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THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

APRIL 1814..... SEPT. 1814.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. XXIII.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by David Willison,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH<

AND WHITE, COCHRANE & CO. FLEET-STREET,

LONDON.

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY.
A13144

CONTENTS OF No. XLVI.

ART. I. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, late Presi-
dent of the Royal Academy, &c. By James North-
cote, Esq.

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THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

APRIL, 1814,

No. XLV.

ARTICLE I. A Song of Triumph. By W. SOTHEBY Esq. Svo, London, 1814.

L'Acte Constitutionnel, en la Séance du 9 Avril, 1814. 8vo, Londres, 1814.

Of Bonaparte, the Bourbons, and the Necessity of rallying round our legitimate Princes, for the Happiness of France and of Europe. By F. A. CHATEAUBRIAND. 8vo. London, 1814.

IT

T would be strange indeed, we think, if pages dedicated like ours to topics of present interest, and the discussions of the passing hour, should be ushered into the world at such a moment as this, without some stamp of that common joy and overwhelming emotion with which the wonderful events of the last three months are still filling all the regions of the earth. In such a situation, it must be difficult for any one who has the means of being heard, to refrain from giving utterance to his sentiments: But to us, whom it has assured, for the first time, of the entire sympathy of all our countrymen, the temptation, we own, is ir resistible; and the good-natured part of our readers, we are persuaded, will rather smile at our simplicity, than fret at our presumption, when we add, that we have sometimes permitted our selves to fancy that, if any copy of these our lucubrations should go down to another generation, it may be thought curious to trace in them the first effects of events that are probably destined to fix the fortune of succeeding centuries, and to observe the impres sions which were made on the minds of contemporaries by those mighty transactions, which will appear of yet greater moment in the eyes of a distant posterity. We are still too near that great image of Deliverance and Reform which the Genius of Europe has just set up before us, to discern with certainty its just linea

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