. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . OBriens and the OFlaherties, abook of genuine Irish humor and feel-ing, with pictures of society beforeand after the Union. Another novel, The Princess and the Beguine, thescene of which is laid in Brussels, awork abounding in pictures of fash-ionable life, and of the scenes of therevolution in Belgium, closes the listof her chief productions of this her return from Italy, her lifeAvas p
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . OBriens and the OFlaherties, abook of genuine Irish humor and feel-ing, with pictures of society beforeand after the Union. Another novel, The Princess and the Beguine, thescene of which is laid in Brussels, awork abounding in pictures of fash-ionable life, and of the scenes of therevolution in Belgium, closes the listof her chief productions of this her return from Italy, her lifeAvas passed in Ireland, with frequentvisits to England. In 1837, she per-manently left her native country to re-side in London, Avhere she exercised agenerous hosj)itality, her house beingthe constant resort of the most cultiva-ted society of the metropolis. Herhusband. Sir Charles, died in 1843;she still continued to maintain her oldrelations with the literary society ofthe day, the fancifulness of her Celtictemperament, as she once called it,little impaired by age; till at last theend came, Avhich she met patientlya:d perfect simplicity, in herhouse in London, on the 16th of April, MICHAEL FARADAY. MICHAEL FAEADAY, one ofthe most distinguished discov-erers in chemistry of his age, was bornat Newington, county of Surrey, Eng-land, September 22d, 1791. The fam-ily had long belonged to the peasantor laboring class, numbering amongFaradays immediate ancestors a sla-ter, a farmer, a shopkeeper, and a shoe-maker. Elis father was a blacksmith ;his mother a farmers daughter. Theybelonged to a peculiar religious bodyof dissenters called Sandemanians, af-ter one Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law of John Glas, a seceder from theministry of the Presbyterian Churchof Scotland. The tenets of this bodyappear to have included opposition tochurch establishments, taking the Bi-ble alone, under all circumstances, asa sufficient guide to the individual,with faith in the divinity and resur-r
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