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Excerpt from English Men of Letters: John Ruskin N o doubt can remain that when John went to Oxford at the age of eighteen, his school teaching had been desultory, and his schoolboy knowledge was poor. He assures us that he never learned to write Latin prose, and with difficulty managed the regulation Latin verse. He knew the elements of Euclid well, and some algebra. He had read little in the ancient classics, and had but a smattering of French. On the other hand, he had taught himself and had picked up a good deal of general knowledge in elementary physics, and had passionately devoted himself to geology, botany, and minerals, in his own way. He had worked at museums and made collections of his own, which he carefully catalogued. Besides this, he had seen at eighteen more of England and of the Continent than most systematic tourists, and had observed and thought about all this perhaps more than any living man. He had, no doubt, written more prose and verse than has been recorded of any man of his years; and he had made himself an in defatigable student of composition, an art which from infancy he had practised with zeal and untiring patience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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