The study of Geometry, and the mathematics (with due regard to the limits of it) is equally advantageous.

The principles of Philosophy, Moral, Natural, etc.

I should think a very desirable knowledge for a gentleman.[1] [Footnote 1: W.C.Ford, _George Washington_ (1900), I, 136-37.] There was nothing abstract in young Jack Custis's practical response to his stepfather's reasoning; he fell in love with Miss Nelly Calvert and asked her to marry him.

Washington was forced to plead with the young lady that the youth was too young for marriage by several years, and that he must finish his education.

Apparently she acquiesced without making a scene.