more laborious, and much less lucrative than that which they had left. After making its panegyric, they will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. They may, like him, begin by singing-Beatus ille-but what will be the end? Hæc ubi locutus fœnerator Alphius, Omnem relegit idibus pecuniam ; In his Letters on a Regicide Peace, speaking of the influence which French manners and tastes were exerting on the common classes in England, he says of theatres that "they are established in every part of the kingdom, at a cost unknown till our days. There is hardly a provincial capital, which does not possess or does not aspire to possess, a theatre-royal. The dresses, the scenes, the decorations of every kind, are in a new style of splendor and magnificence, whether to the advantage of our dramatic taste on the whole, I very much doubt. It is a show and spectacle, not a play, that is exhibited. This is undoubtedly in the genuine manner of the Augustan. age, but in a manner which was censured by one of the best poets and critics of that or any age: * migravit ab aure voluptas Omnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana; Quatuor aut plures aulæa premuntur in horas, Dum fugiunt equitum turmæ peditumque catervæ I must interrupt the passage, most fervently to deprecate and abominate the sequel, Mox trahitur manibus regum fortuna retortis."t In the speech, again, on Conciliation with America, Burke cites certain passages from some of the published acts of the colonies, which had given offence in England, but which he shows had not exceeded in plainness and *It is evident from this expression that Burke's partiality for Horace was not accidental, but the result of deliberate conviction. + Epist. Lib. II. 1, 188 sq. freedom the tone of address which it was lawful for loyal English subjects to employ. "Is this description," he asks the language of these acts-"too hot or too cold, too strong or too weak? Does it arrogate too much to the supreme legislature? Does it lean too much to the claims of the people? If it runs into any of these errors, the fault is not mine. It is the language of your own acts of Parliament. Non meus hic sermo, sed quæ præcepit Ofellus It is the genuine produce of the ancient, rustic, manly, home-bred sense of this country." He is speaking in his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly of the writings of Rousseau. He commends his genius, but has a poor opinion of his ethics. "We cannot rest," he goes on to say, "upon any of his works, though they contain observations which occasionally discover a considerable insight into human nature. His doctrines are so inapplicable to real life and manners, that we never dream of drawing from them any rule for laws or conduct, or for fortifying or illustrating any thing by a reference to his opinions. They have with us the fate of older paradoxes, Cum ventum ad verum est, sensus moresque repugnant The citations contained in the foregoing examples are all from Horace; and others of a similar character might be added to them from the same source. Such quotations depend, obviously, for much of their effect on the associations which they awaken in the mind of the reader. Hence, they need to be so familiar that one can refer them at once to the authors to whom they belong, and be carried back by them to those recollections of youthful study, which retain so strong a power over the soul so long as the soul itself remains capable of memory and emotion. Leaving, therefore, those writers to whom Burke frequently alludes, who are generally less studied * Serm. Lib. II, 2, 2, 3. VOL. XI.-NO. XLII. + Vol. 1, p. 240. Serm. Lib. I, 3, 97, sq. 24 in our schools, we subjoin two or three examples from Virgil, who has been the companion of every scholar's youth, and who is never forgotten. Measures were under discussion for applying the principle of uniformity in taxation, as Mr. Burke thought, in a very absurd way. Referring to this point in his Observations on the State of the Nation, he says*-" Among all the great men of antiquity, Procrustes shall never be my hero of legislation; with his iron-bed, the allegory of his government, and the type of some modern policy, by which the long limb was to be cut short, and the short tortured into length. Such was the state-bed of uniformity. He would, I conceive, be a very indifferent farmer who complained that his sheep did not plough, or his horses yield him wool, though it would be an idea full of equality. They may think this right in rustic economy, who think it available in the political: Qui Bavium non odit, amet tua carmina, Mævi, In the celebrated passaget respecting Lord Bathurst, which Mr. Webster has imitated in his Eulogy on Adams. that line from the Pollio,|| acta parentum Jam legere, et quæ sit poterit cognoscere virtus, will be found to be applied in striking harmony with the relations of thought which the connection discloses. Lord North, the Palinurus of the English ship of state during our war of the Revolution, was no doubt wished a thousand times by our patriotic forefathers, like his great prototype, at the bottom of the Hadriatic. He escaped, however, such a fate; though, if Burke's account of him be correct, it was not because he always saw clearly which way he was steering. He has thus described him. "I do not mean to speak disrespectfully of Lord North; but it would be only to degrade myself * Vol. 1, p. 134. Ecl. 3, 90, 91. Conciliation with America, Vol. 1, p. 226. Ecl. 4, 26. The change from the oratio directa to the indirecta, and of parentis for parentum was of course necessary. Letter to a Noble Lord. Vol. 2, p. 196. by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command, that the time required. Indeed, a darkness next to the fog of this awful day, lowered over the whole region. For a little time the helm appeared abandoned Ipse diem noctemque negat discernere cœlo, Nec meminisse viæ media Palinurus in undâ.”* The citation from the seventh Eclogue, in the Speech against Hastings,† is well applied. "I will do Mr. Hastings the justice to say that, if he had known there was another man more accomplished in all iniquity than Gunga Govin Sing, he would not have given him the first place in his confidence. But there is another next to him in the country, whom you are to hear of by and by, called Debi Sing. This person, in the universal opinion of all Bengal, is ranked next to Gunga Govin Sing; and what is very curious, they have been recorded by Mr. Hastings as rivals in the same virtues : Arcades ambo Et cantare pares, et respondere parati."‡ We had marked other passages for citation;-the only difficulty has been that of selection-but it is more than time, perhaps, to put an end to them. Claudite jam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt. HORE CLASSICÆ. * Eneid III, 201, 2. + Vol. 3, p. 361. Ecl. 7, 4. ARTICLE VII. THE BAPTIST CONTROVERSY IN DENMARK. Her Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung vom Jahre 1845. ausgegeben von den Professoren Burmeister, Niemeyer, Gruber, Pott, Rödiger, Wegscheider, u. s. w. November, Nr. 245-268. Halle. BY THE EDITOR. The AN interesting feature of the present times is the attention which the Baptist question has awakened in Germany, Denmark, etc., and the influence which the principles and practice of the Baptist churches are exerting in favor of religious freedom on the continent of Europe. As an evidence of the interest felt in this subject, several publications of importance have appeared, written not only by Baptists and their opponents, but by persons who, though not connected with the denomination, have still stood forth as their defenders. Some of the newspapers in Denmark have come forward in support of their cause. Copenhagen Post, a radical reform newspaper, and The Fatherland, published in the same city, advocate religious liberty for the Baptists, and censure the edict which led to their persecution. The latter paper, in speaking of the Baptists, says: "Are their doctrines erroneous, let the clergy and schoolmasters prove them to be so to the people. The schoolmaster, Rasmus Sörensen of Venslöv, however, a man whose love of truth and unaffected Christian faith are questioned by no one, has just published a book, entitled,What is the Holy, Universal Church,' etc., in which he shows that infant baptism is neither evangelical nor apostolic. If it is not possible to refute him, and to render the errors of Baptists innoxious, by counter arguments and proofs; but if, on the contrary, it must be admitted that their doctrines are confirmed by the word of God and the history of the Christian church, then, in spite of imprisonments, condemnations, banish |