Nor does the chisel occupy alone The powers of sculpture, but the style as much; She ploughs a brazen field, and clothes a soil Not more the glory of the earth than she, She has her praise. Now mark a spot or two, That thieves at home must hang; but he, that puts God made the country, and man made the town. Our more harmonious notes: the thrush departs ARGUMENT OF THE SECOND BOOK. Reflections suggested by the conclusion of the former book-Peace among the nations recommended, on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow.Prodigies enumerated.-Sicilian earthquakes.-Man rendered obnoxious to these calamities by sin.-God the agent in them.-The philosophy that stops at secondary causes reproved.-Our own late miscarriages accounted for.-Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontaine-Bleau.-But the pulpit, not satire, the proper engine of reformation.-The Reverend Advertiser of engraved sermons.-Petit-maître parson.-The good preacher.-Picture of a theatrical clerical coxcomb. -Story-tellers and jesters in the pulpit reproved. -Apostrophe to popular applause.-Retailers of ancient philosophy expostulated with.-Sum of the whole matter.-Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity. Their folly and extravagance -The mischiefs of profusion.-Profusion itself, with all its consequent evils, ascribed, as to its principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. |