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Hereditary Genius
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under Metternich, who was his constant patron. Died aet. 57.
F. U. U. As above.
B. August Wilhelm von Schlegel. See above.
Seneca, Lucius Annseus; Roman philosopher; educated for rhetoric, but his taste
rebelled against it, and he devoted himself to philosophy. His noble sentiments
and grand stoicism have greatly influenced even the Christian world, for Seneca
was formerly much read and admired. He amassed an immense fortune, no one
knows how, but it is suspected by equivocal means. He was the tutor of Nero,
and naturally has not acquired much credit by his pupil, who put him to death
aet. 63.
F. Marcus Annseus Seneca; rhetorician and author. He was a man of prodigious
memory; he could repeat two thousand words in the order he heard them.
Married a Spanish lady.
B. Marcus Novatus, who took the name Junius Gallic, and became proconsul of
Achaia. It was before his tribunal that St. Paul was brought, on the accusation
of introducing innovations in religious matters. Eusebius describes him as a
distinguished rhetorician, and his brother calls him the most tolerant of men.
N. Lucanus Marcus Annseus (Lucan), the poet. His “Pharsalia” is the only one of
his works that has reached us. His father, the brother of Seneca, married the
daughter of Lucanus, an eminent orator, from whom the son took his name.
Sevigne, Marquise de (born Marie de Rabutin Chantal);
authoress of charming
letters. She was unsurpassed, perhaps unequalled, as a letter-writer. Her father
was killed in battle when she was an infant, her mother died when she was aet.
6. She was an only child. Married, not happily, to a profligate man, who was
killed in a duel on account of another lady. She wrote well before her
widowhood, but not much; then she retired from the world to educate her
children, and reappeared aet. 27, when she shone in society. Society improved,
and did not spoil her. Her daughter married the Lieutenant-Governor of
Provence, and it was to her that the famous
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