7.33 734 recercccconcors...••*•••••••••mnosor..onworporronsorommissm w ind VAITEHEAVEN. YO THT I doni A MOMENT WHAT IS IT 1911990 A MOMENT how soon is it flown, Pino! Jet 6.- A place of pure delight, Like a sigh that escapes from the breast; 01 . Of spotless joy, of harmony, of peace." Or the lightning that flames and is gone, not Ere the eye on its object can rest." As transient as shades in the night," "sh bus Which play on the bosom of trees; 15 ( 1) Where dangers thickly grow Or sun-beams that burst on the sight When the morning unfurls her soft breeze, 1. 02 ottaa As quick as the thought in the mind, d e So rapid it leaves all behind, As fleeting as eve's dying glare. Å VVV Vit So short its duration on earth, 1 0 It beams, and is witnessed no more ; Like a wave that is blest with a birth: ud Du And dies on a desolate shore. The f ilm It speeds as an arrow that flies, And leaves not a trace in the gale; As a meteor that burns in the skies, Or the accents that die in a tale. !! TOV But bloomy pleasures centre. J A small gem, of which time is made, More numerous than stars in the sky..? Or spires of grass blown in the glade,1)) ) It hangs on the pendulum's sway, Composing the hours as they roll; Exists at the opening of day, ***** And groans out the deep midnight toll. Was present when earth beauteous rose 02 From the rudeness of chaotic gloom, Shall glide on time's stream as it flows, And find in the ocean a tomb..? Its motion as silent as orbs That twinkle unheard in the sky, , P. Unseen as the heart when it thi'obs 01 To whisper the trembling sigh. 35 W In a moment our sun will expire, j' , B Wala And set in the darkness of death : ai In a moment our souls will aspire or avand 1019 J. S. B. No longer embodied on earth. is al 59 In a moment the trumpet shall blow, 19: 37 allstar CE 1890 yild aid And awake all that sleep in the tomb : 140 AN ELEGY ON A PIOUS FEMALE. In a moment each mortal shall know bride 9 971 TOTIV His last irreversible doom. I SING the Maiden exquisitely fair, 19 Soon our moments will cease' But not to picture her in beauty's arms; And die on eternity's shore; Though lilies blown in Oriental air, inan They the billows of ocean will hideW A Are feeble emblems of her outward charms. Deep buried, to roll never more, J. BURTON. IMITATION OF HORACE.'"TA Ode 22d. Liber 1. A T Integer vitæ, scelerisque purus, &c. A . Th' amicted maid reclines her aching head; A scene which vaunting infidels may scorn, In God have I put my trust: I wiil not be afraid But virtue triumphs on a dying bed. what man can do unto me.”—Psalm lvi. 11. Can infidelity create a smilelov THT He who with hopes above the skies."??" ot to fear in A W "Tis but the harbinger of endless woe. 891 iT The sland'rous tongue, or bitter jeer." No infidelity dilates her fears-w29 Whether he tread hot burning sands,& eile Or bleak inhospitable lands, But fears she has none-witness her delight; Brit Or wand'ring by the river's side, 92.90 W E’en death himself, bedew'd in icy tears, Where India's streams meand'ring glide. A Laments the flow'r he finally must blight. 9T For while I tuned the sacred song, lite bos hobuse liry 9 Weep on, ye friends, weep on, ye tender maids And sauntered deviously along, 3W sT" This sorrowing scene is closing on her eyes, A scorner lurked within the shade, What though no grief the tinal hour evades, 1931 But fled my steps where'er I stray'drvet She'll bear your fond affection to the skies, woda Some monster from his dark retreat W More vile than he of Ferney's seat; In her th' unhallow'd passions cease to burn Or he who learned in Scotia's land iT The languid embers of immortal love, do YOKI His injur'd Maker's name to brand, JV Though faintly glimm'ring in their vital urn,T Convey me to some barren waste. :) 913.IW Are re-enkindling on the shrines above. 9" 10" Where not a tree shields from the blasts A She dies—but angels from their heav'rily sphere, Or where dark clouds obscure the l eIT - Who hung benignly o'er her ebbing breath, And wrap the heavens in gloomy night, Athod my nigga Or where the icegales sadly moan; is ou And light her spirit through the shades of death. Still will each vainly act its part, Methinks in heaven the glorious accents roll, While God alone reigns in my heart.1919 al While saints congratulate their kindred guest, "O! happy! happy !--more than happy soul,, but Beaconsfield, 'WL 140 7691 Igiliye had al 22hA2201 22017: A: B.. « Welcome!-thrice welcome to eternal r ygos 1. Innocence is its own protection on whatever Leeds, January 26th, 1829. situation it may be placed. BTO LO, morial San NOWO HORACE: church by the Reformation, when he republishes his gospel, purified and cleansed from the dross and stubble of popery, condensed into a more portable size by the recent invention of printing. Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel, and St. Jolin, and become more digestible by its emancipation from the burdensome rites and ceremonies of the Roman church. The Angel with the everlasting gospel. The wider diffusion of pure Christianity frodes se 2990 So many unsuccessful attempts have been by the doctrines of the Reformation, at which the session of the Ancient of days, or the Father's made to explain prophecy, that we can | judgment upon the papacy, began.--The Angel announcing the fall of Babylon. The rapid decline of the papacy in Germany, England, and whenever any new effort professes to excite Hollan Holland, and in other parts of the two prætorial prefectures of the pope, by the fire and thunder of the two Gallic witnesses. The third Angel. The Few writers have hitherto appeared in loud and vehement protestations of the Gallic and Italian witnesses against the interference of the regal decemvirate of the Cæsars in the church, and their impious assumption of God's authority, by which the rights of royalty and priesthood set. tled upon every christian, by the blood of the new testament, in religious matters, is tyrannias a natural consequence, though the rea. cally infringed.-The Angel out of the temple. nclu. Luther, and the other reformers, who, by their publie outeries against the abuses of the pa pacy, neous. provoke to action the instruments of tbe Son of Man in the subsequent religious wars, and gathering of the saints out of the Roman church, The Angel with the sharp sickle. The active carnal a preconcerted hypothesis, to which that instruments of God's judgments on the overthrow interpretation must be made subservient. of Antichristian power. - The Angel which had power over fire. The true witnesses of God, who, before or during the grand catastrophes of the drama of prophecy by the possession of the pure truth, hold the principles of ferment within them. selves, which they can let loose at pleasure on a the arrival of events to which the predic- 18 tions refer, the most plausible theory that l instrumenter and took to action the cartal instruments of God's judgments. The seven Angels with the seven last plagues. The seven has been advanced, is little better than series of Reformers in the Christo - Judaical probable conjecture. church, the real inventives of the woes brought upon the decemviral Cæsariate by their seven thunders of the pure word, and bold asser tion of civil and religious liberty to God's heritage. . the following particulars. 10 ributors -The Angel with great power. Our blessed Lord's manifestation by the Reformation. A mighty e murderer from the Angel with a great stone. The sudden and violent beginning, put for Muhammed, and the khalifs, fall of the Roman cburches, -The Angel in the his successors, the commanders of the faithful.- sun. The more brilliant display of the truth of Abyss, or bottomless pit. The world, whatever in Christianity, and of its purity, and irresistible it is earthly, sensual, devilish. Adultery. Idola- appeal to mankind for their reception of it. The try mixed with the worship of the true God. Angel with the key of the bottomless pit. The Air. The whole world,- Ältar. The altar, i. e. probable visible appearance of our Lord on the fall of incense, put for the sanetuary in which it stood. of Antichrist, at whose presence all evil will dissi. The christian church on earth,Horns of the pate as darkness before the sun, when the just shall also appear with him in glory with incorA presiding minister or priest, or succession of ruptible bodies, no longer subject to the dominion 2 them, put also for the body over which he pre. of sin."-p. 1 to 64. sides.-The seven Angels. The seven presiding rized Christianity from the adoption of our holy on each topic. Our aim was, to set before in im of his s coming of Christ. The Angel with the Censer, Our Lord's aecession to the ligh-priesthood of the manner, for in a similar way he proceeds pontiff, whose office liad been before filled by the letic series of khalifs his successors, who were stars or writings. On some of these his remarks Tuangels, i. e. priests, and prinees, and abaddons, ommanders of are brief, while others lead bim to range the Faithful, and the Emirs of Emir's.-The four Angels bound on the great river Euphrates. The four dynasties, or people of Turks : 1. The Seljukians 2. The Atabecks: 3. The Kharis From a cursory glance on the terms mains and 4. The Ottomans, in possession of the bPrætorian Præfecture of the East. Why they are and passages cited above, it must be ob. called angels, and not kings, may be from the | vious, that many have no other foundation priestly character of their sultans. -The mighty ty than that which gratuitous assumption supAngel with a rainbow on his head. Our Lord's ræfeetu (extraordinary manifestation and visitation of his plies. Scripture authority is indeed brought -ugels, and more character of thes. vith a rainbow @ linary manifestatsta forth in every case, to support the author's , if St. John saw HEAVEN OPENED towards the close of the prophetic drama (Rev. xix. 11.) to interpretation, but in too many instances which we are now arrived, it is plain that heaven it is to the sanctions of fancy, that he is must have been before shut; and if heaven was to indebted for their application. On other be opened at some time or other, to whom is it more likely that the key of the mysteries of that kingoccasions, however, his observations and dom should be given, than to that person, who, reasonings assume a more favourable as twice in the prophecy of our blessed Lord, (Rev. xiii. 18; xvii. 9.) is declared to be possessed of the pect, • They evince much learning, an gift capable of opening it?"