Miscellaneous essays . oso-phers were mourning the monotony of time,historians were deploring the sameness ofevents, in the years preceding the French Re-volution—on the eve of the Reign of Terror,the flames of Moscow, the retreat from was the strife around Troy to the battleof Leipsic 1—the contests of Florence and Pisato the revolutionary war ? What ancient navalvictory to that of Trafalgar] Rely upon it,subjects for genius are not wanting; geniusitself, steadily and perseveringly directed, isthe thing required. But genius and energyalone are not sufficient; coubage and disintere
Miscellaneous essays . oso-phers were mourning the monotony of time,historians were deploring the sameness ofevents, in the years preceding the French Re-volution—on the eve of the Reign of Terror,the flames of Moscow, the retreat from was the strife around Troy to the battleof Leipsic 1—the contests of Florence and Pisato the revolutionary war ? What ancient navalvictory to that of Trafalgar] Rely upon it,subjects for genius are not wanting; geniusitself, steadily and perseveringly directed, isthe thing required. But genius and energyalone are not sufficient; coubage and disinterestedness are needed more than all. Cou-rage to withstand the assaults of envy, todespise the ridicule of mediocrity—disinterest-edness to trample under foot the seductions ofease, and disregard the attractions of heroic mind is more wanted in the libraryor the studio, than in the field. It is wealthand cowardice which extinguish the light ofgenius, and dig the grave of literature as ofnations THE APPLETONS AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA NEW REVISED EDITION. Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers on every subject. Printed from new type,and illustrated with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps. The work originally published under the title of The New American Cyclopaediawas completed in 1863, since which time the wide circulation which it has attained in allparts of the United States, and the signal developments which have taken place in everybranch of science, literature, and art, have induced the editors and publishers to submitit to an exact and thorough revision, and to issue a new edition entitled The AmericanCyclopedia. Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowl-edge has made a new work of reference an imperative want. The movement of political affairs has kept pace with the discoveries of science, andtheir fruitful application to the industrial and useful arts and the convenience and re-finement of social life. Great war
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