THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 394.] 



APRIL 1, 1824. [3 of Vol. 57. 



HOUSE OF ELIAS ASHMOLE at LAMBETH. 

 The name of Ashmole is now out of fashion; but, iu his day, he was tlie Mecajnas of a 

 class of popular writers, and his pursuits were in keeping with the intelligence of his 

 own age, while they constituted a necessary liuk in the progression of science and 

 knowledge. Hs was the patron of William Lilly, of John Aubrey, and other occult 

 philosophers ; and his supersiition and reverence for relics led him to assemble the col- 

 lection which, to this day, forms the well-known Museum al Oxford under his name. 

 Tlje first dawnings of natural science in Europe consisted in classifying and embodying 

 the rude superstitions of darker ages; and hence philosophy was identified with magic, 

 astrology, belief in dreams, charms, occult causes, fates, &c. ; and Kepler, and even 

 Newton, were so far the dupes of these prevailing errors, that science is disgraced by 

 them even to our pwn days ; and ages must, perhaps, pass away, before natural opera- 

 tions are ascribed to natural simplicity in the mechanical action and re-aclion of atoms 

 and masses. 



Fur the Monthly Magazine. 



A. TRACTICAL I'LAN /oj- CONDt'CriNG the 

 VINOUS ri UMKNTATION of WORTS ill 

 CLOSE VESSELS, with OBSURV.^- 



TiONs, ^c. by \v. coWDiiY. 

 rB^HK business of a brewer briiiij at 

 JL tiiis time decme 1 of ^rcai inijxir- 

 tance, and a Iresit impulse ;ri\eii Id (hat 

 <rade by the; ititerprc(:i"ii<)ii ol the Excise 

 l^aws allow ii)<j any piTfon to brew and 

 retail beer, not to be drank or coi)sur.ie<l 

 on tlie preiiiiscs, innkes it a desirable 

 Monthly Mag. No. 391. 



object (o explain a particular and deli- 

 cate operation in the process, that of 

 fcrincntalioii. 



A few remarks on tiiis part, as well as 

 on some others, which miglit be of some 

 use to the practical brewer, w ill be made 

 in a concise mauiier, not entering at 

 liirge into llic system of' brewing;', as 

 (here are many good ])iil>licatiiins on 

 tjjal head, but in giMieral <lelitient in the 

 most important pari, — the vinous fer- 

 inciitulion. 



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