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THE CATHOLIC HERALD
18 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 4
M. FITHIAN, {
No. 61 North Second Street, Philadelphia.
I've her promptings withstood, © | will te the fate of ¢ every one who is here pre-
ram’ My purpose ie made, °° :|sent? what will be the immediate, undeniable.
. My soul be resig “ore land acknowledged operation”, ,
As becomes the strong mind! . *Letus see,” said Condorcet, with an air
‘By
ent itanon was observed
mpany—and the countenance
of the lord ot the honse began to lower: in-
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°°'To my spi
\ Itbeboves a brave man
How wretched my siate!
By slander assailed,”
& Navght has Jence trailed
‘Po ward off m;
"Shall this tect fn ~ breast
ive rest?
To endure, not complain,
And resignedly bear:
What falls to
By permission of the Post-Master General, any
t-Mastercan frank a letter containing, a Temit-
he following’ extraordinar.
among French "Philosophers occurred in 178.
tis extracted from the “ Oeuvres choisies et
posthumes”” of La Harpe; formerly a tnémber
f the: French: Academy. [lis works were
published at) Paris, in four octavo volumes,
1806. .. The article below is ‘now taken from
the Christian -Observer,—but it is not an
original translation? v ie 4
| of assured simplicity—"ta, Philosopher is not
very anxious to apply to a prophet.”
“GYou, M. Condorcet, will be stretched upon
the floor. of @ prison, and there die, die of poi
son; which yon: will swallow’ to steal. the
mareh of the executioner—and which, in that
golden age, you will be forced to carry about
your person.”
‘This speech excited great astonishment—
but they immediately concluded that good Ca-
zotte would soon awake out of,his dream, and
they broke out in aloud roar of Jaughter. **M,
Cazotte,” ‘said. one of the guests, “the fate
you assign us is not quite so agreeable ag that
of le diableamoreuz,’’ alluding to;a sinall
romance of. the name, writen by Cazoute,
“but what has this to do: with the, reign: of| p|
reason?” , ‘That I was about to tell yous: Io
the name, of philosophy, inthe name of hu-
manily, in the name of reason, it will come to
deed they all felt that the wit had been carried
too far,, Madam de Grammont, with a view to
seatter the clouds, in a tone of pleasantry, let
fall another expression.’ “If that be the case,”
says she, “I preeume they: will gant me the
benefit of a cunfessor.” | Caz adam;
will grant it to hone, much tees to your.
elt the lact ‘executed will be the only one
that shall enjoy that favor.”? Here he paused
for an instant." M. de G. “Well, then, who,
is the favored one that shall cajoy that peco-
liar_privilege?"* will be the only
privilege that he shall obtai tad that individa-
al will be the King of France.’? #6. >
‘ow the master of the house rose up hast
lye from the \sblew and alt followed . bis exam-
-He wentio M. Cazotte, and in a deeply
Pra tone said, ‘My dear sir, this sad kind
of’ pleasantry has continued too long. You
carry it (oa Tength fhat will certainly endanger
| El hombre de aninio fuerte, wb
nunca debe acobardarse, + 3
antes de be\confurmarse '
“con su, buena o mala suerte. ,
aoa ') pass that you will find such a fate, and then
reason will reign invlerd, and have her own
temple; yes, then France shall have no other
temple but the. temple of reason,’’ “sPrue,””
said Chompfort, § with a malicious smile, there
will’ be no need ‘of priests” in that temple.”
“That I hope myself—but you} M. Chomp-
‘The company: was composed of | fort, will be one of them, and you ‘are ‘right
the Society.”” ‘Cazotie answered nothing, and
neeparel to take his departure; when ,Madam
de Grammont prévented him, no doubt with a
view: of taking aff he serious tone of the mat-
DINING PARTY OF. TRENCH LbME
NAT.
pel ag ‘Tuseems to me as if it were 2 yesterdays ‘ond
gatirh bi euds yet the facts, occurred. fas early as, the- year
: 1778... We'were all at a table, with one of the
eye members of the Academy, a worthy and jntel-
ligent man.
ter, and of restoring their former: hilarity.
