...nd by his advice I came to Lowell from Exeter at the end of the winter term in 1828, and studied my Latin at home during the spring and summer. Seth Ames, afterwards Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts , kindly permitted me to read Virgil in his office. He amused himself in hearing my recitation of the text, and taught me to scan the versification of the original. Later in the year it became nec...