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WASHINGTON DC, United States — The 'Two Georges' exhibition at the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building features rare documents highlighting the parallel lives of George Washington and King George III. Displayed items include Washington's handwritten copy of 'Rules of Civility' from 1747, Augustine Washington's 1743 will bequeathing enslaved people to his son, and instructions written in 1749 by Frederick, Prince of Wales, to the future George III. The exhibition challenges common myths about both leaders by showcasing original manuscripts that reveal their formative influences, sha-stock-photo
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Homes of American statesmen: . kable. Hisprecocious wisdom would seem at that early age to have castits horoscope, for we have thirty pages of forms for the trans-action of important business, all copied out beautifully ; andjoined to this direct preparation for his future career are Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company andConversation, to the number of one hundred and ten, allpointing distinctly at self-control and respect for the rights ofothers, rather than at a Chesterfleldian polish or policy, andthese he learned so well that he practised them unfailingly allhis life after. A-stock-photo
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Brown's first lessons in language and grammar . near PopesCreek, a small tributary of the Potomac, in Westmoreland County,Virginia, Feb. 22, 1732, and died at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799. George Washington, while a boy of 13, wrote a manuscriptentitled Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Compan)and Conversation. It is not knoAm whether he compiled themor composed them. Probably they were selected. There is nodoubt that these rules of j^ropriety and morals controlled hisconduct through life. His studies at school were reading, writing, arithmetic, book- GEORGE WASHINGTON 197 keeping, and-stock-photo