musical phrases to the manufacturing and perotting. of which he has devoted all the years of his life: he needs neither protuberances upon his forehead, nor a mnemonicon in his brain: his forehead may be full of holes, and his cranium empty. But to be able to hurl upon the heads of generations a shower of heavy and irresistible blocks of arguments, is out of the power even of the most extraordinary natural capacities: But Demosthenes put the mnemonic power into operation, and, by this, he manages with ease and precision, what others believe to be immovable. We do not deny his superior sharpness and energy in availing himself of the resources of art, but we protest against his being a monster or an angel: a similar individual, in similar circumstances, with a similar mnemonicon, will never fail to produce a similar man.
From the height of such mountains as Aristotle, Alexander, and Demosthenes, the eye cannot but perceive such towering tops as Cicero, Cæsary and Mithridates: all intermediate objects appear as if buried under the mist that hovers over the valley.
Cicero's extraordinary talents are upon record: he knows, himself, Simonides' art, and has the generosity to to advertise it. And Julius is sharp enough to avail himself of so good a thing, thing, for for his own purposes: he excels in this art, and leaves mankind to stare upon the universality of his knowledge for nearly two thousand years, with astonishment. Hè is, in eloquence, second only to Cicero, and has time enough to trace, with his pen and sword, deep and endless zigzags, from Britain to the Rubicon and Egypt, and from the Atlantic to the Euphrates; and still has time enough at his disposal to revel with Cleopatra. Surely, this commander-in-chief had no dictionaries, maps, statistics, &c., which might prepare him for the conquest of Gaul and
