Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1810-1815. Keviews His Studies. — Enters Yale College. — Dr. Wheaton. — Offers A Manuscript Volume Of Poems To General Howe. — Disappointed And Leaves College. — The Seasons Of New England. — Becomes A Farmer In Berlin. — Goes Back And ENTERS THE NEXT CLASS. HlS NOTE-BOOKS. — LETTER FROM Dr. Sprague. — His Tragedy At Commencement. — Dr. Dwight's Advice. AMES now returned home to Kensington, having taken the usual three years in preparing for college. The spring and summer were spent with the Rev. Joab Brace, D. D., of Newington, Connecticut, where he reviewed KeTlewa his his classical studies. Dr. Brace describes him,Btudies- at the age of sixteen, in his family, as " a fair and pleasant youth, delicate in his complexion, rather shy and retiring, soft and lisping in conversation, neat and beautiful in his dress, gentle in his manners, lovely in his whole deportment." His peculiar disposition won the affections of those who had the care of him; while his mental troubles, his unbounded passion for general knowledge, his sensitiveness to praise, his ignorance of the world, his consciousness of rare gifts now developing itself, increased their sympathy. The same instructor further remarks: " He was delicate in his feelings, sensitive to any impropriety, quick to discern and very ready Not wei i pre- to feel every kindness. He was not so well fitted college. for college as some of his companions; but the defect was owing to his youth and to his not having been thoroughly introduced into the specific and minute things of the Latin grammar; but his industry, keenness, and retentiveness soon made the ground all clear. He was a youth of great inquisitiveness and observation." It was also Percival's own opinion in after years, that the course of his prep... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.