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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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Old-time schools and school-books . ill preserved into which theboy Washington copied various legal forms, somepoor poetry, and a list of one hundred and ten Rules of Civility and Decent behavior in Com-pany and Conversation. The handwriting is round,fair, and bold, the letters large like the hand thatformed them, and the lines run straight and even.Sometimes he made ornamental letters with scrollwork such as clerks were accustomed to use. TheRules of Civility were probably taken down fromthe lips of the teacher. They sound rather stiff Colonial Schools of the Eighteenth Century 35 now, but it-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