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of paste in a large frame . Of these bits of earthenware there is an assort-, rnent in more than 10 , 000 colours ; and they are ground so as to make them fit exactly the space to which they are meant to correspond in the original . When the whole surface is thus inlaid , it is polished , and becomes so hard and durable , that nothing can injure it . The labour which this requires is greater than can be imagined necessary . The custode told me , that it took two men five years to copy a large picture , including several full-length figures .
I afterwarda ascended to the very top of St . Peter ' s , even into the ball , which is effected with very little difficulty , as the stairs are well contrived , and there is enough to see by the way to induce the visitor to make several pauses . There is no part of this stately pile from which its immense size is better perceived than it is from different points of the ascent to the top . It is quite fearful to look down from the gallery , which runs round the interior of the dome , just where it springs from the roof ; still more so , from the second , where the Cupola begins ; and again from the Lantern at the top * . Yet , as I regarded it , I could scarcely believe that the space below was that in which I had seen so great a crowd of people on Easter Sunday , and it was almost as much beyond belief that the pen in the hand of St . Luke is seven feet long : it appeared to be about 18 inches . On descending I took a farewell walk through the body of the church , and stood for a few moments under the dome , quitting it with a mournful feeling , that this was probably the last time in my life that I should behold all that amazing grandeur . ^ " ( To be continued . )
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Channing ' s Discourse . 89
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The grand beauty , the most striking characteristic , of Dr . Channing ' s preaching , is its perpetual tendency to enhance our self-respect . It does this , not by addressing itself to the vanity of our nature—for its lessons are ever those of the most affecting humiliation—but by never allowing us to forget for an instant our derivation and ultimate aim ; by making us independent of books , and preachers , and men ; by reminding us that , if we are
not the noble and happy creatures we ought to be , ourselves , and not the Deity , our own slowness , and not his unwillingness , are to be blamed . It is , of all styles of preaching , that which is calculated to bring human beings into possession of the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free . If it does not make farther instruction unnecessary , we cannot but think that its tendency is to make the people their own teachers , and this is the best effect preaching can have . When Dr . Channing enters upon mere textual divinity , we feel he is not quite so pleasant a guide . Bold and comprehensive in all his views , perceiving at a glance all the grandest points which belong to his subject , and presenting them to the reader with a vividness which scarcely any hand beside can impart , we think he is rather apt to underestimate accuracy . Yet for one man who is scrupulously correct in
* A Discourse delivered at the Ordination of the Rev . Frederick A . Farley , as Pastor of the Westminster Cougregational Society in Providence , Rhode lalaud , September 10 , 1828 . By William EUery Channing , D . D , ( From the American Edition received from the Author . ) London : E . Rainford .
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MAN THE IMAGE OF GOD . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/17/
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