I have much more to say upon
Both Linn and Bonniton;
But the trunks are tied on,
And I must be gone.
In the varied music of Schiller’s Song of the Bell may be found the same style:—
| Der Mann muß hinaus | The man must be out |
| Ins feindliche Leben, | In hostile life toiling, |
| Muß wirken und streben | Be struggling and moiling, |
| Und pflanzen und schaffen, | And planting, obtaining, |
| Erlisten, erraffen, | Devising and gaining, |
| Muß wetten und wagen, | And daring, enduring, |
| Das Glück zu erjagen. | So fortune securing. |
TURGOT’S EPIGRAPH ON FRANKLIN.
Eripuit cœlo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis.
This inscription, the highest compliment ever paid to the American philosopher and statesman, and originally ascribed to Condorcet and Mirabeau, was written by Turgot, Louis XVI.’s minister and controller-general of finance, and first appeared in the correspondence of Grimm and Diderot, April, 1778. It is, however, merely a modification of a line in the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal de Polignac, lib. i., v. 37:—
Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, Phœboque sagittas,