...is it a pious duty to do honour to such manifestions of the Divine will ? — -> (If ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? ' If we recognise the hand of Providence in these scourges of our race, are we also bound to praise,...

...bayonets? How is it a pious duty to do honour to such manifestions of the Divine will ? — ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? ' If we recognise the hand of Providence in these scourges of our race, are we also bound to praise,...

...furtherance of his own plans. Yet how specious seems the argument when advanced in such a couplet as " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline t " No one ever, perhaps, seriously believed that men learnt the arts of life by imitating animals,...

...As much eternal springs and cloudless skies As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...As much eternal springs and cloudless skies As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise.1 If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?* Who knows hut He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms...

...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline \ Who knows but lie, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...Lucretia Borgia, if for no other reason than to show the injustice of Pope in the wellknown lines: " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Cataline V" But we can the more readily pass them by, inasmuch as they—and particularly Lucretia—have...

...name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline f — POPE. 3. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless...