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with exceeding contortions in the guts, and costiveness that yields not to 

 cathartics, and hardly to often repeated clysters : best to lenitives, oil of olives, 

 or strong new wort. They also fall into acute fevers, and asthmas, or short- 

 ness of breath. And these are effected principally by the mineral steams in the 

 casting of the plates of lead, and by the dust of the flakes; also by the steams 

 coming from the heaps, when the pots are taking up. Then with a vertigo or 

 dizziness in the head, with continual great pain in the brows, blindness, stupi- 

 dity, and paralytic affections; loss of appetite, sickness, and frequent vomitings, 

 generally of pure phlegm, sometimes mixed with choler, to the extreme weaken- 

 ing of the body. And these chiefly in those that have the charge of grinding, 

 and over the drying place. 



Account of Two Books. N° 137, p. 936. 



I. The True Intellectual System of the Universe. The First Part. Where- 

 in all the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is confuted, and its impossibility 

 demonstrated. By R. Cudworth, D.D.* London, 1678, in fol. 



The design of the author is to demonstrate these three things: 1. That there 

 is an omnipotent intelligent Being presiding over all. — 1. That this Being has 

 an essential goodness and justice : the differences of moral good and evil not 

 being by will and law only, but also by nature ; according to which the Deity 

 acts and governs mankind. — 3. That necessity not being intrinsical to the na- 

 ture of every thing, but men having such a power over their own actions, as to 

 render them accountable for the same ; there is therefore a distributiv^e justice 

 running through the world. 



* Dr. Ralph Cudworth was born l6l7, at Aller, in Somersetshire. He studied at Cambridge, 

 where while he was tutor he had Sir Wm. Temple among his pupils. Here also he held various 

 other important and lucrative offices, as, the Hebrew professorship, and successively the mastership 

 of Clarehall and Christ's College ; and his church preferments were the rectory of North Cadbury, 

 the vicarage of Ashwell, and a prebendary in the cathedral of Gloucester, He died at Cambridge 

 1688, aged 71, leaving among other children, a daughter named Damaris, who distinguished her- 

 self by her learning. Dr. Cudworth was well acquainted with the learned languages, the belles 

 lettres, and antiquities ; he was a sound divine, a deep metaphysician, and a good mathematician. 

 In philosophy he followed the mechanical principles ; and in metaphysics, the ideas and opinions of 

 Plato. His chief works, besides the Intellectual System against Infidels, aboveraentioned, were — 

 1. A Discourse on the Lord's Supper, l642. 2. A Sermon against Absolute Reprobation, 3. A 

 Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality. The Intellectual System was translated into 

 Latin by Mosheim, with notes and dissertations, Jena, 1733, 2 volumes folio, and since at Leyden, 

 2 volumes 4to, In 1743 also came out a complete edition of the Intellectual System, with some 

 additional pieces, edited by Dr, Birch ; and an abridgement has been published by Thomas Wise, in 

 2 volumes 4to, which is esteemed. 



