which are the surest means of enabling the young to profit by what they learn, as well as of softening the task of education to the teacher. 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.

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Excerpt from Memoir of Robert Wheaton: With Selections From His Writings

The young man who came daily to give him lessons, had just lost his mother, and this misfortune, joined to ill health, poverty, and the cares of a numerous family, rendered him really an object of compassion. The children were enjoined on no account to say or do any thing to annoy him during the lesson. But Robert, with the thoughtlessness of childhood, disobeyed this injunction, and the punishment inflicted on him, al though no very severe one, probably had the desired cfi'ect, as the circumstance seemed to have made an indelible impression on his mind.

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.

About the Author

Wheaton is former associate editor of the Journal of Family History and author of pioneering works on the history of the family in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330180801
• ISBN 13: 9781330180808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404