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** thfc samt" has his usual residence in a -niche /* around which " was a hog cut in stone , " because " this holy man , in the time of his mortality , kept a herd of swine—out of pure charity , to keep the devils out of them , who have always had a great hankering after swine ' s flesh . " Now , however , " the holy saint , which was a piece of timber painted and drest up like a Bar-1 holomew-Baby" was oil a progress ,
during which our traveller witnessed (the folio win cf scene : " Some thumped thejr breasts an wrung their hands , imploring the saint ' s intercession for themselves , others for their husbands and r ' eiaiJions in the wars . The women held lip their infants to receive his benediction . Before him marched several troops of friars of all orders , some with ropes and beads , some with crosses of divers sorts ; they sang ballads and catches in praise of the saint , and
between each order were people carrying torches and flambeaux . —In the rear of them came two pontificals , with perfuming pots in their hands , whose incense
cast a cloud of aromatic through the street , and after them a pair of friars which sprinkled the holy-water amongst the crowd ; then came a parcel of doctors in their formalities , and after them the saint , carried in a chair under a canopv
. vipported by many people ; these were followed by more torches , and another canopy , under which was the host , carried ( by a prelate in great pomp . " ( Pp .
10 J , 110 . ) Our traveller learned , in conversation with a friar , that the priests were " this day to implore" Saint Anthony's " -favour for the Dolphin , in his ¦ expedition into Germany , " and thus
discovered that " the same saint " might " serve for purs and princes . "
He found also " abundance of other saints , both male and feuKiIe about the church . —There was Stunt Wiunifrid , in a commode , with a laced scarf on , and a viaor in her hand , as if she was going- to confession . Saint Denis , with a laced hat buttoned up on one
side , an embroidered cout , and a gold and silver fringed sash , lik'f a captain of the ( iuards . " ( P . I 14 . ) Seeing Louis dine in public at Ver'Sailles , which he allows to be " very splendid , " our Antigallican exclaims , " who could imagine that a soul so barbarous , false and cruel , could inhabit in a body graced with a mien and
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presence so lovely affltf frill of a&fa t ^ tion ? " ( P . 125 . ) " Thra once glorious country" France , he finally contrasts with another then lately risen into importance , remarking , tcthat as Holland
is a bog fertilitated and enriched France is a garden destroyed and laid common . " Referring to the wars of that period , the observations conclude by describing * " the mighty Louis" as " untiling his o ^ n house to break la S neighbour ' s windows . " It'Ts remarkable that this Observer
does not a'ppear to have * been once attracted to the Bastille , of which I well remember to have heard Burke , when eloquently earning his pension in 1 7 ^ 2 , regret the fall , under the respectful appellation of " the King ' s Castle , " but of which the indignant and uncourtly muse of Coicper had invoked the destruction as
€ i the abode of broken hearts , In dungeons and in cages of despair That monarchs have supplied from age to age With music , such as suits their sovereign ears—The sighs and groans of miserable men . "
It was , indeed , not till late in the 18 th centurv , that the horrid " secrets ml * or the prison-house" were even partially disclosed , when Howard , at the peril of liberty , if not of life , brought out of France that curious MS . the Kemarqucs sur hi Bastille , which k printed in England for gratuitous circulation . VERMICULUS .
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Sir , February , 1822 . TP | R WARBURTON , in hie " Di-_ JLJ ^ vine . Legation of Mose-s , " supposes , that the B <* ok of Job must have been written at some time between the apfHraaoh of the Baby lonish captivity , and the complete re-estahlishinent of the Jews in their own
land . No other possible period , Nj says , can be assigned , when the grand question handled in this book could ever come into dispute , viz ., Whether God administers his government over men here with an equa »
providence , so that the good are ways prosperous and the baa unhappy ; or whether , on the contrary there is not such an apparent inequality , that prosperity ami advert
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204 H . M . H . on the Book of Job .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/12/
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