1792. > reading memorandums. 329 
for the prefs, with notes by M. Thomasien de 
Mazauques. 
M. Seguier, a learned antiquary of Nismes, 
‘who died about seven years ago, procured for M. 
de St Vincent, the perusal of a volume of letters 
of Peiresc ; and, it is believed, many other precious 
remains of that great man, may be found in the re- 
positories of the lives of his contemporaries ; and, 
as it is believed that the Bee now travels ‘to France 
and Germany, the lands of erudition, it is hoped, 
that these notices may attract attention, and produce 
consequences favourable to the appearance of a work, 
so favourable to literature, as that which has been 
suggested. 
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READING MEMORANDUMS. 
Custom, that whimsical and capricious tyrant of 
the mind, despises decency, and too often triumphs 
over prudence and virtue. 
There is a common infirmity in human nature that 
inclines us to be most curious, and conceited, in 
matters where we have the least concern; and for 
which we are the least adapted either by study or na- 
ture. 
—a 
* With a man of pride or of-pafsion, it is vain to 
argue. He will despise arguments a priori and a 
posteriorz. He is bent on an object, in the pursuit of 
which, self gratification is his chief motive ; he can- 
