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Crell, Meyer, Ingenhouz, Jacquin, and Von 

 Humboldt, are known and esteemed wherever 

 chemical science is studied. Of distinguished 

 writers on Medicine, Germany has been, though 

 not equally, yet very honourably prolific during 

 the period under review. The claims or Stahl, 

 Hoffman, Van Swieten, Heister, Storck, 

 Vogel, and Murray, to high honours, are gene- 

 rally acknowledged. And besides these, De 

 Haen, Meckel, Weitbrecht, Sagar, Hufe- 

 land, Reil, Roschlaub, Reich, and many others, 

 have contributed to raise the medical character of 

 their country. 



But it is chiefly with respect to progress in 

 litefalure y strictly so called, that the eighteenth 

 centurv gave rise to such remarkable improve- 

 ments in Germany. In the Belles Lettres, and in 

 works of taste, generally, that extensive empire 

 furnished nothing worthy of notice anterior to the 

 age under consideration. But within this period, 

 no other part of the literary world has been, on 

 the whole, so abundantly productive of works of 

 this nature. 



It was observed in a former chapter, that no 

 Historical work, deserving of commendation for its 

 taste or elegance, had appeared in Germany prior 

 to the period under review. Within the latter 

 half of this period, the works of Haberlin, Ge- 

 bauer, Schmidt, Muller, Heinrich, Beck, 

 Meusel, Gatterer, Galletti, Ebeling, and 

 Schiller, afford very honourable monuments of 

 German talents. Of these it is believed the man- 

 ner of Schiller is considered as the most easy, spi- 

 rited and elegant. But though the historians of 

 that country have made great progress, within a 

 few years past, in cultivating this species of com- 

 position, it is believed that none of them have yet 

 reached the high grade of historical excellence for 



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