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per original. He could diftinguith, for 
anftance, every expreffion in which De- 
molthenes, Polybius, Dionyfius of Hali- 
earnaffus, or Plutarch, had followed Thue 
cydides ; and fo of other authors. He 
was not content with that fort of fudy 
which might have fatisfied any mere nar- 
row-minded emendatory critic. The 
poets, oraturs, grammarians, and hilto~ 
gians of antiquity, might have been 
thought by fome to open a range fuffici- 
ently wide for a perfon fiudying folely 
or chiefly witha view to critical erudition. 
Not fo thought Hemfterhuis. He read 
the writers on mathematics and philofophy 
as carefully as the ovators, hiftorians, 
grammarians, and poets. ‘To be a mafter 
of emendatory criticifm for the Greek 
Janguage, he thought no way fo fure as 
by himielf firft to become a mafter of all the 
¥eience contained init. He took incre- 
dible pains to overcome the difficulties of 
this courfe of ftudy. It was not tll upon 
reading over Plato’s Dialogue, entitled 
Parmenides, for the fourth time, that be 
could at all underftand the doétrine of 
Ideas laid downin it. He traced the re- 
vival, or corruption, or improvement, of 
the philofophy of the ancients in the 
‘books of the moderns ; 3 and was familiarly 
converfant in the writings of Locke and 
‘Leibnitz, as well as in thofe of Ariftotle 
and Plate. 
He ftudied with great tafte and intelli- 
gence s all thofe relics of Greek and Roman 
antiquity, which reprefent to us the arts 
and manners of the claffical ages with a 
“power ftill more lively than that of books. 
Gems, medals, fatues, embofled wosks 
in metal, and other fimilar remains of the 
genius of the Grecian artifts, excited otren 
his curiofity and admiration. James 
Wilde, his father-in-liw, had a contider- 
able mufeum of fuch an: iguities, which 
was, thercfore, to Hemfterhuis a fceng of 
frequent Rudy. From the admiration of 
the works of ancien: art, he proceeded to 
a fimilar tafte for whatever was excellent 
in the modern productions of the fine-arts. 
He was a judge of modera painting, 
fculpture, and architecture; and he was 
accuftomed to advile the ftudents who at. 
tended his lectures, to devote fome poition 
of their time to ‘the ftudy of drawing. 
In theyear 171 7, Hemaerhuis was call]- 
‘ed to the protefforfhip of the Greek lan- 
guage at Franeker ; to which was aftey- 
wards added the tafk of giving lectures on 
the Hiftory of the United Provinces. 
His fame as the moit confummate maf- 
ter in Greek erudition of ail the (cholars 
ef that age, was eflablifhed throughout 
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Europe by his** Remarks upon Lucian.” 
In variety and in accuracy of iiluftrative 
knowledge, it was univerfally confeffed, 
even Salmafius himfelf had produced no- 
thing more truly excellent. 
In the year 1740 he accepted the pro* 
fefforfhip of the Greek language and of 
hiftory in the Univerfity of Leyden, His 
celebrity in foreign countries was exalted 
and extended with this progrefs of his ho- 
nours at home. He was refpected as the 
greateit proficient then living in Greek 
literature ; and ftudents afpiring to eon- 
fummate fkill in this branch of erudition, 
reforted from all Parts of Europe to profit 
by his lectures.“ He took great delight in 
encouraging the ardour and in guiding 
the diligence of young men who had an 
ingenuous fondne(s for claffical fudies. — 
He would even take particular. pains 
to form them to emendatory criticifm.— 
For this pur "pole, his practice was, to put 
into the hands of a favourite ftudent, fome 
beautiful and dificult paflage of an an- 
cient authcr, fuch as Livy’s Preface to 
his Hiftory ; then to examine whether, 
after due confideration, hewere thoroughly 
maiter of its fenfe, and had a proper tafte 
of its beauties; then to point out fome 
part where there was a corruption of the 
text, and to require the ftudent to find out 
the particular words in which the corrup- 
tion exifted ; when this difcovery was 
made, to require that he fhould fuggeft an 
emendatson ; and if any happy emenda- 
tion were propofed, to ftimulate the ge- 
nius of the young critic to higher efforts 
by the mot encouraging applaufe. Hein 
this manner formed VWalckenaer to that 
aftonifhing juftnefs and perfpicaciry of cri- 
tical erudition for which he became after- 
wards famous. Wefleling, though the 
col'eague of Hemiterhuis at:Franeker, ac- 
knowledged that he had never ftudied with 
aceuracy and dilcernment truly critical, 
till he was excited and inttruéted by 
Hemfterhuis’s  converfation. | Ruhnken 
was his favourite pupil ; and, by following 
in his fludies the clafical difcipline which 
his mafter recommended, became worthy 
to fiacceed to histame in emendatory criti. 
cifin. ji 
' Hemferhujs had fomewhat of that qui. 
lity which has been ateribed by Burnet to 
his le arned contemporary Lloyd. His 
tondnefg of reading, and the timid and un- 
wearied diligence with which he made 
preparation for creat critical works, with- 
held him from writing and publifhing fq 
much as was to have been delired. Tnofe 
critical animadverfions which he atually 
made public, were, befide what have beea © 
Mm2 already 
