spent “a Clowdy morning” reading Charles Rollin’s Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, which is basically an introduction to education… - Thomas E. Ricks

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spent “a Clowdy morning” reading Charles Rollin’s Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, which is basically an introduction to education by the rector of the University of Paris.68 Rollin was even better known for his Ancient History, which was published in French in sixteen volumes from 1730 to 1738, with the first translation into English appearing a year after that. It, along with his later work on Roman history, soon became what one historian terms “a principal medium through which they [colonial Americans] learned about classical heroes.”69 Adams thought Washington had gotten most of his knowledge of the ancient world from that text,

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Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of several nonfiction books including Making the Corps (1997); the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) and its follow-up, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 (2009); the bestselling First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (2020); and Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022).

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