86 GIIECIAN EDUCATION'. 



ed by him. A fine passage pertaining to him is thus given in the celebra- 

 ted translation of Pope, — celebrated for every thing but fidelity to the 

 oiiginal : 



Then Phcenix rose, 

 Down his white beard a stream of sorrow flows. 

 And while the fate of suffering Greece he mourn'd, 

 With accent wealc these tender words returned : 

 Divine Achilles ! wilt thou then retire. 

 And leave our hosts in blood, our fleets on fire ? 

 If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless mind. 

 How shall thy friend, thy Phcenix, stay behind ? 

 The royal Peleus, when from Phthia's coast 

 He sent thee early to the Achaian host ; 

 Thy youth as then in sage debates unskill'd. 

 And new to perils of the direful field : 

 He bade me teach thee all the ways of war, 

 To shine in councils and in camps to dare. 

 Never, ah ! never, let me leave thy side ! 

 No time shall part us, and no fate divide. 

 Not though the God, that breath'd my life, restore 

 The bloom I boasted and the port I bore 

 When Greece of old beheld my youthful flames, 

 (Delightful Greece the land of lovely dames,) 

 Your sire received me, as his son caress'd. 

 With gifts enrich'd, and with possessions bless'd. 

 The strong Dolopians thenceforth own'd my reign. 

 And all the coast that runs along the main. 

 By love to thee his bounties I repaid. 

 And early wisdom to thy soul convey'd. 

 Great as thou art, my lessons made thee brave, 

 A child I took thee, but a hero gave. 

 Thy infant breast a like afl'ection show'd ; 

 Still in my arms (an ever pleasing load,) 

 Or at my knee, by Phcenix would'st thou stand. 

 No food was grateful, but from Phcenix' hand : 

 I pass my watchings o'er thy helpless years. 

 The tender labors, tiie compliant cares. 

 The Gods (I thought) revers'd their hard decree 

 And Phoenix felt a father's joy in thee. 

 Th)' growing virtues justify'd my cares, 

 And promis'd comfort to my silver hairs. 



Children \vere considered a blessing. Their endowments, derived 

 from the Gods, were not uniform. The theory of Hclvetius in regard 

 to the equality of luiman intellect, was not consentaneous with the 

 opinions of this acute observer of men and things. One is fitted for 

 action, another for counsel, one for the battle field, another for the 



