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¦ p hers , the wisest of his discip les , and the best acquainted with his history and opinions- From Socrates Xenophon first derived that dislike of Democracy , which his experience of its effects in Athens confirmed , and his writings in general , particularly his two treatises upon the polity of Athens and Sparta , manifest . Plato's Republic is anti-democratical , as it supposes , of three classes , one , by much the most numerous , to be mere rabble , totally unfit for military or political direction . We are sorry , on Mr . Thelwall's account ,
that we do not recollect who are the Translators of Xenophon and Plato into a language which he mig ht understand , as the perusal of translations might prevent his falling into so very gross blunders . Mr . Thelwall speaks of plain ¦ Socratic reasoning . From the epithet plain ! applied to the reasoning of Socrates , we apprehend his knowledge of the subject to be similar to that which the sage Mrs . Weston has displayed in her lectures to Sophia . Mr . Thelwall dwells with much exultation on his acquittal .
That sentence proved that the facts sworn to by the witnesses did not / constitute the species of guilt charged in the indictment , and proved nothing more . The fertile invention of wickedness may devise modes of guilt not anticipated by legislating definers , and consequently , in a country governed by free laws , not the subject of judicial condemnation . Mr . Thelwall throws out much abuse on Dr . Bisset ' s' Sketch of Demo' whichin a former numberwe recommended as an excellent antidote
cracy , , , against democratical poison . We are not surprised , that a book , . which , from irrefragable facts , exposes , in the true colour , mob government and seditious demagogues , should displease Mr . Thelwall . Mr . T . however , though angry is prudent : he does not attempt either to disprove the series of Dr . Bisset ' s narrative , or to impugn bis reasoning : he rests himself contented \ vith railing . The prudence of Mr . Thelwall , in not entering into a general disproof of the facts ' aijedged by Dr . Bisset , is rendered more strikingly
manifest by the only instance in which he particularly charges Dr . Bisset with misrepresentation-T-Dactor Bisset ' s account of the trial and death of Socrates . In that , Thelwall , without advancing any evidence to support his charges ao-ainstDr . Bisset , advances enough to be undoubted evidence that he himself is totally ignorant of the history and doctrines of Socrates , as we have shewn in a former part of this article . Dr . Bisset ' s mu rati ve appears to us to be supported by the best and most authentic historians ; but if it were not , we apprehend it would require more knowledge , than Mr . j helu-all shews himself to possess , to detect either error or misrepresentation in a subject of
CLASSICAL K 1 SIORY . An Examination of the Principles of the French Revolution . By a late Di gnitary of the Galilean Church . $ vo . pages 97 . Price is . O . uythoin . OF the very many and learned defences of a Monarchical Form of Government , which " the French-Revolution has produced , we regard this performance as . one of the most complete . The author of it deduces all his
arguments from first principles ; and , with a very few exceptions , his modes of reasoning and his * deductions are logical , forcibfe , and accurate . To enter into a regular review of the wi . ole of his examination , would be impossible in the small space allotted to this part of o . ur miscellany ; we cannot , however , content ouiselves without extracting the preliminary introduction , since it affords a general outline of the plan and intention , of the work . ' In the long train of revolutions which form the history of empires , there is not one to be compired with the French . All others were only local and momentary shocks , the effect of which was conlined to the transfer of power from one hand to another ; or , at most , to a change of the form of a Govern-
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Review Of New Publications.
¦ p hers , the wisest of his discip les , and the best acquainted with his history and opinions- From Socrates Xenophon first derived that dislike of Democracy , which his experience of its effects in Athens confirmed , and his writings in general , particularly his two treatises upon the polity of Athens and Sparta , manifest . Plato's Republic is anti-democratical , as it supposes , of three classes , one , by much the most numerous , to be mere rabble , totally unfit for military or political direction . We are sorry , on Mr . Thelwall's account ,
that we do not recollect who are the Translators of Xenophon and Plato into a language which he mig ht understand , as the perusal of translations might prevent his falling into so very gross blunders . Mr . Thelwall speaks of plain ¦ Socratic reasoning . From the epithet plain ! applied to the reasoning of Socrates , we apprehend his knowledge of the subject to be similar to that which the sage Mrs . Weston has displayed in her lectures to Sophia . Mr . Thelwall dwells with much exultation on his acquittal .
That sentence proved that the facts sworn to by the witnesses did not / constitute the species of guilt charged in the indictment , and proved nothing more . The fertile invention of wickedness may devise modes of guilt not anticipated by legislating definers , and consequently , in a country governed by free laws , not the subject of judicial condemnation . Mr . Thelwall throws out much abuse on Dr . Bisset ' s' Sketch of Demo' whichin a former numberwe recommended as an excellent antidote
cracy , , , against democratical poison . We are not surprised , that a book , . which , from irrefragable facts , exposes , in the true colour , mob government and seditious demagogues , should displease Mr . Thelwall . Mr . T . however , though angry is prudent : he does not attempt either to disprove the series of Dr . Bisset ' s narrative , or to impugn bis reasoning : he rests himself contented \ vith railing . The prudence of Mr . Thelwall , in not entering into a general disproof of the facts ' aijedged by Dr . Bisset , is rendered more strikingly
manifest by the only instance in which he particularly charges Dr . Bisset with misrepresentation-T-Dactor Bisset ' s account of the trial and death of Socrates . In that , Thelwall , without advancing any evidence to support his charges ao-ainstDr . Bisset , advances enough to be undoubted evidence that he himself is totally ignorant of the history and doctrines of Socrates , as we have shewn in a former part of this article . Dr . Bisset ' s mu rati ve appears to us to be supported by the best and most authentic historians ; but if it were not , we apprehend it would require more knowledge , than Mr . j helu-all shews himself to possess , to detect either error or misrepresentation in a subject of
CLASSICAL K 1 SIORY . An Examination of the Principles of the French Revolution . By a late Di gnitary of the Galilean Church . $ vo . pages 97 . Price is . O . uythoin . OF the very many and learned defences of a Monarchical Form of Government , which " the French-Revolution has produced , we regard this performance as . one of the most complete . The author of it deduces all his
arguments from first principles ; and , with a very few exceptions , his modes of reasoning and his * deductions are logical , forcibfe , and accurate . To enter into a regular review of the wi . ole of his examination , would be impossible in the small space allotted to this part of o . ur miscellany ; we cannot , however , content ouiselves without extracting the preliminary introduction , since it affords a general outline of the plan and intention , of the work . ' In the long train of revolutions which form the history of empires , there is not one to be compired with the French . All others were only local and momentary shocks , the effect of which was conlined to the transfer of power from one hand to another ; or , at most , to a change of the form of a Govern-