on several eminent writers. April il. 



MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS ON SOMEEMINENT WRITERS*. 



ApoHo defend me from — 



The censures of wise men, and praises of fools j 



From critics who never read Latin or Greek, 



And pedasts who bojst they read both all the week. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



In reading your Miscellany, I find much entertain- 

 ment, and some papers, which I earnestly wifli that 

 both king and ministry could find time to peruse. I 

 heartily wifh them a more extensive circulation than 

 even your Bee. Of this sort are the deep and just 

 reflections of Tiinothy Thunderproof ; and several 

 anonymous papers. Albanicus too seems a judici- 

 cious thinker ; and, without flattery, Sir, I am high- 

 ly pleased with the excellent remarks that you have 

 made vol. vii. p. 320 on his novum organum politi- 

 £um. I do not say it is impofsible that some simples 

 or chemical preparations may exist which are capable 

 of restoring a decayed human constitution ; but 

 though I Ihould hear of their being found out, I 

 Ihould incline to see the experiment of the supposed 

 catholicon first tried upon others ; and some decayed 

 constitutions actually restored by them to a confirm- 

 ed state of healthy before I ventured to take a dose 

 myself. 



• The ingenious author of the following letter will excuse the Editor 

 for having abridged it; and for having softened a little the language in a 

 few pafsagcs. The miscellaneous remirks which have been omitted, will 

 perhaps, appear with grc.iter propriey in a separate efsay. To the read- 

 er, no apology is necefsary for obliging a correspondent who evidently 

 JAirlg^s for himself. 



