Personal Nobility or Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of His Studies and the Dignity of the Peerage, 1793

1793. It appeared to the author that ancient learning is not sufficiently attended to in the education of modern nobility; and that the honor of an order, so highly privileged, cannot be more effectually promoted than by a return to that truly classical mode which prevailed among the great in the reign of Elizabeth, and produced a manliness of mind, which causes the English character more nearly to resemble the Roman that at any subsequent period of history. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.Knox, Vicesimus is the author of 'Personal Nobility or Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of His Studies and the Dignity of the Peerage, 1793', published 2003 under ISBN 9780766169333 and ISBN 0766169332.