UNIVERSAL ERUDITION; 



logian ; who ought to be thoroughly acquainted 

 with the antiquities of the Jews, to enable him 

 properly to explain numberlefs paflages in the 

 Old 2nd New Teftament : to the lawyer -, who, 

 without the knowledge of the antiquities of 

 Greece and Rome, can never well underfland, 

 and properly apply, the greateft part of the Ro- 

 man laws : to the phyfician and tiie philofopher, 

 that they may have a complete knowledge of the 

 hiftory and principles of the phyfic and philofo- 

 phy of the ancients : to the critic, that he may 

 be able to underfband and interpret ancient au- 

 thors : to the orator and poet ^ who will be 

 thereby enabled to ornament their writings witfy 

 jiumberlefs images, allufions, comparifons, &c. 

 all which gave Mafenius occafion to fay : Qui- 

 cunque ad aliquam inter Romanes eloquently faculta- 

 tern adfpirat, bane veterem Romans urbis hijioriam^ 

 criginem, mores, inftituta hujus geniis, difciplinam 

 in toga f ago que ufitatam, tcncre neceffe eft. Nequs 

 enim citra bane cognltionem prifccs Remans eloquen- 

 tly affertons^ Ciceronem, Livium, Plimum^ Teren- 

 tium^ aliofqptt.} fatis quifqu^m IT/ legendo affequatur^ 

 vtl imiteturfcribendo. Pa!<zftr. Styli Rom. L. III. 

 c. 1 8. 



III. Antiquities are divided into facred and 

 profane, into public and private, univerfal and 

 particular, &c. It is true that the antiquaries 

 (efpecially fuch as are infecled with a fpirit of 

 pedantii":n, and the number of thefe is great) fre- 

 quently carry their inquiries too far, and employ 



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