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Like echoes of pale death ' s advancing tread , They drove me to thine arms , and I am safe . [ She rushes to the steps of the throne ; at a sign from Philip , she takes her place at his side . But thou ?—Speak ! has my love provoked the curse 1 The lone tree that would yield thee grateful shade Attracts the lightnings now !—Is it so ? Bishop of Paris . Ay ; For thee he stands accursed . [ A pause ; the bells are again heard . Philip . Peal on ! We hear !—Mark ye , ye mitred oath-breakers ! But raise One finger ; move one step ; or breathe one word In furtherance of this curse—and ye shall beg
For leave to beg . Of rank , revenue , power , We dispossess ye , cast ye forth from France , Wherein if found against command , ye die ! Nobles , ring round the throne ! Bishop of Paris . Back from that chair ! Marie . Philip ! Philip . On your allegiance ! Bishop of Paris . To the Church ! Philip . Mayenne ! I flung thee knighthood ' s spurs ere well thy neck Had lost the page ' s pliant curve . Dumont ! I knew the when thine arms and steed composed Thy sum of fortune . George Menjour ! we fought Abreast at Palestine . Enter Guekix . Guerin . My Liege , all Paris Shrieks wildly at your gates ! Bishop of Paris ( to the Nobles ) . Hear , gallant sons I On your souls' love , break up that fatal ring . [ They fall back from the throne . Guerin . Be warned , my Liege . Bishop of Paris . Learn wisdom from his lips . Know haughtier crests than thine have crouched to Home . Guerin . Sire , patience for the time !—But for the time . Philip . Shrink into silence ' neath my giant scorn !—Deem ye , my sires , whose tombs were glory ' s shrines . Have left their sceptre to a bastard hand ,
That I should crouch ?—Speak ! plains of Asia , speak ! That saw me singly cleave through paynim hordes , As I had wrung dcath ' a truncheon from his gripe ! Speak for me , rescued bondsmen ! speak for me , Fierce vassals who have knelt to take my yoke ! Tou , you , and you !—No , perjured priests ! had Fate Lent her polluted lightnings to your hands , Even as ye boast , I'd bid ye rain your fires On an unshrinking front , that earth might cry-He was consumed ; but not subdued . He perished Upon his father ' s throne ; their stainless crown Circling his brows in death ! He died—a king ! [ Rising . "Way , there ! Sweep back this tide of yeasty froth , That where we pass no spray profane our robes . — Way there , I eay—The Queen of Francs would pass ! Come ! [ To Marie .
Marie . Not a step . Philip . How ? Marie . Not to thy ruin . Bishop of Paris . Away ; all to your homes ! Hisdoom is sealed . Who stays to parley with his guilt , partakes it . Marie . Yield , Philip , yield ! Stay , I command you stay ! [ To the Bishops The King is saved—is saved ! Ye little knew The Queen ye would degrade . Take back thy crown . [ Takes off the crown , and kneeling lays it at Philip's feet . Take back the oath thou gav ' st me ! tliou art free , And 1 no more thy wife ? [ She descends from the throne . Philip { following her ) . What hast thou said 1 Marie forsakes me ? Canst thou 1 Marie . Yes , to save thee . Philip . To save !—to crush me ,
Mane . Philip , grant one boon , And I remain . Unto the Pope appeal , Or those he shall appoint , to judge our cause . Plead with them thy divorce , thy right to wed me , Owned by these Prelates . Then , whate ' er the sentence , Thou must abide it . Philip . It 8 haUbcso . [ To the Bishops . ] See ! Her breath has bowed the pride that mocked your tempests . Bishop of Paris . And yet , my Liege Philip . My Lords , you stand dismissed ; Unless I hold my palace , as my wife . On tenure of your pleasure . [ Impetuously embracing Mabib , as the rest retire When again They meet thee , love , it shall be on their knees !"
