The Edinburgh Monthly Review Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: indeed, but without one salutary principle to guide him in the conduct of life, to counteract the tendency of selfish passions, to preserve him from running a rapid career, from the excess of folly to the atrocity of crime. We trust that we shall not be considered as applying these observations to the whole, or even to the greater part of the learned, in Germany. We have a sincere admiration for the sound and useful and elegant literature of that nation; and we could name many individuals in that country, who are, at this moment, an ornament to science, to letters, and to society. But these must be carefully distinguished from that mystical and arrogant sect, who affect a thorough contempt of all established institutions and doctrines, and place confidence in nothing but the maudlin in. spirations of their own self-conceit. We must now take leave of M. Gorres. There is, indeed, a good deal more in his book; but as it is all distinguished by the same obscurity, ignorance, and presumption as the specimens we have already given, any farther analysis could serve no good purpose. We ought, perhaps, to apologize to our readers, for having detained them so long in our examination of the absurdities of this author; and we assure them that we should not have brought this work at all under their notice, had it not already made some noise in the world. But we trust we shall be enabled to indemnify them for the patience with which they may have Condescended to accompany us in our exposure of folly, by resuming the discussion of this subject, with the assistance of more able guides, in a future number. Akt. IN .' -- Historical Documents and Reflections on the Government of Holland. By Louis Bonaparte, Ex-king of Holland. In 3 vols. London. Lackington, Hughes,