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and from Magee to myseif ! Peace to the souls of them that be at 
rest, and prosperity to the living! Are not we the exclusive sup- 
porters of order and regular government ? the very props and 
mainstays on which must rest the authority of every crowned head 
in Christendom ? ay, and in Pagendom also ? Are not we the 
only class of literary knight errants, who, despising all argument, 
pay passive obedience and non-resistance to all authority ? How can 
the professors of law and physic — nay, how can the professors of di- 
vinity do without us ? Is not our motto, Stare decisis ? A has 
les agitateurs ? Down with the innovators ? Away with the falli- 
ble pretensions of human wisdom, and the false lights of that ignis 
fatuus, human reason ? 
Moreover, although our storehouses are professedly repositories 
of stolen goods, yet we keep them for the benefit of the literary 
world. Although we do enable those who steal from us what we 
stole from others, to shine in borrowed plumes, like the classical 
essayists of London, who pillaged without mercy that amasser of 
other men’s wealth Robert Burton— or like the Edinburgh review- 
ers, who dress themselves out in the cast-off cloaths of Jeremy Tay- 
lor, still we mainly contribute to the classical gaiety and literary 
finery of the day : and although the sober traveller may smile at 
the gaudy appearance of ancient frippery on modern linsey-wool- 
sey, yet, sunt quas arhusta juvant , there are who do not dislike 
even the white, red and yellow trees before the door of a Dutch 
Br. Magee says to his reader, I can prove the doctrine of atonement from 
the word of God, and from M de Pauw, Can you indeed ? Then, for mercy’s 
sake, spare us dear Doctor, the mortification of M. de Pauw ! Will you drench 
us with ditch-water after Tokay ? 
And. thou Dalhousie the great God of war. 
Lieutenant Colonel to the Earl of Mar, 
is sublimity Itself in comparison to such an attempt. Moreover, if the prac- 
tice, whose universality he labours to establish, be indeed, as lie calls it, a 
horrid superstition, what aid can it afford to a doctrine of revelation ? Is it 
possible he could be blind to the very obvious injury his opinions might re- 
ceive from his quotations ? 
The truth is, that Dr. Magee’s book is manifestly written, to serve, not the 
spiritual interest of the church, but the secular interest of Dr. Magee. Wint- 
er is introduced treading upon the heels of writer; quotation is heaped upon 
quotation ; reference urges reference ; criticism of sarcasm succeeds to cri- 
ticism of contradiction ; and authority is backed by authority, in endless and 
useless succession ; meant indeed, to display the extent of the Professor’s 
reading, but affording evidence still more decisive of the narrowness of his 
judgment,, T. C, 
