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tion of the fees of the churqh has gradually spread throughout the united provinces of Peru . It was impossible , however , not to remark the want of personal attention observable on the occasion of the Bishop of La Paz passing through the city on his route from Upper Peru , whence he had been driven to embark at
Buenos Ayres for Old Spam . If it were reasonable to feel regret for the decay of any church , the object of which was its own temporal ambition and emoluments , and the oppression and superstitious misleadings of its people , it must have been felt here . The doctors , canons , and friars , more especially the Franciscans , to which order the prelate belonged , swelled his train , and did their best to
inspire respect . Every effort of the expiring influence of the church was exerted . A grand Bishop ' s Mass was celebrated with all the pomp , parade , and circumstance , of the Romish ritual , the impressive grandeur of which was overawing to the senses ; but the people were far more intent on examining the person of this mean -looking little ecclesiastic during the ceremony of mitring and robing , than on any act of devotion .
" It had been so long since a service of the preceding nature had been witnessed at Cordova , that the master of the ceremonies had become rusty from disuse . He was several times at fault in attiring the bishop , at which the latter was evidently embarrassed . At the close of mass , he was again divested of his gorgeous frocking , and passing down
the aisle of the cathedral , dispensed his blessing , but in a manner neither graceful nor dignified . At last he hurried from the edifice , as if mortified with receiving no other show of deference than a sly glance or two of adoration from an old Beatifiea , and the beggarly implorings of some palsied kneeling incurables . He was followed across the Plaza by a few noisy boys , yelping , " El Obispo ! El Obispo !"—a degradation which the
prelate should have been spared by the provision of a carriage . This Misa de Gracia was succeeded a day or two afterwards by a grand procession , which obliged almost the whole city to come down on its knees . All the church influence in the place was put in requisition for this occasion , to obtain demonstrations of respect . * The procession moved from the cathedral with sacerdotal pomp , and was nearly two hours performing the circuit of the Plaza . The time was
filled up with the elevation of the host by the bishop at altars erected at the corners of the square , and gaudily decorated
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with half the valuables , private and public , of the city . The governor and members of the Cabildo , and others , who followed the bishop with wax lights , seemed to view this pious pantomime as the last that would ever be exhibited there , and to be now granted rather as a tribute to fallen greatness than from any
respect to the ceremony itself , which was truly worthy an age of the darkest superstition . The women , of whom there was a vast concourse , gave it , by their devout demeanour and sparkling eyes , an interest of which it would not otherwise be susceptible in the view of an Englishman not of the same faith . "
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842 Critical Notkas .
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Art . VI . —Hints to Parents . No . VI . Religious Conversations , calculuted for Young Children , during the first period of Education , in the Spirit of Pestalozzi ' s Method . Is . Harvey and Darton . Having recently noticed the first five numbers of the work before us , it is due to our readers to give a slight account of
the sixth , which has since beeu put into our hands , and heartily do we wish we could continue the same commendatory strain . There cannot , however , be any thing less Pestalozzian in spirit and exe ~ cution than these religious conversations . They are cold and wordy ; the instruction is altogether imparted by the parent , nor are the child ' s powers and feelings exercised . Our feeling has been that of
extreme disappointment , mixed with surprise at this unwarrantable assumption of the name and authority of Pestalozzi . And we cannot help recurring to the prophetic words of that great individual : " The forms of my method will not escape from the common lot of all forms —they will fall into the hands of men who neither perceive nor seek their spirit , and in the hands of such men their effect will be lost in itself . —Pestalozzi ' s Preface to the Mother ' s Book .
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Art . VII . — ^ Seco Appeal addressed to the Sons of Israel , the Chosen Nation , and to those of the Nations their Brethren who believe Jesus to be the Messiah . By A . E . Caisson . 8 vo . pp . 12 . London , 1827 , Hunter .
We gave some account , p . 603 , of the first " Appeal" of this Israelite to his brethren . In this * ' Second , " he addresses Christians as well as Jews ; and we think his remonstrances and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/58/
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