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a noted General in the Mexican Service, and rendered great service in their War
of Independence.
B. Jacques, traveller, artist, and author. He led a restless, wandering life, and was a
man of great energy and literary power and productiveness.
B. Etienne; dramatic author of considerable repute, and a most prolific writer; was
a hot republican. He held office under the provisional government of 1848; was
exiled under Napoleon III.
S. Emmanuel, barrister, elected, at the early age of thirty-four, “membre du conseil
de l'ordre,” politician and hot republican. He took a prominent part in the
Revolution of 1848, but was silenced after the coup d'etat.
S. Alfred, a painter, Inspecteur-General des Beaux Arts. Aristotle. Founder of the
Peripatetic School, one of the ablest of men in science and philosophy, teacher
of Alexander. He joined Plato's academy, who called him, aet. 17, “the intellect
of his school.” He had weak health, but marvellous industry. Was restless;
taught as he walked—hence the name of the Peripatetic School. Was very
particular about his dress. Was wealthy; lost his parents early in life.
F. Nicomachus, friend and physician to Amyntas II., King of Macedonia; author of
works, now lost, on medicine and science.
P. Nicomachus. According to Cicero, he was considered by some to have been the
author of the “Nicomachean Ethics,” generally attributed to Aristotle.
Up. (? about the form of the U). Callisthenes, the philosopher who accompanied
Alexander the Great to the East, an imprudent man, wanting in tact, but
otherwise able. His mother, Hero, was Aristotle's cousin.
Bacon, Francis; created Lord Bacon, Lord Chancellor. “The wisest, brightest,
meanest of mankind “is an over-hard sentence on this most illustrious
philosopher and statesman. His natural gifts were formed by the simple
addition of those of his mother to those of his father. It is doubtful whether or
no he was very precocious, but Queen Elizabeth certainly took delight in his
boyish wit, gravity, and judgment.
F. Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He
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