Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-11-05

mdson's Treatise" fell iuto his hands,
C,rueillc showed 10 liking for any hterl-
ture except the law until he fell III love
and felt himself compelled totell the lady
80 IN poetry; and Moherc might nave re-
manned making tapestry had not ms
grandmother net!ied his prlde by wishing
hat he could be an actor like Monrose-
alboa might not have ediScoveredtheI Iacl-
lie ad h. not been umsuccesstulasa shop
keeper IN Iiispamnla, and found 1t neccs-
sarv to flee 10 the mainland, concealed
from his creditors ina cask ON board
Fncisco's vessel and 1t Is certain ,that
had Cortes become q wcl!-bncfed LAWYER
III Salamanca, he wouid never have lived
to proudly tell Charles Y. that he had
Given him more provinces than his father
al left him cities. lgnatius Loyola was
n soldier and the Order of JesuIts might
never have been founded had he not ac-
cidentally bcglilcd the te,iium OF lnactlon
necessitated by wound with reading
The Lives Of the Saints. Glbbon de
termlncd to write his famous work alter
listening to the monks singing Vespers IN
the Temple of Jupiter at Rome; and La
Fontaine was stimulated to cultivate liter
ature after hearing some verses oi Nal
herbc. Men of science have often Deeh
'made" by accidcntsas seemingly trlfilhS
We shall not repeat the well-worn tale
about the apple which set Newton upon
the track OF his great discovery, for the
tale is extremely mythical but 1t Is true
that Flamstced took 10 astronomy after
having accidentally read Sacrobosco S
DE Sphpria. Pcnnant to natural his
NiIl,.trsrl,hv' hook
birds, Bonnet to the observation OF insects
after studyin Reamur, and DIR. Frank
lin always attributed the bent OF his
scientific genius to De Foes Essay on
Projects Faraday might have remain-
ed a jOurneyman bookblnder had not
kindly Mr. Dance invited him to hear SIr
Humphrey Davy lecture, and Naucanson
only took to studying the mechanism OF
clocks in order to beSuile the weary hours
which he had 10 pass while attending his
mother Ak confession.
Nor is it less true that great moral and
political revolutions have taken place
which might often have been avoided by
the observance OF tri.lcs. Guicclardina-
for whose veracity Isaac Disraeil vouches
has left it on record that 50 terrified was
Martin Luther when the Emperor Char
les V. put him under 1.-The ban that had
he then received some preierment he
would have renowned his errors. But
tLe threatening words Of Cardinal San
Sistn the apostolic lcgatc, threw him into
such despair that he did not care, after
the insults he had received, to make an
effort To save himself Franklin, in like
manner, Was So gunoycdat the tone which
Lord Granville assumed toward him that
it is believed that the interview entirely
altered the cohciliatury views with which
the accn. for the colony of Pennsylvania
came to England, and fastened, ii it did
ntN precipitale. the final explosion. In
s.udving the chr niclcs of nations We see
only the broad, prominent events. but
not the secret springs which are all the
time modifying HuI moving the actors
even more powerfully. We c.nrcad thede
spntchcs cIiccrriur ihr English share in
t'..t..a .1-rurkish ~. hut the Blue Book
contains nu reference To the ''Goit, Ned,
winch. ser: :Hlcd in tx cornerof the Duke
of Clarc:!c,,'s despatch, i; said to have de-
tcrlninrd the battle Of Navarino. The
shelves of uur libraries are laden with
books lab He'd history. But IN reality
real history still remains TO be written,
for the older the world is growing the
more il is inclined 10 agree with Sir
Robert WMpole when he told his son
Horace hnt after having been for half a
ccI.:ury engaged in making the materials
for them, thrce-fuurths OF the written
chronicles were hss no; worth reading
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