No More Learning

Brisez les fers de la patrie. "

"L'Ombre de Roland," _Morning Chronicle_, October 10, 1822. ]

[290] [Gustavus Adolphus fell at the great battle of Lutzen, in
November, 1632. Napoleon defeated the allied Russian and Prussian armies
at Lutzen, May 2, 1813. ]

[291] [On June 26, 1813, Napoleon re-entered Dresden, and on the 27th
repulsed the allied sovereigns, the Emperors of Russia and Prussia, with
tremendous loss. Thousands of prisoners and a great quantity of cannon
were taken. ]

[ea]

_Dresden beholds three nations fly once more_
_Before the lash they oft had felt before_. --[MS. erased. ]

[292] [At the battle of Leipzig, October 18, 1813, on the appearance of
Bernadotte, the Saxon soldiers under Regnier deserted and went over to
the Allies. Napoleon, whose army was already weakened, lost 30,000 men
at Leipzig. ]

[293] [Joseph Buonaparte, who had been stationed on the heights of
Montmartre, March 30, 1814, to witness if not direct the defence of
Paris against the Allies under Blucher, authorized Marmont to
capitulate. His action was, unjustly, regarded as a betrayal of his
brother's capital. ]

[294] {554} I refer the reader to the first address of Prometheus in
AEschylus, when he is left alone by his attendants, and before the
arrival of the chorus of Sea-nymphs. --_Prometheus Vinctus_, line 88,
_sq.
_

[295] [Franklin published his _Opinions and Conjectures concerning the
Properties and Effects of the Electrical Matter and the Means of
preserving Buildings, Ships, etc. , from Lightning_, in 1751, and in
June, 1752, "the immortal kite was flown. " It was in 1781, when he was
minister plenipotentiary at the Court of France, that the Latin
hexameter, "Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis," first applied to
him by Turgot, was affixed to his portrait by Fragonard. The line, said
to be an adaptation of a line in the _Astronomicon_ of Manilius (lib. i.
104), descriptive of the Reason, "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen viresque
tonandi," was turned into French by Nogaret, d'Alembert, and other wits
and scholars. It appears on the reverse of a medal by F. Dupre, dated
1786. (See _Works_ of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Jared Sparks, 1840,
viii. 537-539; _Life and Times, etc. _, by James Parton, 1864, i.
285-291. )]

[296] {555}["To be the first man--_not_ the Dictator, not the Sylla, but
the Washington, or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truth--is
next to the Divinity. "--Journal, November 24, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii.
340. ]

[297] [Simon Bolivar (_El Libertador_), 1783-1830, was at the height of
his power and fame at the beginning of 1823.