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Aug. 24, 1850.] ©!> t &,*&%* t. 521
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THE MOORE RAPHAEL. " APOLLO AND MAKSYAS....
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In one of his charming letters Pliny, co...
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M. Di3 Balzac is dead ! We had heard of ...
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In Germany the only books creating a sen...
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The Lost Keys.—No. Iii. Aug. 14,1850. Si...
Our church , did the same , and therefore our sux rising , or Easter day , is fixed for the first common Sunday after the full moon after the 21 st of March , or vernal equinox ; and , as there is a doubt as to the precise period , the collect of the last of the dark Sundays , or the 25 th after Trinity is repeated till Advent , which commences our yearly ritual of the Prayer Book . And let me observe that Advent tallies according to the mystic keys with the exact position of the horse or ass , Pegasus and Equuleus , the little horse or colt—reference to the Gospel of that day will explain in what manner at the equinox the sun was situated riding upon an ass , and at the same time upon a colt , the foal of an ass ,
** Behold thy King comethunto thee , meek , and sitting upon an ass , and a colt the foal of an ass . "—Matt . xxi . 5 . " And Jesus , when he had found a young ass , sat thereon ; as it is written , " Fear not , daughter of Sion : behold , thy King cometh , sitting on an ass ' s colt . "—John xii . 14 , 15 . I shall be met by some who will ask , how is it , if the birth takes place solsticially , that the ascension follows at the equinox , exactly three days after the crucifixion , on Crux . This would appear a stumbling-block ; and , were it not for the instruction plainly legiMe in the zodiac of Denderah , would
be insurmountable ; but the key of that zodiac places the sun on Crux both at the solstice and at the equinox . Consequently the birth would be at three days after mid-winter , and the ascension three days after midsummer ; that is , according to the Christian method of measuring time , from midnight , or the ¦ winter solstice , to mid-day , or the summer solstice ; whilst the equinoctial partition would tally with the Hebrew division from sunset till sun-rising in the East , or at Easter , which means Passover . At some future period I may be more explicit relative to the Passover ; and I will then explain the direct meaning
of the Passover of the Ish-raelites , and compare the food eaten at the festivals . At present I have only room to refer to two other Church of England festivals The Epiphany is held on the 6 th of January , old New-year ' s day , when twelfth-cake is oaten , & c . Epiphany means manifestation of light , and , carefully reading the Gospel , it will explain that the birth of the Saviour took place after the star was seen in the East , and came and stood over where the young child was born in Jerusalem . The star came from due east , or the equinox , to clue south , or the solstice , and there remained till the death of
Herod—Juno ! The conversion of Paul—when converted , Paul wri proceeding to a place the name of which , Cruclen says , means " a sack full of Wood , or similitude of burning , or of the kiss , or of the pot . " Paul was foimorly Saul , which Cruden also interprets as " demanded or lent , ditch , sepulchre , death , or hell . " Surely the reader will admit these extraordinary significations mean more than is at first apparent , and to tinravel which meaning requires what are reckoned lost keys . "Well , Paul proceeding on his journey rode on horseback—so , at least , he is always represented—when he was struck back with the sudden
light of heaven—the light of the sun or saviour . The horse Paul was riding was Pegasus , and the period the equinox ; but further explanation cannot well be given without reference to the masonic keys . Having referred to the Lamb ( a ) of Auriga , as applying to the solsticial period , 18-30 year * back , let the astronomer decide whether formerly / 3 of Orion did not terminate the river Eridanus . Provided the tree Robur Caroli , as it is now called , with its txoclvcstars , or , riither , provided its alpha , or chief star , could by ride be brought to correspond with the lamb and the river , let me ask whether something like a light would not fall ( even without the me of the keys )
upon the following passage : — " And he shewed me a pure river of wafer of life , clear as crystal , proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb . In the midst , of the stroet of it , and of either side of the river , was theic the tree of life , which bare twelve manner of fruits , and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were- for the healing of the
nations , " Ar . fl there shall be no night there ; and they need no o ; n < lle , neither lipht of the sun ; for the Lord God givfli them li- ^ ht : and the y shall reign for ever and ever . "—Itev . xxii . 1 , 2 , 5 . I repent , I am ready whenever called upon to interpret the most minute and intricate of the biblical passnirosby moans of the masonic keys possessed , without knowing the ir value , by every royal archmason ; and you arc ; at liberty to refer to me any persons desiring to have their minds satisfied upon this important subject . My next paper will be explanatory of th (« masonic certificate , and matters connected therewith . IIenuy S . Mklviw . e .
