Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-22
BOOK NOTICE.

BOOK NOTICE.
M1scELLANIEs, by WILLIAM r. WILLIAMS. Second
Edition. l vol. pp. 39I. Nelo York, published by
Ed,card H. Fletcher; Washington, By Taylor 4 Maury
The author Of these Miscelsnes has placed bis name
among the most polished writers Of English of day. His
discourses Rsgious Progress have been already
mended in the columns Of this paper We have before
series of Essays upon topics of general interest pse with
learning, and showing and admirable command
of all the science and all the literature of this age the reading
and requirements Of the author evidenced by his works.
seem to be encyco edca asd have attracted the attention
of the public and the press The opening essay, " The
Conservative principle our Literature s worthy ofspecia
notice. and large extracts if space could be given for those
we have marked but give but extract from the
Last essays entitled " The prayer Of the Church sgain those
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extract is butt fair specimen Of the richness q Dr. Williams
syle the gracefuness Of his ilusasions and their variety
I" We have now reached the third and last division Of
subjecthe prayer that God would scatter those who
thus love the bloody game of II s the prayer of the
groanng conscsnce sick of the horrors of needless and
ungheous contest the prayer Of the outraged affections
sung into keenest sympathy in the view of mourning am
lies and weeping and faheress children and bleeding afeh
with each incident Of and desoaon brought in
the journals of the contest the prayer Of Industry driven
from is woned tasks, and taxed for aid il is 10th give
and the prayer Of Humanity, acknow dying n the foe plum
dered, and defeated and DYING and brother But it
is above ALL the prayer of Christianity anxious that
hushed at the avours birth to give the message
Of peace with Heaven free over the quiet naons
the Of Missions may be longer hndeed by the
outbreak of and the umut BATTLE but universal
make ready the way Of the Lord and that instead Of strife
strength, and rivalry in the nciion and endurance
injury, the only contest may be the emulation Of brothers.
the manifestation Of mutual Kindness and in the service OF
common Father, Common Brother and Redeemer Mute
Nature peeches she before man, not before her
Maker in this QUARREL The earh from which cried the blood
Of the first slain Abel has ceased to cry, fresh victims
waered it with their opened veins! No Earth, the Gre
alton made subject vanity not willingly cries. Lord
how longp And the Church cries. Scatter, Lord, the ma
ons and the hosts the parties and the cabinets that delight
in
ss2. The prayer has been in times past fulfilled. We
have how if the Cagos Of France be indeed as some
antquarans bel them, the relics Of the old and valiant
and terrible Gohs they illustrate the Tremendous significance
of the Based the prayer recognised principle
Of the Divine government that existed the Psalm was in
sired, that principle ere the Psamsts days, an
Psalmss naton Simeon and Levi They had recourse to
eacherous buchey for the avengng domestic wrong and
their dying father, in denouncing their conduct said
Cursed be their for was fierce, and their wrath Tor
cruel : and be added in the Of his God, will
divide them in Jaob and scatter them in Israeli Read the
fortunes of Egypt In ancient days her Sesostrs led the
pride and prowess Of Mzram in triumphant invasion into
dstan, lands Now beside the lofty walls yet brilliantly COM
memorang those conques and painting the VICTOR ami his
car, and his Humphal hain the modern Copt,
and morous slave building his hut Of mud beside the
palace Of his fathers whilst the country has sunk for
eentria. A. -u. which prophecy assigned it. Of the
blseS of kingdOms. Pegr. unrtcr nstUry
and their picture Of Babylon she in her days OF
quest and the pages of modern travel and their picture OF
Babylon she is swspt with the besom Of desolation
Look the Persian he was ard the fersan he the
vaorous and terrible Turk of other centuries and The eee
and dependant Turk Of times. See the memorials of the
fraveed and victorious legions of ancient Rome IN the
days of her republican might and her imper pride then
turn TO race YOU can, the features of that terrible nao
who exced and delighted in war, in the eeminate
treacherous and vndcvs Iaiao, who has passion without
power and feeling without principle, bis animal sensbies,
nuured amid the nudites of exquisite sasuary and
matchess painting to refined deicacy of taste, educated
until they have outgrown the moral and left behind deli
cacy whatever Of moral feelings Their Virgil boasted once
in the days Of warke powell that other people might better
carve and better paint but Romans born TO rue The
curse of Providence the al love of military apne has in
verted the boast of their poet The modern Roman
and paints but rule he cannot himself Others The bay
of Austria govern him. and the Swiss mercenares are
the guards Of his Pont The assassin has replaced the
warrior the fiddler the and for the virtue
OF her Cato and the simple patriotism Of her Cncnnatus
you nation without conscience without dignity and
without power getting up meo-dsmatc conspraces and
sangunary outbreaks but without the pth and manhood TO
their eedomt They who GIFTED in how
they scattered although the arches and the pillars yet sand
that tell of their old manhood and enterprise, and
and under the shadow Of Tfsns column and the arch Of
Titus clamos the mendicant and Turks the assassin The
old Scavi, formidable people, whose in their
language sgn6ed glory were at first terrible in their
brave fierce nvasons, but became in their time and turn
vanqushed and capves and their national name is n
and several European languages the term describe
the bondman the only who has lost peace but who
has lost freedom also. Yes very worts slave is stand
ing memorial Of the great eibutive law of text The
scaerer scattered the prower peyed upon, the trouber
caught in the pal he has dug. So urn to the European
Of the with whom wsgd our present contest
So spain the mghest and bravest nation Of Eu
roPe at home poor though her universal exchequer
gerged with the wealth Of both ,se Ipdies and in
her colonies, the Of the valor OF Pzarro and
Cortez her how spent and abect In times
own, how dreaduly the invasons Of Revo
lutonary and Imperial France requted in her own capital
twice entered BY enemy and in the fate Of her own great
Captain coming at first, it predicted OF Cyrus upon
princes upon mortar and the potter eadeth cay at
terwads freting himself death within the circuit Of his
narrow island prison-how did God reading fresh
comment for and orgetlu generation this old and
forgotten law OF his Providence #
"3 Ii be asked, Why is this so answer Because
God wills and because also, from the very nature OF war
and Of mans mind and heart such must be the ultimate
suits of successful those who delight in it
ganfu ade and pleasant recreation. 1t nfltes prde and
Earth and Heaven deghin abasing PRIDE II fosters spirit
Of reckless violence and aggression that must umstey
woke opposition strong and general be surmoued,
and revenge will humliation Of its old