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    pinner in which the regular course of the revolution had b $ en impeded at every step , was not completed till the beginning of the present century ; when , but at different periods , it was promulgated under the great military despot * , aod gave to the juris * prudence and judicial constitution of France nearly the form it at present bears , excepting that the Cinque Codes , as the whole was called by the restored Bourbons after their return , has added to them an appendix and a sixth code , called Code Forestier ; so that the prefix cinque has been exchanged for that of six \ , M .

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    When a new p lanet is discovered , it requires time to assign it its true place in tne solar system . The observer must know his own movements , or he may pronounce its progressive course to be retrograde ; and he must trace it through many degrees of its track , before he can lay down its course , and estimate its speedy and measure its eccentricity . And a great and luminous rpind cannot have its just position in the social system allotted at once ; the more so as the moral vision of mankind has no achromatic

    wherewith to penetrate the deep spaces of intellect . It will be long before the first confident speculations on the new

    phenomenon give place to the computations of truth and reason . Presumption will maintain that it is but a meteor , soon to dip below the horizon ; superstition will broadly hint that anything which

    SW » ms ao near the source of light and heat endangers the world ' s temperature , and will burn us up as it sweeps by ; and many are the years , on whose darkness it must shine , ere its course be traced , and it be found to be humanity ' s morning and evening star . The time necessary for the appreciation of a conspicuous rpind will vary according to the nature of its genius and the qtate of nociety in which it is put forth ; but in proportion as it addresses itself to the general mind , and finds access to the general mind ,

    will a true verdict be speedily passed . Large masses of men are more just , more discerning , more generous , than small ; wore ashamed of all petty passions ; less inclined to idolatry on the one hand , and to envy on the other . Imaginative genius , which in these days speaks to a splendid audience , standing amid an an * ~ * Code Civil was promulgated 5 th March , 1803 . Code do Procedure Civile , 14 tfr f

    Ap ril , 1806 . Code de Commerce , 10 th Se p tember , 1806 . Code dInstruct ion Crimix&elle , 17 th Nov ., 1808 . Code Penal , 2 nd Feb ., 1810 . f The whole of these ( code *) laws of France cost 6 francs , or 5 « . English * X The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley , LLD ., F . R . S ., In twenty-fire volumes . Edited , with Notes , by John Towill Hurt Vol . i . Life and Corr—poadanoo . C 2

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    Notices of Prance . 19

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    ON THE LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WORKS OF DR . PRIESTLEY . JArt . 1 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/19/