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 . erected at Edinburgh. Burns left a wife and four children, for whose support his friends and admirersraised a subscription ; and with the same object, an edition of his works, infour volumes 8ve, was published by Dr. Currie, of Liverpool. In his person,Burns was about five feet ten inches high, of a form that indicated strength aswell
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 . erected at Edinburgh. Burns left a wife and four children, for whose support his friends and admirersraised a subscription ; and with the same object, an edition of his works, infour volumes 8ve, was published by Dr. Currie, of Liverpool. In his person,Burns was about five feet ten inches high, of a form that indicated strength aswell as agility; his forehead was finely raised; his eyes were dark, large, fullof ardor and intelligence. His character, though marred by imprudence, wasnever contaminated by duplicity or meanness. He was an honest, proud, warm-hearted man ; combining sound understanding with high passions and a vigor-ous and excursive imaginaUon. He was alive to every species of emotion;and he is one of the few poets who have at once excelled in humor, in tender-ness, and in sublimity. His songs, his tales, and his poetical epistles, displaypathos, wit, a vigor of sentiment, and a purity and elegance of style, while hiaprose is almost equal to his poetry. JAMES MOiNROE. 453. KCWLAM JAMES MONROE. JAMES MONROE, the fifth president of the United States, was born on the 2dof April, 1759, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia; and it is a singularfact that the coast section of that state produced four of the first five life began in exciiing and patriotic times, the stamp-act having been passedby the British parliament when he was but six years old ; and in the eighteenthyear of his age, his heart swelling with chivalric pride and love of country, heleft the college of William and Mary, where he was pursuing his studies, andhi>t^ned to join the standard of his country He arrived at General Washing-tons headquarters, in New York, shortly after the declaration of independence,and at
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