We can only find room for this eloquent apostrophe , gloriously given by Helen Faucit : — " Marie . Worse ! What were wor 3 c Than treachery in my Lord 1 Rash girl , that word . Stretches to woe so infinite , it fathoms An ocean of despair ! Uncrown me , slay me , Honours and life must end . Not love ! Thy grave Is as a port where it unlades its wealth For immortality . But rob or taint The merchandise of love , —then let the bark Drift helmlcsH o ' er the seas , or strike tho shonls t They can but wreck a ruin . "
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ordered by society as to determine the formation of a highly superior character in all . " The confidence in the truth of his principles , that has borne the Nestor of Social Progress through so much of disappointment and hope deferred is conspicuous in this new Journal ;—in the first two numbers of which will be found a valuable account of his proceedings at New Lanark ; an exposition of " The Truth of the Rational System ; " Observations on Spade Cultivation ; and many other articles calculated to interest and instruct the general reader , and to satisfy and encourage the friends of Associative Reform .
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_ ' //«? Romance of the Peerage ; or . Curiosities of Family History . By G . Lm . Craik , Professor of History in Queen ' s College , Belfast . Vol . IV . Chapman and Hall . Olive . A Novel . By the Author of " The Ogilvies . " 3 vols . Chapman and Hall . Sketches by Buz . AVith a Frontispiece by G . Cruikshunk . Chapman and Hall . Poenu . By Elizabeth Barrett Browning . New Edition . 3 vols . Chapman and Hall . History of the Eighteenth Century , and of tho Nineteenth , till the Overthrow oj the French Empire , with particular reference to Menial Cultivation and Progress , By h \ C . Schlosser . Translated by D . Davidson , M . A . Vol . VII . Chapman and Hall . Scripture Lands ; described in a Scries of Historical , Geographical , and Topographical Sketches . By John Kitto , D . L ) ., and Illustrated by a Complete Biblical Atlas , comprising Twentyfour Maps . ( Uohn ' s Illustrated Library . ) II . G . Bohn . The fVorks of Plato . A New and Literal Version . Vol . III . Translated by George Burges , M . A . ( Uohn ' s Classical Library . ) H . G . Bohn . The Odes and Epodes of Horace . Translated Literally and lthythmicnlly . By W . Sewell , B . D ., Fellow and Sabretor of Exeter College , Oxford . H . G . Bohn . Poems . By . W . C . Bennett . Chapman and Hall * The Medical Recorder . First half-year . Palmer and Clayton . The British Controversialist . No . 7 . Houlston and Stoneman . The Journal of the Exposition . No . 1 .
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The Land and the Law . —The strong have disposed of the fruits of the earth , and political economists have dignified their method of distribution by the name of law . The priests have preached the doctrine of the inherent depravity of man , and the cunning and the powerful have taken them at their word , and trafficked in the ignorance and waxed fat upon the frailties of their fellow-men . But the law spoliators were not less ignorant than the law despoiled . Nature avenged herself upon them . The accumulation of land in the hands of a few , and the recklews prodigality with which they squandered its fruits produced poverty , destitution . pauperdom ,
as its inevitable consequences . The curse fell upon all . The lord of thousands of acres lavished his rents and mortgaged his property , the peasant , the disinherited peasant , became the hopeless demoralized pauper . The lord had the power of law , and he made law to protect himself from tho consequt > nces of his extravagance ; the peasant had the power of vengeance , and he burnt the stacks , captured the game , sometimes , as in Ireland , shot down the lord of acres . We ate not come to that yet . But
" We know what we are—we know not what wo may be . " The pauper kicks his heels against the workhouse wall in idleness , or breaks stones , or picks oakum , or digs holes and fills them up again , or grinds pepper or bones .
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by the " Discourses" of Mr ., now Dr . "Wardlaw , " on the Principal Points of the Socinian Controversy . " It-was met by a rejoinder entitled " Unitarianism Incapable of Vindication , " "which again received , in the opinion of Mr . Yates , its answer in a " Sequel , " which he published in 1817 . The controversy has been going on with mutual satisfaction from that time to the present , and the works of the
learned exponents have been , as Mr . Yates observes , reckoned by «« the patrons of each of the opposite systems among the most satisfactory defences of their respective opinions . " But while the patrons have rejoiced in the polemical vigour of the champions , they , in their later days , have relaxed much of the severity which , characterized their early encounters . Like warriors who have learned in battle to respect
persons in this country , and to be the most likely to produce the only nnanimity which wise and good Christians can desire , namely , the unity , not of belief in the bond of ignorance , nor of profession in the bond of hypocrisy , but * the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace . ' ' * There are those who go beyond the views of Mr . Yates with regard to the comprehensiveness which should be the characteristics of a National Church ; but they will sympathize with him as far as he does go , and thank him for his labours towards the advancement of that unity which he sees , with them , to be indispensable to the due development of the religious idea , and to effective working for the material and spiritual advancement of the human race .
