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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 193
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2.—TJie Beautiful in 2 Nature vols. , Lo...
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An entire chapter is given to the discoveries of Cardinal Angelo Maiwho out of the dust of forgotten commentatators , or the "
sermons , of some abbot of the eleventh or twelth century , " extracted the Aurelius thoug and hts Antoninus of famous men Pius ; amongst a history other of Dionysius things , of letters Halicarnassu of Marcus s ,
even orations of Cicero . With , -what perseverance and ingenuity all this was done must be learned from the book itself . Who could
have imagined that in parchments centuries old , scraped and scrubbed b on obl y ite morals barbarians rated ) and , and theology of afterwards the middle a scholar covered ages coul over ( until d b hav y interminable everything e detected scrolls appeared treatises as
valuable as those of the ancient , Sibyl ? Not merely detecting them as facts that had once existedhewith wonderful sagacity and
untiring toil , pursued them ( these , , palimpsests ) from paper to paper , from shelf to shelfuntil he at last made out complete works , which
he restored and gave , up to the public . These were some of Angelo Mai's benefactions * to succeeding generations , —conquests won in
peaceful fields , for which wreaths of the true laurel ( laurus nobilis ) have Our been gratefull will not y awarded allow of . our making more extracts at present
from Cardinal space Wiseman ' s leasant bookand we must therefore leave it to make its 'way ( which p we are sure , it will do ) with the reader .
He will receive it as a very agreeable contribution to Papal history point by a hi of ghl view y intelli the gent writer man beholds , and will the readil objects y understand that he p from laces what
before us .
Notices Of Books. 193
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 193
2.—Tjie Beautiful In 2 Nature Vols. , Lo...
2 . —TJie Beautiful in 2 Nature vols . , Longman Art , and , Life Brown , By , and Andrew Co . James Symington .
Written in a catholic spirit as regards art , and in a deeply Christian these enjoyer spirit volumes as of regard art , we s They the can are moral conscientiousl a treasury responsibility of y passages recommend of the bearing the artist peru upon and sal the the of
. Beautiful in Nature , Art , and Life , selected by a poetical and studious mind from a vast range of authors , ancient , and modern ;
a long string of precious gems , strung upon a delicate thread of Christian The work and consists philosop of hic five thoug leading ht . divisions . First , an
introducinto tory chap the ter Spirit , dwelling of the on Beautiful the catholic should manner be conducted in which ; all whilst inquiry the
later divisions are devoted to a consideration of the Philosophy of the Beautiful ; to the Beautiful in Nature , considered in a three-fold
view , its outward aspect , scientific arrangement of its phenomena , » and special adaptation for illustrating thought ; to the Beautiful in
the Fine Arts in general _; and ' , lastly , to the Beautiful in Life . In
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/49/
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