Sinópse: Excerpt from Cecil Dreeme Of the portrait that Paul Veronese painted of Sidney, and says, The painter has represented you sad and thought ful, I can believe that he is speaking of my neighbor. Or when I remember what Sidney wrote to his younger brother, Being a gentleman born, you purpose to furnish your self with the knowledge Of such things as may be serviceable to your country and calling, or what he wrote to Lan guet, Our Princes are enjoying too deep a slumber: I cannot think there is any man possessed of common under standing who does not see to what these rough storms are driving by which all Christendom has been agitated now these many years, – I seem to hear my friend, as he used to talk on the Sunday evenings when he sat in this huge cane chair at my side, in which I saw him last, and in which I shall henceforth always see him. Nor is it unfair to remember just here that he bore one of the few really historic names in this country. He never spoke of it; but we should all have been sorry not to feel that he was glad to have sprung straight from that second John Winthrop who was the first Governor Of Connecticut, the younger sister colony Of Massachusetts Bay, the John Winthrop who obtained the charter Of privileges for his colony. How clearly the quality of the man has been transmitted I How brightly the old name shines out again! He was born in New Haven on the 22d of September, 1828, and was a grave, delicate, rather precocious child. He was at school only in New Haven, and entered Yale College just as he was sixteen. The pure, manly morality which was the substance Of his character, and his brilliant exploits of scholarship, made him the idol Of his college friends, who saw in him the promise of the splendid career which the fond faith of students allots to the favorite class mate. He studied for the Clark scholarship, and gained it; and his name, in the order of time, is first upon the roll Of that foundation. For the Berkeleian scholarship he and another were judged equal, and, drawing lots, the other gained the scholarship; but they divided the honor. 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.