Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Part 8

[12] Gray's "Bard."

[13] _Quarterly Review_, April, 1878, Art. I.

[14] Hor. Od., I, xii, 18.

[15] Henriade, I.

[16] Vol. v, pp. 94, 95. Ed. London, 1877.

[17] Heber's "Palestine." The word "stately" was in later editions altered by the author to "noiseless."

[18] [In reply to the intended work of Mr. Adams on the Const.i.tution of the United States, Mr. Livingstone, under the t.i.tle of a Colonist of New Jersey, published an Examination of the British Const.i.tution, and compared it unfavorably as it had been exhibited by Adams, and by Delolme, with the inst.i.tutions of his own country. In this work, of which I have a French translation (London and Paris, 1789), there is not the smallest inkling of the action of our political mechanism, such as I have endeavored to describe it. On this subject I need hardly refer the reader to the valuable work of Mr. Bagehot, ent.i.tled "The English Const.i.tution," or to the Const.i.tutional History of Sir T. Erskine May.--W. E. G., December, 1878.]

[19] Ego c.u.m audio quenquam bono ingenio praeditum, doctrinisque liberalibus eruditum, quamquam non ibi salus animae const.i.tuta sit, tamen in _quaestione facillima_ sentire aliud quam veritas postulat, quo magis miror, e magis exardesco nosse hominem et c.u.m eo colloqui; vel si id non possim, saltem litteris quae longissime volant [to the nineteenth century?] attingere mentem ejus atque ab eo vicissim attingi desidero.

Sicut te esse audio talem virum, et ab Ecclesia Catholica, quae sicut Sancto Spiritu p.r.o.nunciata est, toto orbe diffunditur, discerptum doleo atque seclusum.--Ep. 87. _vid._ ep. 61.

[20] This is an exaggeration; I have reconsidered the whole subject in my essay on "Development of Doctrine," in 1845; and in my letter to Dr.

Pusey in 1866.

[21] This pa.s.sage proves, on the one hand, that such worship as St. John offered is wrong; on the other, that it does not unchurch, unless we can fancy St. John guilty of mortal sin.

[22] All these are merely points of discipline or conduct; but whether there is a visible Church, and whether it is visibly one, is a question which as it is answered affirmatively or negatively changes the essential idea and the entire structure of Christianity.

[23] Epp. 93, 144.

[24] As has been said above, this statement is too absolute; at least, Athanasius was reconciled to Meletius.