"The orator's breast must glow with the passion he describes, before he can excite its flame in the breasts of others." "Prius afficiamur ipsi, ut alios afficiamus." QUINTILIAN. "We must be affected ourselves, before we can affect others." The following passage from Milton's Paradise Lost, containing the address of the Almighty, to the heavenly powers, on the subject of man's redemption, should exemplify variety of tone, and force of emphasis: Say, heav'nly Pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save? He ask'd, but all the heav'nly quire stood mute, The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set. And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudg'd to Death and Hell In whom the fulness dwells of love divine, His dearest mediation thus renew'd. Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace; To visit all thy creatures, and to all Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought? Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost; I offer; on me let thine anger fall; Account me Man; I for his sake will leave Freely put off, and for him lastly die Well pleas'd; on me let Death wreck all his rage; Under his gloomy pow'r I shall not long Lie vanquish'd; thou hast giv'n me to possess Though now to Death I yield, and am his due I through the ample air in triumph high Glad to be offer'd, he attends the will Of his great Father. Admiration seiz'd All Heav'n, what this might mean, and whither tend The following passage from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts, very forcibly exhibits both the emphatic and sentential pauses: The bell strikes One! We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down-on what? A fathomless abyss! A dread eternity! how surely mine! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? A worm! a god!—I tremble at myself, Triumphantly distress'd! what joy! what dread! What can preserve my life? or what destroy? (To be continued.) POLITE LITERATURE FOR THE PORT FOLIO. AMONG the literary publications of Paris, the Journal de l'Empire has deservedly a conspicuous place. Formerly, the Journal des Debats, it assumed, about four years since, its present title, when the change in the government left no longer any debates to report, and is now, though a daily newspaper, chiefly devoted to letters. The editor, Julien-Louis Geoffroy, an ancient abbot, of elegant education and acquirements, is assisted by many men of science; but the department peculiarly his own, is that of Polite Literature. In this, he is distinguished by a sound, classical, independent judgment, and a style of arch and careless raillery, which his enemies (for he is a critic) say is sometimes too ill-natured. The Journal de l'Empire, however, guides the public sentiment of Paris on subjects of taste, and resembles, perhaps more than any French Journal since his time, the Mercure of Marmon tel. We shall have frequent occasion to enrich the pages of The Port Folio from this brilliant Miscellany. The article this day selected is one of considerable interest, as it announces the results of an honourable projet to extend the limits of human knowledge. The flattering auspices under which it commenced excited very high expectations; but the friends of science have to regret that by the loss of the most distinguished persons on the expedition, the care of it devolved on its younger members. We are happy to find, however, that they have acquitted themselves so well, and that science has much to expect from their zeal and industry. The Review is written by Mr. Maite Brun, the author in conjunction with Mentel, of an extensive geographical work, and if we remember aright, a Dane by birth, but long since naturalized in French literature. A Voyage of Discovery to Australasia, performed by order of H. M. the Emperor and King, during the years 1800-4, published by an Imperial decree, by Mr. Peron, the Historical Atlas by Messrs. Lesueur and Petit, under the direction of Mr. Melbert. The Geogra phical Atlas by Mr. Freycinet. 2 vols. in 4to. and Atlas. 72 Francs. cence. ALTHOUGH of this great work there has as yet appeared only the first volume of the account and the corresponding part of the Atlas, the friendship with which we are honoured by the editors enables us to give to the public a general and complete idea of this immortal monument of the courage of the French travellers and of Imperial munifiNine years since, Napoleon, after having reestablished public affairs, and laid the first foundations of a solid government, expressed the noble desire of seeing his reign marked by the completion of that long series of geographical discoveries which have made us acquainted with almost all the shores of the habitable world. On the proposal of the Institute, an expedition to New Holland and the Australasian countries in its neighbourhood, was resolved on, to obtain information with regard to those vast regions, which, by the right of prior discovery, belonged to the allies of France, the Dutch and the Spaniards-that part of the world where the Carterets, the Walles, and the Cooks, were ordered to seek a new Peru for the tyrants of the ocean, and in the bosom of which a flourishing colony established at an enormous expense already announced the pretensions and the hopes of England. To complete the discovery of these countries, to verify the observations of preceding travellers, and to become acquainted with all the physical and political advantages of this new world, the wisest plans were traced, the most luminous and precise instructions given, geographers and naturalists of the greatest zeal and talents were chosen and provided with ships, provisions, instruments, with every thing in short necessary to fulfil their glorious mission. Peaceable deputies from a great civili- |