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been worth the trouble which I have taken to notice his charges , were it not that such confident assertions , affecting the character and credit of the professors of Unitarian ism , and of its most illustrious advocates , are too often received with a readiness exactly proportioned to the degree in which they seem to detract from their principles and their honour . THOMAS MADGE .
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Our readers are probably aware that the censorship imposed upon the French press expired with the close of the last session of the French chambers , and cannot be again imposed until these bodies reassemble after the new election . During this interval , the periodicals of France are using their
liberty with great zeal , and giving to the public many curious papers , which had been condemned to oblivion by the jealous caution of their official literary inquisitors . One of these prohibited productions is the memoir of which we here subjoin a translation , which is inserted in the French " Globe" of the 22 nd of December . The subject of it was an extraordinary man , and his history cannot , we think , be now perused without
interest . " When , during the controul of the censorship , we gave a sketch of the literature of Portugal , we were not permitted to pay that tribute of respect which we ought to have done to one of its first prose writers , and the greatest man perhaps of that country , Camoens himself not excepted . Antonio Vieyra was not merely the first preacher of his nation , the Massillon of Portugal ; the universality of his genius recalls to us that of Bossuet ,
A great theologian , an expert linguist , a profound historian and chronologist , a political writer distinguished by his force and courage;—speaking and writing the principal languages of Europe , together with six at least of the primitive dialects of Brasil , he was not solely a man of the closet and of study ; he was in Europe a statesman , and in America an apostle . Several diplomatic missions to England , * France and Holland , ( in 1646 and 1647 , )
two journeys to Rome , f four voyages to Brasil , eleven visits to all the missionary stations on the Maranha 6 , twenty-two voyages along rivers exceeding in their extent the Mediterranean Sea , fourteen thousand leagues traversed on foot over the deserts of the new world , would seem to have scarcely left him leisure to be a writer . Nevertheless , Vieyra is justly ranked among the literary ornaments of Portugal ; and we hardly know which ought most to
excite our admiration , the immortal productions of his eloquence , or the six hundred leagues of territory which he civilized . " This illustrious man was born at Lisbon on the 6 th of February , 1608 , His father conveyed him , when only seven years of age , to Bahia , where , in opposition to the wishes of his family , he joined the Jesuits on the 16 th of May , 1623 . He was for some time professor of the learned languages at the College of Bahia . In 1641 , after the restoration of the house of Braganza , he accompanied , as his adviser , D . Ferd . Mascarenhas , son of the Viceroy of
* " Barbosa notices only one voyage of Vieyra to England . We state the fact from Oudiner . See Niceron , Tome XXXIV . pp , 270—275 . " t " lb . 1650 , 1669 . "
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98 Memoir of Antonio Vieyru .
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MEMOIR OF ANTONIO VIEYRA , THE PORTUGUESE PREACHER AND MISSIONARY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/26/
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