^4 Cornucopict. [May J, 



Cook- but now lie is cuiue home, and with Caplaiu Fouriicaux. will go out 



has made coiisideiable discoveries, lieutenant. Captain (.ouk has been 



another expedition is not only talked made a post captain since his arnva , 



of but determined to take place between and so has <- aptajn I ounieaux. If 



this time and next Christmas. I yes- this mtelliKence will be of the least use 



terday dined at the Admiralty, and had or sat.sfact ion to you it w.l 1 be a very 



the information from Lord Sandwich sensible pleasure ; being, dear bir, 



himself. Two ships are to be sent out, yours, &c. bic. 



Tnone of which 1 believe my son, who ^ ^ ^ ^ . ,%\^|'^-^ BiR^^v. 

 had already been a circu mnavigator Dr. Jo hn Lind, Edmburg. 



CORNUCOPIA, 



0/ Literary Curiosities and RemarUable Fuels. 



SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S CREED. the superstitious of the age. In one of 



r¥-<HE Supreme Being governs all his early Avorks he imagined the planets 



1 things, not as soul of the world, to be huge animals who swam round 



b«^ as Lord of the Universe ; and upon the sun, by means of certain tins acting 



account of his dominion, he is styled the upon the ethereal flu;d, as those ot 



Lo«l God, Supreme over aU. The Su- fishes do in the water, and agreeably 



oreme God is an eternal, infinite, ab- to this notion, he imagined the comets 



Llutely perfect Being; but a being, to be monstrous and uncommon ani- 



how perfect soever, without dominion, ma s generateu in the celestial spaces •, 



is not Lord God. The term God, very and he explained how this excited this 



frequently signifies Lord ; but every animal faculty. 

 Lord is not Gml. The dominion of a ENGLISH AQIJEDUCTS. 



Spiritual Being constitutes him God ; , w'T V .v. ^, • 



true dominion: true God; supreme Length of the Iron Work of the /<.. „,. 



dominion, .supreme Gc>d; imaginai^ Hd^ f--face;ftl.e'ro<:k/"^, ' 



dom4nion, imaginary God He s not ^s ^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ ^^. ^^^ ^^ 



eternity and infinity, but eteraal and ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ p,^j^ _ , j^g,,, ^ 



infinite. He is not duration and space, greadth of Water-way, within 



but his duration of existence IS pi esent, the Iron Work -'- - - 11 10 



and by existing always and every Number of Stone Pillars, besides 



where, he constitutes duration and Abutments 18 



space — Eternity and I Infinity. Since Distance from each other, from 



every part of space, and every indivi- top ------- - 45 



sible moment of duration, is every Depth of iron ijlates for caua! 



where; certainly the Maker and Lord part -------- 53 



of all things, cannot be said to be in Length of eartheu embankment, 



uo time, and no place. He is omni- south side of river - - - 1,500 



present, not by his power only, but in Height of ditto, at south abut- 



hisveiT substance; for power cannot nient - - - - - - ' " /5 



subsist'withoiit substance. God is not Chirk Aquednct. 



at all affected by the motions of bodies. Ten Arches , , . ''ii.at'' n 



-.1 1 *i , (\.,A o«,r -ocwfn.K-p Length, including abutments ,696 , 



.neither do tluy lind any res stance Height from the surface of the' • ' 



from the omnipresence of God. He .^^eadow to one foot above the 



necessardy exists, and by the same j^^^, ^^ j,^^ top-water in the 



necessity he exists always and every aqueduct -.---. 65 



-where. Whence also it follows, that yVidth across the top of theaque- 



he is all similar, all Eye, all Ear, all ^^^^ 32 



Brain, all Arm, all Sensation, all Un- Length of the base of each pier, 



derstand ing, all Active Power; but at the surface of the meadow 32 



this not in a human, o<- corporeal, but Breadth of ditto 12 



in a manner wiiolly unknown to us, nuTY of publishing truth. 



therefore not to be worshipjied under a Keep yonr opinions to yourself, said 



corporeal representation. Qaeen Caroline to the honest William 



KEPLER'S EXTRAVAGANCE. WHiiston. If, said Whisfon, Luther 



Kepler, who ultimately discovered and Calvin bai:l kept their opinions to 



many important truths, was, through themselves, where would your Majesty 



. life, file dupe of vagaries founded on have been? 



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