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    ' - ' " \ ' * j £ y' 'j ^ , . *¦ t ft a gei ^ - wfopm lie Afterwards attended to Italy . At Weimar he was raised to a dignity nev ^ r before conferred oft a commoner , and be * cgine president of the consistory ; thfy Eigliest preferment pf the Gjer- * man pfotestant churches . Afterwards , howe ^ er $ ' ~ he i *< eceivecl a patent of nobility from the elector of Bavaria . This w ? ts the lowest and least respected' kind of Germaf * nobility under the old constitution , and it is but justice to" a dd * that Herder accepted the title principally to qualify his son to possess an estate in Bavaria ,

    vriach w&s tenable only by the son *> i a nobleman . Merder ^ s latter ytefors were &pent » like bte formen , laboriously ; his ecclesiastical office ** eeuptedmuch of histime ;

    aintyet literary' business was ik ^ cessary for the ease of his domestic lifei iHe married a ^ ad y > ti > £ - ¦ great ' accomplishments arid talents * but without fortune * arid

    she brought him & numerous fa'' jJtnil y * JHei ^ r ! s ^ iJispb ^ Jtion led ^ him to be hbspitabVe ^ dnd his hiaiiitfe wefe generous anld Jiberal ; ^ fce wasritherefor ^; stlwiays cmbat ^ ¦^ I ^ as 6 < i in ^ is circu mstances . He - Jived Ji © wevjer l&tig eiioiigb to sree > fi ^ atfcy ^ lihis ^ fairiiily provided for ,

    a ' ndrthiS' own fame Was at < length a certain pledge of fnttiie patronage and , protection fa ^ < j ^ is ' children . For tfte celebri ^ ) rHeraef was not dt , thai light iend fugitive

    kiha ; which attaches to artists ahd poets > even of preeminent genius ^ who &r& bbjects of lotVd applaiisi * and wide * - ^ pread admi ration ^ but towards whom the public entertains no ' serious sense * W ; grUtitude ,

    Herder ' s ^ fame '' was of : ; a more earnest and elevated kind ; it vtus combined ' with ft Strong sense erf personal respect * Tbe decidedly

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    Hinoral tendency of his writings the renunciation of popularity in the direction of his taints , gave a sort of skiictity to liis name ; so that , though himself sometimes ^ n f ngfy polemist , - ^ e . va ^ . tenderly and almost kindly treated by Bis victorious opponents ; and his death , w ^ i ich took p lace in 1803 , excited universal regret and

    sorrow . It ; is said , that whe $ young he was in his person remarkably handsome : latferly in life he had a very commanding £ ir , though the agreeableness of his countenance was much disturbed

    by * a [ fistula lavkrymalis . TK | c ^ rigrav ^ d portrait of htei ha& givea a hardness and dryncsj * toy hisi countenance absolutely jcnlwppi * ous 5 the expression of' which ivas * a kind of elevated benevo- ; iehoe * In : conversation , he . was always eamest and could be

    vehement , Wt vhisi . J ^ ehemence M ? as always inspired I by moral feeli |> g& of equal delicacy aiid force . . Ufa voice Jtab * : '* jvaa deep-toned , and commanding 5 ' iri t ^ yery thing tliereferes he ^ an designed

    foyfnature for a pulpit oratbi * . ..-iUnhap * jiily , he fouhd that ; fDeqwAl preaching-had > so pernicious ^ n eflfect' upon Ws ^ ealtfo ^ that he was ^ nlatterly obliged Up reserve

    himself for great evasions , i n ^ v ^ r heard him oflRqifeite . liut oiicfj it was in the inductSonj ^^ i ^ sppexr ptendent in tbe uniier » ity , o ^ 3 ^ m * Hifii figure , hii voice , ^ l ^ fta % IO ^ - ty of bis mannerj the warnivli ^ wd

    unction of his ^ rourse ^^ cp m-. biijc ci to realise i » s jggeat ip ^ sure that idea of $$ pft $ ect \ prk ? & which the conteiniJfatjve ^^ d ^ $ ari ' fQn 4 yto itself , mwd $ pferliaps in the ^ -cold clime * md ) unfe

    thVs influence of rationtrtifcfaeQlQgy * and a rtiode of worship / free from ^

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    Vt 4 t Remarks on the Genius and Writings of fferder .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/2/