17 2 THE PvUilAJL SOCRHTES. 



* For ev(^i' amidri: the p.gilation of work, and yet poiTef- 

 ^ fin^ thPcalni belonging to rcpoie. Full of a noble 

 ^ impatience for action, joined to a polition the nioft 

 '- tranquil ; and conflantiy confined to his fpherc as the 

 ' fun of his own vortex and fyliem. — How delighifni to 

 ^ fee him a(:l ! His franknel^ and freedom from reftraint, 

 *' how noble 1 How he abandons to you his whole foul, 

 *Vithont perceiving or iufpe(fling that he does it. How 



* all that he fays goes ilraight to its objeiSl ! Always 



* gold mixed with clay ; always diamonds frrez/ed upon 

 ' the coaj fcfl fluifs ! Ht* olfers conftanrly one and the 

 ^ fame whole ; nothing flowing except from this whole ; 

 ^ and all flowing back to it. How the niofl trivial things 

 ^ which he fays are in him and from him : How they 

 ^ carry the imprefiions of his individual chara^^er 1 How 

 ^ ;ill wliich I have related after him, in fpife of all my 

 ^ elforts to exhibit it truly, dias never been what 1 have 

 ^ widied to relate : has only been froth taken from the 

 ' furface of a powerful fpring ; a body without a foul ; 

 ' an ordinary prattle, to exprefs the things which with 

 ' him are fo naturally original, fo little borrowed ! — 



* How certainly is he for nje, a fnre thermometer oftjie 

 ^ dlfccrnment^prohiiw and fund of humanity ofthofe^ who 

 ' frcGueiii his company ! How properly is he, to my 

 ^ eyes, the deputy of crfntinp divinity I VVhat praife more 

 ^ true, and nevcrtheicf} more entire and complete can 

 ' be beflowed upon Kliyogg or any other man, than to 



* fay, that *-"• his mode of thinkings his words a?2d his ac- 

 ' 'iions are always in the viofl petfeCi harmony :" a def- 



* cription which is here as correv^ as it is maflerly. 



'A word or two more as to his phyfiognomy and his 



* portrait." — Mr. Hirzel informs his reader, that his eyes 

 '*' fcdl ojftrc^and his countenance of which the jrefmicjs and 

 ^ color announce his good conftitutio7i^ have always a gay 

 ' and open air^which dtjplays to the phyfiopnovinft the whole 

 "- beauties of his character, — Eyes which are merely full 

 ' n? fire^ arc not precifely'the hgn of a line mind : the 



' au:lior n.ould certainly mucl) vatber h;\vc Caidjull of 



' Ihht ■; 



