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 . d of a fever, at Missolonghi, on the19th of April, 1824, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, to the inexpressiblesorrow of the Greeks, by whom he was venerated for his personal exertionsand liberal pecuniary aid. His death is said to have been hastened by a toofree use of the lancet on the part of his physician. Few instances have
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 . d of a fever, at Missolonghi, on the19th of April, 1824, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, to the inexpressiblesorrow of the Greeks, by whom he was venerated for his personal exertionsand liberal pecuniary aid. His death is said to have been hastened by a toofree use of the lancet on the part of his physician. Few instances have occurred in which inconsistency appeared so glaring asin the various qualifications of this highly-gifted nobleman. With powers ofreasoning beyond the faculties of most other men, he was capricious and ua- 576 SIR ROBERT PEEL. fixed • and with a poetic taste that approached the sublime, was sometimesmixed a reckless, unalloyed profligacy, evidently the offspring of sensiialiijr,and the parent of immoral consequences in others In proportion, therefc i,as we admire, the commanding talents and poetic eloquence of Byron, so wewe compelled to deprecate the unholy purposes to which they were too oftenmade subservient. Prostituted genius is but splendid House iu which Lord Byron died at Missolonghi. The above engraving represents the house in which Lord Byron died. Itis from a sketch taken on the spot by a lady. The apartment in which he ex-pired is at the top, on the left, distinguished by an awning and balcony in frontof the window. SIR ROBERT PEEL. SIR ROBERT PEEL, the most distinguished English statesman of his age,was born February 5,1788. Destined by his father for a political life, he waseducated first at Harrow, and afterward at Oxford, at both of which places hedistinguished himself by his patient diligence, his correct taste, and his schol-arly achievements. At Oxford he took a first-class degree in both classics andmathematics. No sooner was this accomplished, tha
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