1796.] 
our no less scientific philosophers, are sad 
trash, and mere nonsense, . I shall not 
envy them their feelings; but, treating 
them as mathematical heretics, consign 
them to be suspended on the negative 
sign of, the last term but one of an infi- 
Mite series, there to do penance for an in- 
finite number of years, till they have re- 
pented of their wicked errors, 
I remain, Sir, your’s, 
March 10. NO CONJURER, 

New MATHEMATICAL AND PHILo- 
é SOPHICAL QUESTIONS. - 
Lo be answered in No. 3, the Magazine for April. 
UESTION V.—By Adolescens. 
» AT what time of the year 1796, inthe 
latitude 51°. 317, will’the apparent time 
of sun-rising exceed the true time by the 
greatest difference possible ? 
Question VI.—By Mr. F. North. 
- It is required to cut a given’ cone 
through a given point in its side, by two 
planes, viz. the one cutting parallel to 
the base of the cone, and the other ob- 
liquely cutting both sides, so that the two 
seCiions may have equal areas? 
Mathematical Queftiant.—Anecdotes, Se. 
124. 
Question VIT.~—By Mr. Olinthus Gil« 
bert Gregory, of Yaxley, Hunts. 
Standing by the side of a canal, each 
bank of which was raised 8 feet above 
the surface of the water, I found the 
length of a cylindrical pole, standing in 
a vertical position upon the edge of the 
other bank, to be 18 feet; its diameter 
4 Inches, ard its distance from’ me ina 
horizontal line, 10 yards :—W hat would 
be the dimensions of the image of the 
pole delineated on the. unruffled surface 
of the water, as they appeared to me; 
allowing the height of my eyes above 
the top of the bank to be 5 feet? 
N. B. We have received some answers 
to the questions “pro in the First 
Number of the Magazine, which shall 
be inserted in the next, or No. ITV. And 
in general it is intended to insert the 
solutions of each set of questions in the 
Second Number after they shall be pros 
posed, in order to allow more time for 
eur distant correspondents to consider 
them.—lIt is expected that all such com- 
munications be fost pard; and that they 
be sent to us at latest in the first week of 
subsequent month. 
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ANECDOTES AND REMAINS 
OF 
EMINENT PERSONS. 
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(This articles is devoted to the reception of Biographical Anecdotes, Papers, Lets 
ters, Sc. and we request the communication of such of our readers as can assist 
us in these objeds. | 
ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY. 
LIFE oF THE LATE Dr. Horne, 
le BrsHor oF Norwich. 
(pokes HORNE, D.D. late bishop 
of Norwich, wasa divine, whose me- 
mory will be ever precious to the friends 
of virtue and mankind, for his suayity of 
temper, and attachment to religious du- 
ties; his ardent thirst after valuable 
knowledge, and pleasant manner of com- 
municating the same, and his undeviating 
regularity in public and private life. He 
was born at Oatham, near Maidstone, in 
Kent, on the 1st of November, 1730. 
His father was re€tor of the parish, and 
esteemed for his extensive fund of know- 
ledge, and for his uprightness of charac- 
ter. He had, in his fermer years, been 
a tutor at Oxford. It was a favourite 
saying of his, that “ 4e had rather be @ 
toad-cater to a mountebank, than flatter 
aly great man against ihe digiates of his 
\ 
conscience.’ “This valuable clergyman 
devoted his time to the education of his 
children, and the regular performance of © 
his professional engagements. How well 
he was compensated for his trouble,’ 
might be discerned from the progress made 
by his offspring in useful studies. He 
married the daughter of Bower Hendly, 
Esq. by whom he had seven sons, and 
three daughters. His eldest son died very 
young; the subject of this article was the 
next. Samuel died much lamented in 
early life, a fellow of University College, 
Oxford. The youngest son was educated 
at Magdalen College, and is now rector 
of Oatham. ‘The father of these plea- 
sant plants, was remarkable for the mild- 
ness of his temper, a very distinguishing 
feature also in the character of the pre- 
late ; who was perfectly right, when, in 
his celebrated letter to Dr. Adam Smith, ~ 
he observes of himself, ‘* That he had in » 
hjs composition a large proportiqn of that, 
: which 
