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zilian Junta she thus expresses her 
estimation— 
“ They are, of course, violent in their 
language concerning Luis do Rego, in pro- 
portion as he has done his military duty, 
in keeping them at bay with his handful 
of men; and, like all oppositions, they can 
afford to reason upon general principles, 
because they have not to feel the hindrances 
of action, and the jarring of private interests 
in the disposal and fulfilment of office.’’* 
Aye! there it is: “the jarring of 
private interests in the disposal, &c. of 
Office,” are undoubtedly sad impedi- 
ments with the ins against an adherence 
to general, or to any principles. No ques- 
tion, however, but that the outs feel much 
more grievous impediments to the prac- 
tical accomplishment of their views, in 
having no offices to dispose of.* 
. But enough of this cuckoo strain of 
anti-radical politics. Perhaps we may 
meet with a little more liberality upon 
mere speculative matters of conscience. 
No such thing. Hear what Pope 
Quarterly says, in his infallibility, about 
all those who repose upon any other 
faith than his own—if one could but 
find out what that is. The Papist, it 
seems, is a Pharisee, the Evangelicals 
are Essenes, and the Socinian is a 
Sadducee. Hard words! Let us see 
what, according to the Quarterly Bul, 
they mean. 
* Tn the learned Historian of the Jews 
we read of three perverters of the law of 
Moses—the Pharisees, the Essenes, and 
the Sadducees; and we know, from the 
concurrent testimony of ecclesiastical his- 
* Our fair traveller we think speaks more 
happily when she abandons the preterna- 
tural tone of polities, and resumes a voice 
more feminine: 
“ The slow pace at which we advanced 
gave us leisure to remark the beauties of 
a Brazilian spring. Gay plants, with birds 
still gayer, hovering over them, sweet smel- 
ling flowers, and ripe oranges and citrons, 
formed a beautiful fore-ground to the very 
fine forest trees that cover the plains, and 
clothe the sides of the low hills in the 
neighbourhood of Pernambuco. Here and 
there a little space is cleared for the growth 
of mandioc, which at this season is per- 
fectly green: the wooden huts of the cul- 
tivators are generally on the road-side, 
and, for the most part,.each has its little 
grove of mango and orange-trees.”’ 
. Here woman speaks as she ought to 
speak, breathing the tranquillizing spirit of 
harmony over the beauties of nature ; and 
giving a soul even to the inanimate objects 
of creation that speaks to the cheerful 
sympathies of the heart. 
Philosophy of Contemporary Criticism.—No. XLI. 
[Feb. 1, 
tory, that they made religion consist, the 
first in the scrupulous performance of a 
multitude of outward observances; the 
second in an abstraction from the business 
of the world, in deep feelings and high 
imaginations ; the last in the belief of cer- 
tain positions, proved, as they thought, by 
sound reasoning, but often in direct opposi- 
tion to revelation.” 
“We may say to the Papist, the self- 
denominated serious Christian, and the 
Socinian of our own day, mutato nomine 
de te fabula narratur. Not only their ob- 
jects, but their modes of pursuing them, 
are the Same. The Pharisee and the 
Papist make void the commandments of 
God, through their traditions ; the Essene 
and the Evangelical appeal to their natural 
feelings as to a divine sanction ; whilst the 
Sadducee and the Socinian rely on the 
reasoning of a vain philosophy.” 
It is no intention of ours to take up the 
cudgels in behalf of any of the parties thus 
stigmatized. If they feel themselves 
aggrieved, let them vindicate their own 
cause ; or if they think it the easier 
way, let them call hard names in their 
turn; and if they choose, among them, 
to make use of such combinations of 
syllables, as sophistical juggler, shuffling 
prevaricator, hypocritical apostate, or 
the like; all we shall say upon the 
subject is, that we are very glad these 
hard words are not ours. On the sen- 
tences that provoked them, our milder 
censure would merely be that they 
savoured a little more of theological 
dogmatism, than of the philosophical 
spirit of criticism. At the same time, 
for our own parts, as, to the best of our 
knowledge and betief, we are neither 
Pharisaical Papists, Essenean'Evange- 
licals, nor Sadducean Socinians, and. 
should hold in great horror the appre- 
hension of being stigmatized with such, 
or any other, heresies, by such high and 
irrefragable authorities ; we should be 
much obliged to the reviewers if they 
would favour us with the articles of 
their own orthodox faith; or, at least, 
refer us to the particular pages, either 
of their oracular review, or the equally 
oracular sermons of John Bull (some 
beautiful specimens, only, of which are 
to be found in the authentic pages of 
one of the early inspirations of a mem- 
ber of the infallible fraternity, “ the 
Book of Wat Tyler ;””) and we do assure 
their infallibilities, that, whatever their 
sole, or soul-saving creed: may be, we 
will do our best, willy nilly, with all 
our might, and, without one scrupulous 
particle of the vanity of reason or phi- 
losophy, to believe every apr of it, 
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