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ments on heat in presence of Lord Palmerston, who 

 was then in that city. He was at Naples in the begin- 

 ning of the next year. 



He returned to Munich in a state of slow conva- 

 lescence. Being unable to resume the management in 

 detail of all the affairs of his various Institutions, as 

 well as of his military department, he was obliged to 

 content himself with exercising a general superintend- 

 ence. He was constantly watchful to conciliate to 

 his undertakings all opponents who were simply igno- 

 rant or prejudiced. Hoping, as it proved with good 

 reason, that the manifest results of 'his reformatory 

 efforts wholly to suppress public mendicity and to make 

 the poor in a measure self-supporting by organized 

 industry would certify to his unselfishness and his 

 practical wisdom, he never, so far as I can discover, 

 offered a plea on his own behalf, or vindicated his 

 motives. From first to last the Elector advanced all 

 his schemes, admiring his philosophical genius and 

 grateful for his administrative aid. Spending the year 

 after his return from his travels in Munich in this 

 comparative quiet, he worked diligently in his study 

 upon, those literary productions the subject-matter of 

 some of which has been above presented. I have al- 

 ready spoken of his admirable style, his simple, direct, 

 and forcible, way of expressing himself. Without the 

 ornaments of rhetoric his Essays have many graces, and 

 are well freighted with important truths fittingly set 

 forth. When, soon after their publication and very 

 extensive circulation, they were remarked upon in the 

 ephemeral journals of Great Britain, I have noticed, in 

 several instances, that they were criticised as often pro- 

 lix and abounding in repetitions. Lord Brougham, in 



