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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan MEMOIRS LIFE AND WRITINGS GEORGE BUCHANAN. DAVID IRVING, A. M. EDINBURGH : FOR BELL A. FRINTID AHD 8RADFUTE, AND LAWKIE ; AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORMI, LONDON. 1807. DA 727 PREFACE. i he intellectual endowments of George Buchanan reflect the highest splendour on the land of his and scholar nativity ; every who derives his origin from the same coun- try, is bound to cherish and revere his me- mory. Nor is his reputation confined to his to sister native soil, and the kingdoms ; he has received the homage of every learn- ed nation of Europe. The most fastidious of his cotemporaries recognized him as the prince of poets : and by a rare felicity of genius which yet remains without a parallel, he attained to the same preeminence as a writer of prose. His profound and masterly treatise I)c Jure Scotos excited Regrri apud y the universal odium of those who imagined it absolutely unwarrantable to resist the wildest encroachments of arbitrary power ; a 3 . 712480 VI but it has taught modern philosophers to discuss the principles of political science with new freedom and energy. These are not the hardy assertions of a recluse who amuses himself with ad- are abund- vancing singular opinions ; they antly confirmed by the authority of many distinguished writers of various nations, and of every age from Buchanan's to that in which we live. The high estimation in which he was held by the greatest of mo- dern scholars, will in some measure appear from the subsequent memoirs : but it may not here be superfluous to exhibit the pre- vious testimonies of several British authors of distinction, who flourished during the two centuries which have intervened since his death. Archbishop Spotswood denominates him " a man so well deserving of his country a as none more." Nor can that worthy and able primate be suspected of any undue partiality in his favour. " Bishop Burnet has remarked that in his writings there appears, not only all the beauty and graces of the Latine tongue, Hist, of the Spotswood's Church of Scotland, p. 325. Vll but a vigor of mind and quickness of thought, far beyond Bembo, or the other Italians, who at that time affected to revive the purity of the Roman stile. It was but a feeble imitation of in them but Tully ; his stile is so natural and nervous, and his reflections on things are so solid, (besides his immortal poems, in which he shews how well he could imitate all the Roman poets, in their several ways of writing, that he who compares them, will be ofren tempt- ed to prefer the copy to the original,) that he is justly reckoned the greatest and best of our modem authors." Cowley, speaking of the writers who have executed poetical versions of the psalms, de- " nominates Buchanan much the best of them all, and indeed a great person.'" Dryden, notwithstanding his political prejudices, has likewise mentioned him in " terms of high commendation. Buchan- an indeed for the purity of his Latin, and for his learning, and for all other endow- ments belonging to an historian, might be plac'd amongst the greatest, if he had not '' of the vol. Burnet's Hist, Reformation, i,^p. 3H. c Cowley':* pref. to b'.^ Pinchriqua Odes. Vlll too much lean'd to prejudice, and too ma- nifestly declar'd himself a party of a cause, rather than an historian of it. Excepting only that, (which I desire not to urge too far on so great a man, but only to give caution to his readers concerning it,) our isle may justly boast in him, a writer com- parable to any of the moderns, and excell'd d by few of the ancients." Sir William Temple, another very po- pular writer, was also among the number " of his admirers. Thus began the restor- ation of learning in these parts, with that and soon of the Greek tongue ; after, e Reuchlyn and Erasmus began that of the purer and ancient Latin. After them Bu- chanan carried it, I think, to the greatest heighth of any of the moderns before or since.."' Lord Monboddo, whose opinion on this d Dryden's Life of Plutarch, p. 56. * Reuchlin has found an industrious biographer in his coun- J. whose bears tryman H. Maius ; publication the title of " Vita Jo. Reuchlini Phoicensis, primi in Germania Hebrai- carum Grsecarumque, et aliarurn bonarum Literarum Instaura- toris." Durlaci, 1687, 8vo. ' Temple's Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning, n. 161. ix subject at least is not singular, prefers his " history to that of Livy. I will begin with my countryman Buchanan, who has written the history of his own country in Latin, and in such Latin, that I am not afraid to compare his stile with that of any Roman historian. He lived in an age when the Latin language was very much cultivated and the