CUYIER. 



the distinguished individual whose 

 history forms the subject of the 

 present paper it has been truly 

 said : — " His various acquirements, 

 equally vast and minute, his multi- 

 plied labours, his elevated views, 

 his private virtues, have furnished 

 to each admirer so many topics of 

 just eulogy. The naturalist, the 

 moralist, the orator, the statesman, 

 have each acknowledged the sympathy which binds 

 them all to a man in whom every variety of merit 

 seemed to be united, and whose eloquence equally 

 adorned and enforced the philosophy of science and 

 of life. His attached friends, and the pupils who 

 reverenced him and loved him, have felt that the 

 contemplation of such a character charmed and 

 elevated their own, and have lingered over reminis- 

 cences, before which all that was mean, or indolent, 

 or intellectual fled away." 



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