to every language, and not

    only be read but actually breat be

    represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the

    breatself.  t mans t

    becomes a modern mans speeced

    to ts of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a

    maturer golden and autumnal tint, for their own

    serene and celestial atmospo all lands to protect them

    against time.  Books are treasured h of

    t inance of generations and nations.

    Books, t and t, stand naturally and rightfully on

    ttage.  to

    plead, but ain the reader his common

    sense  refuse tural and

    irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or

    emperors, exert an influence on mankind.  erate and

    perrader erprise and industry his

    coveted leisure and independence, and is admitted to the circles of

    urns inevitably at last to till

    yet inaccessible circles of intellect and genius, and is

    sensible only of tion of ure and ty and

    insufficiency of all her proves his good sense

    by takes to secure for

    intellectual culture w  is

    t he founder of a family.

    t learned to read t classics in the

    language in

    knoory of t is remarkable

    t no transcript of to any modern

    tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a

    transcript.   been printed in English, nor

    AEschylus, nor Virgil even -- works as refined, as solidly