V U F. V ACE, I y 



As \ainly preach ; tlie tocmiiig rav'nous brutes 

 Might fill tlie scanty space of this terrene, 

 Incumb'ring all the globe. 



Mr. Warton, the talented historian of English Poetry, a 

 bookful Academic, and not a ju,a9«T«f xvvYiysa-lm, acquits the ^enophon de 



' ' Venat. c. i. 



hunter of the charge of barbarism, and acknowledges that 



*' the pleasures of the chase seem to have been implanted bv ^^^**- °^ ^"s'* 



^ ' -^ Poetry, V. ii. 



nature ; and under due regulation, if pursued as a matter of 

 mere relaxation, and not of employment, are by no means 

 incompatible with the modes of polished life." 



The difference of opinion on the subject of the chase has 

 arisen entirely from the different lights in which it has been 

 viewed ; the one exhibiting its rational use, the other its 

 intemperate abuse. " Elle a trouve autant de censeurs outres Encydop^Hie 



JMethodique 



que d'apologistes enthousiastes, parmi les anciens et les sur les chasses, 



avertissenient. 



modernes, parce qu'elle a ete envisagee sous le double rapport 

 de son utilite et de ses abus." 



Amongst the ancient eulogists, in the Grecian language, will 

 be found Aristotle, Plato, Xenophon, Polybius, and Julius 

 Pollux ; in the Latin, Cicero, Horace, Virgil, Seneca, Pliny, 

 Justin, Symmachus, and others. To which numerous phalanx 

 of classic worthies there is no opponent authority, save that 

 of Sallust : and of more recent days, Petrarch, and Corne- 

 lius Agrippa. Not to swell this prefatory matter with too 

 many citations from obsolete languages, I have referred the 

 reader, who may wish to know more of the eloges alluded 

 to, severally to the passages in a note subjoined. ^ But 



1. Aristot. de Polit. L. i. c. v. Plato de Legibus L. vii. Xenophon. Cyropad. 

 L. 1. c. V. L. VIII. c. XII. Respub. Lacedaem. c. in. Cyueget. c. i. xii. xni. Poly- 



