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Holland und at ftris . Hie pupils M . Galin has foTmed in that city , do no less honour to his character than t ( O his talents . It will soften the just
regrets which the death of their Professor causes them , to know that an extensive work , relative to music , which he has left ready for the press , Mali soon be brought forward .
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Madame de Condorcet , ( see Mon . Jtepos . XVIL 640 , ) widow of the illustrious Secretary of the Academy of Sciences , died at / Paris , on Sunday , 6 th September , 1822 . The end of
her life has given new proofs of that pure arid sublime philosophy with which she was penetrated . Notwithstanding the acute and almost continual pains of her last long malady , the wants and future lot of those she
assisted occupied her incessantly ; and even when her voice became indistinct , it was the names of these persons which she articulated the best and most frequently . The same sentiment of philanthropy led her to wish for the plainest funeral . This lady , so estimable for the goodness of her heart and the soundness of her
understanding , justly cherished and regretted by all who had the happiness of approaching her , and sharing her affections , had made herself known in the literary world by an elegant translation of the Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith .
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Berthollet . The year which is near its termination will be distinguished by the great and numerous losses that have afflicted the learned world . The science of Astronomy has been
deprived of D'Alembert and Herschel ; the Eoole nor male and a great number pi eminent Professors are lost to us ; the studies of the most celebrated
school of medicine in the world are interrupted , and the very existence of that Institution is endangered ; Haiiy as no more ; a few months after his decease , Berthollet follows him to the grave . The last-named calamity is the more afflictive because it was unexpected , the vigorous constitution of
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this eminent scholar having lulled Tils friends into security : although he had arrived at the age of seventy-four , there was no indication that science was about to Ios 6 th £ genius and the labours of one of Us most zealous promoters . Berthollet , like D'Aletn
bert , . first studied physic , but chemistry soon became more attractive in his eyes , and the path of useful discovery was open before hini . We shall not on this occasion undertake to give an account of all that he has done for the science of chemistry - ? the subject would require leisure for methodical researches and an extended
treatise . Suffice it , at present , to mention some of his works : his JSlemens de Teinture and his Statique Chimique , will be known and consulted long after the ideas and facts which they contain shall be found in subsequent works , which develope the further advancement of science .
In the article which we shall devote to Berthollet , a man so wturthy of our regret , we shall follow him in his peaceful career of science , amidst the revolution in Egypt ; we shall recai that glorious epoch when the arms of France had conquered the land of the Pharaohs with its monuments of
grandeur ; we shall contemplate Berthollet and Monge amongst the ruins of Tyre , enfeebled by disease , but animated by the love of knowledge and of their country ^ plucking- with hands , bereft of their strength , some fragments of the walls ancT buildings of that ancient city , to subject them
to scientific analysis . After having admired the scholar ^ we shall turn our attention , with varied interest , to the public man ; nor will the private individual be less worthy of our regards . The task of the biographer of this good citizen , this sincere and judicious friend of liberty , this professor
whose zeal and genius have given the character of demonstration to $ science before imperfectly investigated , would be a task affording the liveliest pleasure , did not every line he writes recal to his memory , that death has put an end to the labours he is delighted to tracer
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108 Select Notices of Foreign Ijiteratur # .- *> Death 8 Abroad .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/44/
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