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were admired by his contemporaries. (Biblioth. Patnun, ed. Par. 1624, T. ii 

 p. 1180 C.) 



(*) p. 29. See Joannis Chrysostomi Opp. omnia, Par. 1838 (8vo.) T. ix. 

 p. 687 A, T. ii. p. 821 A, and 851 E, T. i. p. 79. Compare also Joannia 

 Philoponi, in cap i. Geneseos de creatione Mundi, libri septem, Viennee Anstr. 

 1630, p. 192, 236, and 272; and also Georgii Pisidae Mundi opificium, ed. 

 1596, v. 367375, 560, 933, and 1248. The works of Basil and of 

 Gregory of Nazianzum early arrested my attention after I began to collect 

 descriptions of nature; but I am indebted for all the excellent (German) 

 translations from Gregory of Nyssa, Chrysostom, and Thalassius, to my old 

 and always kind colleague and friend, M. Hase, Member of the Institute, 

 and Conservator of the Bibliotheque du Roi, at Paris. 



( 51 ) p. 30. On the Concilium Turonense, under Pope Alexander III., see 

 Ziegelbauer, Hist. Rei litter, ordinis S. Benedict*, T. ii. p. 248, ed. 1754 ; on 

 the Council atParis of 1209, and the Bull of Gregory IX. of the year 1231, see 

 Jourdain, Recherches crit. sur les traductions d'Aristote, 1819, p. 204*-206. 

 Heavy /penances were attached to the reading of the physical books of Aris- 

 totle. In the Concilium Lateranense of 1139 (Sacror. Concil. nova collectio, 

 ed. Yen. 1776, T. xxi. p. 528), monks were forbidden to exercise the art of 

 medicine. Consult also the learned and interesting writing of the young 

 Wolfgang von Gotbe, entitled, " der Mensch und die elementarische Natur," 

 1844, S. 10. 



(&) p. 32. Fried. Schlegel, iiber nordische Dichtkunst, in his sanrmtlichen 

 Werken, Bd. x. S. 71 and 90. I may cite farther, from the very early time 

 of Charlemagne, the poetic description of the Thiergarten at Aix, enclosing 

 both woods and meadows, which is given in the life of the great emperor, 

 written by Angilbertus, Abbot of St. Riques. (See Pertz, Monum. Vol. i. 

 p. 393403). 



( M ) p. 33. See, in Gervinns's Geschichte der deutschen Litt., Bd. i. S. 

 354 381, the comparison of the two epics, the poem of the Niebelungen, 

 (describing the vengeance of Chriemhild, the wife of Siegfried), and that of 

 Gudrun, the daughter of King Hetel. 



( M ) p. 34. On the romantic description of the grotto of the lovers, in the 

 Tristan of Gottfried of Strasburg, see Gervinus, in the work above referred to, 

 Bd. i. S. 450. 



(55) p> 35. Vridankes Bescheidenheit, by Wilhelm Grimm, 1834, S. 50, 

 and 128. All that refers to the German Volks-epos and the Minnesingers 

 (from p. 33 to p. 36) is taken from a letter of Wilhelm Grimm to myself 



