" THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN."
Great Thoughts.
A Swedish boy fell out of the window and was badly hurt, but with clenched lips he kept back the cry of pain. The King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, who happened to see him fall, prophesied that that boy would make a man for an emergency. And so he did, for he became the famous General Bauer. A boy used to crush the flowers to get their colour and painted the side of his father's cottage in Tyrol with all sorts of pictures which the mountaineers gazed at as wonderful. He was the great artist, Titian. An old painter watched a little fellow amusing himself making drawings of his pot and brushes, easel and stool, and said: " That boy will beat me one day." The boy was Michael Angelo. A German boy was reading a " blood-and-thunder " novel. Eight in the midst of it he said to himself : " Now, this will never do. I get too much excited over it. I can't study so well after it. So here it goes 1" and he flung the book out into the river. He was Fichte, the great German philosopher.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 27 August 1898, Page 7
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196" THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN." Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 27 August 1898, Page 7
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