Childhood and Youth
Born in Limpio (formerly known as Tapúa) in 1773, his parents were Cavalry Captain Fernando de la Mora and Ana del Cazal. Both belonged to families of lineage, descendants of Spanish conquistador Don Domingo Martínez de Irala.
Fernando received a good education. It is presumed that he studied at the College of San Carlos Asunción. He studied in Buenos Aires and University of Córdoba. He also studied Law becoming one of the most educated citizens of the time.
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“Childhood and youth are vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 11:10.
“When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children’s, and of what our children’s future will hold.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“I had said to Mrs. Boscawen at table, “I believe this is about as much as can be made of life.” I was really happy. My gay ideas of London in youth were realized and consolidated.”
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