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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
I ' raiieis into different Parts of Europe , in the Years 1791 and 1792 . With fami liar Remarks on Places , Men , and Manners . B y John Owen , A . M . late Fellow of Carpus Cbristi College , Cambridge . In two Volumes . S-vo . Price 14 . C Cadell and Davies , 179 6 . AFTER so many travels , into al ! parts of Europe , written by traveller ' s of ¦ all kinds , it Becomes very difficult-for ingenuity to diversify the form or intelligence conveyed in-such prbdu < aion " sWe have latel met with in
. y a residentiary traveller , Mr . Pratt , a new name . annexed to an idea of some merit : the present author travelled with rapidity , and describes as rapidly as he performed his journey . Taking for granted that the particulars commonly " reported concerning all " remarkable places are" alread y well known to his readers ; -he writes , for the most part , rather essays than letters of local information .- These essays ' -, at- the same time , are written in a pood and polished style , with more elevation and care of coristruftion than is " usual in narratives sometimes
epistolary . We are struck by a strong and remarkable resemblance of t ' lie . style of Gibbon , of which the ' following passage may suffice to give a ' specimen ' . Tlie ' sutij . _ l is the ' harbour of Amsterdam . ' ' While-1- viewed-this harbour , and ruminated on the successive advances of this people-to the highest pinnacle of national prosperity , I turned my eve ' to-that city which once disputed the palm of commerce " with this republic and which , by the . growing importance of this nei ghbouring power , had been reducedto
-insignificance . The treaty of Westphalia raised the grandeur of Holland upon tlie runis- of Antwerp . The forts of Lillo and Liefensho-k determined the fate oi that unfortunate city ; and the antient majesty of the Scheldt now bows-to-tlie usurped authority and-furtive honours of the Texel * Vol . I . p . 92 . ' This traveller appears throughout to be an ardent friend to liberty , and no less a strenuous-enemy to superstition . The ceremonies of the Romish
Church seldom escape his animadversion , wliich sometimes is carried rather to a greater length than seems to be altogether demanded b y the occasion _ or authored by the universal-princi ples of Christianity ; but allowance must be made for the ardour of a-very young man impressed by new scenes and situations . Concerning His ' political princi ples we need not here enquire Anessay of his-own-formerl y acquainted the world ; that he had been at thb commencement of the French Revolution , azealbus favourer of it , but be - disgustedand ' turned with horror from
came ; , its principles and practice , as it proceeded . These-sentiments common to-many other ' Englishmen of re ' speftable talents and chancier , will not certainly be-blamed by us and if the appearance of tbe-former situatioriof mind be traced in sdme of the let ters , the readers will thus account for if . The scenes be encountered at Lyons were probably-among the-strongest causes for his total , change of fueling , on the subject : 5 In-one of the letters from Lausanne , we find -an ' epitaph on Rousseau , written at that place winch ,-as it well charafleriies " that very eccentric writer we shall mseit , nvith Mr . O ' s translation . wnrer , .
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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
I ' raiieis into different Parts of Europe , in the Years 1791 and 1792 . With fami liar Remarks on Places , Men , and Manners . B y John Owen , A . M . late Fellow of Carpus Cbristi College , Cambridge . In two Volumes . S-vo . Price 14 . C Cadell and Davies , 179 6 . AFTER so many travels , into al ! parts of Europe , written by traveller ' s of ¦ all kinds , it Becomes very difficult-for ingenuity to diversify the form or intelligence conveyed in-such prbdu < aion " sWe have latel met with in
. y a residentiary traveller , Mr . Pratt , a new name . annexed to an idea of some merit : the present author travelled with rapidity , and describes as rapidly as he performed his journey . Taking for granted that the particulars commonly " reported concerning all " remarkable places are" alread y well known to his readers ; -he writes , for the most part , rather essays than letters of local information .- These essays ' -, at- the same time , are written in a pood and polished style , with more elevation and care of coristruftion than is " usual in narratives sometimes
epistolary . We are struck by a strong and remarkable resemblance of t ' lie . style of Gibbon , of which the ' following passage may suffice to give a ' specimen ' . Tlie ' sutij . _ l is the ' harbour of Amsterdam . ' ' While-1- viewed-this harbour , and ruminated on the successive advances of this people-to the highest pinnacle of national prosperity , I turned my eve ' to-that city which once disputed the palm of commerce " with this republic and which , by the . growing importance of this nei ghbouring power , had been reducedto
-insignificance . The treaty of Westphalia raised the grandeur of Holland upon tlie runis- of Antwerp . The forts of Lillo and Liefensho-k determined the fate oi that unfortunate city ; and the antient majesty of the Scheldt now bows-to-tlie usurped authority and-furtive honours of the Texel * Vol . I . p . 92 . ' This traveller appears throughout to be an ardent friend to liberty , and no less a strenuous-enemy to superstition . The ceremonies of the Romish
Church seldom escape his animadversion , wliich sometimes is carried rather to a greater length than seems to be altogether demanded b y the occasion _ or authored by the universal-princi ples of Christianity ; but allowance must be made for the ardour of a-very young man impressed by new scenes and situations . Concerning His ' political princi ples we need not here enquire Anessay of his-own-formerl y acquainted the world ; that he had been at thb commencement of the French Revolution , azealbus favourer of it , but be - disgustedand ' turned with horror from
came ; , its principles and practice , as it proceeded . These-sentiments common to-many other ' Englishmen of re ' speftable talents and chancier , will not certainly be-blamed by us and if the appearance of tbe-former situatioriof mind be traced in sdme of the let ters , the readers will thus account for if . The scenes be encountered at Lyons were probably-among the-strongest causes for his total , change of fueling , on the subject : 5 In-one of the letters from Lausanne , we find -an ' epitaph on Rousseau , written at that place winch ,-as it well charafleriies " that very eccentric writer we shall mseit , nvith Mr . O ' s translation . wnrer , .