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At the agj of six years, Horace was sent to his first 

 school, which, for a short time, was the Friends' Alms 

 House School, in Walnut street between Third and 

 Fourth. Very soon afterwards, he entered the Gram- 

 mar school of the University of Pennsylvania, where 

 he remained until his father's death, which occurred in 

 1787. Thus early, when only seven years of age, he 

 was left an orphan, in charge of a widowed mother- 

 In 1788 he was placed in a school at Bordentown, 

 New Jersey, where he continued three years, and ac- 

 quired the reputation of being the best scholar in the 

 school ; beginning thus early to give promise of what 

 he afterwards became. His attainments in knowledg-e 

 of the Greek language especially, must have been re- 

 markable for a youth of only ten or eleven years. 

 And not only was his scholarship of an high order, but 

 his conduct was such as to commend him to the confi- 

 dence of his teachers, for he was promoted to be 

 "guider" of boys older than himself. 



Leaving Bordentown in 1 791, he returned to his 

 mother's residence, in Philadelphia, then on Market 

 between Fifth and Sixth streets, immediately opposite 

 the residence of General Washington, and adjoining 

 that of Alexander Hamilton. There he frequently saw 

 the first President of the United States, as also Mrs. 

 Washington, who was his mother's friend, of both of 

 whom he had perfect recollection throughout his life. 

 There he was also a witness of the ceremonies of the 

 day ; imposing ceremonies, which were remnants of 



