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renounc ali competitio of this ind nor id heeve so muchos attemptis Gree o Latin compositio durin his sta a Cambridge. In truthae Was ver indifferent to succes of this ind; and consciolis asae mus have been o a'igh reputationamon his contemporaries, he could o thin math stood in nee o any Universit distinctions. The Editoraecam by degrees almos equali indisserent to hatae perceived to e so uncongenia toArthur' mind. It was howeve tot regretted that he neve pald the eas attention to mathematical studies That he hould o prosecute the withthe diligence sua a Cambridge, as of course ob expected; et his cleames an acumen ould certaint have en led hi t master the principies of geometrica reasoning nor, in faci, id e somuch findis dissiculi in apprehendin demonstrutions as a Want os interest, an a consequent in-
abdit to retain them in his memory. A litile more practice in the strici logici geometry, a litile moresamiliarit with the physical law of the universe, and the phenomen to hicli the relate, ould possibiyliave represse the tenden clo vague and mystical speculations hich he was to son os indulging. In the philosoph of the human ind, he Was in nodange of the materialigin theories of som ancientani modern schocis; ut in hunning this extreme,
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he might Sometimes forget that in the honest pursuilo truth, e can Shuimur eye tomo rea phenomena, and that the physiolog of man must alWay enter into any valid scheme of his psycholOgy. The comparative inferiorit Whichae might ho in the usual trials of kno ledge, sprun in a great meaSure sto the want of a prompton accurate memory It a the facult wheret he hone theleast, CCordin to ordinar observation though his ver extensive reach o literature, an his rapidit in acquirin languages, sussice to prove stat it ascapable os ein larget exercised He could re- member anything, as a frien observe to the Editor, that was associaled illi an dea. But e seemed, at least alter e reache manhood, to an almost Wholly the power so Common illi inferior under- standings, o retaining illi regularit an exactness, a number of unimportant uninterestin particulars. It would have been nearly impossibi to make imrecollect for three Jay the date of the batile of Marathon, o the ames in Order of the Athenian monilis. Nor Could e repeat poetry, muchos helove it, illi the correcines osten Mund in oungmen. It is no improbabie, that a more Stead discipline in early life ould have strengther e this facult' o that he might have supplied iis deficiencyb some technica devices but here the higher
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sested ii Nould have been preDosterous to Complainof What a perhaps have been a necessar Consequence of thei amplitude or at eas a natura result
ali a Considerable depression es spirita, whicli adbeen ainsuli observe at times by thos Knowalchedo im most, isto the time of his leaving Elon, and even before. It was not ill astersevera monilis that he regalnei a les morbidcondition os in an body. This fame irregularit os circulation returne in ille nexi spring, but was of es iuration During the third yeai
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of his Cambridge lise, he appeare in much etterhealth. In his ear 1831 he obtainei the rs college prire sor an Englisti declamation. The subjectchose by him a the conduci os in Independent pari during the civit War This exercise WaS
greatly admire a the time, ut a neve printed. In Consequence of this success, it ecam incumbenti him, accordin to the custom of the College, to delive an oration in the hape immediatet besore the Chrisimas vacatio of the fame year onthis occasion e selecte a subjeci ver congenia toliis Wn turn of thought an savourite study the influence of Italian pon En isti literature. He had preriousj gaine another priete or an English essayon the philosophicat, itings os Cicero This essayis perhaps to excursive sto the prescribe subjeci;
Was Ver Conversant, that he could not be expectedio dwel much o the praises of Cicero in that
Though the bent of Arthur' min by no means incline him to strici research into lacis, he Wasfullo muci conversant illi the reat seatures sancient an modem history, a sto the o se os his ther studies and the abiis of his life it aspossibi to expect me rechonex them, as reai
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mincl always do the roundwocts of mora and politica philosophy, and too no ain t acquirean knowledge of this sortisoni hicli a principiecould notae derive or illustrated. o ome pariso Englisti history, and to that of the rench Revolution, he had pes considerable attention He hadno read early so much of the Gree an Latiii historians as of the philosopher an poets. In the histor o litera , and especiali of philosophicaland religious opinions, he was deepi versed asmuch so a it is possibi to appi that term at his age. The soli in pages exhilait proola os an
acquaintance, not rude or superficiat, illi that important branchis literature.
