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Grandfather Verus was my Pattern for Sweetness of Temper, and that Meekness which excludes all Anger and Passion. The Fame of my Father's Virtues, together with what Remembrance I myself had of him, laid before me the Modest and the Manly. My Mother's Example taught me the Worship due to the Gods, the Bounty in giving due