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Poi'ur.Ation Or Pjo.'Ssta.—The Prussian ...
Poi'ur . ATioN or Pjo . 'ssta . —The Prussian census for IS ID is just completed . The whole population is found t . ' » mn ' . ' uTit to 1 G .: J 31 , 817 . In 1846 thn number was 10 , 1 I ' . » , () : ! S . Thn Prussian population is thus rlisttibuipd —Kfist Prussia , 1 . 401 , 580 ; West Prussia , 1 , 025 , 713 ; Pi'smi . 1 . 352 , 014 ; Pomfrntiin , 1 , 107 , 701 ; Sil < sia , a . 001 , 5 'j : i ; ' Uraiwlrnhiinr , 2 , 120 , 032 ; . Saxony , 1 , 781 . 297 ; WVstphalifi , 1 , 401 , 021 ; ' the Ithirie Provinces , 2 , 811 , 172 ; Prussian troops stationed without the kingdom , 45 , 174 .
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critics are not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret and try to enforce them . — Edinburgh Review .
The Moore Raphael. " Apollo And Maksyas....
THE MOORE RAPHAEL . " APOLLO AND MAKSYAS . " We have much pleasure in informing our Subscribers that the Leader of Saturday , September 7 , will contain a finely' -executed engraving of this exquisite picture , recently discovered by Mr . Morris Moore , whose hind permission enables us to publish it . The engraving will be very nearly the size of the original , and a full account of the picture and its discovery trill be given .
In One Of His Charming Letters Pliny, Co...
In one of his charming letters Pliny , complaining of the silence of a friend , and , anticipating his excuse that he has " nothing to write about / ' says , with quite a feminine grace of thought and expression , ' * Well , write to me that you have nothing to write about . " If we could for a moment delude ourselves with the idea that our readers entertained a similar affection for us , how easy this summarywould be during the dull season ! Unhappily , a
newspaper is popularly supposed to contain news , and the writer must contrive in some way to supply it : a condition of peculiar severity at this season of the year , when actually there is little or no news stirring . Whafc are we to do ? Invent some ? We have an imagination capable of soaring to such heights ; hut a troublesome respect for yoiir confidence and our own veracity interferes with the free range of fancy in that direction !
Take the fact , then , in its nudity—we have nothing to report , unless it be the notable discovery of the author of Junius . " Oh , Sir Philip Francis again—one is sick of that ! " Impatient reader—why will you trip up our thoughts before they fairly occupy their position in words ! It is not Sir Philip Francis ; protest as you will about Taylor ' s Junius Identified and the essay - Mr . Wade has prefixed to the edition just issued by Boiin , the author of Junius was—a Frenchman ,
and it is only the excessive amour propre of the Englibh which makes them deny it ! That Frenchman was Delolme , he who wrote the work on the English Constitution ; and our authority is a French Bibliograph of renown — M . Querard . We give you the discovery as we find it . Certainly , when a Frenchman does treat English subjects he always contrives to throw new light upon them ; his felicity in failure and alacrity at blundering are constitutional .
