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i $ may be feared that his remedy , the rehearsing the canons which prohibit simony , pluralities , non-residence , improper , promotions , &c 4 is scarcely strong enough to cure a disorder now so
inveterate . The publisher has strengthened the prescription , and filled up the sheet , by extracts from Earl Grey ' s Address to the County of Northumberland , in 1821 , and from the Extraordinary Black Book . If these fail , surely the disease must be mortal .
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Art . IV . — The Sunday Library . Vol . VI . Longman . This volume completes the Sunday Library , a selection in which we have found little that any sincere and pious Christian will object to , and much by
which all may profit . A few , and but a few , controversial discourses are introduced . Most are practical , and many are excellent . Such especially are those , in this concluding volume , which bear the names of Mil man , Sydney Smith , and Bishop Malt by .
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Art . V . — The Saered Offering-, for
1832 . , This little volume is well entitled to the success which we rejoice to find was obtained by its predecessor . Like that , it is very rich in Scriptural Sonnets , which are written in the purest taste . The same spirit of devotion pervades the
whole . We still wish for more of the cheerfulness of piety ; its gratitude , enjoyments , and hopes ; for these are religion as well as resignation . The Providence to which we are bound to submit , continually gives ua reason to rejoice in its dominion .
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GENERAL LITERATURE . Art . VI . —Poland under the Dominion of Russia . By Harro Harring . From the German . London . Cochrane . 1831 . The style of this volume is occasionally disfigured by affectation , and also by a very misplaced levity of expression ,
but these defects are amply compensated . It would be very amusing , were it not so deeply interesting . It contains many very graphic descriptions illustrative of the condition of the Poles uuder the capricious brutality of the Grand Duke Constautine , a being compared with whom Robespierre was a very respectable character . These are some
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of the materials of a history which ought to fill civilized Europe with horror , shame , and remorse . True , another Constantine canuot be expected in the present century , but Russia has yet plenty of insult , cruelty , espionage , and bare * faced oppression , wherewith to afflict a
country which has the calamity of being at once its superior and its slave . The following anecdote is far from being the worst specimen of one , to get rid of whom any nation , in its senses , would readily open its barriers for the admission of the Cholera Morbus .
** The Officer of the Lancer Guard and the Pyramid of Bayonets . " The officers , as well as the subofficers , of the Russian Horse-guards are subjected to the most rigorous discipline , and are required to execute on horseback all the manoeuvres of a theatrical equestrian .
" Oue day an officer of the Laiucerguard was goiug through his exercise before the Grand-Duke . He had performed all the usual evolutions in the most satisfactory way , until , when at full gallop , he was suddenly ordered to turn , —^ the horse proved restive , and refused to obey either bridle or spur . " Tne command was repeated in a
thundering voice , and the officer renewed his efforts to make the horse obey it ; but without effect , for the fiery animal con tinned to prance about in defiance of his rider , who was , nevertheless , au excellent horseman . The rage of the Grand-Duke had vented itself in furious imprecations , and all present trembled for
the consequences . ' Halt ! ' he exclaimed , and ordered a pyramid of twelve muskets , with fixed bayonets , to be erected- The order was instantly obeyed . The officer , who had by this time subdued the restiveness of his horse , was ordered to leap the pyramid—and the spirited horse bore his rider safely over
it . " Without an interval of delay , the officer was commanded to repeat the fearful leap , and to the amazement of all present the noble horse and brave rider stood in safety on the other side of the pyramid .
< c The Grand-Duke , exasperated at finding himself thus thwarted in his barbarous purpose , repeated the order for a third time . A general , who happened to be present , now stepped forward and interceded for the pardon of the officer , observing that the horse was exhausted , and that the enforcement of the order
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$ 54 Critical Notices , —MisceUaneoiK .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 854, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/58/
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