My glance falls upon the portrait of Pasquale. I could not wish to imagine him otherwise. His head is large and regular; his brow arched and high, the hair long and flowing; his eyebrows bushy, falling a little down into the eyes, as if swift to contract and frown; but the blue eyes are luminous, large, and free--full of clear, perceptive intellect; and an air of gentleness, dignity, and benevolence, pervades the beardless, open countenance. One of my greatest pleasures is to look at portraits and busts of great men. Four periods of these attract and reward our examination most--the heads of Greece; the Roman heads; the heads of the great fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and the heads of the eighteenth century. It would be an almost endless labour to arrange by themselves the busts of the great men of the eighteenth century; but such a Museum would richly reward the trouble. When I see a certain group of these together, it seems to me as if I recognised a family resemblance prevailing in it--a resemblance arising from the presence in each, of one and the same spiritual principle--Pasquale, Washington, Franklin, Vico, Genovesi, Filangieri, Herder, Pestalozzi, Lessing. Pasquale's head is strikingly like that of Alfieri. Although the latter, like Byron, aristocratic, proud, and unbendingly egotistic, widely differs in many respects from his contemporary, Pasquale--the peaceful, philanthrophic citizen; he had nevertheless a soul full of a marvellous energy, and burning with the hatred of tyranny. He could understand such a nature as Paoli's better than Frederick the Great. Frederick once sent to this house a present for Paoli--a sword bearing the inscription, _Libertas_, _Patria_. Away in distant Prussia, the great king took Pasquale for an unusually able soldier. He was no soldier; his brother Clemens was his sword; he was the thinking head--a citizen and a strong and high-hearted man. Alfieri comprehended him better, he dedicated his _Timoleon_ to him, and sent him the poem with this letter:-- TO SIGNOR PASQUALE PAOLI, THE NOBLE DEFENDER OF CORSICA.