“Now, Mr. prophet, you have prophesied the
fate ef all—of each of us, but what do you say:
of your own Fated” Jere he was silent for a
"En esta vida prestada |
* se coroce claramente
que no hay cosa permanente
“y que’ el hombre-es polvo, nad
Luego si esta: demostrada’ all classes—nobles, judges, literati, academi-| worthy to bey «You will open-a vein with a| moment—cast down his eyes, and. then eaid: OF
2 Ta razon que nos advierte i oi PLE cians, &e. "The table was well set, and we} razor, and will die some months after.” Now | Madam, have you ever read the siege of Je. ~ &
oy J que si el: vivir nos divierte ‘: 1 enjoyed :it, accordingly. . After, dining, _ the | they-all looked up at one another; und favghed | rusalem in 1 Josephus?” M. + Mort cers .
) Sw-resultado es morir, + 2.
au.fin no debe sentir!) -'
eos, a a hombre de animo fuerte.
“Hoy de miveria perece | |
malvoisier and champaigne began to do their | again,x—when’ Uazotte .continned—As for
6 office, and gave loose to that kind of freedom | you, M. Vieq’d Azyr, you will pot open a
vo | which we were not always careful to copfingy blood: vessel. yourself; buy ou.,will, employ
+ ct | within the strictest bounds of propriety..; We | another to open it six time es-in a single May,
tainty | who has not Yead ‘it? but “supposing L ,
had ‘noi read it, what then?” Caz, ye
Madam, during! that'siege a young. wan went .
seven ‘days suecessively upon.the walls, and
felt that we had already arrived at that point
of the world’s improvement, when any thing
might be, said, which could’ raise a laugh.
Chaaypfort had entertained us with a. recital
of the most, blaspherwous. and indecent sto-
in an attack of the gout, in order to make sure of
the business, and you, will die in the night,
As for: you, M! Nicolai,‘ you will die’ on the}:
seaffold.' Afd ‘yoo M." Bailly,'will die .oo
aroand the'rity in sight of the besiegers and .
the besieged, crying ineessantly, *Woto Sera,
salem! Wo to Jerusalem! On the seventh day),
he tried, * Wo ts Jervsalem! Wo also to my-\
the acaffold.' And you, My Malsherbes, ‘will
die on the scaffold,’*' *!'!
“Thank Heaven,” exclainied M. Rous
“itBeems Watall M>Cszote hastido Is with
a}the Academician’, he has Made. a terrible ha:
self,” arid in that instant’a’ stone from one of \
the gpaines, of the ehemy dashed him in pie-.
he politely bowed
ties; and the noble ladies heard them /with-
raising. their , fans.‘ » Hereupo
followed'a'- whole. floods of ‘ephemy tad
ridicule, against religion. , One oted.
yl. | tirade front Poucelle, ansiher repeated tat di yao" ee mf, thank Heaven, !
+2. {/[titeh of Diderot, in which he says, “May the|“Yau,-says M.-Caz., “will also die upon the
entrails of the last priest be made a halter for| scaffold? Me Hab;*": quickly. resounded from
the neck of the last king”—and all clapped ap-| all parts of the room,—"a wager that he has
cot En miseve el ejomplar
¢ £) pucs que la fortuna ingrata: “i
me quiso ayer, y hoy me mata,
3 yyy. gonel mas grave pesar. plause. Another rose, and said, * Yes, gentle-| not sworn to rovt-us all out together."* “No, , Among. the many questions to which’: the but :
* i , De mi sequiere,burlar, men, [ am as well persuaded there is no God, | it is not-Z that has sworn it.”?- “So then,” partially known bingruphy of the great bard of
4 Ly £9, frenetica vengarse, as Tam that Homer is a fool;"-and, ia fact,| returned they, we all come under the | Avon has at different times given rise, has been
, i y con mi sangre sa he was about as well persuaded of the one as| ‘Turks and ‘Tartars. o-less,” says-he|thet of his religious helief ; and upon, the
the other. Some of the guests had just been
speaking of buth—and bad said some things i in
their praise.
