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    Such is the ptaise bestowed upon Marianus by one of the ablest writers of the age . Making every allowance for the exaggerations of friendship , it may be assumed , that he would not have risked his own credit by speaking in such terms of a man who did not hold a high rank in public estimation . When Sylvius was raised to the papal throne , the Senese selected Marianus

    to be their ambassador to compliment him on his elevation . The Pope gave him a very cordial and honourable reception , and appointed him Consistorial Advocate . He died on the 30 th of September , 1467 , and was buried with all the honours due to his distinguished merits . He was the author of numerous works on the Canon and Civil Laws , which were long held in the highest esteem by jurists on the Continent . * R . S .

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    T know no other definition of persecution than that it is an injury inflicted on a person for his religious principles or profession only . Dr . Furneaux ' s Letters to Blackstone ^ 2 d ed . p . 164 . There is no risk of encountering contradiction when we affirm , that to the eye of enlightened patriotism more encouraging glimpses of a bright sera in legislative reform now present themselves , than have been disclosed through the political gloom of many revolving years , during which our statute book has been crowded with numberless enactments for drawine- out

    and expending the national resources , and has occasionally been blotted with restrictions upon the liberty of the subject , but has rarely been conscious of one solitary regulation for the improvement or reform of the laws relating to our internal economy . The unwearied efforts of a Romilly to simplify and humanize our criminal code , have at length awakened responsive and more successful exertions in the members of administration ; and by the judicious consolidation of our Criminal Laws , which has taken place under the auspices of the Secretary for the Home Department , not only has this branch of the law been made accessible to ordinary research , but the necessary collation

    of heterogeneous crimes and disproportionate punishments has in itself produced many of the amendments which were so desirable . The reform in the law relative to Juries , has evinced a salutary anxiety to place this great barrier of the Constitution in the most impregnable position , and to call into the service of the community , in the important function of jurymen , not a selected few , but all respectable citizens , without distinction of politics or religion . The matured theories of the political economist , also , in spile of the selfish forebodings of many whose interests appeared to be threatened , and in defiance of the more formidable obstacles interposed by an

    overhe was without opposition elected Pope . The Crusades found in him a warm supporter . Whilst attending one of the expeditions at Aiicona , he was seized witli a fever , of which he died on the 14 th of August , 1464 , in the fifty-ninth year of his age . His writings are numerous , some of them very curious , and most of them exceedingly scarce .

    * With the exception of some information obtained from manuscript authorities , the materials for the preceding Memoir have been derived from the Life of Faustus Socinus by a Polish Knight ; Bock's Historia Antitrinitariorum , Tom . II . pp . 570 , &c . ; Tiraboschi , Storia delta Litteratura Italiana , Tom . VI . Pt . i . art . Mariano Soccini ; and from . / Eneas Sylvius'a work above referred to . There is a short life of Marianus in Bayle .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/25/