On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Sur tes debris de leur temples finnans Au I > ieu du Ciel J ' ai prodig-ue 1 ' encens 3 Iais tons mes Soins " pour sa grandeur supreme JTeurent jamais d ' autre obj £ t que
moimeme . Leg saints autels n' etoient a mes regards Qu ' un marchepie dn trine'des Cesars . L ' ambition , la fureur , les delices Etoient mes Dieus , aFoient mes sacrifices L'or des Chretiens , leurs intrigues , Jem
sang Ont eimente ina fprtune et mon rang * . " * Says Constantine , at my imperial nod FalPn is the worship of each Pagan g'dd 5
O ' er ruin'd fanes where late their victims smok'd , My incense , spread , has heav ' iTs high lord invokM . Yet while his praise seems foremost in my
, Tis self-advancement only I pursue ; His holy altar form ed a stepping-stone , By which I reach'd the mighty Caesars ' throne . Ambition , luxury , pride and thirst of gain , Hold in my breast their undisputed reign . The Christians' blood their gold their
discontent , These still my fortune , rank and power cement . Severe as is the satire contained in the above , it is to be feared that the conduct of few even of the greatest priaces , can be traced to much nobler motives than those to which Constantineis made to attribute his" most
seeming virtuous" actions . Too correct is the . sentiment thus elegantly expressed by a modern poet , Earth zs sick 4 nrf heav e n is weary of the hollow words Which states and kingdoms utter when they speak Of truth and justice .
Gibbon wisely conceals the title and author of a poem , which he remarks " may be read with pleasure , but corinot be named with decency . ' With "juch esteem , I am , Sir , your constant reader , IGNOTA .
Untitled Article
ferred to all the sects this day in Christendom * and which induced his most serene Highness , Anthony TJ 1-ric , Duke of Brunswick and Lwnenburg , to abj ure Lutheranism , to which are added Three valuable papers .
Antwerp , printed in the year M , DCC , XLi . " I 8 mo . Pp . 108 . The Abbe s s copy I perceive is a London edition , of 1798 . Such a publication could not have been safely avowed , as printed in England , in 1741 . Yet as the copy in my possession has no resemblance , in type or arrangement , to an English book , from a foreign
press , I apprehend Antwerp was placed in the title page , that it might pass with less observation , and such disguises were not uncommon . Respecting the author of the Fifty Reasons , I quote the following account from " Rimhis ' s Memoirs of the House of Brunswick . " 4 to . 1750 .
" Anthony Ulric , who succeeded his brother '' as Duke of Brunswick " in 1704 , was a prince of great natural parts , which he had improved by study and travelling . Several ingeniousworks claim him for their author . That entitled Aramena
comprehends a history of such remarkable events as happened among the heathens about the time of the Patriarchs . In it the manners and customs of the ancients , with the virtues arid vices of the great are represented in a most lively style ; and the reader , who there views the world as it were in
miniature , finds himself equally instructed and delighted . The other work entitled Octavia , contains the whole Roman History , from the time of the Emperor Claudius to Titus Vespasian , iuterspersed , under names borrowed from the Romans , with several interesting events that happened at the German courts in the author * s
lifetime > " As he with his two brothers were conspicuous for their abilities—peculiar titles were bestowed upon them by the learned world . The eldest was called a most wise Divine , the youngest a Profound Philosopher , and Anthony XJlricy a great
Mathemati-. "In 1710 he went oyer to the Roman Catholics , after he had abided by the Protestant religion till the 76 th year of his age . As soon as the thing came to be known , he assured his Protestant subjects , by a public proclanaa-
Untitled Article
Book-Worm . No . XIX . 147
Untitled Article
Book-Warm . No . XIX . Sir , March 5 , 1815 . HE first note to the Abbe Gre-Tgoire s interesting biography of 4 mo , which you have translated p . ° ^ determi n es me to send you an account of the work there mentioned , Jpich is entitled : _« Fifty Reasons or ^ otives , why the Roman Catholic , "Postolic Religion , ought to be pre-
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/19/
-