GEORGE III-SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.
Causes of the Vicissitudes of Genius. - Retrospection; England be-
hind, but improves on her Models.-Intellectual Characteristics of
the Georgian Age. - Revival and Exhaustion of Ethical Essays,
Magazines, and Reviews. - Abandoned Departments of Science;
Metaphysics of Reid and Dugald Stewart. - The Modern Novel.
-Services rendered to Literature and Society by the Standard
Histories of Hume, Gibbon, and Robertson.-Adam Smith on
Political Economy, and Sir William Blackstone on Law and
Jurisprudence. Dr. Paley, Godwin, and Rousseau. --Poetical
Transition from Goldsmith, Cowper, and Darwin to Scott,
Moore, Burns, and Byron.-Painting, Sculpture, and Archi-
tecture. The English School of Reynolds. Banks, Nollekins,
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