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Even of such as have attained the highest degree of reputation, we have frequently to lament the want of correct and minute intelligence, the knowledge of which would increase our admiration and improvement, by enabhng us to form a more exact estimate of their moral and literary character than can be drawn from the meagre memorials which have been handed down to us by their contemporaries. Few are the names recorded in the history of literature, of whom it can be said that biography is exhausted ;for of numbers whose works yield instruction and entertainment, not the least record can be found. Modern industry indeed has been usefully employed in rescuing forgotten merit from total oblivion, and in restoring to their proper owners valuable pieces, which either ignorance or want of taste had cast aside amidst the lumber of the schools and the extravagancies of fanaticism. Still much remains to stimulate the diligent to fresh exertions; for such has been the carelessness of the two preceding centuries, with respect to their brightest ornaments, that no one who shall devote a portion of his time to the task of illustrating their personal history, or of ascertaining the number and description of their writings, will labor in vain. But at least the negligence of which we complain affords a lesson of caution with regard to existing genius, that those who come after us may not have reason to bring against us a similar accusation. The advanced state of knowledge, with the consequent multiplication of books on all subjects, and the facility that is given to every species of inquiry, may truly be said to constitute the triumph of literature ;but, like every other honorable triumph, it brings In its train as many duties as trophies, that what has been laboriously acquired may become permanently beneficial. In proportion, therefore, as science is extended and the love of
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