- Preface. intimate acquaintance with various branches and bearings of prophecy, and a These strong and strange pretensions commendable industry in acquiring means require no comment. The author who for the elucidation of their obscurities, fancies himself to possess the wonderful accompanied with a consciousness of the qualifications which they obviously imply, difficulties he has to encounter, and an must be privileged to write any thing; and unwearied perseverance in pursuing the he who can credit his claim, must be preobjects of his research. pared to swallow whatever he may advance. But although we thus commend the | In both cases there can be no want either author for his assiduity, and give him the of credulity or presumption, though there utmost credit for his sincerity, we cannot may be a trifling deficiency in modesty, always congratulate him on the success | prudence, and common decorum. Forof his exertions. His reasonings are some | tune, however, is always said to favour the times rendered obscure and indistinct by | bold; and if this be correct, our author bids the mystery in which they appear to be fair to be successful. involved ; and not unfrequently they conduct us through crooked paths to conclusions Review.-Mulamen and Callacles, or * of a doubtful, if not of a novel character. Optics without material Light, Rays, Thus we are told in page 201, that, “The und Refraction. In Eight Dialogues, Revelations being that part of the testa 8vo. pp. 147. Longman. London. ment of our blessed Lord last given out 1828. by him, it is a key to all the phrases which he had before used, concerning the eternal We live in an age abounding with théo. punishment of the wicked in hell-fire, ries, some of which are recommended to where their worm dieth not, and the fire notice by the erudition, ingenuity, and is not quenched, which he here (Rev. xx. profundity of research displayed by their 14, 15.) explains to be the eternal loss of authors; others by their novelty and boldeternal life, by an eternal destruction or ness; and not a few by their extravagance nonentity." and absurdity. To which of these classes For peculiarities in this volume we were the work before us belongs, the reader somewhat prepared, by the following in must judge, when we lay before him an troductory sentence in the preface. «To | analysis of its contents. the discovery of the name, and number of l By the moderns, the author observés, the name, of the Apocalyptic beast of St. | light is held to be a body propagated by John, which we completed on January rays, &c. ; but if such be in reality its the ninth, in the eighteen hundred and nature, how, it may be asked, is it ob twenty-eighth year of the Christian era, scured? If you put out the candle, or · after it had escaped the ingenuity of near shut up the windows, the light is extinct. eighteen centuries, this book owes its What has become of all the solid particles origin." This, without doubt, is suffi that had poured on us from the sun or ciently definite. Not only the year, but candle, illumining the apartment? If they also the month, and even the day of the were really light itself, must they not be month, is assigned ; and confiding in his annihilated! And what is there to execute important discovery, the author might very such a miracle on material substances ? naturally infer that for him was reserved We are told, light may be stopped at that flood of light which “ opens heaven," one place and moment, and let pass at the in the volume now under inspection. Full next, and therefore it has parts, and must of this conviction, Mr. Addis proceeds be a body. Just so, the author argues, as follows: sound and weight must have parts, and be material substances. ** We hope that those learned men, who have As to rays in such immense multitudes already formed an opinion upon some doctrinal flying in all possible directions, to and other points, concerning which we have and thought proper to treat in this volume, may not be from every object in nature, passing and so prejudiced against pew lights, as to reject repassing along the same lines, and even without examination the opinions of one who is possessed of such good credentials as we are. For through the same pores of bodies, at 128.