which virtues cost him in succession his professorships at Sedan and Rotterdam. His noted work is the Dictionnaire historique et critique.
Page 195, note 1. Professor Herman Grimm in his first letter to Mr. Emerson, whose writings, then newly read, had greatly stirred him, said, "Everywhere I seem to find my own thoughts,—even the words in which I would prefer to have expressed them;" and later, "You write so that every one reading your words must think you had thought of him alone."
Page 196, note 1. Journal, 1851. "One should dignify and entertain and signalize each journey or adventure by carrying to it a literary masterpiece, and making thorough acquaintance with that, on the way, as, the Figaro of Beaumarchais; the Nuova Vita of Dante; the Bride of Corinth of Goethe; the 47th Proposition of Euclid; ode of Horace or of Hafiz, and so on; Clouds of Aristophanes, a Trilogy of AEschylus."
Page 196, note 2. This suggests the advice to the Artist in the quatrain of that name.
Page 196, note 3. Shakspeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act I., Sc. I.
Page 197, note 1. Mr. Emerson wrote thus of his pleasure in Greek mythology and poetry, in the journal of 1855:—
"A convertible proverb, It is Greek to him. These Eastern story-tellers whose oily tongues turn day into night and night into day, who lap their hearers in a sweet drunkenness of fancy, so that they forget the taste of meat!"
