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    gcnips which represents more particularly the nations of Europe . " During the two years of the noviciate , no novice is allowed to mix with the world . He is taught the history of the generals of the order , whose portraits are displayed in every house ; and the lives of the most celebrated Jesuits from

    Edmund Auger , Confessor of Henry III . All these young hearts , already corrupted by the most barbarous fanaticism , are filled with a hatred of the world . It is even said , and I repeat the fact with horror , that on Good Friday , after the ceremonies of the passion of Jesus

    Christ , all the novices strike with poignards the statue of Ganganelli , whom they believe to be bound by chains of fire in the depths of Hell;—another statue of a king of France , and of his minister Choiseul;—and another of Pombal , and of his weak sovereign , who suffered the society to be oppressed .

    " If you would form an idea of the power of Father Gury over these poor novices , read the history of the * Old Man of the Mountains / Perhaps , in the Old Man of the Mountains , you would discover some traces of moderatiou . In the view of the tyrant of Mont

    Rouge every one trembles : he speaks , and all are silent . His prophetical air , his threatening looks , his mysterious words , his severe and imperious tone , raise the spirits of his novices to such a pitch that they would reduce the world to ashes to secure the merit of a rare

    obedience . " An English translation of this curious work has lately appeared , which seems , on the slight view we have had of it , to be respectably executed .

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    times allowing them to do openly , and with a sort of eclat , what public opinion will now only suffer to be covertly aimed at by indirect courses and plausible speeches . It is rather curious that Dr . North prognosticated , even in those days , that

    evil was to come from Socinianism ; and he had it iu his heart , or , at least , in his pocket-book , as appears by the following extracts , to extinguish heresy in its infancy . It is a consolation to posterity to reflect that he never summoned courage to carry his benevolent intentions into effect .

    " It hath fallen out , that one of his pocket-books , in 8 vo ., containing some of his extemporaneous thoughts upon various subjects , out of all order , some with ink , but most with red chalk , or black lead , clapped down there on a sudden , lay out of the way , and escaped

    this . general conflagration . And , howr ever I am suspended from communicating these notes in any way , ( for such extemporaneous scraps must needs carry many defects , ) I shall , nevertheless , give a short account of the chief of them , and thereby demonstrate the tendency of his designs and studies .

    "The subjects may be ranged under these general heads : 1 , Divinity ; 2 , Criticism ; 3 , Philosophy ; 4 , Politics . As to the first , it appears the Doctor was prepared to batter the Atheists , and then the Arians and Socinians . After having laid open their strengths , he meant to attack

    them with their own arms , ( as they pretend , ) right reason . And in order to this , he hints somewhat of the reason of the Christian religion , aud the holy sacraments of it ; and finally to support the authority of the Holy Scripture ; which done , he thought there would be an end of Sociuianism . There are some

    remarkable touches concerning Arminius and Calvin . He is manifestly of opinion with the former , but looks upon the other , with respect to ignorant men , to be more politic , and thereby , in some respects , fitter to maiutain religion in them , because more suited to their capacity . But that is referred to art and not to truth , and ought to be ranked with the pise fraudes or holy cheats ; which seems no good character of Presbytery . It hath been known that the worst of

    heresies have been popular . There are some remarks upon the Roman Catholics and Latitudinarians , but not so copious as upon other heads /' << In Christian theology he had a full intention to publish a thorough confutation of the Socinians ; and some shrewd

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    Critical Notices . 373

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    Art . VI . — The Lives of the Ri g ht Hon . Franciq North , Baron Guildford , the Hon . Sir Dudley North , and of the Hon . and Rev . Dr . John North . By the Hon . Roger North . With Notes and Illustrations . 3 Vols . 8 vo . London , 1826 .

    The first two of these Lives are repub-Ucations of very interesting Memoirs , well known and deservedly popular . The third is the life of Dr . John North , Master of Trinity College , Cambridge , and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II . The whole family were of a school of politicians and reasoners , which we cannot better describe than by calling It the Eldon school by anticipation , over which , however , as it now exists , they had one advantage iu the spirit of the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/61/