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Article A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. ← Page 3 of 3 Article LETTERS BY MR. TASKER Page 3 of 3 Article Untitled Page 1 of 2 →
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A Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
. The conquerors who had little if any religion before , now embraced Mahometanism from a sense , ni dotfbt , of the suitableness of tnat imposture to their condition and turn of mind . Perceiving the . reverence which the Christians entertained for the holy city , oh Toli-ed h ^' r f h , " ' ' t ° ther disti"S «^ hing parts of it / " h ^ spaied those objects of regard from vengeance to gratify their avarice . ( To be continued !)
Letters By Mr. Tasker
LETTERS BY MR . TASKER
CONTINUED .
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LETTER THE SECOND . Sin , " "" ¦• -- ———\ T OU ask my opinion respecting the Anatomical and ' Medical ' Ji knowledge of Virg-, 1 . I mean very soon to give you my free ! t r't ^ - "™ rde" t 0 iIIustte of
mv Z 1 tt ^ r t ' ° - * e ™"" S'S ? ' l ln end ] r \ 7 - n » t » or in some future letter , to considei / aneas second wound in his thi gh ( for you will remember that he is rather supernaturall y cured of one already in the Iliad ) as recorded by Virg-, 1 in his rath book : but I must beg leave to be infh full " \ ¦ p , ' eyi 0 US remarks on * e comparative excellencies of the two best epic poems , n the world .-Virgil has , properly speaking , thesubcts of P
^ Zn I r , Jf teniae ! and Odyssey in LJEnei £ and though his six last books are manifestl y inferior to the-Iliad , his six first or at least two of them ( viz . the 4 th and 6 th iEneid ) are apparently superior to the Od yssey ; Virgil having , with great judo ment , omitted some of the long , stories , incredible factsfand 0 tlier little absurdities that mark the old of
age Homer . He seems in his Odyssey to be what he has described his own old Nestor in the Hind , Xr , ! i Tr ' n and sometimes forgetting himself a little , J hat thmk you of Ul ysses saving his Jifeln the den of the giant Polyphemus b y the subterfuge of a very indifferent pun ? Would such low wit be borne , n any modern Heroic poem ? Again , Ulysses in he . ihad is drawn as a viilant warriorin the Odyssey he is often
g : ^ sleeping hero and at those times , of all others , in which it behoves him to be awake ; in his voyage he falls asleep , and his companions let t . ie wind ou of their bags . But of all seasons we should suppose the long absent hero would , have his attention most kept up on the near prospect of his native country ; whereas , on the contrary . Ulysses , after a-short and very prosperous voyage from the island of Phaaacia witnout
any previous fatigue , or any other apparent cause , is landed on he rough shore of Ithaca ( iike a more modern knight in an enchanted castle ) together with all his treasures , in a most profound s . eep . Pray does not Homer himself nod a little ? There are spots on the sun , and they are rendered the more visible by the surrounding splendors . The same may be said of the poem in question .
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A Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
. The conquerors who had little if any religion before , now embraced Mahometanism from a sense , ni dotfbt , of the suitableness of tnat imposture to their condition and turn of mind . Perceiving the . reverence which the Christians entertained for the holy city , oh Toli-ed h ^' r f h , " ' ' t ° ther disti"S «^ hing parts of it / " h ^ spaied those objects of regard from vengeance to gratify their avarice . ( To be continued !)
Letters By Mr. Tasker
LETTERS BY MR . TASKER
CONTINUED .
Ar02602
LETTER THE SECOND . Sin , " "" ¦• -- ———\ T OU ask my opinion respecting the Anatomical and ' Medical ' Ji knowledge of Virg-, 1 . I mean very soon to give you my free ! t r't ^ - "™ rde" t 0 iIIustte of
mv Z 1 tt ^ r t ' ° - * e ™"" S'S ? ' l ln end ] r \ 7 - n » t » or in some future letter , to considei / aneas second wound in his thi gh ( for you will remember that he is rather supernaturall y cured of one already in the Iliad ) as recorded by Virg-, 1 in his rath book : but I must beg leave to be infh full " \ ¦ p , ' eyi 0 US remarks on * e comparative excellencies of the two best epic poems , n the world .-Virgil has , properly speaking , thesubcts of P
^ Zn I r , Jf teniae ! and Odyssey in LJEnei £ and though his six last books are manifestl y inferior to the-Iliad , his six first or at least two of them ( viz . the 4 th and 6 th iEneid ) are apparently superior to the Od yssey ; Virgil having , with great judo ment , omitted some of the long , stories , incredible factsfand 0 tlier little absurdities that mark the old of
age Homer . He seems in his Odyssey to be what he has described his own old Nestor in the Hind , Xr , ! i Tr ' n and sometimes forgetting himself a little , J hat thmk you of Ul ysses saving his Jifeln the den of the giant Polyphemus b y the subterfuge of a very indifferent pun ? Would such low wit be borne , n any modern Heroic poem ? Again , Ulysses in he . ihad is drawn as a viilant warriorin the Odyssey he is often
g : ^ sleeping hero and at those times , of all others , in which it behoves him to be awake ; in his voyage he falls asleep , and his companions let t . ie wind ou of their bags . But of all seasons we should suppose the long absent hero would , have his attention most kept up on the near prospect of his native country ; whereas , on the contrary . Ulysses , after a-short and very prosperous voyage from the island of Phaaacia witnout
any previous fatigue , or any other apparent cause , is landed on he rough shore of Ithaca ( iike a more modern knight in an enchanted castle ) together with all his treasures , in a most profound s . eep . Pray does not Homer himself nod a little ? There are spots on the sun , and they are rendered the more visible by the surrounding splendors . The same may be said of the poem in question .