[30]. The Life and Letters of Barthold George Niebuhr, with Essays on his Character and Influence. By the Chevalier Bunsen and Professors Brandis and Loeball. In 2 vols.
[31]. Every one remembers that Goethe’s last words are said to have been, “More Light;” and perhaps what has occurred in the text may be supposed a plagiarism from those words. But, in fact, nothing is more common than the craving and demand for light a little before death. Let any consult his own sad experience in the last moments of those whose gradual close he has watched and tended. What more frequent than a prayer to open the shutters and let in the sun? What complaint more repeated, and more touching, than “that it is growing dark?” I once knew a sufferer—who did not then seem in immediate danger—suddenly order the sick room to be lit up as if for a gala. When this was told to the physician, he said gravely, “No worse sign.”
[32]. Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone. By Angus B. Reach. London: 1852.
[33]. Mr Spackman, in his Analysis of the Occupations of the People, states the whole number of persons employed in manufactures of every kind at 1,440,908; the total
| annual value of their production in 1841, at | ||
| £187,184,292 | ||
| Whereof, for the Home Trade, | £128,600,000 | |
| For the Foreign Trade, | 58,584,292 | |
| 187,184,292 | ||
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