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Show j :CAKPrXA,f jUGHEfliC. . ' C. 11. MDoXAU), lecturing in ihu fn-' 'tcriorof C-iiifotniit, concluded' a ijiWsboej on "Cardinal Hlehilieu" .in 'the following : parnjir.iplu',. fur WhicU we.are.iudebl to: the Stiff ot . j But, let u? oliservq the great CWdhml when ih doori of the invisible arc, set; ajar. 'The veriest coward nlay itiltfe, nc-ccive nc-ccive ilia world wiih'.a shot unlrtijt. valor, va-lor, but it recpiirc. sutisliiutiul coorngc 16 stand'tinquailiu whcii the mysteriw JP Kteniity are about to be uayailed. Having Hav-ing triumphed overiifsh'a'ignamciietnfefi, broiiht consplratioii to tho bfock.or;ilnii-geou, bfock.or;ilnii-geou, and reduced .the hanglfty :nolKis, to .insignificance. Uiejielieu iK'gaii w near the t'cjfual republic of ttie Dead, pliysfcally, a weak old wan, bflt in oul, still iiulolnii' table, utifiUTliig. Unlike Cnrd'm.it Wolsey, he did not weep, uut cringe, ahd Joie Ids manhood when about to. Iw deprlvcil of his pdwer; but Ini stood like a strong, stubiiorn, oak Wilding before the assault-ing assault-ing storm, the. while, gathering his vast energies for,a treiiiendoil. recoil. Neither did his chetb blanch' nor his' tongue falter with fear whtli the wail of the viewless waves came dou the Ihofes of Eternity; but he died as lie had lived, without fear uiid without, remorse. ' Feeling the chill atmosphere of the grave KnlherliM; about him, the dying- suitesmnn bade his friends draw near, reigned tho Ministry, pronounced pro-nounced u last benediction ou bis beloved France, and like a fearless eagle, jilumed for infinite heights, the great jboiiI mounted mount-ed uutuug Lhu immortal ones, who stand like lull urchangels ranged along the parapets para-pets of Fame.. It Is a. sublime spectacle, to see a brave old man fearlessly yield up his spirit to. his Maker. To the warrior on the buttle. Geld, amid the clangor of silver and steel. Death vouie without its- terrors; to the sinless child, brcatbjng, out life, ou his mother's breust, he con.liko.uu.pugvl of light to a vale of shadows; but to the aged and dying stntcKuiaii, whose country lias been his idol, whose iiuuie, has been deeply graven on the .solid niusqury of the age, whoso God ,bu$ been Jthoviih, whose, shrine has been .the Cross, whose with imniortuliiy, Jhe grim sorcerer comes iu the cliuriot of the translated prophet, to bear UiQ emancipated soul through radiant uvenucs of ktars whose first light hua .becu falling' toraid the earth since the. btriti of ages. The old tree, leafless "m tlie fomt, wakes the lomlest echoes by i'.a fall; the old lower, reeling from Its foundation, uproots the clasping evergreen, and iu its deotructkw proclaims the instability of all earthly things,, and the old wan -who for three score, and ten years bus bravvd the battle and the breeze, white-locked and totter ing in very weariness, of life, but,till strong and indomitable, in soul, proclaims in the last fuHcrmg sinsech- or physical death, tbt..tbereis. glurioaslromoriaUty j of the mind, measureless in thu arithmetic Of Infinity and bewildering to be imagina lion of atchangeis who beheld the pmjec-tiou pmjec-tiou of the spheres and watched new created world going to explora their eternal orbits. Just posterity, has awarded to Jtibhe. lieu tho , greatness too otuu denied' the hero and statesman by envious c6teutpu-i rnries. From thai time, of Charles -the GrsV Frttw btd cot ralerr? Uhstrl-. bns. Ho icstendcdjicr territory, Improf4 cd tliO'hriny, created her fleet," destroyed .the oppressive tyranny of the Nobles, and flStd the? knjrnageby fanndhii'the:Frcnch Academy He abaseil, thb KJiigHhattbe modarchy raiRb t , bo, il Irisirfoii!. established a despotism that anarchy, might cease, decimated de-cimated the nobility, that commerce, JeariW Ing nnd'onler might' comdto the pebpUv and intrigued nnd imprisoned, banished, and beheaded, lived, died 'and wa1tnmot-; ial for, the gloryjand exaltation of France, His sins jfero many; nnd, dark, but they wire only Apo'lsm a widlj.disc of solar light; his flwe'e paistbas,, iika -Uia trade-winds, trade-winds, ofi.cn ..strewed the- beach wltb' ,wreeks,.hutftlfeynHo brought tqlhehnr-borstotelyshis tqlhehnr-borstotelyshis freighted with. tin? rarest trcasitrcof; liid. In tho, liabinet he IheArns with" ad' hundfetl eyes, in the field A Brfarciu'with ntiliundred armVlri vainjjf ib courjt,- in ,oabinct,he was the day-sUrofFraiice'a jiational-gliiryi-risiog rroin the 'twilight of the. middle nges, a beacon for alt after statesmen, gleaming forever cm. tlid" Irfrfcon; liko thecteriial .vompasst' of tlie Pole. " . ..Wttli'all big tratisccndant mlndj.RIehe-lied mlndj.RIehe-lied wa sajK-rstitibni it Was that ho was loo, successful not tft-bo superstitious. He belicyctf iuthepropheclet ofthe stiirsnml translated ffom.tlic innltiiiouiinl alphnbet of the heavens, the desttnics which Uod bad there Written for Richetieu and for France. Bathep.iii4cdHotunderUiu,'wect. tiiflnciicl's of the Tleiiides'lior usketl tho' prophecy of the g'eiitla Hbsper j lie Studied riindcr the.constcllatctl lamps of Orion with his glittering,sworj.i, or adtight for Arefo-J !rus with liii bov, orMurrr with, hi lurid glare, or a heai1lonj'cothflt, outlawed from tiie splien-B. Twb';hautlredand firiy 'years: after, the proad lteptibffc of the West, idistraccdt d.isiueinbcreii. and. anarchical,-with anarchical,-with dievercd Hag, dltided sfrijitfa, and w'pndcriiigstars, te.qn!reS 011c, heart as ii'i-dpiultulile, ii'i-dpiultulile, a wilfiiit resistless, aiid.nti Jinfr j iistro'iig juiihiehcs.Of sj,cvl a&vwas ttint. ,t)f ArmamlUichelicu, ' Qorant UmVaimllierltieii?! maynot' !'le billed to iittc his clotjueni iniu'enta., tiiius among, thc'falleu arches and broken ' tuouumenW and dci.hroiird statimry of a i fcecontl Home or another Marias to Iiionrii amid tiio tuins of a modern Carthagcj or-l.daiu or-l.daiu that ,wlicn thp, cloinl aro darkest 'and the gloom deepest, tomo one may : come from among the despairing people, and who.lttyin'tlic sorcery of n iiiiuttr, J haiKwn.dis)inioiiihaU say. "I'ut owny i.tho; svird-!Stiitc3J.uu be saved will P"'( J 11 aj ;h,it ,u j.Ik win. .lt-JI ifflaudc.ii thehearUrbf nftcrcointng md still united peode, at each I'a'sou'r of. Liber ty thtji-B may stand revealed on the- sifjf !ajct'ndInpyr,iiiii1of uatiouul j;remues, rand M'ritteiiln, characters of hisnlferabfe lighf f tlw trfiiuiplirtnt declaration, "There ,110 inch word ns Fiiil 1" |