each other's prowess and integrity , contending with courtesy and gentle bearing , Mr . Yates and Dr . "Wardlaw have ceased to speak of each other with acerbity . They have laid aside personalities and imputations : each recognizes in his " able and much respected adversary" more of a seeker for truth than a seeker for victory : and if , in the last edition of his work , Mr . Yates has been , through the conditions of his controversy , compelled to retain any sentences harsher than may accord with his own feelings of charity , he has done so with a full understanding with Dr . Wardlaw that they shall be taken in no uncharitable sense . ' The author
has further wished , he says , ** in concurrence , as he believes , with the sincere desire of his opponent in this controversy , to render it more free from severe or censorious language . Although he has not found it possible , consistently with a due regard to the requirements of truth and sincerity , to expunge every expression of disapprobation , he has been able to do this to a considerable extent . At the same time he
hopes that his work will be the better fitted to assist his readers in discovering the truth in consequence of retaining its controversial form . " "Would that a like spirit to this pervaded all religious discussions Then we might hope that their issue would be the establishment of truth , instead of its being smothered , together with its kindred grace of charity , beneath the weight of intolerance and acrimony with which such discussions are , for the most part , overlaid .
Dr . Yates's work is a candid and learned defence of his own religious views ; and , as such , will be valued by those who conscientiously embrace them . By the religious enquirer , of whatever creed , the work will be prized as well for its example of tolerant moderation , as for the light which it throws ujoon many doubtful and disputed points of theology , and its application of philosophical enquiry to the purpose of their elucidation . The new matter in this edition
is chiefly found in the appendix , from which we extract the following as at once illustrative of the universal tendencies of Mr . Yates ' s heart ; and expressive of the aspirations of many a sincere and ardent lebourer for religious peace and unity : — ' Having been led to animadvert thus freely , but I hope not in a harsh or uncandid spirit , upon the language and conduct of some of the bishops and clergy of the Church of England , whom at the same time I cannot but respect and admire for their learning , their talents , and for that measure of honesty , ingenuousness , and
sincerity which their strange and unenviable position allows them to retain , I think it may be right to suggest what I conceive , after much reflection , to be the most practicable and effective remedy . Whatever there may be to be condemned in them , it arises from the disgraceful state of the law as affecting the church . The first and most indispensable alteration of that law , which I wonld propose is , that whenever it requires subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles , it should be done with a quatenus , viz ., a declaration that the subscriber assents to them , so Jar as \ he finds them to be agreeable to Holy Scripture . . . . Moreover , as the evening service of the
Church of England is in the main quite agreeable to the sentimenrs of Unitarians , and , with very little alteration , would exactly suit their views , I would suggest that in this service , which in its present form may be used at any hour after noon , a Scriptural doxology should be allowed to be substituted for the doxology of Flavianus at the option of the minister or of his congregation . u My own opinion is that a National Church ought to be as comprehensive as possible , and ought consequently to allow of all such differences as may unavoidably nrise among persons , who nevertheless agree in essential and
fundamental points . I think , therefore , that the Anglican Church ought to embrace both Trinitarians and Unitarians , both High and Low Churchmen , both the so-called PuReyitcs and the Evangelicals . The first requisite ought to be sincerity , and that those to whom the rest of their countrymen are taught to look up as spiritual guides should be neither hypocrites nor slaves . Although numerous reforms might bo suggested , and have been often discussed and recommended by men of authority in the church , yet the two above-mentioned appear to me to do tho least violence to the present feelings and convictions of the great mass of religious
yates ' s vindication of unitarianism . A Vindication of Unitarianism , in Jirply to the Reverend Ralph Wardlaw , JJ . JJ . l ) y Jainus Yatcs , M . A . . &C Edward T . Whitfleld . The mellowing influence of time upon the temper of theological disputants is happily exemplified in the advertisement to this new edition , the fourth , of Mr . Yates ' s celebrated Vindication of Unitarianism . The first edition was published in 1815 , being provoked
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 16, 1850, page 811, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1859/page/19/
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