His political ud ents ere invariabi prompted by his suom sense of right and justice These in
SO Oun a person, ere naturali raster fluctuating,
an subjecto me correctio of advancin knowledge and experience Ardent in the cause of thoseli deeme to e oppressed, of hicli, in ne instance, he was e to ive a proos illi more fenero an enthusias than discretion, he was deepi attache to the ancient institutions of his
me spolie rench readily though With lem elegarice than Italian, illino dirus h los much of his fluenc in the lauer In his ast fata tour in
Germany he a rapidi acquirin a readines in
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the an age of that country. The whole ange os Frenc literatur Was almos a familia to hi asthat os England. The societ in hic Arthur live mos inti- mately, at non an a me University, was formedes oun men eminent for natura abili , an fordelight in halle ought above ali hings, theanowledge of truth, and the perception o beauty. They o love an admire hi living, and who no
revere his sacre memory, asio one o hom in the fondi es of regret, the admit o no rival knowbest What he was in the ait commerce of life an his euloo hould on every account, bellercome rom earis, hich, i parties have been renderedis by the experience of friendship, no by the
Arthur est Cambridg on ahin his degre in Januar I 832. He reside froni stat time illithe Editor in London, havin been entere o theboard of theonne Temple. It was greatly the destre of the Editor that he hould engage iniseli in the stud of the iam not meret with professiones vlews, butos a sesul discipline or a minclto much occupied illi habit of thought whicli,ennoblin and important a the were, Could Otbut separat hi sto the veryda bus es of lila, and night by thei excess, in his susceptibi temperament, te productive os considerable mischief
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He ad during the previous long aCation read th the Editor the Institutes of Justinian, and the two Works o Heinecesus hicli illustrate them; an he no went thro h lachstone' Commentaries With a much of the laW-book as, in the Editor' jud ent, as require sor a simila pur-POse. It was satisfactor at that time to perceive that, far stom ho vin an of that distaste to legat studies hicli might have been anticipate stomsoni paris of his intellectual character, he enter upo them no oni arith, great CuteneSs, ut Onsiderable interest. In the monili of October i 832, he egano se the practica application o legalhnowledge in the ossice of an eminent conVeynncer,
he OK, stor sonae change or ther in his course of thinhing, Ceased in a reat mensureit Write Poetry, and expresse to more thanione friendisnintention to ove it up. The instances aster his leavin Cambri lge ere few. The dramati scenebet en Raffaelle an Flammetia Was Mitte in I 83 an about the sanie time e had a designeso
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translate the VP Nuova of his avourite ante a Work hich he justi priged, a the developmento that immense genius, in a in os autobiography, hicli est prepares us sor a rea insight into the
Divine Comeo. Η rendere accordingi into versemost of the sonnet whicli the Vita Numa contains; ut the Editor does no belleve that he madean progress in the prose translation These foraneis appearin ratheroo literat, an consequently harsh, it has no been thought orth whilerio print In the summer of I 832, me appearance of Proesessor Rosetti's Disquisisioni fulgo spiris Antipas ale, in hic the writings of Arthus belove masters Dante an Petrarch, as et a mos of the medi-aeva literatur of taly, were treate as a series of enigmas, to e understood ni by a he that di
close a latent Carbonarism, a seCret conspiraCyagainst the religio of thei age, excite hi topublisti his οὐ Remark in reply. I seeme tollim the wors of poetica heresies to desert the Absolute, the Universat, the temat, the eautila and True, hicli the Platoni spirit of his literar creed taugh him to see in ali in highe work of genius, in quest of some temporar historica allusion, hichcout be sis interest illi posterity. Nothinglio ver could e more alien rom his Courteo dispositio than to abus the licensem controversy, o to reat with i intentiones Hisrespect a very ω
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mnious person, Who ad beenile on to sar inpursuin a Course of interpretation, whicli, withincertain much narrower limiis, it is impossibi foran one Conversant illi histor notrio admit ver se other anonymous writings occupied his eisure about this time. Among these ere light memoira os Petrarch, Voltaire, and Burhe, for the
Galler of Portraiis, publi Shed by the Societ sorthe Dimisionis Usesul nowledge. His time ashoweve principali devoted, he no engage athis ossice, to metaphysica researches, an to the his tornos philosophica opinions. Froin the alter par of his residence a Cam-bridge, a gradual ut ver perceptibi improvementin the chee ulnes of his spirit gladdened his familvan his mends intervat there doubiles Were, heni, had rea these lives, and ad rematae them, hesore e nem hos the were, a bein os rare merit. No onec id suppos the were ritte by one o oung. Vehis estimate of the character os uine. The in os his great man a perhaps eo en as a representatio of the genera characteristic of the Englisti intellecti is round--r Was solid, practical, an conversant illi the etails os businem; ut pon this, an secured by this, rose a superstructum os imaginatio an mora sentiment. He a lituribemus is mas, in I o im to se anything, heyon thelisit os in nationes character. In ali hings, hile e deeplyreverince principies, he hos to dees,ith in concrete atherthan illi abstractions. He studie me rather than man. '
of hii an action the conjunc causes os What, ces character,such a se me cis large experience caninitata.
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the continua seriousnes of his habit of thought orthe force of circumstances thre Something Oremigravit into his demeanour but in generat he was animate an even V, rene n or preservin his intercourse With some of thos he had os valuedat Elon an Cambridge The symptom os de-range circulation hic had manifeste themselves
his οὐ attention and though it struch those ho ere mos anxious in alchin him, that his powero endu in fatigue a no quite so great a stomhis stame of od an apparent robustnes mighthave been anticipaled nothin gave the leas indicationis ange eithe to their yes, o to thos os the medica practitioner who ere in the habit ofobservin him. An attack of intermittent sever, duringali prevalent influen et of the Sphingi 1833, may perhaps have disposed his constitution to thelast fata blow.'To any one ho has Walched the histor of thediseas by whichi so quic this bright thin camet confusion, and whoonows o near iis subjectmus osten, perhaps ali his life have been to thateternit whicli occupie so much of his thoughis an destres, and the secret of hicli ere so oonto ope in his oung yes, there is Somellain verytouchin in his accom Sucho state of health Noul enhance an tendo produce, by the sensa