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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
and the distant shores a swaddling-band . At the all-powerful command , plants and fruitful trees sprung up in all their adorning grandeur and variety , from the hyssop that springeth out of the wall or the lowl y acacia , to the tall and stately cedar , or the spreading oak ; he furnished the air and water with their feathered and scaly inhabitants ; the earth also with four-footed beasts . In every part of this magnificent structure was seen a regular gradation ascending through each species of
animated nature ; yet a lord was wanting , endowed with superior powers of intellect , to hold in subjection the inferior animals ; then ' God said , Let us make man after our image ; so God created man after his own likeness , male and female created he them / and endowed them with the use of speech and immortal souls , ivith soaring capacities , capable of improvement and eternal expansion ; and God blessed them , and gave them the vast empire of the world for their dominion . The Mighty
Builder constructed this beautiful fabric without the assistance of axe , hammer , or metal-tool ; and after his all-seeing eye had reviewed every thing he hacl made , he pronounced it' very good ; ' and being dedicated with loud songs of praise , the Seraphic Host shouted Him again to his imperial throne in the Grancl Lodge of Heaven . But , Brethren , however grand the work of creation may be , ancl who will doubt its grandeur , yet the ' Star' and the ' Sceptre' infinitely surpasses the whole of
the magnificence of the six days' ivorks of the Almi ghty Architect . ' Thou , Lord , in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth , and the heavens are the works of thine hands ; they shall perish , but thou remainest ; ancl they all shall wax old as cloth a garment , ancl as a vesture shalt thou fold them up , and they shall be changed ; hut thou art the same , and thy years shall not fail . " Therefore let every Lodge on earth—and well may the Grand Lodge in heaven exclaim , ' Blessed be the Lord God , the ( Jod of Israel , who only doth wondrous things ; and blessed be his glorious name for ever ; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory . Amen , and amen . '"
A short Statement on behalf of those who profess the Jewish Religion . ( Richardson , Gornhill ) . —This pamphlet is written in a temperate manner and with peculiar modesty . It advances an honest advocacy in favour of British Jews , subjects of the realm , to a participation in the rights and privileges of their fellow-subjects . The various oaths and declarations , which form an appendix to this little tract , is not the least important ; they carry a moral conviction that their grievance safel y admits of redress , ancl we hope their prayer may be heard .
Military Maps and Plans . —Our attention has been drawn to the prospectus of a most elaborate work , consisting of maps ancl plans of the operations , movements , battles , and sieges of the British army from 18 H 8 to 1814 . The author ( a Brother Mason ) we know , is possessed of indefatigable perseverance ( and well he need be ) , and has , by the authority of the Commander-in-Chief and First Lord of the Admiralty , been permitted full access to every documentary aid which can be afforded him to render his design complete . The work will be published b y Mr . AYyld , Geographer to the King .
Speeches ofthe Earl of Durham . ( Ridgeway ) . —AVholly abstaining from the expression of any opinion on the political tenets of the noble Earl . Sensitively avoiding the remotest approach to political discussion , it is still open to us to treat of the orations of his lordship as matters oi literature . Cicero is not now criticised as a partizan , but as an orator ; the side on which he pleads is merged in the consideration of the elo-
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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
and the distant shores a swaddling-band . At the all-powerful command , plants and fruitful trees sprung up in all their adorning grandeur and variety , from the hyssop that springeth out of the wall or the lowl y acacia , to the tall and stately cedar , or the spreading oak ; he furnished the air and water with their feathered and scaly inhabitants ; the earth also with four-footed beasts . In every part of this magnificent structure was seen a regular gradation ascending through each species of
animated nature ; yet a lord was wanting , endowed with superior powers of intellect , to hold in subjection the inferior animals ; then ' God said , Let us make man after our image ; so God created man after his own likeness , male and female created he them / and endowed them with the use of speech and immortal souls , ivith soaring capacities , capable of improvement and eternal expansion ; and God blessed them , and gave them the vast empire of the world for their dominion . The Mighty
Builder constructed this beautiful fabric without the assistance of axe , hammer , or metal-tool ; and after his all-seeing eye had reviewed every thing he hacl made , he pronounced it' very good ; ' and being dedicated with loud songs of praise , the Seraphic Host shouted Him again to his imperial throne in the Grancl Lodge of Heaven . But , Brethren , however grand the work of creation may be , ancl who will doubt its grandeur , yet the ' Star' and the ' Sceptre' infinitely surpasses the whole of
the magnificence of the six days' ivorks of the Almi ghty Architect . ' Thou , Lord , in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth , and the heavens are the works of thine hands ; they shall perish , but thou remainest ; ancl they all shall wax old as cloth a garment , ancl as a vesture shalt thou fold them up , and they shall be changed ; hut thou art the same , and thy years shall not fail . " Therefore let every Lodge on earth—and well may the Grand Lodge in heaven exclaim , ' Blessed be the Lord God , the ( Jod of Israel , who only doth wondrous things ; and blessed be his glorious name for ever ; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory . Amen , and amen . '"
A short Statement on behalf of those who profess the Jewish Religion . ( Richardson , Gornhill ) . —This pamphlet is written in a temperate manner and with peculiar modesty . It advances an honest advocacy in favour of British Jews , subjects of the realm , to a participation in the rights and privileges of their fellow-subjects . The various oaths and declarations , which form an appendix to this little tract , is not the least important ; they carry a moral conviction that their grievance safel y admits of redress , ancl we hope their prayer may be heard .
Military Maps and Plans . —Our attention has been drawn to the prospectus of a most elaborate work , consisting of maps ancl plans of the operations , movements , battles , and sieges of the British army from 18 H 8 to 1814 . The author ( a Brother Mason ) we know , is possessed of indefatigable perseverance ( and well he need be ) , and has , by the authority of the Commander-in-Chief and First Lord of the Admiralty , been permitted full access to every documentary aid which can be afforded him to render his design complete . The work will be published b y Mr . AYyld , Geographer to the King .
Speeches ofthe Earl of Durham . ( Ridgeway ) . —AVholly abstaining from the expression of any opinion on the political tenets of the noble Earl . Sensitively avoiding the remotest approach to political discussion , it is still open to us to treat of the orations of his lordship as matters oi literature . Cicero is not now criticised as a partizan , but as an orator ; the side on which he pleads is merged in the consideration of the elo-