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PLATO'S PHOEBUS* THE works of Plato, aft...
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THE PAPAL TDEAL.* \f ARIOUS efforts have...
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* Jivcoilcottons of tho Zant Four Popes,...
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in his arms , approached the Welshmen , he presented to them his new-born son , exclaiming ' , in broken Welsh , ' JBich Dyn . !* that is , ' This is your man ! ' The verbal translation is ' . simply , ' Your manT and the expression would have been exceedingly appropriate considering *' -tbe occasion ^ The German traveller believes that these words were subsequently corrupted into Ich Dien , which is more questionable , and will have to be inquired into in a subsequent chapter /' Prince Edward had the misfortune to lose his mother , queen Eleanor , in bis sixth year ; : and during his early years to be
encouraged by his" father in great extravagance . Ultimately , that father turned against his son , and treated him with unjust severity . He seems , however , to have been a good man of business , faithful to bis friendships , and of an affectionate disposition . On the causes that led to his fearful death we need not dwell . They belong to the King , not to the Prince of Wales . Nevertheless , we must insert Dr . Doran ' s remark that" the first English prince of Wales was the first ting of England who was deposed and murdered . '" We may add that Dr . Doran ' s list ends with George the Fourth as Prince of Wales , whose career was marked by many similar unfortunate features , and whose faults Dr . Doran has visited with
unsparing rigour . . . Fifteen other" Iiives . complete his enumeration , including the Edwards , of Windsor , Woodstock ,-Westminster , and of the Sanctuary ; Richard of Bordeaux , the Henries of Monmouth , Greenwich , and Stirling ; Arthur of Winchester ; the Charles of Dunfermline and St . James ; George Augustus , and Frederick Louis of Hanover ; and George Wiiliam Frederick of Norfolk House . . The new dignity of Prince of Wales increased in importance , as appears by an entry on the Constable's Roll . The lane outside the Tower Gate was called " Petit Wales , " where the ruins of stone
mansions long attested the ancient splendour of the locality . Stowe , however , was inclined to give credit to , a tradition of his time , that the stone edifice alluded to had been " the lodging appointed for the old native princes of Wales when they repaired to this city ; and that thereforei the street in that part iscalled j * etty Wales , which name remairieth there most commonly unto this day ; even as where , kings of Scotland used to be lodged betwixt Charing-cross and Whitehall it is likewise called ' Scotland ; ' and where the Earls of Bretagne were lodged without Aldersgate , the street is called Britain Street " ¦—now Little Britain .
The examples we have given will serve to admonish the reader of the kind of archaeological lore imported , where possible , into this entertaining volume . Space will not permit us to enter intoso large an argument , nor would the attempt serve any good purpose . The main events , of course , pertain to the history of England that is familiar to all ; but glancing lights are -thrown on some dark places of it by the peculiar , course marked out for himself by Dr . Doran , which the general reader is not likely to meet elsewhere . Here such items are skilfully grouped , and to be found in their proper places . The student will gain much profitable instruction by seeking them in the pages dedicated by Dr . Doran to our Welsh princes .
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Plato's Phoebus* The Works Of Plato, Aft...
PLATO'S PHOEBUS * THE works of Plato , after suffering -longr neglect , appear to have regained their influence with our English scholars . More than ope mind is at work upon them . Not long a « ro Dr . Wliewelj presented us with a translation of the Socratic Dialogues , and those that relate to the sage ' s accusation and < U » ath ; and we perceive that a second volume is announced as nearly ready , which we shall in dne time receive . Meanwhile , Mr . Poste , of Oriel College , Oxford , volunteers a translation of . the JPMlebus , as a companion to a revised
edition of the original . And this translation is welcome , notwithstanding 1 any that Dr . WheweH will undoubtedly give ; for it is a f ull translation for scholars , while the latter will be an abridged one , with easy illustrations , fitting it for genei'al readers , and affording 1 such facilities'that any lady of qultivated understanding may readily apprehend and pleasurably enjoy the argument . The work with which \ Ve lmve now to do is of a sterner character , and less befits the drawing-room than the study .
Pinto , of all the benefactors to mankind , mentg to be ranked as one of the greatest . His wonderful works form as it were an Evangel to his age and nation , and yet maintain their influence on the moral nature of Studious men . Pluto is the Shakespeare of philosophy . Like , him , he vrm myriad-mindqd , nnd embraced both sides of the philosophical tendency of his times «—the imital and the phenomenal . He comprehended , as it has been finely said , " both sides of the medal of Jove . " It was ho who recognised the possibility of philosophy in the progressive development of the Idea of Good , through the -multiplicity of forms which were appointed to give it oxprossiqn . And he did this by the right divine of genius ,
winch measured the universal as well aa ganged the profound . His mind , indeed , was so fecund as to bo inexhaustible . His imagination , too , was ns fertile as his reason , and his illustrations are as beautiful as his diction is dear and distinct . His hero , Socrates , looms upon us ns an interpreter of the Soiil . One of the earliest Eoeta bofpre him' had , indeed , recognised its separate state in Hades , u ' t , it wo ' s he who went from house to house in Athens to press upon his countrymen the , sublime fact that it was , in the very life they wore living , distinct from the bodj-j while united with it . JJe first taught men to have « care of their bouIh , nnd to attempt their
redemption from the body in which they were imprisoned . To this end all the Dialogues of Plato are devoted . In the dialogue now translated , Plato treats of the soul and its capacities for Pleasure and Knowledge , and considers the relations that both of these bear to the highest Good . In tracing this argument , he anticipates the dialectic distinction of recent German thinkers between the Becoming ' and Being ; and Mr . Poste has done well in evidently translating this part of the argument in such a way as to meet the requirements of modern philosophy . The translator ' s style is dignified , but intelligible , suited to the severity of thought required , and the elevation of the truths communicated . " We heartily reconiinend his work to the meditative reader .
