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Review Of New Publications.
Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Scotland . Part III . 8 vo . 16 pages of letter-press and 18 portraits . Price iSs . Nicol . THIS work is certainly of a very interesting nature ; persons whose characters have become familiar to us through the assistance of historians , and who have attracted our attention as performers of some important part in civil , military , or ecclesiastical concerns , naturally inspire us with a desire to become acquainted with the features of their faceand we with
, survey pleasure and partiality the most humble efforts of imitation , and the slightest attempt at similitude . To the greater part of these portraits is annexed a biographical sketch of the character and leading incidents iri the life of the ^ illustrious persons ' whom they represent ; this , however accurate , is still a sketch , and were it less meagre , would be a much more acceptable accompaniment . The following is a specimen from which our readers may judge of the others .
< ¦ Henry Scougal , professor of divinity at Aberdeen , [ annexed to plate 9 ] ¦ was the son of Patrick Scougal , bishop of Aberdeen 1664 . —1682 ; and has the merit of being the first Scotish author , it is believed , who wrote a book of practical piety . Ecclesiastical disputes , so inconsistent with the meek spirit of Christianity , had first prevailed between the catholics and reformers , then between the episcopals and presbyterians , and afterwards between the presbyterians and independents . Sermonsand commentaries on Scripture #
, , were sometimes interposed ; but the chief object , the practice of the christian virtues , was unaccountabl y neglected ; Durham's curious work , on Scandal , being rather a discussion of ecclesiastical discipline and polity , and a defence of the presbyterians against the independent jacobins of the day , than an ethical production . 'Of Henry Scougal little is known . It is said that , being of an amorous complexion , he sometimes loved God , and sometimes loved women ; and
that having unfortunately become enamoured of a married lady at Aberdeen , he died in the struggles of virtue and passion . But he had grown so corpulent in his retreat , the steeple of the cathedral church of St . Machan ' s , at Old Aberdeen , that his executors were forced to extract the body through a window . These traditions seem rather inconsistent , as love is generally supposed rather to belong to the class of consumptions , than of dropsies ; and it is rare that the amorous swain pines away into plentitude . ' Scougal ' s Life of God in the Soul of Man was published by bishop Burnet , in ifiyi , 8 vo ; and has since passed through many editions , being a work of eminent piety , without enthusiasm , and written in a clear neat style . '
The History of the County of Cumberland . 4 10 . pages 326 . Price ' , s . 6 d . Law . MR . Hutchinson is the author of this history ; and this Part , which is the third , forms the first of the second volume . Various are the articles of information and amusement with which the reader mi ght be furnished from the pages now before us . He might be told of Wotobank , or woe-to-this bank , on which a remarkable , story is founded , and which ' produced an hasty , though elegant effusion of Mrs . Cowley ' s muse ;'—" of White-ba'ven , which
, from the mean estate of a fishing-creek , has arisen , within the period of 100 years , to a town of eminence for population , commerce , navigation , and wealth ;—of Woikington , which has exceedingly and rapidly improved and flourished within the compass of a few years;—of Kesiuici , and the several lakes which have so much engaged the public attention ;—of the village of Rosthwaite , secluded by its situation for almost one half of the year from the adjacent country ; and of Satterthwaite , where , in the depth of winter , ihe sun never shines;—of coal-mines , copper-mines , ivarf-mines , or
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Scotland . Part III . 8 vo . 16 pages of letter-press and 18 portraits . Price iSs . Nicol . THIS work is certainly of a very interesting nature ; persons whose characters have become familiar to us through the assistance of historians , and who have attracted our attention as performers of some important part in civil , military , or ecclesiastical concerns , naturally inspire us with a desire to become acquainted with the features of their faceand we with
, survey pleasure and partiality the most humble efforts of imitation , and the slightest attempt at similitude . To the greater part of these portraits is annexed a biographical sketch of the character and leading incidents iri the life of the ^ illustrious persons ' whom they represent ; this , however accurate , is still a sketch , and were it less meagre , would be a much more acceptable accompaniment . The following is a specimen from which our readers may judge of the others .
< ¦ Henry Scougal , professor of divinity at Aberdeen , [ annexed to plate 9 ] ¦ was the son of Patrick Scougal , bishop of Aberdeen 1664 . —1682 ; and has the merit of being the first Scotish author , it is believed , who wrote a book of practical piety . Ecclesiastical disputes , so inconsistent with the meek spirit of Christianity , had first prevailed between the catholics and reformers , then between the episcopals and presbyterians , and afterwards between the presbyterians and independents . Sermonsand commentaries on Scripture #
, , were sometimes interposed ; but the chief object , the practice of the christian virtues , was unaccountabl y neglected ; Durham's curious work , on Scandal , being rather a discussion of ecclesiastical discipline and polity , and a defence of the presbyterians against the independent jacobins of the day , than an ethical production . 'Of Henry Scougal little is known . It is said that , being of an amorous complexion , he sometimes loved God , and sometimes loved women ; and
that having unfortunately become enamoured of a married lady at Aberdeen , he died in the struggles of virtue and passion . But he had grown so corpulent in his retreat , the steeple of the cathedral church of St . Machan ' s , at Old Aberdeen , that his executors were forced to extract the body through a window . These traditions seem rather inconsistent , as love is generally supposed rather to belong to the class of consumptions , than of dropsies ; and it is rare that the amorous swain pines away into plentitude . ' Scougal ' s Life of God in the Soul of Man was published by bishop Burnet , in ifiyi , 8 vo ; and has since passed through many editions , being a work of eminent piety , without enthusiasm , and written in a clear neat style . '
The History of the County of Cumberland . 4 10 . pages 326 . Price ' , s . 6 d . Law . MR . Hutchinson is the author of this history ; and this Part , which is the third , forms the first of the second volume . Various are the articles of information and amusement with which the reader mi ght be furnished from the pages now before us . He might be told of Wotobank , or woe-to-this bank , on which a remarkable , story is founded , and which ' produced an hasty , though elegant effusion of Mrs . Cowley ' s muse ;'—" of White-ba'ven , which
, from the mean estate of a fishing-creek , has arisen , within the period of 100 years , to a town of eminence for population , commerce , navigation , and wealth ;—of Woikington , which has exceedingly and rapidly improved and flourished within the compass of a few years;—of Kesiuici , and the several lakes which have so much engaged the public attention ;—of the village of Rosthwaite , secluded by its situation for almost one half of the year from the adjacent country ; and of Satterthwaite , where , in the depth of winter , ihe sun never shines;—of coal-mines , copper-mines , ivarf-mines , or