T I B 



T I K 



< 



had rec 



. \\\w 

 :e publication. In ' 



:lc\uc 

 was applu 



IDUIll 



II< \ in- i i pled 



:a without telling him of it. TiciUmann 



'ed with tin' place, as it iliil not i niiirli 



put him in connei ' of the 



philo- 

 li zeal 



igour. Tin- pni)oO] u-li hr hail im- 



nrs whom lie hiul most studied tended 



: luit his irici vigorously 



..1 tin-in. ;nul at length succeeded in turning liis 



mind in a different diivctiun. In tin 1 year 17^'. when tin 1 



ii up, Tk'ilrlliuim v,a 1 \\ilh 



to W iiburg. Ii'"' 1 ' he lectured at dif- 



tinic- iii! 'lu 1 law of natuic. on 



moral phi'.. ,] . ::mversal history, hisi 



philosophy, and" sonk'tiim-.s also on smile classical (ircck 



r. His lectures were MTV popular, ami his kind ill-- 



petition made hi.-> hearers luok'upon him more as a friend 



than as a muster. Sometimes, especially during ihr la-t 



,1 of his lite, ho did not conduct himself with the 



a philosopher in combating the 



jihi'.i Kant, to which he w L lie died 



in the mioat of literary undertakings, after a short illness, 



on the 'Jllh of .May. Isoii. 



Icmann wits beloved and esteemed by all who knew 

 him. His life was spent in intellectual occupations and 

 1'odiK exercise, of which he was MTV fond. His striking 

 (juaJiiies were great self-control, cheerfulness, and a total 



all pretension to literary superiority, alt 

 hu works were extremely popular. Hi works 



alre.ulv mentioned, the following deserve noticcj- 



linngcii iiher den Menschcn,' Leipzig, 1777. tee.. 

 ;jvnls. SMI. : ' Griechonlands erete Philosophen, odei 





Ucr in tin 



'1 a 



and 



Till' imme- 





Bcihn and Stettin. 17sl. Svo. This work i- a tianslation 



Ceist der Spe- 



.vcn 1'lu! - 17'.U-'.i7. <i Mils. Hvo. 



y of philosophy from the time of 

 LcilimU and t'hristian \VoHf, and il 



:,ieh it contains. In style and 



lent, and the author did not possess 



knowledge of ]>hilosi>phy which 



abled him tu p--rcii\c the oigame conucc- 



tion and the necessary succession of the \arions philoso- 



!er iibcr da- mciinchliclu.' 



'7!M. 8vo. ; Handbuch der I'sycho- 



iitcd alter the author's death 



:;y L. \Vuchlcr. who h;us prefixed to 



naun. He-ides thc.-c 



Ihu I'n-nch : he nlso 

 1 K is the author 

 which wi 



.Hum 



: pi nit, I7SU, 



It ae fuerit artiiim ma- 



raecm 



li his ad ' pmpa- 



. 



demami. in his Hun <//<//, li 



' ' / 'j ' ' ' . . M . , . p. | I . M,. 



IIUISIOI'II A I <-l ST. The 

 . an . .akcn his place 



among the (ierman an horn :i: 



Altin 17'iJ. II . life 



. la- father 

 ; nt 1 1,1 



' hildren in 

 wtutc 

 but QutViitrwta.:ding the lavouiubk- opinion 



nil of the prosperous I 



ailllcil ' ' ! n i|iultinL r Hindi he was 



by (ileim I , ith him ai 



ul 171U, v. hen he i 



:ry to Don-. 1 a : and though he died ill 



the followii .-Hied in the family upon 



the same footing during the life of Madame Mm Stedern, 



her diath, in \TM. secured to him a 

 competency. Being thus placed peu I his 



circuit; through the noitli of (lerinany . 



and visited Berlin, where it was his mind lortuue a:rain to 

 meet with Madame \on der Keeke. and the intimacy thus 

 resumed continued for life. Though not in ac 

 with the ordina, 1 society, it \vi 



from the slightc- i of impropriety, and no more 



10 it than -nilnr domesticatioii of C'owper 



with Mrs. I'nwin. This union, of a kind so exeeedinsrly 

 rare that Q) at been invented fur it. was that ol 



two noble and pure minds, congenial in their tastes, and 

 equal:. Mtha feeling for poetry and those pui 



which', wliile they rctine. also elevate our natuic. 

 author of I'rania' was as well shielded from seaml 

 was the author of the Task :' for although very diii 

 in form, the iirst-mentioned poem is. like the other, deeply 

 tinged by religious sentiment : and its m 

 immediately recognised, for it. went through several edi- 

 tions within a very short time fiom i!- i aranee in 



In ISO-I Tit-dire and his female friend visited Italy, where 

 they remained about two years: and of this journey we 

 11 account from the pen of Madame xon der 1! 



.:ch ciner Rcisc.' tec.. -I vols. s\c-.. with a 

 : and notes by Hiitliirer, which, besides i 

 superior to the gcticial ela.-s of tour-books, ntt'ord 

 of her being a zealous thoinrh candid 1'rotestaut. and a 

 woman of strict pictv. On their return to Oermany. 

 Madame von der Heckc ninde Berlin, and aUcrwards Islll 

 Dresden, her chief place of residence, pa.-sing the summer 

 months at Teplitz or Carlsbad. The mil) chanire '[ i 

 henceforth experienced was that occasioned by the le 

 his companion and benefactress, for she had taker, 

 that her death lKt;)i should ean-e no chantre whatever in 

 his outward ciieum-lanees, not even that of bis resid; 

 as she directed that her establishment should be kept up 

 for him precisely as before, and that he should continue to 

 enjoy the luxuries and comforts he had so long been ac- 

 customed to. Nor wa.- her anxious solicitude for her 

 friend's welfare i pre-eminently -, 



favoured beyond the ordinary lot. that he not only attained 

 an unusual age, but nearly free from all infirmities of 

 mind. In his eiirhl) -ninth v i ar. sav - one 

 have known him personally, he did not 

 to be much more than sixty : the onlv alteration in 

 him was. that for some year- he could not take exercise on 

 or stir out except in a carriairc or a wheel-chair, 

 but a week before his death March Nth. IS-H he 

 : the biitl, i one of his frien 



death, his Life and Literary Ken: 

 Liivcn to the world by Dr. K. FHlkenstein. in -4 Vi 



all his works, in 111 vols.. i 

 uf publication. After In 

 original production is perhaps his \\ ;r 

 des Lcbens. IKt(i. which, like 



. and siniilarin fcnden- 

 -niedly religions ehaiacter. the 



its moial preci pi's beniLT n-lieved by the; :i\ful 



irony which pervades many part em. Hi* prin- 



cipal other productions I 



KIcLMc:-,' and his Kiaucn-pieirel.' all which have eontri 

 buli-d iitation. 'I in which the p 



iniir M|' liis 

 n, has just 



Or .if which. 



,. liti ia ; -. and 



