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In this piece, done by P. Veronese, is a woman, whose carnation colour is so 

 fresh and bright, that it dazzles the eyes. M. Nocret examining what may 

 cause this beauty, observes, that it proceeds in part from hence, that the artist 

 has ingeniously drawn before her a child clothed in brown ; behind her a man in 

 black ; and on her side a negro, who makes an admirable contrast with the 

 great lustre and splendour of the carnation. 



The last two conferences, on two pieces of M. Poussin, furnish, among 

 other things, very elegant examples of different characters suiting different per- 

 sons. This master being to represent many persons gathering manna, gives 

 to them all different postures, answering to their characters. On the fore part 

 of the picture are two youths, who, according to the genius of their age, fight 

 about the manna. Near them are men gathering it in the mean time, and 

 eating of it. A little farther off appears a girl, who, unwilling to take the pains 

 of stooping, holds out her coat to receive the manna falling down, and fancies 

 the heavens drop it down for none but herself: which well expresses, says the 

 observer, the soft temper of that sex, which loves not to take pains, but 

 imagines that all must come to pass as they wish. In the other piece, which 

 exhibits the recovery of the two blind men, to whom our Saviour restored 

 their sight, there is an old man, who comes very near, peeping and looking as 

 if he doubted of the truth of the miracle ; in which the artist has well observed 

 the genius of aged persons, who commonly are more incredulous and diffident 

 than others. > 



An Account of some Boohs. iV* 47, pt 956. 



I. Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri duo ; una cum totidem Arithme- 

 tices Chronologicae Libellis : per Gulielm Beveregium, M. A. e Colleg. S. Joh. 

 Cant. Londini, 1669, in 4to. 



In the first book, this author treats of time in general ; of a moment, (de 

 scrupulo ;) an hour, a day, week, and month : and then of the several sorts 

 of Years, the Celestial, Julian, Gregorian, Egyptian, jEthiopic, Persian, 

 Syriac and Grecian ; also the astronomical, civil, and solar year of the Jews, 

 and the Arabic year. 



In the second, he treats of conjunctions, and eclipses, of the equinoxes and 

 solstices, the j^ircle of the sun, and the dominical letter ; the circle of the 

 moon or the golden number, the Roman indiction and epacts ; of several 

 eminent periods or revolutions of time, as the Metonic, Calippic, the Diony- 

 sian and Julian period ; of several aeras or fixed characters of time ; as the 

 Christian and Dioclesian ; of the age of the world according to the account of 