- VOL. XI. 3 B same time, how is it possible they could | means of the stick. He ascribes it to agimove for a moment without clashing with tation, that bodies are put into a state one another and with things around, and capable of appearing luminous, and also so putting every thing into confusion ! of feeling hot. But the two sensations are The particles, too, being elastic, would be derived in different ways : that of heat for ever dancing round us at random, like by a similar agitation communicated to motes in the air, without any determinate our bodies; but that of light, by simply motion. Even if free from all interrup | placing the eye in presence of the lumition, it is hard to conceive how rays, or nous or agitated object. streams of particles, could either convey Our author now enters on the science or depict images of any kind at the bot- itself of optics; and in the first dialogue tom of the eye, or any where else; but that shews that the surfaces of all distinct media they should do so amidst such confusion, act as double mirrors, reflecting things is absurd past all conception; and still both within and without; and consemore so, that we should be able to see quently cannot transmit them; and that we any thing distinctly. Nay, if our organs cannot, as commonly supposed, see into were of iron, they would be blown to water, or other transparent medium, nor shivers by an influx of solid pellets pierc- discover any thing in or through such, exing them through and through at all obli. cept by means of its image on the surface. quities with such violence. Even objects in air are only seen at second They tell us, too, that light is not only a hand by means of the image on the eye, body, but a composition of all colours ; , and those in, or beyond other media, at then colours, too, must be bodies ; else third or fourth hand, by help of like how can they constitute bodies? Nay, images on the intervening surface, and shadows, too, must be substances; for finally copied on the eye. It is in admitcolours are but shades of light. ting these transcriptions of images from It is then shewn that light is not propa one surface to another, that transparency gated by impulse, undulation, or motion consists. of any thing, or of any kind; but by re Farther, an object in water appears flection on such proper surfaces as merely nearer than it is on the perpendicular view, present themselves. and in a different direction also on the · Light and shade are equally necessary oblique view. This too is a deception. to vision: by neither, separately, can aught What we see is the image on the water, be distinguished. A column of smoke which being less vivid, from the objects seen before a dark cloud appears white; being in a medium darker than air, apbefore a light one, black; and before one pears not to be on the surface, but below, of the same shade with itself, is not seen and there being mistaken for the object, at all. the latter is imagined to appear nearer But it will be said, there is some dif than it is, on this direct view; and in conference between light and shade. If you sequence of this again, it appears in a difbring an opaque body into light, you pro- ferent direction also, on the oblique view; duce a shade; but you would not produce and so far out of the direction of the ob light by plunging it into darkness. No, ject, that the line of vision, continued nor would you produce shade by plunging through the image on the surface, makes, it into general luminousness. But we at that image, an angle with a line from know of no such luminousness : all light the object to the same image, equal onewith us is partial, lighting only one side fourth of the angle, at which the eye has of the object, leaving the rest dark by declined from the perpendicular; i. e. as contrast. General light would no more others talk, making the angle of refraction help us to see, than darkness. The neces- one-fourth of the angle of incidence; for in sary conclusion is, light has no existence, that proportion the object appears nearer, but an optical one, an apparent existence, and the image farther off, than they are; and is therefore neither more nor less than and that because in the same ratio the an ocular sensation, as heat and sound dimming effect of water is greater than are sensations of feeling and hearing. that of air. The chalogue ends with an Would the sun then cease to shine, if all experiment which seems to afford ocular creatures were deprived of sight ?'Uno demonstration, that neither in the candle. doubtedly; to shine is to exhibit a lumin- light, in 'water experiment, nor that of the bus appearance, and what appearance can ray in the box, which have always been there be, where nothing does appear? It | deemed the main buttresses of refraction, is the eye that makes the sun luminous to does any such operation take place: the us, as therl' fiddle is made musical by | whole is founded on mistake. Winita Dial. II, What regulates transmission so the