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I36 GOODRICH CASTLE AND COURT.
above all things, and defperately wicked,” it would not, it
feems to us, be poflible to doubt it for half-an-hour in fuch
a gallery as this. The ingenious inventions, and the coftly
productions, of many races and generations of pefeple priding
themfelves at once on being Chriftians and exterminators of
Chriftians : fons of the Prince of Peace inveterately given to
fighting. Such a difplay of the weapons of death feems,
indeed, to fubftantiate the dodtrine of the late actuary Finlayfon,
that “war is the natural condition of man, and peace is but
the feafon of exhauftion, and of recruiting himfelf for frefh
encounters of reciprocal murders. What a fingular idea this
gives us of the human race ! —what a difmal illuftration of
univerfal hiftory I That unhappy thing so happily called—4 the
great river of mingled blood and tears.’ ” /
Goodrich Court is for the moft part thrown open to public
infpeCtion, and is reforted to by throngs of deeply interefted
vifitors : but it is only by thofe who, like ourfelves, have fpent
fome time in the houfe, that the vaft extent of its treafures of
art and antiquity can be known. There is a fuite of apart-
ments referved for the family, and not opened to the public.
There are the library, the dining, breakfaft, and drawing
rooms, the Doucean Mufeum, the Sir Geliy Chamber, the
chambers fitted up in the fafhion of and named after James 1.;
Charles I. and Charles II.’s Galleries; William III.’s Chamber,
with the Prince’s, the Herald’s, the Page’s, and the Leech’s
chambers, and the Greek Room. In thefe rooms are contained
a wealth of articles of ancient art and vertu, of paintings and
fculptures and gems, that fill a large catalogue. We may,
however, mention one or two particulars. Mifs Strickland in
the 44 Hiftory of the Queens of England,” wonders what has
become of a certain ivory box, carved in the fhape of a rofe,
mentioned by Horace Walpole to have contained the miniature
above all things, and defperately wicked,” it would not, it
feems to us, be poflible to doubt it for half-an-hour in fuch
a gallery as this. The ingenious inventions, and the coftly
productions, of many races and generations of pefeple priding
themfelves at once on being Chriftians and exterminators of
Chriftians : fons of the Prince of Peace inveterately given to
fighting. Such a difplay of the weapons of death feems,
indeed, to fubftantiate the dodtrine of the late actuary Finlayfon,
that “war is the natural condition of man, and peace is but
the feafon of exhauftion, and of recruiting himfelf for frefh
encounters of reciprocal murders. What a fingular idea this
gives us of the human race ! —what a difmal illuftration of
univerfal hiftory I That unhappy thing so happily called—4 the
great river of mingled blood and tears.’ ” /
Goodrich Court is for the moft part thrown open to public
infpeCtion, and is reforted to by throngs of deeply interefted
vifitors : but it is only by thofe who, like ourfelves, have fpent
fome time in the houfe, that the vaft extent of its treafures of
art and antiquity can be known. There is a fuite of apart-
ments referved for the family, and not opened to the public.
There are the library, the dining, breakfaft, and drawing
rooms, the Doucean Mufeum, the Sir Geliy Chamber, the
chambers fitted up in the fafhion of and named after James 1.;
Charles I. and Charles II.’s Galleries; William III.’s Chamber,
with the Prince’s, the Herald’s, the Page’s, and the Leech’s
chambers, and the Greek Room. In thefe rooms are contained
a wealth of articles of ancient art and vertu, of paintings and
fculptures and gems, that fill a large catalogue. We may,
however, mention one or two particulars. Mifs Strickland in
the 44 Hiftory of the Queens of England,” wonders what has
become of a certain ivory box, carved in the fhape of a rofe,
mentioned by Horace Walpole to have contained the miniature