fondness of friendship. Such, too, is Bolingbroke when the gloss of trivial accomplishments is worn off by time, and the lustre of genius itself has faded beside the simple and transcendent light of virtue. The contemplation is not without its uses. The glare of talents and success is apt to obscure defects which are incomparably more mischievous than any intellectual powers can be either useful or admirable. Nor can a lasting renown-a renown that alone deserves to be courted of a rational being ever be built upon any foundations save those which are laid in an honest heart and a firm purpose, both conspiring to work out the good of mankind. That renown will be as imperishable as it is pure. TRANSLATIONS.. Page 7. "T is not your burning words that fright me! The Gods affright me, and great Jove my foe! Or thus No! I fear not you, fierce man, whose accents glow- Page 96. For first of all there must be mature deliberation; and when you have deliberated, there must be prompt execution. Page 175. Alas! how much less is it worth to live with others than to remember thee! THE END OF VOL. VI. London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street. |