. Self-made men. day of his death, which hap-pened by apoplexy in 1812. No man living ever threw a bright-er lustre on an institution of learning than Heyne on the Univer-sity of Gottingen. He maintained its reputation with his pen andwith his eloquence. The department to which he specially ap-plied himself was the critical interpretation of classic literatureand the illustration of the writing of the ancients, by showing howthey ought to be studied with reference to the manners and char-acters of their respective ages. Heyne published his views onthese subjects in his notes to the Bibliotheca
. Self-made men. day of his death, which hap-pened by apoplexy in 1812. No man living ever threw a bright-er lustre on an institution of learning than Heyne on the Univer-sity of Gottingen. He maintained its reputation with his pen andwith his eloquence. The department to which he specially ap-plied himself was the critical interpretation of classic literatureand the illustration of the writing of the ancients, by showing howthey ought to be studied with reference to the manners and char-acters of their respective ages. Heyne published his views onthese subjects in his notes to the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus,and afterward in the Transactions of the University. He hasmany disciples of great eminence. Heyne was an extremely industrious man, and edited a greatvariety of classic works, all of which are extremely valuable forthe erudition and just criticism displayed in the notes and com-mentaries. An interesting and lengthy memoir of the early lifeof this celebrated man has been written by his ROBERT BURNS. Robert Burns, the pride of Scotland, and one of the most ex-traordinary poets the world has ever produced, was born in arickety little hovel on the banks of the Doon, near Ayr, Scotland,on the 25th of January, 1759. His father was a man of superiorabilities, of marked piety, and of some acquaintance with litera-ture. His skill, however, did not extend to architecture, for thebuilding in which they lived, erected by his hands, tumbled downtwo or three days after Robert was born. The mother and childwere conveyed, through a fierce snow-storm, to a neighbors cot-tage. Burns, in after-life, described his mother as a very saga-cious woman, without forwardness or awkwardness of most men of eminence, he owed more to his father thanhis mother in the elements of his character. Especially did heinherit the headlong, ungovernable irascibility and ungainly in-tegrity of Mr. Burns. When about six years of age, the poet and his family removedto the paris
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