MEMOIR OF WERNER. 
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sophical and friendly conversation — ignorant of all 
that was going on at a distance, without reading the 
journals of literature, and without even ascertaining 
whether envy had occasionally made him the object 
of her attack. His life might have been expected 
to be prolonged for a considerable time ; for, of all 
the methods which he had studied, that of taking 
care of his own health had not occupied him least. 
Among his whims, his anxiety never to be placed 
between two currents of air, was one of the most 
noticeable. But of all his precautions, the most ef- 
fectual was the tranquillity of a peaceful mind, which 
sought to avoid every thing that might excite in it 
malevolent feelings. 
The misfortunes of Saxony were the only cala- 
mities that escaped his foresight, and destroyed the 
peace which it had procured him. He tenderly 
loved that country with which he was identified in 
a thousand ways ; no offer could ever prevail on him 
to leave it. He loved a prince who protected the 
sciehces, because he had studied them profoundly, 
and whom forty years of wise administration, and of 
affectionate devotion to his people, could not pre- 
serve from so many calamities. His courage could 
not stand the sight of the sufferings of his master 
and of his country, and his anxiety and distress pro- 
duced a complication of diseases, to which no care 
could administer a remedy. He died in the arms of 
his sister, on the 30th of June 1817, at Dresden, 
