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ence of a tax, might apply. To that board let the fa- 

 ther tranfmit evidence of the number of his childi-en, 

 and claim thofe privileges which a wife people ought 

 to bcftow on the fruitful parent. One of the iirft 

 philofophers in Europe, who has enriched the age by 

 his difcoveries in nature, told me, that he had been obli- 

 ged to relinquifli alnioft all correfpondence with learned 

 foreigners, becaufe tJie expence of poftage was too great 

 for his fmali fortune. This is deplorable ! A generous 

 people ought to refund to fuch a man, a fum equiva- 

 lent to his difburfements in the caufe of fcience and drf- 

 covery. i/ is a dttt due by a people. 



Critical remarks on the Othello of Shake/pear, contimud 

 Jrom page 62. 



Shakespear has adorned the hero of this tragedy with 

 every virtue that can render liuman nature great and 

 amiable ; and he has brought him into fuch trying fitu- 

 ations, as give full proof of both. His love for Defde- 

 mona is of the moll refined and exalted kind ; and his 

 behaviour, upon tlie fuppofition of his falfe return, is 

 an indication of his great fpirit, and fuch as might be 

 expected from his keen fenfe of honour and warlike 

 cliarafter ; though naturally fufceptible of the tcttderefl 

 paflions, yet being engaged from his early youth in 

 fccnes that required the exercife of thofe of a liighei 

 nature, he has not learned 



^Thofe foft parts of converfation 



That Chamberers liave. 

 — Rude (fays he) am I in fpcech, 

 And little blefs'd with the fct phrafe of peace. 

 His manners h-ive nothing of that (ludied courtcfy 

 V'hich is tlie confequence of polite 'converfation — j 

 , tin<3:urc of wliich is delicately fprend over tlie behavi- 

 our of Lodovico and Gratiano; but all is tlie naturai 



