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Show T- NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN. Socrates, at an extreme old age, learned to play on musical instruments. Cato, at SO, learned the Greek language. lan-guage. Plutarch, when between TO and SO, began the study of Latin. Boeeacio was 35 years of age when he commenced his studies in light lit- i erature; yet he became one of the j greatest masters of Tuscan dialect, Dante and Plutarch being the other two. Dr. Johnson applied himself to the Butch language but a few years before his death. Ludovico Monaldeseo, at the great age of 115, wrote the memoirs of his own times. Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Virgil, was unacquainted with Latin and Greek until he was past 50. Franklin did not fully commence his philosophical pursuits- until he had reached his 00th year. Dryden, in his 68th year, commenced the translation of the Iliad, his most pleasing production. |