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449.] [Footnote 179: Moore's 'Life of Byron,' 8vo.Ed., p.

483.] [Footnote 181: Locke thought it of greater importance that an educator of youth should be well-bred and well-tempered, than that he should be either a thorough classicist or man of science.

Writing to Lord Peterborough on his son's education, Locke said: "Your Lordship would have your son's tutor a thorough scholar, and I think it not much matter whether he be any scholar or no: if he but understand Latin well, and have a general scheme of the sciences, I think that enough.

But I would have him WELL-BRED and WELL-TEMPERED."] [Footnote 182: Mrs.Hutchinson's 'Memoir of the Life of Lieut.-Colonel Hutchinson,' p.

32.] [Footnote 183: 'Letters and Essays,' p.


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