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    830 L,i W ' fe and ritings of Herder.

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    : Account Of Herder's Life And Writings.

    Barttielemy 9 and De Guigftes . Upon the whole , his impression of Paris seems to ihavtf been unfavourable * France did not suit his enthusiastic spirit , and in one-of his letters , he expresses himself " heartily weary of it . " The passionate fondness which he had early and deeply imbibed for Shakspeare , disqualified him for relishing the artificial elegance of the French theatre ; and v th 6 ugh he admired the acting of Clairon and Le Cain , the whote performance appeared to him only a display of conventional art .

    Soon after his arrival in Paris , Herder received an invitation * to undertake for three years the office of instructor and travelling chaplain to the son of fthe Duke of Holstein-Gldenburg * The proposal concurred with his own wish to spend some further time in travelling ., and relieved him from the necessity of being any longer chargeable to his friendso After some

    preliminary arrangements , Herder accepted this invitation , though , in so doing , he abandoned his original design of returning to his friends at Riga ; and , quitting Paris , at the end of 1769 , he set out for the residence of his new patron at Eutiru In proceeding thither , he narrowly escap ed shipwreck off the coast of Holland , and at Hamburg formed a personal acquaintance with Lessing .

    At Eutin it was Herder ' s object to secure the affection of his young charge . The Prince possessed considerable talent for mathematics and for drawing , but united with this a tendency to religious scrupulousness and melancholy which had been increased by the injudicious mode of his previous edu'Cationo Herder ' s plaus for his improvement were frustrated by the opposite views of his Governor the Baron von Cappelmann , In this new situation 9 as at Riga , Herder had his enemies among the clergy . He preached occasionally in the Castle-church , and the court-chaplain complained of him as a Socinian .

    Herder commenced his tour with the Prince in July 1770 . At Darmstadt , the etiquette of the court would not allow him a seat at the Prince ' s table ; and this exclusion proved a fortunate circumstance far him , as it was the means of introducing him 5 through the Governante of the Princesses , Mademoiselle Ravanell , at whose table he was entertained , to bis fdtcrre wife

    a young lady of the name of Flachsland , in whose virtues , accomplishments , and congenial views , he afterwards found the chief solace and blessing of his existence . Just before Herder quitted Eutin , he received a letter which had followed hkn from Riga , requesting him to accept the situation of First Preacher and Consistoriai Counsellor in the Court of the Cotmt of

    Schaumburg-Lippe ^ at Biickeburg ; and this invitation was repeated , during his stay at Darmstadt , accompanied with the express declaration , that , in theology , be should enjoy full liberty to teach whatever he believed . Me appears to have > been indebted for this invitation to a little piece which he had published at Riga , to the memory of Thomas Abbt , who had been the chosen

    Mend and companion of the Count ? and whose loss Herder ' s genius seemed to point him out as the fittest person to replace . His situation as Chaplain to the tPrrnee ofEutin , was rendered disagreeable and embarrassing by the pEqietoal Conflict of his views with those of the Governor von Capped rnaran ; and iliis cfa « sunigtiaftice concurred with the attachment which he had formed

    at I ^ rnnstadt , to determine his acceptance of the invitation to Biickeburg , where ' he tmwht hope ere long to rind a settled home . Before entering on the duties of j his office * be stipulated for permission to remain some titfie in Sttfasburg , in wder f to promote the cure of his diseased eye « After suffering much-and submitting to several operations ^ he found to his mortification that the evil was inourableo His-titne , however , was not wholly lost at Strasburg ;

    830 L,I W ' Fe And Ritings Of Herder.

    830 L , i W ' fe and ritings of Herder .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 830, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/30/