learned it ; among was not only the only language in which they but a for wrote, living language ; they spoke no other when they conversed toge- ther, at least upon learned subjects. ... In such an age, and with all the advantages of a learned education, did George Buchanan write the history of Scotland from the ear- liest times down to his own time : and I hesitate not to pronounce that the stile of his is better than that of narrative Livy ; for it is as pure and elegant, is better com- posed in periods not intricate and involved like .those of Livy, and without that affect- ed brevity which make's Livy's stile so ob- scure. Even in speeches, in which Livy is supposed to excel so much, I think his com- is better he has position ; and none of those short pointed sentences, the vibrantes sentcn- twice, which Livy learned in the school of declamation." 15 Dr. Stuart, though one of the most stre- nuous defenders of Queen Mary, could not dissemble the literary excellence of Buchan- " an. He passed with propriety from the school to the cabinet, and felt himself alike a scholar and a courtier. In poetry he was deemed unrivalled by his contemporaries. He is more nervous, more various, more elegant than the Italian poets. He has imitated those of Rome with greater grace and purity. His psalms, in which he has employed so many kinds of verse, display admirably the extent and universality of his mind, the quickness and abundance of his fancy, and the power and acuteness of his judgment. In history he has contend- ed with Livy and Sallust. The chequered scenes of his life had given him a wide ex- perience of the world, and he was naturally of a thoughtful disposition. He treats ac- cordingly the transactions of men with great prudence and discernment. His is admirable his learning ; penetration bet- * Monboddo's Origin and Progress of Language, vol. v, p. 22<). ter than his learning. The vigour of his mind, the interest of his manner, the dig- nity of his narrative, the deepness of his remark, the purity of his diction, are all 11 conspicuous." ( Sir James Mackintosh is not the least elo- " quent of his distinguished admirers. The science which teaches the rights of man, the eloquence that kindles the spirit of free- dom, had for ages been buried with the other monuments of the wisdom and relics of the genius of antiquity. But the revival of letters first unlocked only to a few, the sacred fountain. The necessary labours of criticism and lexicography occupied the earlier scholars, and some time elapsed before the spirit of antiquity was trans- fused into its admirers. The first man of that period who united elegant learn- ing to original and masculine thought was Buchanan, and he too seems to have been the first scholar who caught from the ancients the noble flame of republic- an enthusiasm. This praise is merited by his neglected, though incomparable tract, Be Jure Regni, in which the prin- h Stuart's Hist, of Scotland, vol. is, p. 244. Xll ciples of popular politics, and the max- ims of a free government, are delivered with a precision, and enforced with an energy, which no former age had equalled, and no succeeding has surpassed." The fate of a man entitled to such splend- id encomiums must certainly excite con- siderable interest. But even from greater characters than these, he has obtained more enthusiastic commendation : Grotius de- scribes him as Scotia illud numeric that Scot- ish divinity. The history of Buchanan is the history of an individual unrivalled in modern times. To have selected so important and so difficult a subject, may seem to require an apology : but if important subjects were only to be investigated by men endowed with every qualification, the number of li- terary productions would be prodigiously diminished. These memoirs claim no other merit than that of intentions good ; and they may possibly suggest a fortunate un- dertaking to some more competent enquir- er. A few years previous to Buchanan's death, Mackintosh's Defence of the French Revolution, p. 309. Xlll some of his numerous friends felt a laudable solicitude to secure authentic memorials of so illustrious a character. With this view, Sir Thomas Randolph addressed a letter to Young, which is not unworthy of our pre- sent attention. " After my verie hartie commendacions. Beinge lately mouid with the remembrance of my maister Mr. G.Buchanan by the sight a of Jure Scotos of booke his, De Regni apud y and callinge to mynde the notable actes of his lyfe, his studie, his trauayle, his danger, his wisdome, his learninge, and, to be short, as muche as could be wished in a man ; I thought the kinge your maister more hap- pie that had Buchanan to his maister, then Alexander the Great that had Aristotell his instructor.
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