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assisted only by stentorian lungs and 

 not very graceful action? 



The preaching of Irving, and the delu- 

 sive mockery of the unknown tongues, 

 may live in the recollection of some of 

 my readers, who will not fail to compare, 

 when recognising a similar attraction, the 

 merits of these two religious stars. Both 

 possessed original conceptions, or, rather, 

 misconceptions, but the one displayed a 

 manly eloquence, in which attainments of 

 the highest order shone forth, and main- 

 tained a dignified attitude and graceful 

 delivery throughout ; while the other, 

 in order to enforce his doctrine, at all 

 times acceptable to the ignorant, and to 

 please the fancies of his congregation, 

 is obliged, in the absence of genius, to 

 call in the aid of the mountebank. 



It is with far different feelings we review 

 the vestiges of the infatuation of former 

 days, in the peculiar dress and formal man- 