M. Di3 Balzac Is Dead ! We Had Heard Of ...
M . Di 3 Balzac is dead ! We had heard of his failing health for some time , and now the mournful news arrives that his career of intense labour and varied success is over , before he had outlived the maturity of his powers . A brief survey of that career may not be uninteresting at this moment . Honoris de Balzac was the descendant of an ancient and noble family in the Tourraine ( though Mr . Choker did scornfully deny his right to the aristocratic particle de—on the strength of a
Brussel ' s title-page !) , and was born at Tours in 1779 . Having completed his college studies ( see the record of college days in hauls Lambert ) he came to Paris in 1820 , with the hope of earning a position and a livelihood by his pen . With all the buoyant confidence of inexperience , with all the blissful illusions of youth and inward presages of success , lie commenced the hard , and often bitter , but still glorious struggle of an author ' s life . Read his Grand Hornme de
Province a Paris for a picture of this condition . He wrote novels of all kinds and under various signatures—Vihllkrgle , Lord U'iioone ( a nice sense of English names is always visible in French literature ) , and IIoracis St . Auhin . They were all failures , but Balzac was indomitable . He wrote on , failed ; wrote , failed again ; wrote , wrote , wrote ! At last ., after nine years' struggle , he made a sensation in Le Dernier Chouan , a work inferior , indeed , to those he subsequently published , but ,
nevertheless , greatly superior to the mass of novels then courting attention . He also set up a small Printing-office ; but it involved him in debts which , perhaps , hampered him—indirectly—throughout his after life , he Physinlogie dn Marriage and La Peau de Chagrin placed him among tho celebrities of 1 S 30 . Since that he has carried his name all over Europe . Impossible to remember the long list of his works—various in excellence , but none without remarkable talent—some exquisite
chefsd ' oeuvre , some revolting examples of cynicism and morbid anatomy . We who have read his books with alternate admiration and indignation , with alternate sympathy and scorn , cannot restrain strange feelings of regret at the thought thai Balzac will write no more ; he had not attached us by that friendship which one feels for the unknown writers of the books one delights in , but his marvellous faculties of observation and of mental
analysis made him one of the writers we most eagerly sought . We stormed , now and then , calling him ungentle names ; but we read _ on , irresistibly ; and how rare the treats he sometimes afforded us by his intensely Parisian altitude of mind!—for example , when describing a lovely landscape , he can think of no better simile than that Nature looked like a woman dressed for a ball—comme unefemmepare ' equiva au ball And his style , how crammed with affectations , euphuisms , and sinuosities of ingenuity : such as " des parolesdeja signe . espar dix ans de larinessecretes "—
or , in describing a woman ' s pronunciation , " la maniere dont elle attaquait le t accusait le despotisme du cceur ! " Nevertheless , storm at Balzac or laugh at him , the sum total of your judgment is that he was one of the . most remarkable writers France ever produced . He it was who invented la femme de trente ans j and knew more about feminine nature—in its civilized
and sophisticate condition—than any other male novelist . Thus it was that , give him a woman of a certain age , let her be pale , yellow even , sad , sickly ( a trifling hump need not be evaded , he will make it another charm ) , and he will contrive to make you fall in love with her . Reader , if you wish for a taste of his quality , get Eugenie Grandet , or the Scenes de la Vie de Province , or La
Recherche de VAbsolu , or Illusions Per dues—or if you want something horrible in its truth and its cynicism , its power of making you read it in spite of your indignation , take La Cousine Bette . Poor Balzac ! the idol of Parisian women , and of other women , too , past the age of five-and-thirty—the Voltaire of the nineteenth century , as he used to style himself in private—the historian of societythe most unenvious of mortals , and one of the
most traduced—he is gone from us now , to solve the greater problems of a greater life ; peace be with him !
Mazzini Has Just Put Forth A New Pamphle...
Mazzini has just put forth a new pamphlet , Foi et Avenir , written a few days after the famous press laws of September , 1835 , and found to be so applicable to the present situation of parties that not a line has to be changed . Those who know Mazzini ' s burning eloquence and intense apostolic conviction will easily imagine how such themes as Faith and the Future will glow under his pen as he protests against the sophisms of " Constitutional Opposition , " and declares the necessity for a new Social policy founded on a religious Faith . He
announces the advent of a new epoch in world history , an epoch of Association and Duty in lieu of that of Individuality and Right , which was finally closed by the French Revolution . Truly enougn does he say the Movement Party has no avowed religious creed , no profound belief in a mission it has to fulfil on earth ; it has only the apostleship of an opposition of detail , and its only weapons are interest ; its instrument a theory of Rights ! But we shall return to this pamphlet—at present our purpose is to make its existence known .
In Germany The Only Books Creating A Sen...
In Germany the only books creating a sensation appear to be Oersted ' s Geist in der Natur and his Die Naiurwissenschaft und die Geislesbildung . As a disciple of Sciielling he would be regardedand not unjustly—with suspicion here in England , did not his own scientific reputation more than counterbalance such a prejudice . By the way , how completely the realities of life have crushed out of men ' s minds the ghostly phantoms of philosophy with which Sciielling and Hegel endeavoured to direct them ! The singular incompetence
of German Metaphysics to grapple with any of the social problems imperatively demanding a solution —an incompetence typified in the Frankfort Parliament — must have opened many eyes to its intrinsic futility , and may save some thousands from the idle theorizing upon assumed data , which has hitherto enervated German thought . Pray heaven that it prove so ! We agree with the French wit that the Germans have Vhabitude de VInfini ; and the force of this habit may be difficult to break , but let us hope it is not impossible .
If the phantoms of Philosophy have scented morn and vanished , not so the real old orthodox ghosts that one takes a pride in—the spiritual dia-
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 24, 1850, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24081850/page/17/
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