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Let us then, in God’s name, promote 
this tendency, and associate for the no- 
blest of all human purposes—To banish 
war from the earth. We have witnessed 
the Fiend’s coadjutor destroyed; who is 
it that has contributed to heal the mise- 
ries of war, but must consider that pre- 
vention is better, far better, than cure ! 
IT have already addressed those, who 
have so nobly subscribed for the wives 
and children of Englishmen ; for the dis- 
tresses of many countries suffering by 
war, at different periods, such as Poland, 
Sweden, Westphalia, &c. We would 
now address the religious world : who be- 
lieve that Christ died for the sins of the 
world, according to the Scriptures ; that 
he had compassion on us, that he pitied 
us in our dark estate, and shed his blood 
for us. z 
If there is any hidden meaning in the 
account in the Revelations, that Michael © 
and his Angels fought against the Dra- 
gon, and the Dragon and his angels pre- 
vailed not, nor was their place found any 
more in heaven: if the power of him, 
there called the Word of God, consists in 
a sharp, two-edged sword, proceeding 
from his mouth: if the beast and the 
Kings of the earth, and the false prophet, 
are to be destroyed by this kind of sword, 
as it is written they will: and if all the 
powers of the earth are at last to be 
overcome by the blood of the Lamb; the 
whole must certainly refer to efforts of 
thekind here recommended. The blood 
of the Lamb, in the metaphorical lan- 
guage of Scripture, means, that pity, that 
benevolence,which he shewed tous, and is 
to be extended by us towards the mi- 
series and sufferings of our fellow crea- 
tures, and it is ordained, that it shall at 
last overcome. The Angel, which en- 
hghtens the whole world with his glory, is 
this benevolent principle. The great 
Babylon of the earth, Covetousness, falls 
to the earth before him; and this idol’s 
flesh hecomes food enough for ail the 
world. 
The four and twenty elders fall down 
and-worship God, because he has taken 
te himself his great power, and display<d 
it (has reigned) to destroy them which 
destroy the earth. 11 Rev. 17.18. 
_ The purport of these observations, is 
the more strongly to recommend an asso- 
ciation for this most excellent purpose; to 
form a centre of union, and to open cor- 
respondence with the benevolent of other 
-Cities and countries, circulate suitable 
publications on the continent, and begin 
a subscription for that purpose. Whe- 
Lyceum of Ancient Literature. 
[Aug. Is 
ther the times are ripe for such an effect, 
it is not for us to determine; happy are 
those who are made the instruments of s@ 
glorious an achievement ! 
T have thrown outa few hints, and [hope 
to see the subject taken up by abler pens. 
I leave my name with the Editor, as one 
ready to promote such a plan, with my 
time and my money; and I will give the 
sum of fifty pounds, or ten pounds. per 
annum, in aid of such an undertaking. 
Your’s, &c. H. W. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
’ LYCEUM OF ANCIENT LITERA< 
TURE.—No. XXUI. 
PINDAR. 
INDAR, the last and greatest of the. 
Pp Grecian Lyrics, was born at The- 
bes, the capital city of Beeotia; a country 
proverbial among the Greeks, for the 
extreme stupidity of its natives.* Ie 
however gave birth to Epaminondas, Pe- 
Jopidas ; and in later times, to Plutarch. 
Under Epaminondas, the Thebans were 
the masters of Greece; but so much does ~ 
the fate of a country often depend- upon 
the valour and talents of one man, that 
the glory of Thebes arose, and expired | 
with the hero of Leuctra and Mantinea. ~ 
It derived a more lasting honour from the 
name of Pindar, which, unaffected by 
the caprices of fortune, or the revolu- 
tions. of governments, has maintained 
itself, after the lapse of more than two 
thousand years, with, unabated lustre ; 
and next to Homer, has the greatest 
celebrity among the poets of antiquity. 
The period of his birth is not estabs 
lished with equal certainty; and accords 
ing to Scaliger, every attempt to fix it 
must inevitably fail. Fabricius, how- 
ever, with great appearance of proba- 
bility, has placed it in the 65th Oiymp. 
forty years before the expedition of 
Xerxes, and about two hundred and fifty 
B. C.+ The names of his parents are 
not sufficiently ascertamed. He was 
born during ‘the solemnity of the Pythian 
games, which he afterwards immortalized 
by his poetry.{ Contenting ourselves 
with barely mentioning the marvellous - 
incidents so gravely mentioned by Phi- 
lostratus and Pausanias, that, at his 
* It is nota little singular, that Pindar ale 
ludes to this himself, in the 2d Olymp. 
+ Fabr. in Pind.,- Lib. il. ¢. 15. p. 57. 
Edit. Harles.  ~ 
{ Inipso Pythiorum festo, futurus woAAqy 
nal narav vjpevay TO Cs@ Xoenyds. Fabr. ubi 
supra. 
birth, 
