On the Nature and Utility of Eloquence, 307 



And queftionlefs, here, in this open court. 

 Which now lies naked to the injuries 

 Of ftormy weather, fome men lie interred, 

 Lov'd th' church fo well, and gave fo largely to't. 

 They thought it ihould have canopy'd their bones. 

 Till doomefday. Bat all things have an end. 

 Churches and cities, that have difeafes like to men. 

 Mull have like death that we have. 



On the Nature and Utility of Eloquence ; by 

 Richard Sharp, F. S. A. 



'' Fruftu, et populari eltimatione, Sapientia Eloquentis 

 cedit. Ita enim Salomon, /«//m corde appellahitur prudens, 

 fed dulcis eloquio majora reperiet ; haud obfcure innuens, 

 Sapientiam famam quandam, et admirationem cuipiam 

 concihare, at in rebus gerendis et vita communi, eloquen. 

 tiam prascipue e/Te efEcacem." 



Bacon de Augm. Scien. lib. VI. cap. 3. 



READ NOVEMBER 2, ITS?. 



T MUST hope to be forgiven, for owning that 

 A I confider myfelf as running fome rifque, in 

 venturing to folicit the attention of the Society, 

 when I have nothing to offer but a few thoughts 

 concerning fuch a kind of fubjeft as Eloquence. 

 Generally prevalent as the ftudy of Phyfiology is 

 at prefent, in this kingdom, and particularly culti- 

 ^ - vated 



