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| At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools…. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away. |
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| 1838–1918, American writer and historian, b. Boston; son of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86). He was secretary (1861–68) to his father, then U.S. minister to Great Britain. Upon his return to the United States, having already abandoned the law and seeing no opportunity in the traditional Adams vocation of politics, he briefly pursued journalism. He reluctantly accepted (1870) an offer to teach medieval history at Harvard, but nonetheless stayed on seven years and also edited (1870–76) the North American Review.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:   d´ mz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Education of Henry Adams
The honest and probing autobiography of one man’s life in relation to the world around him.
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- Adams, Henry, 2729 to 2816
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT ADAMS
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- “Henry Adams,” Mont Saint Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams and The Education of Henry Adams
Selections from the Cambridge History of American Literature.
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