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 . ismurderer, but he received the wound at the hands of a political bigot whomhe recognised : such, however, was Lavaters spirit of forgiveness and irrepres*sible charity, that he never divulged the assassins name, but carried the hor-rible secret with him to the tomb! He lingered above a year, during whichhe wrote several works, and di
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 . ismurderer, but he received the wound at the hands of a political bigot whomhe recognised : such, however, was Lavaters spirit of forgiveness and irrepres*sible charity, that he never divulged the assassins name, but carried the hor-rible secret with him to the tomb! He lingered above a year, during whichhe wrote several works, and died January 2, 1801, aged sixty. Lavater was one of the most virtuous of men, so that a biographer says of him : Had he lived in early times, he would now be adored as a saint, because every-thing which the church requires from a saint he had in perfection—charity, loveof mankind, and unrelaxing zeal in the cause of Christ. He did much forpractical theology. Lavater owed little to learning, but drew chiefly from him-self. His work on physiognomy has been several times translated into the English translations, we may mention Hunters, in five quarto volumes(London, 1789). A valuable French edition appeared at Paris in 1809. NATHANAEL GREENE. 367. NATHANAEL GREENE. NATHANAEL GREENE, a major-general in the American army, was born May22, 1742, near the town of Warwick in Rhode Island. His father was ananchor-smith, and, at the same time a quaker preacher, whose ignorance, com-bined with the fanaticism of the times, made him pay little attention to theworldly learning of his children, though he was very careful of their moral andreligious instruction. The fondness for knowledge, however, of young Greenewas such, that he devoted all the time he could spare to its acquisition, andemployed all his trifling gains in procuring books. His propensity for the lifeof a soldier was early evinced by his predilection for works on military sub-jects. He made considerable proficiency i
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