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ROLLIN. [FRANCE.
of Studying and Teaching the Belles Eettres, which was
published, in two volumes, in 1726; and two more ap-
peared in 1728.
This work has been exceedingly successful, and
justjy so; and its success encouraged its author to un-
dertake another work of equal use and entertainment,
his Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, fyc.
which he finished in thirteen volumes, octavo, and
published between 1730 and 1738. The reader will
easily discover in this work the same attachment to re-
ligion, the same desire for the public good, and the
same love of virtue, which appears in that of the
Belles Lettres. While the last volumes of the Ancient
History were printing, be published the first of his
Roman History, which he lived to carry on to the
eighth, and into part of the ninth. This history met
with less success than his Ancient History. He pub-
lished also lesser pieces, containing letters, harangues,
discourses, &c. in two volumes, 12mo. His Latin
poems merit particular eulogium. He died in 1741.
Rollin was a man of an admirable disposition ;
very ingenious, consummate in polite learning, of
rigid morals, and eminently, pious. Nothing could be
more benign, more pacific, more moderate, than his
temper. Instead of blushing at the lowness of. his
birth, Rollin on no occasion hesitated to speak of it.
“ It is from the Cyclops’s shop (says he in a Latin
epigram to one of his friends, to whom he had sent a
small sword,) that I have taken my flight towards Par-
nassus.” Rousseau, the poet, held him in such venera-
tion, that he came out of banishment, incognito, to
Paris, on purpose to visit him.
of Studying and Teaching the Belles Eettres, which was
published, in two volumes, in 1726; and two more ap-
peared in 1728.
This work has been exceedingly successful, and
justjy so; and its success encouraged its author to un-
dertake another work of equal use and entertainment,
his Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, fyc.
which he finished in thirteen volumes, octavo, and
published between 1730 and 1738. The reader will
easily discover in this work the same attachment to re-
ligion, the same desire for the public good, and the
same love of virtue, which appears in that of the
Belles Lettres. While the last volumes of the Ancient
History were printing, be published the first of his
Roman History, which he lived to carry on to the
eighth, and into part of the ninth. This history met
with less success than his Ancient History. He pub-
lished also lesser pieces, containing letters, harangues,
discourses, &c. in two volumes, 12mo. His Latin
poems merit particular eulogium. He died in 1741.
Rollin was a man of an admirable disposition ;
very ingenious, consummate in polite learning, of
rigid morals, and eminently, pious. Nothing could be
more benign, more pacific, more moderate, than his
temper. Instead of blushing at the lowness of. his
birth, Rollin on no occasion hesitated to speak of it.
“ It is from the Cyclops’s shop (says he in a Latin
epigram to one of his friends, to whom he had sent a
small sword,) that I have taken my flight towards Par-
nassus.” Rousseau, the poet, held him in such venera-
tion, that he came out of banishment, incognito, to
Paris, on purpose to visit him.