Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 389, March 1848

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Vide Notes to Pope's Dunciad , book iii.

Italian Sketches , No. V., August 1843.

Epistle to the Hebrews, v. 13, 14.

In an otherwise admirable lecture on schools, which was lately delivered by Professor Blount, at Cambridge, we were surprised to hear a general commendation passed on these books. We feel persuaded, that neither the gravity of the class nor the approval of the Professor would have held out long against the recital of a few extracts.

Notwithstanding their number, we would suggest one more, the "corrective alphabet," in which all the symbols should stand representative for objects agreeable to babes, and, ex. gr. , after their innocent lips have been made to falter out Herod's formidable name, we would point to ours, where —

(Les faux dieux.)

"We were not" (says Jeremy Taylor) "like women and children when they are affrighted with fire in their clothes; we shook off the coal, indeed, but not our garments; lest we should expose our Church to that nakedness which the excellent men of our sister Churches complained to be among themselves."

Bellarmine asserts (and who but a heretic shall dispute it with him?) that men are bound so far to submit their consciences to the Pope, as even to believe virtue to be bad and vice to be good , if it shall please his Holiness to say so. (Bellar. de Rom. Pontif , lib. iv. cap. v.) When things came to this pass, were we not justified in the insertion of that rough deprecatory clause that stood in our Litany – "From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities, Good Lord deliver us!"

"We must seek to enter into the real divine unity; if not, the pseudo unity to which Mr Newman would bring us back will be attempted once more among us; only to be followed, when its hollowness, its nothingness, its implicit infidelity, is laid bare, by an explicit infidelity, an anarchical unity, without a centre, without a God." (Maurice's Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews , p. 111.)

Imitated from Juvenal, Satire viii.

It is singular to observe how the " votiva paries ," in the churches of Papal Rome, are hung with similar offerings to those which formerly ornamented her temples in Pagan times. We possess several of these ancient offerings; inter alia – a uterus and a mamma , in terra cotta , from the Temple of Elvina Ceres at Aquinum, and an abortion , in lead, from the same source.