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    Where men shall not impose for truth and sense , The pedantry of courts and schools , Ire concludes with the following stanza , "Westward the course of empire takes its way : ' The four first acts already past , A fifth shall close the drama with the day , Time's noblcs ^ offspring is the last . These vfcrseS , the only poetry

    attributed to Berkeley , were first published in a Miscellany which I-have just quoted oq another account . They are in Dodsley ' s Collection , and in B . Brit . ( ii . 255 . )

    The last of the conjectures to which I referred is in the " Letters from Italy , by John , Earl of Cork and Orrery . " This nobleman is writing from Florence , Jan . 23 * 1755 , to his friend . Mr . Jan . 231755 , to his friendMr .

    , , Duncombe . Having been musing among the splendid remains of the former sovereigns of that city , * now lying in empty rooms and spread over desolated palaces /' he thus concludes his letter :

    • Arts and Scien ^ fes weep at the extinction of tfee House of Medici . The princes 1 of that house were many of them . learned ; all of them encotwagers of learning . Tuscany was to Ital y / says Monsieur de Voltaire , * what Athens was ' to G-reece . * What Greece is ,

    Tuscany possibly may be-, perhaps . I taly , j pfefhaps Eu ro ^ e . The . bull of empire may hereafter " rbll westward , atod may stop iYi Ame * - f iea : * a world , * unknown when Qreece was in its meridian ( glory ; a world Afat : ihay save tlte tears of some future Alexandter . " Letters ^

    2 nd Ed . P . 155 , P . 1 . 42 . The Greek religion * There was pftjfrtished , in 1080 , u Account of the Greek

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    Church , by Thomas Smith , B . D * % who had been chaplain to the English Embassy at . Constantinople . He says , ( p . 63 . ) ' * Before you enter the church , is

    a covered porch , usually arched , running out at each side the portal , with seats against the wall , upon which are painted several images , as of our blessed Saviour , the Virgin Mary , St . Johii , St .

    George , and the like , ( these two last being the great saints of the East , ) and of that saint particularly , to whose memory the church is consecrated ; but very wretch * edly , and without beauty or pro * 7

    portion . '—( P . 211 . ) « c The Greeks have so great prejudice to all engraven images , and especially if they are embossed and prominent , that they inveigh severely

    and fiercely against the Latins as little less than idolaters ^ ain 4 sy mbolizing' with the very < Jbieathgn , apply that of ihe Psalmist , Psalm cxxxv , l 6 , 17 , 18 . But as for the

    pictures , whether in colours or printed ,, of our Saviour and of the Sainfs , they account trb ? m sacred attd venerable . Th ^ se ^ lhey reverence and honour by bowifrg and kissing them and saying their prayers before therm -With these the

    partition that separates the bqmu or chancel from- the body < $ f thq church is adorned % At set times , the priest , ^ before he enters ill to it , m'akes three Io ^ i ^ vweh ees 'beffore

    tKet image tayijqo ^ C hristy and as many before i h ^ oX ^ h p ^ itg }^ Mary : and h ^ do ^ , the 1 ^ i ? n juhe tisnae of cdeteyatian ^ , ^ p , <^ Qft ^» times perfumes tli # m « fit # \ xifo iTH ;< p&p >

    pot « Upton , $ p « ie , of ifrf & re& { fej * - tivate th ^ y QK po&q to the , y )^ q / the people , lupon a 4 ? s $ , ; , i ^ tl ? e middle of th ^ qui re , a prinDed picture of that day ' s saint , whither ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/36/