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Review Of Literature, &C.
We have already stated the necessity of a third volume , as without it the work is incomplete . Our author has exhibited undeniable proofs of praiseworthy industry ; the political character of the various " Dramas " which detail the gradual overthrow of paganism in Rome , and the many episodial descriptions of the statistics , habits , and tremendous pawer of its empire , are graphically sketched , and most of the incidents are drawn in the pencilling of an lished artist . If we do not
accomp altogether agree with the author in some of the mystical reasoning of faith , it is because we fear he has not sufficiently dwelt on the probable leading cause of the chaotic dismemberment of the empire of the pagan mistress of the world . While the Roman people lost their faith in superstitious reliance on the system that formed their centre of existence , the seat of Europe was removed , and from that time Rome fell . Rome , to the pagan Roman , was like Jerusalem to the Jew . The
splendour of Rome was sullied , her citizens lost the charm created by the traditional prophecies of eternal greatness ; the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem , has never ceased to be the lamentation of the Jew . We fear we have not clone full justice to the author , by not following him exactly in his course ; but he has set us the example , by not being strictly anxious to preserve continuity in the series of events ; but the impression the work has left on our mind is , that to renew our acquaintance with it will be the business of early leisure .
Post-Offiee Map of London . Wyld . —To call this chef d ' wuvre of the mapping art a vade mecum , is not sufficiently expressive of its excellence . Mr . Wyld has succeeded in making the " stranger at home " in London—while to the resident in the modern Babylon he imparts information no less important . The map , like a ready reckoner , gives the result at a glance with surprising facility of reference ; and is all that could be wished for .
The Dangers of the Water Cure , and its Efficacy , examined and compared with those of the Drug Treatment of Diseases , eye . By James Wilson , M . D ., & c , and James M . Gully , M . D ., & c , Cunningham and Mortimer , London . Some time since we had the pleasure of noticing a very clever work on the revulsive and expectant systems of medicine , by Dr . Gully , calculated to enforce a more extensive preference for what is popularly known the treatment of diseases that work
as simple . In , this experienced medical writer pursued his enquiries , and demonstrated the results in a calm and even philosophical tone—in a manner admirably adapted to overcome the prejudices of those of his profession who had been most favourably inclined to active treatment , and to obtain the entire confidence of the non-medical reader . But in the treatise before us , excellent as it is in other respectsthe authoror joint authors
many , , , Dr . Gully , or Dr . Wilson , or the duo in una , would appear to have fallen into the too frequent error of personal invective towards those whose ability might consist in personal abuse alone ; instead of retaining that dignity of thought and expression , which , belonging to minds of the highest order , should ever distinguish them from the multitude . Lamenting this , we must give great credit to their labours in the cause
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Review Of Literature, &C.
We have already stated the necessity of a third volume , as without it the work is incomplete . Our author has exhibited undeniable proofs of praiseworthy industry ; the political character of the various " Dramas " which detail the gradual overthrow of paganism in Rome , and the many episodial descriptions of the statistics , habits , and tremendous pawer of its empire , are graphically sketched , and most of the incidents are drawn in the pencilling of an lished artist . If we do not
accomp altogether agree with the author in some of the mystical reasoning of faith , it is because we fear he has not sufficiently dwelt on the probable leading cause of the chaotic dismemberment of the empire of the pagan mistress of the world . While the Roman people lost their faith in superstitious reliance on the system that formed their centre of existence , the seat of Europe was removed , and from that time Rome fell . Rome , to the pagan Roman , was like Jerusalem to the Jew . The
splendour of Rome was sullied , her citizens lost the charm created by the traditional prophecies of eternal greatness ; the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem , has never ceased to be the lamentation of the Jew . We fear we have not clone full justice to the author , by not following him exactly in his course ; but he has set us the example , by not being strictly anxious to preserve continuity in the series of events ; but the impression the work has left on our mind is , that to renew our acquaintance with it will be the business of early leisure .
Post-Offiee Map of London . Wyld . —To call this chef d ' wuvre of the mapping art a vade mecum , is not sufficiently expressive of its excellence . Mr . Wyld has succeeded in making the " stranger at home " in London—while to the resident in the modern Babylon he imparts information no less important . The map , like a ready reckoner , gives the result at a glance with surprising facility of reference ; and is all that could be wished for .
The Dangers of the Water Cure , and its Efficacy , examined and compared with those of the Drug Treatment of Diseases , eye . By James Wilson , M . D ., & c , and James M . Gully , M . D ., & c , Cunningham and Mortimer , London . Some time since we had the pleasure of noticing a very clever work on the revulsive and expectant systems of medicine , by Dr . Gully , calculated to enforce a more extensive preference for what is popularly known the treatment of diseases that work
as simple . In , this experienced medical writer pursued his enquiries , and demonstrated the results in a calm and even philosophical tone—in a manner admirably adapted to overcome the prejudices of those of his profession who had been most favourably inclined to active treatment , and to obtain the entire confidence of the non-medical reader . But in the treatise before us , excellent as it is in other respectsthe authoror joint authors
many , , , Dr . Gully , or Dr . Wilson , or the duo in una , would appear to have fallen into the too frequent error of personal invective towards those whose ability might consist in personal abuse alone ; instead of retaining that dignity of thought and expression , which , belonging to minds of the highest order , should ever distinguish them from the multitude . Lamenting this , we must give great credit to their labours in the cause