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they are infufHcient ; particularly he feems to think it 
very hard Meafure, that the Tranflations of the Pieces 
of Eloquence of the Ancients fliould be ftt againfl Ori- 
ginal Pieces of the Moderns, fince every Language has 
Beauties of its own, which can never be reached in ano- 
ther, though never (b exa£l: and elegant. {^Chap. 4.} 
-In the Fifth Chapter he confiders Ancient and Modern 
Grammar, as it comes under the Cognizance of Criticks, 
or of Philofophers. For the firft, which he calls Me- 
chanical Grammar, he fuppofes that fome Moderns have 
underftood the Analogy of the Greek and Latin as well 
as any of the Ancients ; and he thinks that Modern 
1 Tongues have been as critically fcanned as any of the 
Ancient ones, efpecially Englifb and French, which he 
particularly inftances in. For Philofophical Grammar , 
he recommends BilTiop Wilkinss EJfay towards a Real 
Character and Philofophical Language^ and the Third 
Book of Mr, Lock\ EJfay of Human Vnderflanding, as 
Original Pieces that Anti.juity has nothing to fet a- 
gainft, (^Chap, 5.) 
When he comes to compare Ancient and Modern Ar- 
chitecture^ Statuary^ and Painting, he abridges what 
Monfieur Perrault had (aid already upon the feme Sub- ^ 
jecb in bis^Parallel of the Ancients and Moderns^ where- 
in he gives the Moderns every where the Preference , 
without interpofing his own Judgment. QChap. 6.) 
Afrer this he comes to enquire into Ancient and Mo- - 
dern Philofopby and Mathem^ticks ; but before he fpeaks 
pariicularly of them, he examines Sir rf^ T's. Hypo- 
Ithefis of the Hiftory of Learning ftep by fiep, ggainft 
whofe EJfay upon Ancient and Modern Learnings a great 
ipart of his Book feems to be ievelled. Sir Williant 
Temple had exceedingly comnaended the Learning of 
Pythagoras and the Ancient Sages of Greece, as alio that 
of the old Egyptians, Chaldeam , Arabs, Indians^ and 
Chinefes. Our Author thinks ili^t Pythagoras s chief 
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