24 THE LIFE OF 



tions, and smoothed the road that led directly to the temple of Wisdom 

 and Truth. A¥hen we consider the number of books he published, and 

 the variety of the subjects on which he employed his time, it is im- 

 possible to forbear wondering at his industry and application ; and our 

 wonder must be greatly heightened, when we reflect how careful he was 

 in reviewing, correcting, and augmenting all his original works. But 

 this is not all ; for he left behind him unfinished, or at least unpub- 

 lished, works of a more extensive nature than those that are printed, 

 which had cost him incredible pains, and for which he had made pro- 

 dio-ious collections. — His great work of all was intended to be called 

 " A general History of all Trades ;" of which we have an account in 

 one of his own letters to Mr. Boyle, where he assigns the reasons for 

 laying it aside. But though he desisted from the original plan, yet it 

 was not till he had finished several parts of it ; particularly his Chalco- 

 graphy, which Mi\ Boyle prevailed on him to publish, and the following 

 pieces which he never published : " Five Treatises, containing a full 

 " view of the several arts of painting in oil, painting in miniature, 

 " annealing in glass, enamelling, and making marble paper ;" and " The 

 " Plan of a Royal Garden, describing and showing the amplitude of that 

 *' part of Georgics which belongs to Horticulture." To these his un- 

 published works we must add another^ mentioned only by Mr. Wood, 

 who gives us nothing concerning it but the following title : " A Treatise 

 « of the Dignity of Man." 



Full of age and honours, this amiable Author died upon the 27th of 

 February, 1705-6, in the 86th year of his age ; and was interred at Wot- 

 ton, under a tomb of about three feet high of free-stone^ shaped like a 

 coffin, with an inscription upon the marble with which it is covered, 

 expressing, according to his own intention, that, " Living in an age of 

 " extraordinary events and revolutions, he had learned from thence this 

 " truth, which he desired might be thus communicated to posterity : 



" THAT ALL IS VANITY WHICH IS NOT HONEST ; A2$B THAT THERE 

 " IS NO SOLID WISDOM BUT IN REAL PIETY." As to the eulogiums 



which ingenious and learned men have bestowed upon Mr. Evelyn, they 

 are as numerous as they are great. Mr. Cowley, as we have already 

 observed, inscribed his Poem, called " The Garden," to him ; and hath 

 said the highest things of him in the preface to it. Mr. Glanville has 



