Word: ciceroism
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Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania...
Citation: "A most upright and conscientious gentleman, one in whom, as the orator Cicero said of another, there appears the embodiment of culture, of gentle wit, of amiability and of charm." Harvard University Hans Bethe, physicist . Sc.D...
...Angels. The American Revolution was a rebellion not to overturn that rule of law but to sustain it. Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 33 were lawyers; of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 34 were lawyers, steeped in the natural law tradition of Aristotle, Cicero and Aquinas and in the English common law, dedicated to Locke's proposition that sovereignty rests with the people, trained in the law by Coke's Second Institute...
Kitredge wrote more than 150 books and articles, running the gamut from Arm Pitting among the Greeks to Witchcraft in old and New England, from a school edition of Cicero's orations to An Advanced English Grammar, from studies of Middle English balladry to his famous notes on Shakespeare...
CONFIDENT of their own established values in ethics, law and culture, the old-fashioned teachers deliberately set out to pass down these values as part of a living tradition. They held that it was all one cultural heritage-everything from Boyle's Law to Cicero's First Oration against Catiline-and the more of it you learned, the wiser and more mentally alert you would...