feelings, and that The Sceptic should have been one of the last books upon which the eyes, now opened upon brighter scenes, were cast. Perhaps, when your mind is sufficiently composed, you will inform me which were the passages distinguished by the approbation of that pure and pious mind: they will be far more highly valued by me than any thing I have ever written.’--_Ibid._ pp. 334-4. “It is pleasing to record the following tribute from Mrs Hannah More, in a letter to a friend who had sent her a copy of The Sceptic. ‘I cannot refuse myself the gratification of saying, that I entertain a very high opinion of Mrs Hemans’s superior genius and refined taste. I rank her, as a poet, very high, and I have seen no work on the subject of her _Modern Greece_ which evinces more just views, or more delicate perceptions of the fine and the beautiful. I am glad she has employed her powerful pen, in this new instance, on a subject so worthy of it; and, anticipating the future by the past, I promise myself no small pleasure in the perusal, and trust it will not only confer pleasure, but benefit.’”--_Ibid._ [137] Dr Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph. [138] “He is patient, because He is eternal.”--St Augustine. [139] “Then ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither which killeth any person at unawares.--And they shall be unto you cities of refuge from the avenger.”--_Numbers_, chap. xxxv. [140] “Every man in the chambers of his imagery.”--_Ezekiel_, chap. viii. [141] “Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.”--_Isaiah_, chap. li. [142] “And behold the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.”--_Kings_, book i. chap. 19. [143] The Princess Charlotte. [144] “And set up a sign of fire.”--_Jeremiah_, chap. vi.