inverted picture of the candle through inclined surfaces is not the sign of at the focus of the lens, is the spectrum the angle of incidence; but the angle at or shadow of this image on the glass, which the surfaces are inclined to each thrown forward by the strong light behind, other. The image on the glass must devi- like the figures of the magic lantern. This ate so far from the line of direct vision, fact, while it shews the true nature of the that the angle which the object and image spectrum, is conclusive also as to the make at the eye, together with that which actual existence of the image on the glass. the eye and image make at the object, Just so is the picture on the retina, the may equal the inclination of surfaces; a spectrum of the image on the comea, law which no rays could respect; because, which image is always erect. Objects to the observance depends on the position of the eye never are inverted; for though the eye, as well as object. If the eye is we see with the eye, we do not see through within focal distance, all things are seen in it. But the spectrum is inverted at the directions converging to the lens; if at the second focus. No eye, however, can see focus, in parallel directions, and if beyond, its own retina, nor consequently the picture in direetions converging thither. If this there. It is true, when that picture is were the work of rays, they must be con- most perfect, things are seen most disvergent, parallel, and divergent at the tinctly; but it does not follow that the same time, and at all times. Can there spectrum is what we see. The truth is, then, the author asks, be more than one when the latter is most perfect, the retina opinion on the subject? is exactly at focal distance, and then the To help them over this difficulty, phi- image on the pupil is most vivid ; because losophers were ingenious enough to fabri- the chamber of the eye is most dark. cate pencils of rays, which our author So much for the philosophic dream of thinks could afford no aid whatever, if it our seeing all things inverted. It is no were possible for such queer things to vulgar error, the vulgar have always exist. He looks on them with such looked on it as a joke, and laughed at it; ineffable contempt, that he thinks them while the learned have been exercising not worth confuting; they sufficiently con- | their wits in vain to account for it. All fute themselves. : know the tale of the fish that was of no Again, on the old principles, all things, weight in water, and the sage consultation however near, seen through the convex said to be thereupon holden. Fortunately lens, affect the eye as if they were really the scales settled that point by shewing at an infinite distance, and even further : that the fish, as well as tub and water, a position so repugnant to common sense, was in rotation with the earth. To asceru as well as common experience, that rather tain facts and principles before we build than assent to it, the learned Tacquet, after systems on them, would save much idle publishing his Optics, did actually re- speculation and dispute. nounce the very principles on which his Dial. iv. On the same principles of the work was founded, when he reflected on image on the surface, and observing the this absurdity, in which they nécessarily angle of the prism, are the phenomena involve their advocates; and on this sub of the latter fully explained; while the ject Dr. Barrow observes, « there is some-protuberance of the field, its arched form thing here that lies deeply hid in the and various contractions, dilatations, and subtlety of nature, which perhaps cannot velocities, in different positions of the glass, be discovered, till we understand the nature &c. are all particularly explained, and of vision more perfectly.” The author shewn to be incompatible with refraction.' thinks this passage oracular. Dial. y. Light, instead of being of all {vs Dial, ill. Distant objects are not in-colours, is proved to be of none, nor capa. verted at the second focus, but at the first. ble of any, but by means of shade. Be Their images are seen inverted on the glass, it what it may, colours are always darker and must have come thither in that state. than it. And how is light to be obscured The parts cross at the first focus, on per- without shade? Seen through the smoke pendiculars to the second surface, as being of a large town, the sun appears red. there reflected on themselves, after being What is this redness, but shaded light ? excluded from the first surface, when the Here then is ocular demonstration in (paeye and object become too remote to ture, that colour is not pure light, but observe the angle of the lens; as fully light coloured by shade, or shade coloured explained in the diagram. These things by light. So when we look with the again could not possibly consist with re-prism on a cross-bar of the window, which fracted rays. is in shade, as seen against the light, its |