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    Sir , Jan . 29 , 1815 . THERE are , I believe , scarcely any biographers of Lady Jane Grey who have not quoted the interesting description of her talents and

    occupations by Ascham , in his Schole-Master , 8 Vo . 1743 ( p . 37 ) . I lately read another tribute to her memory , which I have never seen quoted , thoughwell-worthy of accompanying her

    affecting story , especially as offered by one who was an enemy to her Protestant faith . The writer to whom I refer is the learned Jesuit , Father Orleans- In his Histoire des Revolutions D Angleterre , Lib . 8 . 4 to . ii . 450 , describing the political intrigues of Northumberland , he adds , " La plus grande

    opposition qu'il y trouva , fiit de la part de sa belle-fille . Jeanne Gray , qui servit d ' actrice a la nouvelle scene que TAngleterre donna a 1 * Europe en cette occasion , refusa long-temps le personage que son beau-pere la pressa de representer . Toute jeune qu ' elle etoit elle etoit solide , et voyoitbien le ridicule du role qu ' elle alloit jouer . D ' ailleurs elle

    avoit 1 esprit philosophique , et naturellement modere , aimant mieux etre particuliere in repos , que Reinedans le tumulte . A la religion pres > c ' etoit une femme accomplie , ay ant meme , au ilessus du sexe , assez de connoisaance des bonnes lettres pour faire un honnette homme scavant . Elle se

    defendit autant qu'elle put du mauvais pas qu ' on lui fit faire . Sa famille Fy oblig ^ a . E llese laissa proclamer Reine dans la Capitale et aux environs , et en receut les honn ^ urs de si bonne grace , que Ton ne pouvoit s ' empecher de souhaiter qu ' elle y eut plus de droit . "

    Now I am quoting the language of our neighbours , I hope not soon again to become our enemies , give me leave to close this paper with a short character , by one of their criticsof an

    , English poetess , who has long adorned , and I trust may yet much longer adorn , that private station , the nurse of talent and the guard of virtue , which the transient Queen Jane

    wisely preferred to royalty . The author of Des Romans , et des Femmes Antjlaises quicultivent les Lettres , says , " Parmi les femmes poetes Anglaises qui sont nos contemnoraines . s *«« 3 cs qui sont nos contemporaines i

    , \ ^ em ^ re P lace est due > sans doute , * iVlistriss B d , qui joint une connoissance approfondie de Fart et une tendance tres morale a une ventable talent . Sw ouvrages , o \ x 1 ' on

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    peut desirer plus de chaleur et dimagination , en of triroient peut-etre davantage , si elle ecrivoit dans un autre pays . 77 Archives Litteiraires de VEurope . Paris , No . SO , June 1806 .

    Most of your readers will , I am persuaded , disapprove the historian ' s assumption of male superiority in his au dessus du sexe and demur to the critic ' s exceptions , at the expence of our country . R . B .

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    Lady Jane Grey . —Two Natures in the Person of Christ . 79

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    On two Natures in the Person of Christ Sir , Jan . , 1815 . T was gravely said by some of the prelates at the Council of Trent , " That the schoolmen were the

    astronomers which did feign eccentricities and epicycles and such engines of orbs , to save the phenomena , though they knew there were no such things : and in like manner , that the schoolmen had framed a number of subtile and

    intricate axioms and theorems to save the practice of the church . " The distinction of two natures in the person of Christ was invented to save the doctrine of his deity , being one of those subtleties , by means of which the same propositions may be affirmed

    and denied at pleasure . It will be always found , however , that such subtle distinctions rest on equivocal terms , and that we have only to detect the equivocation of the terms , to prove the absurdity of the meaning , or the absence of all meaning .

    The terms Nature and Person are employed equivocally by Trinitarians : at one time they argue that there arc three persons in one nature ; at another that there are two natures in on « person , hi the one instance , the nature is the whole that comprehends

    the parts called persons , Each of the terms is made to extend and contract , so : is to be both the greater and the lesser ; both that which comprehends and that which is comprehended ; or in other words , both contents and container , the whole and parts of the

    whole . J here are three persons ( it is said ) in the divine nature , or in the one Cod ; and again , there are two natures in the one person of Christ . Now as a whole must be greater than

    any one of its parts , the person of Jesus must be not only greater than that part called the human nature , but also that part called the divine , for it i * supposed to comprehend both , or to consist of both .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/15/