Venusia (modern Basilicata, southern Italy), the son of a freed slave who worked as an auctioneer and ... r's modest but fiercely devoted investment in his son's education was extraordinary for the social clas... ure ====
Horace's social position — a freedman's son who achieved through learning and literary excell... ntly provides for free men. The famous freedman's son who climbed through education to the highest lite
in the Périgord region of Aquitaine, France, the son of Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne, a prosperous merch... aigns of Francis I and was determined to give his son a formation that combined freedom with rigour. Fr... ltivate a "moral atmosphere" that would bring his son "to love knowledge and duty by his own choice, wi
61, at York House in London, Bacon was the second son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great S... of Anthony Cooke, tutor to King Henry VIII's only son. Home-schooled as a child, he studied at Trinity
rn on 11 July 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Ralph Gardner and Hilde Weilheimer, Jewish ref... rtable bourgeois life — an origin that gave their son an early and intimate acquaintance with the fragi
20 October 1859 in Burlington, Vermont, the third son of Archibald Sprague Dewey, a grocer, and Lucina ... Calvinist earnestness left a lifelong mark on her son's moral seriousness even as he repudiated its the
9 August 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, the son of a country attorney who had served as a cavalry... nd Edward Clarke about the upbringing of Clarke's son, is considerably more than a manual of child-rear
tthu, a town in what is today southern Nepal, the son of a raja (king) of the Shakya clan and his princ... e age of twenty-nine he left his wife, his infant son Rahula, and the certainty of kingship to pursue l
onetheless ensured that his intellectually gifted son received a thorough classical education. Augustin... istro//, 395 CE), composed as a dialogue with his son Adeodatus. Augustine's central argument is that n
