Ezekiel Cheever (1614-1708) was a schoolmaster, and the author of "probably the earliest American school book", Accidence, A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue. Upon his death, it was said that "New England never known a better teacher." He has been called "the chief representative of the colonial schoolmaster".
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“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel 16:44.
“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”
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