‘The conversation now beeame more ani-
tha‘ed, Some spoke with wonder of the revo-
lution effected by Voltaire—and all’ agreed
that this alone would lay the foundation of his
future fame. Ile had already, given a tone to
this century, and what he had writen was
“LT have already told sousou will thea be un-
der’ thé’ reign of, reason ‘and. philosophy,
Those who’ will so treat you, will be pure phi-
losophers,--they “will employ: thosé same ex-
strength of a lesiamenilary paper discovered in
1770, in the house marked by tradjtion'ag his
birthplace, Shakspeare has by some of his com-
iéntators been’ presiimed ta? have been’ a Ca-
pressions you have uttered an hous ago+thev | tholic.. ‘Malone, having rigidly: inspected the
wilt repeat your favorite maxims—they 'w will] document referred to. has, however, pronoun-
quote the verses of Diderot and Peucelle.” \-:/ ced jt to be spurions... Be this as it may,—and
‘They now began to.whisper among them- taking into arcount,the, almost proverbial Laxi-
selves, thathe had certainly Lost, his reason, | ty."in religious practice which unfortunately
read alike in the palace and in -tha-bed-cham- | for he, still spoke quite earncetly~**He is only | characterises the profession cf a stage player,
ber. ' One of the guests related, with a laugh, jesting #8 ‘another. You know: it. iss his —itseems difficult.to determine what may have
that his barber had said that, morning, when | way ingle the marvellous.with the witty.”” | really been the fori of worship mostly, or at
he powdered him, You see, sir, if | were a yee said Chompfort;, *but,, I confess, it is | alt followed «by ‘our: iMostrious poeter'That
member of your wretched society, I should | not’ very agreeable-—il scents too much of the | notwithstanding some; years! possible neglect:
have no more religion than any’ one else.’’| executioner, d “when” shall all this \hap- | of practical observances, the germs of religion?
They all concluded that the revolution Would} pei?” Caz. eS Not six years “hence, and all| flourished greeni at his heart, abundant ‘evj-<
certainly be completed. and, that: superstition | that Ihave’ ‘said shall be fecomplished.” “| dence. is furnished. b¥ his-glorions works, and!
and fanaticism would give way to ptulosophy. | “There are’ many wonders 'in the world "the object of this article will be af attempt 10;
‘They even went so far as to calculate the time | was now myself Abat, spoke,” by M. “de (1a chew, from a’ cursory review of his plays, that
when it would take place.» ‘The old men fa- Harpe.) and ‘do’ you say nothing | ceapeeling abeir Juthor must have beea imbued hot only!
menied that they could not flatter themselves} me?”"* Caz." | Upon you’ a wonder ‘shall } with a religious, but a Catholic spirit. It seems.
with the hope, and the young felicitated them- pass, that shall be no less extraordinary. You | germane to-such a. surmise. 10 remark, that,
selves thatthey would likely witness it. They | wiil become a Christian. *Now there Wwas'a'| fuurishing at @ time when, the feelings. and
ygritare al alma qui
antes debe conformarse-
si mi estado hoy
“es tan triste y miserable
por fa calunnia execrable
* de que la viclima soy;
A ser mas feliz ho voy
1 1° dandomi necio la muerte:
other
‘n mr ne a
TRANSLATION,
‘The man of strong mind,
Not depressed, nor elate,
| Tscalmly resigned
‘To his good, or bad fate,
Aah ONS Led
|, Alhastens todeath, yf) p25
«Nothing lasts for our race— >. :']
| Fo vg yy What's life bata breath, 0 os { |congratulated the Academy for preparing she| general exclatu: “Well, Lam satistied,”| fashion of the day were'so ‘diame: vtrieally, ad-
r wo tet et Which leaves note erase? “t way; and that, in consequences they must be| said Chorprort, it La Harpe will become a verse to Popery, thal ‘deailly hostility inay be
t ~* ec Gan reason faineay: ‘ regarded asthe authors, originators, and priae-| Christian; we are all i immortal. d to have existed’ betweén thé partisans of.
