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 . Cook was received by his countrymen, and it maybe said by the world, with the feeling that one of the great men of the age waslost; and both in his own and in foreign nations public honors were liberallypaid to his memory. In the half century of busy and enterprising exertion inevery field of activity which has elapsed since his death
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 . Cook was received by his countrymen, and it maybe said by the world, with the feeling that one of the great men of the age waslost; and both in his own and in foreign nations public honors were liberallypaid to his memory. In the half century of busy and enterprising exertion inevery field of activity which has elapsed since his death, no newer name inthe same department has yet eclipsed the lustre of his ; and with reference tothe peculiar character of his fame, as contrasted with that of other renownedseamen which Britain has produced, it has been well and justly remarked thatwhile numberless have been her naval heroes who have sought and gainedreputation at the cannons mouth, and amid the din of war, it has been the lotof Cook to derive celebrity from less imposing but not less important exploits,as they tended to promote the intercourse of distant nations, and increase thestock of useful science. Captain Cook was accompanied on his first voyage of discovery by the 314 JAMES Statue of Sir Joseph Banks. nent naturalist, Sir JOSEPH BANKS, a view of whose statue, by Chantrey, in tneBritish Museum, we give above. The likeness is said to be admirable, aridthe calm repose and dignified simplicity of the figure class it among the hap-piest efforts of this celebrated sculptor. Sir Joseph was the son of W. Banks,Esq., of Revesby abbey, in Lincolnshire, England, where he was born in was an enthusiastic student of natural history, and was for many yearspresident of the Royal Society. He wrote but little, and, excepting papers inscientific periodicals, published only one small work, a treatise on the Blight,Mildew, or Rust, in Corn. He died in 1820, aged seventy-seven. The following engraving is a fai
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