The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 11, October, 1836
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the bold terms of unquailing freedom, compelled the submission of arms
to the toga. But there is a still deeper, more serene and holy
rapture, in meditating on the accents of the Redeemer in the very
dialect in which they fell from his sacred lips; in meditating with an
awe ineffable, on the presumptuous sentence of an earth-born worm,
which consigned to a death of ignominy and shame, the august God of
the universe.
In Mr. R's remarks “on the manner of teaching”—on the duties of a
teacher—there is much to command our admiration and respect—a clear
conception of the nature and extent of tutorial duties, and a stern
sense of the elevated moral standing of the tutor.
We see, or we fancy we see, in the wording of this Address, another
instance of that tendency to _Johnsonism_ which is the Scylla on the
one hand, while a jejune style is the Charybdis on the other, of the
philological scholar. In the present case we refer not to
_sesquipedalia verba_, of which there are few, but to the too frequent
use of primitive meanings, and the origination of words at will, to
suit the purposes of the moment. But to these sins (for the world will
have them such) a fellow-feeling has taught us to be lenient—and,
indeed, while some few of Mr. Roszel's inventions are certainly not
English, there are still but _very_ few of them “_qui ne le doivent
pas etre_.”
WRAXALL'S MEMOIRS.
_Posthumous Memoirs of his Own Time. By Sir N. W. Wraxall, Bart.
author of “Memoirs of My Own Time.” Philadelphia: Republished by
Carey, Lea & Blanchard._
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