Leibnitz. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646–1716). He was refused a Doctor’s Degree at Leipzig in his twentieth year on the ground of his youth.
Euler. Leonard Euler (1707–1783), of Basel. At the age of nineteen he was second in a competition projected by the Paris Academy for the best treatise on the masting of ships.
[307]. With heedless haste. ‘With wanton heed and giddy cunning.’ L’Allegro, 141.
[308]. Like the sweet south. Twelfth Night, I. 1.
Like poppies spread [‘the snow falls’]. Burns, Tam o’ Shanter.
Mandeville. Bernard Mandeville (1670?–1733), author of The Fable of the Bees (1714).
[310]. Defoe’s romance: i.e., Robinson Crusoe.
Round which, with tendrils. Wordsworth, Personal Talk, III.
ESSAY XXVII. ON OLD ENGLISH WRITERS AND SPEAKERS
From The New Monthly Magazine, vol. XIII., No. 49, 1825, with additions.