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in relation to h \ s creatures , than what he is in himself . The human , faculties cap never comprehend the Deity : ' the corruptible must put on the incorruptible ;' the ever-surviving soul inhabit one of those many mansions ; then , and only then * may a beam , emanating from the Godhead , disclose what the Godheacf is / " —P . 65 . From the lime of Dr . Fordyce's death , which took -place , at Bath , Oct . 1 , 1796 , in the 76 th year of his age , his widow continued to reside in that city , until her own decease , in the beginning of the year 1823 . Her
biographer would have consulted her reputation by suppressing the latter part of the volume ; for who cares to know her squabbles with domestics , her quarrels and reconciliations with relatives , her * iotes of bavardage , her
aigre-doux , compliments , her vers de societe , anglick bad verses , and her railings at Roman Catholics ? But , let it be added , that , with all her selfimportance and irritability , she was truly benevolent , and was loved by her own circle of friends . The following anecdote , is characteristic :
" She was particularly intimate with the late Dr . Parry , and his family ; and used to relate , with conscious and visible delight , an anecdote of the present enterprising navigator , Capt . Parry ( whom Heaven preserve !) . When a child , he had accompanied some of the females of
his family in a morning visit ; and to amuse him , she ordered a servant to take him a rocking-horse which she happened to have . The boy continued very quiet , and fearing he might be at some mischief , they took a peep at him . ; when , instead of the rocking horse , he was mounted across a terrestrial globe which stood in the room , and turning it round and round
with all his little might . * You rogue , ' said Mrs . Fordyce , ' what are you doing ? that is not a horse / * No , ' replied he ; ' but papa says it is a world ; and here it goes : and 1 will go round and round till I come to the end of it . ' * But you
may go round and round , and still go round , and never come to the end of it , because it has no end . ' The boy was mute for an instant , then hollaing ( hallooing ) out , * I ' m off again , then ; and if it has no end , I'll go as far as I can . ' < ¦ If that boy lives / said Mrs . Fordyce , in the true spirit of her knowledge in physiognomy , and as it would seem in prophecy , ' he will be a sailor and a navigator , and come to great raPkmr ; for th spirit of inves-
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tigation Chines ki him already . " '— -Fp » 79 , 8 ty . We suppose we are indebted for this little volume to $ female pen ; and therefore we must deal gently with , a € f
curious anachronism , pp . 3 , 4 : I may here be allowed to agree with tjie Roman satirist , Juvenal , who says * ' Pride of ancestry has only the , boast of a potato , the best part of which is under ground . '"
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Review . —Cobbetfs History of the € t Reformations 9 47
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Art . III . —A History of the Protestant " Reformation" in England and Ireland ; showing how that
Event has impoverished and degraded the main Body of the People in those Countries . In a Series of Letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen . By William Cobbett . 12 uio . Nos . 1 and 2 .
3 d . each- Clement , Fleet Street . MR . COBBETT has changed once more , and i ^ now , in appearance , the hearty advocate of the Rorm ^ n Catholic Church , at which , as well as most other churches , he has been laughing the greater part of his life . We are not informed that he
has openly , and as a religious act , renounced Protestantism , and been admitted into the bosom of the Ca * tholic Church . Let the Catholics plume themselves upon him as much as they may , nothing is farther from his thoughts than submitting to he a
convert . He is too wise to hamper himself with rules and obligations , and too unmanageable to be bound by the discipline of any religious pro- * fession . He is a political sportsman . He must be in pursuit of game , and if one species cannot be put up , he starts aside after another . With his
acknowledged mental power , he is a man of but one idea and one passion : the idea , the passion of the moment swallows up every other . He cannot live without popularity , and he always
strikes at the favour of great masses of people . He knows how to gain , but not how to keep , the favour of large bodies . Flence he turns from one set of folks to another , and with
a rapidity which makes common observers dizzy . Now , he is the friend and champion of the Irish Catholics —they consist of millions , they are discontented , and not without reason ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/47/
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