"--VIE DE MOLIERE.
(7) 'Life,' 8vo Ed., p. 102.
(8) 'Autobiography of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart.,' vol. i. p. 91.
(9) It was wanting in Plutarch, in Southey ('Life of Nelson'), and in
Forster ('Life of Goldsmith'); yet it must be acknowledged that
personal knowledge gives the principal charm to Tacitus's
'Agricola,' Roper's 'Life of More,' Johnson's 'Lives of Savage and
Pope,' Boswell's 'Johnson,' Lockhart's 'Scott,' Carlyle's
'Sterling,' and Moore's 'Byron,'
(10) The 'Dialogus Novitiorum de Contemptu Mundi.'
(11) The Life of Sir Charles Bell, one of our greatest physiologists,
was left to be written by Amedee Pichot, a Frenchman; and though
Sir Charles Bell's letters to his brother have since been
published, his Life still remains to be written. It may
also be added that the best Life of Goethe has been written
by an Englishman, and the best Life of Frederick the Great
by a Scotchman.
(12) It is not a little remarkable that the pious Schleiermacher
should have concurred in opinion with Goethe as to the merits of
Spinoza, though he was a man excommunicated by the Jews, to whom
he belonged, and denounced by the Christians as a man little
better than an atheist. "The Great Spirit of the world," says
Schleiermacher, in his REDE UBER DIE RELIGION, "penetrated the
holy but repudiated Spinoza; the Infinite was his beginning and
his end; the universe his only and eternal love.
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