. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . bling temple, or agladiators circus; and in this gigantic causeway, and in seventy-iive arches,traversed with fiery speed by dragons,brazen-winged,—to which neither Alpnor ocean can 023pose a barrier—noth-ing but a common-place. I must say Ipity them. I see a future fraughtwith hopes for Venice— Twining memories of old time,With new virtues more sublime ! I will join in any denunciations againstthe
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . bling temple, or agladiators circus; and in this gigantic causeway, and in seventy-iive arches,traversed with fiery speed by dragons,brazen-winged,—to which neither Alpnor ocean can 023pose a barrier—noth-ing but a common-place. I must say Ipity them. I see a future fraughtwith hopes for Venice— Twining memories of old time,With new virtues more sublime ! I will join in any denunciations againstthe devastators, white-washers, and so-called renovators; may they be—re-warded ! But in the midst of our re-grets for the beauty that is outwornor profaned, why should we despond,as if the fountains of beauty were re-served in heaven, and flowed no moreto us on earth ? Why should we bealways looking back, till our heads arewell-nio-h twisted off our shoulders ?Why all our reverence, all our faithfor the past; as if the night were al-ready come in which no man canwork—as if there were not a Ions:day before us for effort in the cause ofhumanity—for progress in the kuoAvledge of good?. JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL. S IE JOHN FREDEKICK WIL-kJ LIAM HERSCHEL, Bart., the only son of Sir William Herschel, thecelebrated astronomer of the reign ofGeorge HI., and inheritor of his fame,of Hanoverian descent, was born atSlough, near Windsor, in England,March 7th, 1792. Educated at Cam-bridge, at St. Johns College, he dis-tinguished himself there from the first,by his high mathematical genius, anda fondness for physical science in allits branches. He took his degree ofBachelor of Arts in 1813, with highhonors as Senior Wrangler and SmithsPrizeman. From that time, till thedeath of his father in 1822, he was oc-cupied chiefly in mathematical studiesand researches in theoretical first work of note was A Collec-tion of Examples of the Applicationof the Calculus to Finite
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