He will portray in vivid colours the domestic society, the manners, the amusements, the conversation of the Greeks.

He will not disdain to discuss the state of agriculture, of the mechanical arts, and of the conveniences of life.

The progress of painting, of sculpture, and of architecture, will form an important part of his plan.

But, above all, his attention will be given to the history of that splendid literature from which has sprung all the strength, the wisdom, the freedom, and the glory, of the western world.
Of the indifference which Mr Mitford shows on this subject I will not speak; for I cannot speak with fairness.

It is a subject on which I love to forget the accuracy of a judge, in the veneration of a worshipper and the gratitude of a child.