â64 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



On approaching toward the centre of this Ely- 

 fium, we fhould meet with monuments ftill more 

 venerable, of thofe who, by their virtue, have 

 tranfmitted to pofterity, fruits far more delicious 

 than thofe of the vegetables of Afia, and who have 

 called into exercife the moft fublime of all talents. 

 There fhould be placed the monuments, and the 

 flatues of the generous Diiquefnej who himfelf fitted 

 out a fquadron, at his fole expenfe, in the defence 

 of his Country : of the fage Calinat, equally tran- 

 quil in the mountains of Savoy, and in the humble 

 retreat of St. Gratian ; and of the heroic Chevalier 

 d' AJfas^ facrificing himfelf by night, for the pre- 

 fervation of the French army, in the woods of 

 Klofterkam. 



There, fhould be the illuftrious Writers, who 

 inflamed their compatriots with the ardor of per- 

 forming great adlions. There we fliould fee Amyot, 

 leaning on the buft oï Plutarch y and Thou, who 

 haft given, at once, the theory, and the example 

 of virtue, divine Author of Telemachus ! we fliould 

 revere thy allies, and thy image, in an image of 

 thofe elyfian fields, which thy pencil has delineated 

 in fuch glowing colours. 



I would likewife give a place to the monuments 

 of eminent women, for virtue knows no diftinc- 



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