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"Clarorum virorum, facta moresque posteris tradere, antiquitus usitatum."
TACIT in vitú Agricolæ.

"Milton, whose genius had angelic wings

"And fed on Manna !"-CowPER, The Task, The Garden.

"I am about to read a passage in the immortal writings of one of the greatest
men, I may say indeed the greatest genius, which this country or Europe has
in modern times produced."-LORD BROUGHAM's Speech on the prosecution of
Williams for Libel.

"Socrates was much more a teacher of virtue than even a searcher after
truth- whom well inspired, the Oracle pronounced, wisest of Men.' It was
doubtless because he chose that better part, that he was thus spoken of by the
Man, whose commendation is glory, and who from the loftiest eminence of
moral genius ever reached by a mortal, was perhaps alone worthy to place a
new crown on the brow of the martyr of virtue."-Prelim. Diss. to the Encyc.
Britt., by SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

"That mighty orb of Sun,

"The divine Milton."-WORDSWORTH.

LONDON:

HENRY HOOPER, PALL MALL, EAST.

1838.

LONDON; PRINTED BY A. HANCOCK, MIDDLE ROW PLACE, HOLBORN.

828 4660

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