MISS BURNEY ON HERS 197 



men are aa able aa other men to discern that gold 

 r aa well aa stars." 1 There is a falling-off 

 the enthusiasm of former daya: a great 

 falling-oA 



o years previous Miss Burney described Herschel, 



ii-t impression* .i him h more glov, 



, terms. In the evening Mr. Herschel came to tea. 1 

 I once seen that very extraordinary man at Mrs. 

 A as happy to see him again, for be has 

 re fame to awaken curiosity than sense and 

 y it He i- iy unassuming, 



t openly happy, and happy in th. success of those 

 idies which wmiM n-ml.-r a miml less excellently 

 aed presumptuous and arrogant 



he King has not a happier subje< his man, 



10 owes it wholly to His Majesty that he is not 



wretched ; for such was his eagerness to quit all - 



pursuits to follow astronomy solely, th.a he was in 



iiger of ruin, wh< n his talents and great and un- 



urnon genius attracted the King's patronage. He 



has now not only his pension, which gives him the 



ting all his time to his darling stu 

 hut be is indulged in license from the King to make a 

 'scope according to bis new ideas and discoveries, 

 to have no cost spared in its construction, and 

 is wholly to be paid for by His Majesty. 



is seems to have made him happier even than 

 pension, as it enables him to put in execution all 

 wonderful projects, from which his expectation 

 irv discoveries are so sanguine as to make his 

 ] present existence a state of almost perfect enjoyment 



I" He seems a man without a wish that has its object 

 1 October 3, 1788. 



