His unyielding application was converting labour into death; but collecting his last renovated vigour, with his dying hands he gave the volume to the world, though he did not live to witness even its publication.

All objects in life appeared mean to him, compared with that exalted delight of addressing, to the literary men of his age, the history of their brothers.
Such are the men, as BACON says of himself, who are "the servants of posterity,"-- Who scorn delights, and live laborious days! [Footnote A: Louis Moreri was born in Provence in 1643, and died in 1680, at the early age of 37, while engaged on a second edition of his great work.

The minister alluded to in the text was M.de Pomponne, Secretary of State to Louis XIV.

until the year 1679 .-- ED.] The same enthusiasm inspires the pupils of art consumed by their own ardour.

The young and classical sculptor who raised the statue of Charles II., placed in the centre of the Royal Exchange, was, in the midst of his work, advised by his medical friends to desist; for the energy of his labour, with the strong excitement of his feelings, already had made fatal inroads in his constitution: but he was willing, he said, to die at the foot of his statue.