The angel who went down to trouble the waters and to make them healing, was not, perhaps, entrusted with so great a boon as the angel who benevolently inflicted upon the sufferers the disease from which they suffered."-- BREVIA.] [Footnote 2113: These lines were written by Deckar, in a spirit of boldness equal to its piety.

Hazlitt has or said of them, that they "ought to embalm his memory to every one who has a sense either of religion, or philosophy, or humanity, or true genius."] [Footnote 2114: Reboul, originally a baker of Nismes, was the author of many beautiful poems--amongst others, of the exquisite piece known in this country by its English translation, entitled 'The Angel and the Child.'] [Footnote 2115: 'Cornhill Magazine,' vol.xvi.p.

322.] [Footnote 2116: 'Holy Living and Dying,' ch.ii.sect.

6.] [Footnote 2117: Ibid., ch.iii.sect.

6.] [Footnote 2118: Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' vol.x.p.