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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
lin , oAving in some measure , probably , to their relative position ; but in a great degree to the fame of the eminent Hutciiinson , Avho had been educated at Dublin , and ahvays retained a clos ' e intercourse with Ireland . Mr . Burke applied for the professorship , but too late : the successful candidate Avas Mr . James Clow , lately deceased . Disappointment of early views has been the occasion of
advancement of several eminent men of modern times . Mr . Hume was an -unsuccessful candidate for the professorship of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh , and thence devoted to general literature talents which might have been confined to studies more peculiarly connected with his situation . AAVork more useful than even Hume could have produced in abstract philosophy—the ' History of England '—Avould ,
probably , not have existed . Dr . Fergusson Avas disappointed in an application for a living in an obscure part of Scotland . Had he been successful , his literary and philosophical talents might have been lost to the world . The chair for which Mr . Burke applied would have been favourable to philosophical effort : but had he been successful , talents might have been spent in sequestration , which nature formed
for public life . Disappointed here , Mr . Burke betook himself to London , where genius , if vigorously exerted , judiciously directed and regulated , seldom fails of ultimate success . On his first arrival he entered himself of the Temple . Mr . Burke ' s finances were narrow , and the stud ) ' of the law required time and expence . He soon began to
feel , what seems the fate of all men of genius to experience in some degree , AA'ant of friends , want of money , with the long train of consequent ills . He sought and found relief in intellectual re- . sources , which , if they did not instantly exalt him to independence , arrested the distresses which poverty threatened . He was compeiletl to earn a subsistenceby submitting to thc drudgery of writing for
, diurnal and other periodical publications . To these he contributed . esstrys on various subjects of politics and literature . These essays , although uniting information , reasoning , and composition , much beyond cotemporary writers , did not immediately enable their author to emerge from obscurity .
The first continuous work published by Mr . Burke tvas his book on the ' Sublime and Beautiful . ' This essay he produced when a ' student in the Temple . LaAV he does notappear to have studied with very great zeal as a profession , although no man can be more completely master of either its details or general principles , as a subject of moral and political history and science . Hume informs us in ' bis own Life' that though professing to study lawhe
, , found an unsurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of general learning . ' While they , ' ( his friends ) he says , ' fancied I was poring over Voet and Vinnius , Cicero and Virgil Avere the authors I was secretly devouring . ' In like maimer , works of taste genius , and philosophy , attracted Mr . Burke more -powerfully than usage , decision , ancl statute . He preferred -Longinus to" Littleton .
In treating of the sublime , Longinus includes the-pathetic , and even the beautiful , and indeed every excellence of composition . Mr . Buike saw and proved the difference between the - Sublime and
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
lin , oAving in some measure , probably , to their relative position ; but in a great degree to the fame of the eminent Hutciiinson , Avho had been educated at Dublin , and ahvays retained a clos ' e intercourse with Ireland . Mr . Burke applied for the professorship , but too late : the successful candidate Avas Mr . James Clow , lately deceased . Disappointment of early views has been the occasion of
advancement of several eminent men of modern times . Mr . Hume was an -unsuccessful candidate for the professorship of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh , and thence devoted to general literature talents which might have been confined to studies more peculiarly connected with his situation . AAVork more useful than even Hume could have produced in abstract philosophy—the ' History of England '—Avould ,
probably , not have existed . Dr . Fergusson Avas disappointed in an application for a living in an obscure part of Scotland . Had he been successful , his literary and philosophical talents might have been lost to the world . The chair for which Mr . Burke applied would have been favourable to philosophical effort : but had he been successful , talents might have been spent in sequestration , which nature formed
for public life . Disappointed here , Mr . Burke betook himself to London , where genius , if vigorously exerted , judiciously directed and regulated , seldom fails of ultimate success . On his first arrival he entered himself of the Temple . Mr . Burke ' s finances were narrow , and the stud ) ' of the law required time and expence . He soon began to
feel , what seems the fate of all men of genius to experience in some degree , AA'ant of friends , want of money , with the long train of consequent ills . He sought and found relief in intellectual re- . sources , which , if they did not instantly exalt him to independence , arrested the distresses which poverty threatened . He was compeiletl to earn a subsistenceby submitting to thc drudgery of writing for
, diurnal and other periodical publications . To these he contributed . esstrys on various subjects of politics and literature . These essays , although uniting information , reasoning , and composition , much beyond cotemporary writers , did not immediately enable their author to emerge from obscurity .
The first continuous work published by Mr . Burke tvas his book on the ' Sublime and Beautiful . ' This essay he produced when a ' student in the Temple . LaAV he does notappear to have studied with very great zeal as a profession , although no man can be more completely master of either its details or general principles , as a subject of moral and political history and science . Hume informs us in ' bis own Life' that though professing to study lawhe
, , found an unsurmountable aversion to every thing but the pursuits of general learning . ' While they , ' ( his friends ) he says , ' fancied I was poring over Voet and Vinnius , Cicero and Virgil Avere the authors I was secretly devouring . ' In like maimer , works of taste genius , and philosophy , attracted Mr . Burke more -powerfully than usage , decision , ancl statute . He preferred -Longinus to" Littleton .
In treating of the sublime , Longinus includes the-pathetic , and even the beautiful , and indeed every excellence of composition . Mr . Buike saw and proved the difference between the - Sublime and