... if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditationswhich fill their hours, they feel the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure? Can the calm beams of their heaven-seeking ... neither the lonely meditations of the hermit, nor the tu-multuous raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man's heart.From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other ... left them, athankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.I, the elder of the two, was five years old when my mother died. A re-membrance of the discourses of my parents, and the...