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* JPhllaiw of Plato , Tranelntoa by Dd , Vostib , W . A . John W > Pnirkor and Son ,
The Papal Tdeal.* \F Arious Efforts Have...
THE PAPAL TDEAL . * \ f ARIOUS efforts have been made by Romanist advocates lately V to retrieve the Papacy from the charges of misgoverriment , and to claim for ifc the possession of ideal attributes . These attributes ought , indeed , to have belonged to the religious office , but in fact , as it had been held , had become inoperative or much abused . Cardinal Wiseman , under these circumstances , determined to give his personal testimony in favour of the order to which he aspires ; and , in the volume before us , which now re-appears in a revised form , sets forth the characters of the last four Popes as exemplifying all the Christian graces ; adding , in the preface , that of his own as being of such immaculate virtue , that he ' never even during his life made a vicious acquaintance . From the mouth of such an unimpeachable witness , we are bouud' to accept "evidence-. with more than ordinary confidence . .
We gladly do so , because from the portraitures of four popes , whom Cardinal Wiseman regards as perfect exemplars of their office , we may expect to arrive at some sort of an idea of what , in- 'his and their opinion , a Pope ought to be . Here are four persohifieatiDns of a Principle , that may be held to show it on as many sides , and which , with what we know of the pVesent occupant of St . Peter's chair , may be cohceivTed to give rather acomprehensive representation of the power so worthily wielded by the illustrious Pentad . The force of nature , we should think , can go but little further . Here we have about the best that can be obtained . from the _ conscientious exercise of the Holy-office . To what , then , does it all amount ?
Cardinal Wiseman claims to be heard as a witness . He is certainly , a ' : competent , one , and from him we should learn all needful particulars . But we must be careful from the beginning not to nii . stake the character of the witness . " His testimony is that of a ; partisan , not of a looker-on . He is endowed , also , with the dangerous gift of elpquence and one id not always sure of the ^ bearing of his evidence , so cunningly is it worded , so warped in its tendency . Before lie saw a pope he had already forrned an idea of one . In December , 1818 , he and five other youths arrived in'Borne to colonise the English college in that city . The re-establishment of the college was due to Pius VII . and his minister Cardinal Confealvi . Some of the party , it was settled , should be presented to the Holy Father . Among that number was young Wiseman . He had and of this
formed an enthusiastic notion of popes in general , pope in particular . But the ordinary feelings of Cuthplic students would have beeu sufficient to render the interview significant . " To every Catholic , and to a young ecclesiastic in particular , '' says bur author , " this must be an event in his life ; and the ceremony combined a double feeling , elsewhere impossible , composed of the reverence paid to a sovereign , and the homage "duo to the supreme head of our religion .. From , the monarch , " he adds , " we accept with gratification a condescending word ; -from the Pope that word we receive us- a blessing . " All was , therefore , with the writer , a foregorioeonclusion . A Protestant would have received an entirely different impression . Here , we find , that the Witness had utterly prejudged the case .. This same prejudgment colours the whole , of his testimony . His reception by the Pope had an influence on the whole o { ' his after-life .
He rejoices in describing it , in philospphising on it , and in . applying it . The " relation , " he says , " » 3 strengthened in the youthful mind at every succeeding year of his course . He knows that every professor whose lectures he hears , has been directly mid immediately appointed , after careful selection , by the Pope himself , anil that every claos-bopk which ho veada has received the same supremo sanction ; he feels himself almost under the direct tuition of the Holy See : however pure and sparkling the rills at which others may drink , he puts his lips to the very rook whie / i a divine wa ) ul has struck , and he sucks in its wctt & m as they qusli fortJi lining . Weneed not add that it sentiment such as this is alien to the Protestant character , and modifies tho evidence rendered to a grout oxtont . It haa in fuofc , to bo all abstracted from the testimony , before tho latter can bo of any valuer ' ¦ __ ,
Jbet us , however , take Cardinal Wisomim ' s experiences of Pius VII . Nature gnvo to Uaruabus Cluarnmonti ( such wore tlio PopoV original names ) a sweet disposition : —ho was mild and gentle , ineupnblo ot rancour or resentment , so that ho was- likened to Moses , ns tho meekoat of men j- ^ -Uifl life , moreover , wns unsullied , his virtue i ' l < re " proachablo f for \\ $ had loarnod piety of his mothur , who , in a convent of Carmelites at Puno , wJjither sho had retired , foretold 'ii' » Ins elevation one day to tho papacy . We may suppose , then , thnt all liis eonduQt had thn , t ulterior aim . After a preliminary odueation in tho college for nobles at Ravenna , he retired to a Bonodiuuuo
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* Jivcoilcottons of tho Zant Four Popes , ami ofBomo In their Timcu . By H . E . Cardinal Wiflomwa . Now and l \ oylaQ < X Edition . Hurat and DinPKott .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07041860/page/14/
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