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finely improved, and for noble qualities nobly applied. Admirable 

 for his prodigious industry and learning, and for his sterling integ- 

 rity and goodness. Admirable as a scholar, as a jurist, as a phi- 

 lologist, as an explorer of truth, as a guide to wisdom and learning, 

 and as a bright exemplar of virtue. 



Such an illustrious benefactor inspires the gratitude of all en- 

 lightened men. Throughout this western continent, wherever 

 literature and science have their votaries, his memory is cherished. 

 That distinguished American writer, now in France, who has pass- 

 ed his life in reflecting the light of letters from one continent to 

 the other, repeats to us, with his own exalted admiration, the voice 

 of sympathy and of eulogy from the literati of Europe.* 



The memory of John Pickering will live throughout the learned 

 world. So long as human language exists and is cultivated, his 

 name will be honored. If he sought not fame, he has found it the 

 more surely, and in a higher degree. His precious reputation rests 

 on ground as solid as his ambition was pure. It will extend with 

 the benign influences of his learning, and it will brighten as it 

 extends. 



When will the people at large learn to appreciate their true 

 friends, their real benefactors ? The military or political idol of a 

 day kindles their enthusiasm like a blazing meteor, which glares 

 for a moment and is extinguished for ever. Their literary admi- 

 ration blindly follows brilliant genius, however unsanctified by 

 virtue, and which continues its baleful glare, like the ignis fatuus, 

 to mislead and destroy. We would point them to a luminary of 

 the heavens, whose clear light irradiates the path of human duty 

 and human improvement, and guides surely and always to knowl- 

 edge, virtue, religion, and happiness. 



* Mr. Walsh. 



