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    ^ d p rofanely jftbojigli H / borrowed 3 anguag ) of an hereafter : « What you seem jnost to apprehend is uot a subject of hqiwr to ine- I think about it as . j do about a " eath ; 'tis not that I fear , but 'tis the way to it ; ' tis the straggles , the last convulsions that I

    dread ; for when once they are over , I don ' t question but to rise to a new and better life . Dr . Garth , I remember , used to sav , * I tfbw * ° God * Madam , / take this to be hell \ purgatory at least ; we shall tertainlfj be better off in any ottier world : \ think I am of his opinion . "—Pp * 330 ,

    331 . Like tbe greater part of the fashionable world , this lady had no conception of religion but as an instrument of human policy , legitimated by par liamentary or royal authority . She expresses in one place her

    approbation of the Reformation conducted by that Christian Reformer Henry the Eighth , but at the same time her great doubts or * the right of Lutoer and Calvin to go so far as they did in opposition to ecclesiastical upage I Here she had forgotten her preceptor , Dr . Mkldletoa * ,

    The fanatical admiration of Frederic the Great ( as he is s tal ed by courtesy ) , King of Prussia , which has been exjwsed ui our IXth Volume , p . 548 , irifected Lady Hervey , who ridiculously describes the heartless monarch us ** something in the great scale of beings between man and a deity ! " ( P . 235 . )

    We meet occasionally with liv-ely descriptions of Lady Hervey's French acquaintances - the picture of Fontenelte in the letter from Paris , before referred to , of Jan . 6 , J 7 & 1 , is ^ ry pleasing : " I dine sometimes with a set of beaux

    Mpritf i airipug which old FqnteneUe presides . He has no mark of age but wrinkles and a degree of deafness ; but when , by sitting near him , you make him hear > ° » , he never fkUs to understand you , and always answers with that liveliness , and a sort of prettiness peculiar to himself . He often repeats dijd applies his own and other nenti ] t >* s itoetrv vpim / A&rpp

    a » Jy ; but only p cca ^ ionilly , as it m prom and , applicable to Jh& ^ UDJect . Me m »< UI a gxwt ' ' & * i' $ TipalRmify . ih lx ^ J « rn and in his d ^ od ^ e : ^ 11 ^ Wili eCy - ^ o , and Ms Oie fc ^^ rltatmgft , lfi ^ tjisjisg , Wd eve 0 the ^^ 5 ttaft # ^ Bft 6 t t # enty -

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    Lady Hervey lifts up the vfeil Avhich Earl Waldegrave forebore to . remove , and shews us tbe nature of rdya ! pas * times . Eter introductoiy remark is not on a courtly theme ; bj&t from * ' horned cattle '' she pr ^ ently ascends to the family of Frederic Prince of Wales , at Leicester Hotise : * '

    " I hear the distemper among the cattle breaks out in many new places . The town is sickly ; and nothipgseems pros peroxis but gaming and gamesters . Tis really prodigious to see how deep the la&fcs pla > ; but in spite of a& these irregularities , the Prince ' s family is an example of innocent and cheerful amusements

    All this last summer they played abroad ; and now , in the winter , in a large retom , they divert themselves at base-ball , a play all who are or have been schoolboys are well acquainted with . The ladies , as well as gentlemen , join hi this

    amusement ; and the latter return-the compliment in the evening , by playing for an hour at the did and innocent gUroe of push-pin , at which they ^ chiefly excel , ( if they are not flattered , ) who ought in

    every thing to precede . This innocence and excellence must needs _ give great joy , as well as great hopes , to all real lovcis of their country' and posterity . " - — Pf > , 139 , 140 .

    This extract was written , Nov . 14 , 1748 . On the 1 ^ of 4 he next Febhiary , she returns to the PHnce of Wales , whom she denominates Sosia : "As for the Sosia , I agree with you , and firmly believe the prologue and epilogue are both his own ; at least they are ( as Lord Pa , ulet , when he was Lord Hinton , onfce told him , on

    being asked his opinion of some of his poetical performances ) worthy of his Royal Highness . " P . 147 . It is not a part of the court religion to praise princes long dead , especially princes tbrat were never ^ perfceted by

    becoming kings , and therefore the Editor gives us , in a note on this passage , ( pp . 147 , 148 , ) the following scarcely decorous iutellLgeuce and halfdi « loyal reflection : . i 4 .. <

    " Why F ^ edeHc Prin ce - o ^ \ s here called Sbaia * I do riot s ^; ; l > qC the rest 6 f the allusion i ^ to the r > I ^ y ^/ C& 0 > performed on' W ^ dn ^^ ay W&m 4 C $ - tipary , ^ L ^ i ^ ftei- flc ^ i ^ e ; iii ; M HfgFme ^ ch ifdreii , and some 6 t ^ fofe a cb ^ y of the cafelr pf chariw ^ fs may * perhaps , atnuse tte * &kd $ r . < ¦ - ¦ 6 at 6 , - IVfasttM ^ ug ^ nt .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/41/