Ralph Waldo Emerson His Maternal Ancestors With Some Reminiscences of Him
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In the year 1833 I was at Lausanne, and obtained per mission of the inhabitants to walk in the garden, "in the covered walk of acacias. " It commands a view of the Lake of Geneva. I do not think there is any need His Maternal Ancestors. 727 need to panegyrize Gibbon, nor to excuse his faults. He seems to have never forgiven the Cath olic Church for having taken him in, in his youth, and when once made ashamed of his easy conversion, he avenged himself all the rest of his life by his ran cor aga...inst the whole historical church. A worse fault is the dirt he has defiled his notes with, a cheap and base wit, and no wise better than that which scrawls walls and fences with its effusions, betraying through his Greek and Latin a coarse and mutilated soul, dead to the meaning of nature, and, in the midst of what is called culture, destitute of the highest culture. But you must give this evil man his due, and make it felt what condemnation his noble labor and perseverance cast upon scholars who have libraries in W 7 hich 128 Ralph Waldo Emerson: which they never read; upon scholars who chide Gibbon, but are unable even to name his dignified studies, his original au thorities, his great plan, and great execution of it.
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