Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ing of that copious-ness and harmony for which his prose diction is distinguished. lis principal literary writings are contained in a collection of his discourses,reviews, and miscellanies, published in 1835. In this volume are twenty-ninepapers, among which are sketches of Samuel Dexter, William Pinckney, Thom-as Addis Emmet, John Ho
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ing of that copious-ness and harmony for which his prose diction is distinguished. lis principal literary writings are contained in a collection of his discourses,reviews, and miscellanies, published in 1835. In this volume are twenty-ninepapers, among which are sketches of Samuel Dexter, William Pinckney, Thom-as Addis Emmet, John Hooker Ashman, and Justices Marshall, Trimble, Wash-mgton, and Parker; addresses before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvardliege, and the Essex Historical Society ; his contributions to the North Amer and various juridical arguments, and political reports, & career was undoubtedly the one in which he was fitted tcbrightly. With vast learning, strong sense, reasoning powers of 9ugh order, and generally correct taste, he would have been eminently respectacle in any field of intellectual exertion. He died, after a, short illness, at Cambridge, near Boston, September 10,1845,having nearly completed the sixty-sixth year of his age. THOMAS MOORE 543. THOMAS MOORE. THOMAS MOORE was born in Dublin, Ireland, May 28, 1779. He was theonly son of Mr. Garret Moore, a respectable tradesman of that city. His earlyeducation was superintended by a Mr. Whyte, who had also been Sheridanspreceptor. At the age of fourteen he was entered as a student of Trinity col-lege, and here, we are told, made himself as remarkable for the eloquencewherewith he supported his well-known peculiar opinions, as for his classicalattainments. At the close of the year 1799, Mr. Moore entered himself as a member ofthe Inner Temple, in London, and in the year following gained the surnamewhich will, perhaps, be graven on his tomb, by the publication of his transla-tion of Anacreons Odes ; this was dedicated to Ge
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