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an abfolute prince, he had the refolution to 
devulge, and to reafon juftly on, the patrio- 
tic maxim, that princes are elevated to domi- 
nion, not for their own advantage ', but for the 
felicity of f he people. He defcribes the vari- 
ous forms of government then exifting; ex- 
pofes their vices, and develops the caufes 
of their corruption. 
His fyftem of Rhetoric is doubtlefs a 
work of genius, and the labour of a mind 
capable of minute difcrimination. His Lo- 
gic is the Logic of every fucceeding age, 
and of the prefent day. His Phyfics, or 
Philofophy had no foundation. What he 
wrote, or rather what he is fuppofed to have 
written, upon Plants, is of very doubtful 
origin. But his book upon the Animal crea- 
tion, is allowed to be genuine, and is indeed 
an aftonifhing performance. His anatomi- 
cal and phyfiologicaldefcriptions, muft have 
been the refult of innumerable difledions, 
unwearied affiduity, minute infpecYion, and 
great fagacity. He appears to have had no 
idea of fyftem or claffification. His work is 
a continued defcriptive comparifon of one 
animal with another, without a perfect 
identical defcription of any individual. The 
various fubjefts which he diflecled, and 
whole 
