| Show WERE MARVELS IN CHILDHOOD those thoe whom the tha world has ha lecog reco nihed as men of genius remarkable for precocity one ebara character acter common to geni genena iiii end and to insanity especially moral insanity Is precocity cesare lombroso professor of legal medicine university of turin relates that dante when nine years of age wrote a sonnet to beatrice tasso wrote verses at ten pascal and comte were great think ers era tit at the ages ot of thirteen fornier at fifteen at seven jonathan edwards at twelve IN fIchel angelo qt dt nineteen Gag the little doctor at a t four boscul at tA twelve velve and voltaire Volt alro at thirteen aleo de la a mirandola Ml randola knew latin greek hebrew chaldean and arabic in his els childhood goethe wrote a story in seven languages when he ha was ras R as scarcely ten wieland knew latin at seven meditated an epic poem at thirteen and at sixteen published his poem die welt veit schiller was only nineteen when ha be wrote Ba uber victor hugo composed Irta mene at fifteen pope popa wrote his ode to solitude at twelve and byron published verses tit sit eighteen moore translated anacreon at thirteen meyerbeer at five played excellently on the piano claude joseph vernet drew very well at four and at twenty was a celebrated painter at thirteen wren invented an astronomical instrument and offered it to his father with a latin dedication raphael was famous at fourteen beethoven composed three sonatas at thirteen eichorn mozart and ebbler gave cave concerts at six weber was only thirteen when his first opera das was presented bacon conceived the novum tit at fifteen charles XII manifested his treat great designs at eighteen |
