of the teaching faculty. he either mastered difficulties at once, or gave them up. with his extraordinary…

of the teaching faculty. he either mastered difficulties at once, or gave them up. with his extraordinary facility, he stood out at once among his fellow - students. in the rhetoric school, where he attended lectures, he was, he tells us, not only at the top, but he was the leader of his companions. he led in everything. at that time, rhetoric was extremely far - reaching: it had come to take in all the divisions of education, including science and philosophy. he claims to have learned all that the masters of his time had to teach: rhetoric, dialectic, geometry, music, mathematics. having gone through the whole scholastic system, he thought of studying law, and aided by his gift of words, to become a barrister. for a gifted young man it was the shortest and surest road to money and honours.\n\nnarrative nonfiction\n\npersonal narrative\n\nfictional writing\n\nnone of the choices

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