The Purpose of Study | SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
On learning and study once more, concerning the classics.
“I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.
In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue.”
John Adams has many good things to say in his letter to John Quincy Adams, as in John Adams on Religion in the United States.
John Adams to John Quincy Adams
Amsterdam May 18. 1781
My dear Son
I have this Morning received yours inclosing a Letter from the Duke de la Vauguion.
Please to inform me in your next, when the Vacation begins. It is my Design that you shall come and spend a Part of the Vacation with me.—I approve very much of your taking the Delft Gazette the Writer of which is a great Master of his Language, and is besides a very good Friend to his Country and to yours.
You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.
In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom…
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