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Poem—a perfect school

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  [begin leaf 1 recto] a TG 2 get— P[illegible] description of [illegible] Chr Poem—a perfect school,  
 gymnastic, moral, mental and  
 sentimental,—in which  
 magnificent men are formed  
 —old persons come just as  
 much as youth—gymnastics,  
 physiology, music, swimming bath  
 —conversation,—declamation—  
 —large saloons adorned with  
 pictures and sculpture—great ideas  
 not taught in sermons but imbibed  
 as health is imbibed—  
 —love—love of woman—all manly exercises  
 —riding, rowing—the greatest persons  
 come—the president comes and  
 the governors come—political economy  
 —the American idea in all its  
 amplitude and comprehensiveness—  
 —grounds, gardens, flowers, grains—  
 cabinets—
old history taught—
1833 
  1776  
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