Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-12-08

7q9r Socrates, at N extreme age, learned 10 play
= ON nssicsl fsstrunents This would look r.
city, especially il they should take It INTO thsif
!. heads 70 thrum . guitar under ladyi window,
y which Socrates did not do, bat only learned %
ID play upen somsl Instrument Of his fims-not d
"a suitAs--fof the purpose Of fesisting the wear
Z Cato, as RI q yssrs Of are. 'thovebt pyoner ~
; 10 learn the Greek language Many Of our
yoons men, ct thirty and fofty, have forrottsaI
evan the aipksbet of 1Aneu are the Know
ledge Of which was snscsssary - -ss>ue eol3seS,
and which Was made . daily exsrciss thrpsek
college. hne comment npon thsir lsvs oflst-
Piatafch, when between ssvsnt; and eirhty.
commeneed the study Of Latin. Many Of oar
Young lawyers not thirty years Of age think that
PrIn& scire aefes, Re-, ara Enelish express
sssions and il yoa tell them hat . fnosls9e Of
Ir7 La,in would nske them appear little more
Latin .el . - Z B7T-SI-i-g
Boccsccio was thirty Eve yesrs.of age when
/, he commenced his studies in polite litsraturs
:, sYet he became one Of the three grsat masters
of the Tuscan dialect, Dante and .Petrarch
- n Ten years younger than Baccacoio, who are
dying Of s,,sas, and regret that they were not
educated 70 taste Of literature; but now they
Sir Henry Spelmnn neglected the sciencesisl
his youth, bat commeneed the stady Of .thsn
age. After this time he became a most learned
antiquarian lawyer Our young men begin to
think ofiaying their seniors on the shelf whsn
- they have reached sixty yesrs of, are. How
: sdimerent the prssent estimate putupon expe-
, riencc from that which characterissd . certain
period Of the Grecian Repahlic, whom, q man
was not allowed 70 open his mouth in caacus6es
,or poiitisal msstingss nhs Eeasi npter forty
= years OF age.ss 4 asfIf1st sssi III siga
- Colbsrs, ihs famous French nisisssr, Il sixty
years Of age ryturned to bis Latin and Ian
studies. How many Of our college learnt sasu
have ever looked into their classics sincs their
q Lsdovico, at the great age Of one hundred
and fifteen, wrote the memoirs Of his own times.
IA singular exertion, noticed By yoltaire, Who
was himseif one Of the most remarkable i'm
stances Of the age in new studies. -
Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Virgil,
was unacqpainted sith Latin and Greek TN
= Franklin did not fully commence his philo-
sophicd pursuits till he had reached his hftieth
. and CITY, who read nothing but newspaper,
7 for the want Of taste for natural philosophy !
= But they are too Old 10 learn. 49, ), :.
Accorso, great lawyer, being asked Why he
began the study Of law %, late, answered, that
indeed ne began Il late, but be should, there
our theory, that healthy old ags giSessa man
the power Of accomplishing diiicult study in
much less time than would be neceasary to one
Of half bis years sss-ss4 n Y -
]" Dryden, IN his sixty-eighth year, commenced
The translation Of the Iliad; and his most pleas
e ing productions were written In his old age .
81 We could 90 ON and cite thousands Of exam
-r Pies Of men Who commenced . new study and
struck out into an entirely new pursuit, either
~-for iiyslihoed- 90 a1ass1sus, st IN siv snced
ge,sBut every enc familia With the biography
OF Distinguished men viii recollect individual
cases encssh htoconyince him that none but the
I sick and INDECENT win svsrpy 7 41 roo old to