sa “Phat life, although’ loved,” 742 57-2 ~~] Movers of the work. “Wey of the female sex,” said che duchess the old, ‘and self-ealled-teformed creeds} Shak-
od "Po death must give way—"| During all this terel, one of the questa took }de Grammont,. are quite fortunate, that in| speare, in the character uf a popular dramatist,
The man of stron 14 no part in the conversution—except now And} the revolution we shall be counted a ey phers;| might reasonably enough have pandered to they
} I hould to death de resigned then to throw ina Pleasant gibe at our exulting for 1 suppose, because we shall take no part prejadices uf the many, in’, bringing: Catholic;
eran ba enthusiasm...,'his was ,M. Cazoue, an’ esti-}in it, we shall of course be exempted.” dz. _Bersonages, and practives, and, instiiutions, in-)
|, \sToday dies in need ! mable and original’ man who had unfortunate: | “Your sex,, Madam, will not .be..ireated-as ‘10 ridicule and contempt, had not some motive,
‘+: Who but lately sat king, ly entered into the dreams of ‘illuminiem.. He | such treasures as they have: been—and you! more, powerful, than, the ,selfinterest, which,
so While the beggai , i took up the ponrereation in) atone of earnest-| may yet wish you had never taken: part in’ ity | eush a course might | have “advanced, impelled. :
: ciao. Krom fett poverty's a 'ness, and said, *Felic! Yourselves, gentle: | You will be treated exacily as thé malee—there ifm to pursue..a directly contrary pney.. For:
| va Bvery instant we find , i men, you will a witness ‘his great and sub: | will be no, rence,” sb. ot througto: out the whole ;range of, his, immortal °
. \ y4 Some one joyous and gay, lime revolution on which so fondly doai:' you|.; Mz de G. Why. 1 “Jeclare. MM 3 Cazate, compositions, not a sneer, Not 2, SeFFasM, NOL,
a » ‘ cy Who but lately designed ad know that I cl: jabm to be somewhat of a prophet you are. spresching to us the end of the world, fan, invidious temark j ig levelled against the reli
, —I ‘repeat it,’ you, will” all live (to, see’ it.” | Caza ‘That I know not—but Ido know, that, gion which. thi Parliament, of that; day had;
/ “Yes; but we shall need no giftdor prophecy travel duchess ‘as yuu, are, you will be led to xiliged,, stigmatised,. and , abolished. ;The,
° for ite aceomplishment,”* was the general an-|the seaflold."” | M. de G.o. "In that casey’) chorel’ dignitaries , ad :monks,'of Shakespeare
‘ Aninatance you sce % **! swer, ‘That is true,” replied he; “but, per- | hope I shall have acoach. lined with black ‘to | are from the mi ‘of Rome, not from. that. of;
’ 0! Of Fortune in me—! 7° || haps, something more for what I am ‘about to| convey me.” Caz, “No, Madam, more no-} the pulpit cratory, of Paul's Cross, which from. -
( She yeiterday' smiled; ° tell you. Do you really consider, gentlemen, | ble women than, yourself. will. be, conveyed | day to day, denounced, wilh every specics of, +.
"To day U'm exiled J * what will be the consequences of a revolution | there cn a bule f cant with theirhands ited tisrepresentation and virukenca, the: ministers
3. She mocks me, false jade ¥« 1] such as you contemplate, in which reason is| behind them.” M. “More noble! in fand monastic institdiions of the Catholic reli- -
And thirsts for my blood, to triumph over religion? Do you know what| what respect? you an vst mean princesses of! gion.. ‘Che question seems to be, whether euch.
eos , ) :