"Clarorum virorum, facta moresque posteris tradere, antiquitus usitatum." TACIT in vitá Agricolæ. "Milton, whose genius had angelic wings "And fed on Manna !"-CowPER, The Task, The Garden. (6 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. |