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Eclectic Review,

MDCCCXVI.

JULY-DECEMBER.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. VI.

Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικην, ή την Επικούρειον τε
και Αριστοτελικήν αλλ' ὅσα εἴρηται παρ έκαστη των αιρεσεων τούτων καλως,
δικαιοσυνην μετα ευσεβούς επιστημης εκδιδασκονία, τουτο συμπαν το ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΟΝ
φιλοσοφίαν φημί.

CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY JOSIAH CONDER, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

SOLD ALSO BY

DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE;

AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, AND INNES, EDINBURGH.

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Adams's Narrative of his residence at Tombuctoo, &c.

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Adams's Inquiry into the Laws of different Epidemic Diseases, &c.

Adams's Philosophical Treatise on the Hereditary Peculiarities of the Hu-
man Race, &c.

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Bonney's Life of the Rt. Rev. Father in God, Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Bishop
of Down, Connor, and Dromore

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Chapman's Unlimited Invitations, in the Gospel Ministry, consistent with
Divine Decrees

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trine of Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh

Chateaubriand's Monarchy according to the Charter
Christian Observer (The) July, 1816. ARTICLE: Review of Considerations
on the Doctrine of Baptism

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Frost's Considerations on the Propriety of making a Remuneration to Wit-
nesses in Civil Actions, for Loss of Time, &c.

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Greatheed's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Cowper, Esq.

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Maltby's Lexicón Græco-Prosodiacum, Auctore T. Morell, S. T. P.
Mant's Sermons preached before the University of Oxford
Mason's Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles
Maturin's Bertram; or the Castle of St. Aldobrand: a Tragedy
Mejanel's Petit Cadeau, à la Jeunesse, ou Fables Nouvelles, en Vers
Francais

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year

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Sketch of the Past and Present State of the Vaudois or Waldenses, inhabiting
the Valleys of Piedmont

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Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode, Jan. 18, 1816. With other Short Pieces
chiefly referring to recent Public Events

THE

ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR JULY, 1816.

Art. I. 1. The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo. By Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and of the Royal Spanish Academy of History. 12mo. pp. 232. 8 Plates. Price 10s. 6d.-Longman and Co. 1816.

Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816. With other Short Pieces, chiefly referring to recent Public Events. By William Wordsworth. 8vo. pp. 10, 52. Price 4s.-Longman and Co. 1816.

T ought to occasion no surprise, that modern poets have rarely succeeded in the attempt to please or to interest, when ubjects of present political concern have been their theme. Seldom, very seldom are the feelings awakened by public events, f a nature to blend with the emotions of taste, or to admit E that pleasing exaggeration which it is the business of the et to produce. The poet himself, in venturing upon a political eme, finds it difficult to exercise the power of abstraction fficiently to enable him to select and combine the appropriate aterials for poetry, and still more difficult to carry the enusiasm of a cultivated mind into subjects, the familiar details which are often mean, painful, or disgusting.

The time was, when the wreath of the victor was entwined the hand of the bard; and when the poet alternately wielded e sword, and recited in rude melody the songs of heroes., ut those times are gone by, we trust for ever. We do not lieve that the poet exists, who could succeed in making war, a present event, interesting to the imagination. As to deeds other times, battles fought before the invention of gunwder,-wars which have left us no legacy of taxes,-the thens and the griefs of which we have never had to feel; these it is very possible to render poetical enough; and by t sympathy with which genuine poetry inspires us, we may So far transported in imagination to those times, as to adopt. the moment the characteristic feelings of its heroes and rriors. But stronger sympathies than those awakened by poet, connect us with present events, and they are such as clude the indulgence of the fancy in scenes of modern war. VOL, VI, N. S.

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