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to be on looking at she actual remains of those monumonts
aud temples, whose ruins crown the rocxy platform of the
Acropolis. I am satisfied that there is nothing now in
existence which for beauty of design, masterly workmanship,
and choice of situation, can compare with that spectacle of
grandeur and sublimity which the public tewples of ancient
Arhens presented two thousand years age. What a genius
and what a taste had those people! And, mind, the genius is
there still, All the best dends of ancient times will be again
rivalled by the Grezks cf « futare age. Do not believe the
lying and slanderins __.. ats which the dulness of some
travellers, the envy of I.ovant merchants, and the Franks
of Constantinople, utter aguinst the Greek character. The
raw material of all that is nokle, brilliant, refined, and
glorious, is still latent iu the character of this people
overlaid, as is natural, wita {he ¢rrning, falsehood, meanness,
and other vices inher. 2’ - + wula of slaves.
“ Do not, however, © n predicting the revival
of Greek greatness, ©. 1eans of the present little
trumpery monarchy _ which will pass away like
other bubbles blo ~ "ow statesmen. All the East
will be Greek, 1. no matter under what
nominal sovereig, will by the force of the
indomitable geniu. sks become in fact the capital
of that peoplc
Athens, March 22. sevoning at Sir E. Lyons’ I met
Captain Fisher, who - haste with which he was
ordered to sea for ti. . ft his own son behind
him, whom I met i. dia, and for whom
he had not dared “Lars. He also left
behind two guns, ..... . «ao lives and fortunes
of a nation were at . .» not have used more
pressing expedition—y.. _, ior no purpose that can be
® To F. Cobden, April 18, 1837.

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