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philo-ophy of Eloquence, has lately publiflied the first vo- 

 lume of a very interesting work, entitled la guida scien- 

 tijica, or a guide for studying the sciences, which is to 

 be followed by four other volumes, to complete the 

 work, of which great expectations are formed by the 

 learned in Italy. 



In the first Volume he explains the truth of the Christian 

 religion, the errors of Paganism, and the uncertainty of 

 human reason when abandoned to itself. 



The second volume is to contain the astronomico-phy- 

 sical history of the celestial bodies, — cosmography, — the 

 natural history of the earth, — the physical geography of 

 the globe, — physics, general and particular, with the na- 

 tural history of terrestrial bodies, — of the air,— the at- 

 mosphere, and the phenomena observed in them. 



The third volume will contain the theory of the earth, 

 and terrestrial substances. Every thing that respects the 

 natural history of the earth, of animals, vegetables, and 

 minerals. 



The fourth will be appropriated to geography, ancient 

 and modern. 



And the fifth will contain the physical history of man, 

 — a Iketch of the sciences and intellectual discoveries of 

 man, — and a history of the progrefs of the social state. 



The following pafsages, translated from the part of this 

 work already publiflied, will probably give the reader a 

 favourable opinion of this author's manner of thinking. 



" All studies ought to be so directed, as not to load the 

 memory, but to enlighten the understanding. 



" We ought to search for trutli, and not to follow sy- 

 stems. 



" For nature, ages are moments, — and for man; moments 

 are ages. 



