Retrofpett of Domeftic Literature...Mifcellanies, 
Dreghorn flands high in our eftimation, 
‘namely, as a lover of liberty, as a man 
who aéted on independent principles him- 
felf, and was zealous for the independence 
“of others. We have ae extended this 
article to an unufual length, or we fhould 
have ftated fomewhat more at large the 
contents of thefe volumes ;:we muft fatisty 
ourfelves with faying, that the topics which 
are difcuffed are various, and moft of them 
interefting. 
‘The name of Dr. FERRIAR is well 
Known: in’ the Manchefter Philofophical 
‘Tranfaétions Dr. F. wrote a few Remarks 
on Sterze, which, fince the publication of 
thofe volumes, he has fo much enla urged 
as, with the eaxce of afew other ef- 
fays, to have formed fufficient materials 
for.a volume, We cannot but acknow- 
ledge that we have been fo much delight- 
ed with the beauties and whimficalities of 
Sterne, that, when we firft read Dr. Fer- 
riar’s Remarks, we icarcely felt difpofed 
to thank him for lowering in our eftima- 
tion a writer whom we regarded with the 
partiality of an old and familiar friend. It 
was time, however, that the daw fhould 
be ftripped of his borrowed plumes; and 
Dr. Ferriar is unqueftionably entitled to 
miuch praife for the pains he has taken in 
reftoring the feathers to their feveral oven- 
ers. Dr. F. conceives, that the ludicrous 
writings of Sterne may be traced to his 
early acquaintance with the French writers 
who flourifhed under the laf princes of 
the race of Valois, and the firft of Bour- 
bon; “it may even be fufpected, that by 
the qaience of thefe writers, he was drawn 
afide,’ fays Dr. F. from his natural bias 
to the pathetic; for in the ferious parts of 
his work, he feems to have depended on 
his own pare: and to have found in his 
own mind whatever he wifhed to pro- 
duce: but in the ludicrous he is generally 
a copyift, and fometimes follows his origi- 
nal fo clofely, that he forgets the changes 
of manners which gave an appearance of 
extravagance to Wiley was once correét ri- 
dicule.’ ** Thofe.who have not read Dice 
Ferriar’s very ingenious work, will -be 
furprifed to hear. that he has dereéted 
Sterne in pilfering from the following, 
among other authors : Berfalde, D’ Aubigné, 
Boucher, Brufcambille, Scarron, Rabeiais, 
Burton, Bacon, Blount, Montaigne, Bi- 
fhop Hail, Donne, Swift, Burnet, &c. 
exc. 
In our laf Retrofpe& we noticed with 
fatisfaétion a work in \ vindication of the 
rights of woman: two is gat ications have 
‘Jately come ‘before us on the fame Fu! byeét : 
Al‘cuu ts @ trdofatiantic prad yctio its Wwe 
of England on the Injuft.ce of meata: 
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know not the author, but he enforces 
argument with great acutenefs and 
nuity. 
Mifs RANDALL’s Letter to the Wonien 
Inpe= 
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ordination, ai{plays a ftrong underftandi ng 
but difplays alfo too much the {pirit of an 
Amazon to pleafe us. 
An author who figns himfelf ¢ A Frie 
of ‘Pruth,’ has publifhed An Invef ae on 
into our prefent received Chronology, waere~ 
in it as We ‘opofed clearly to point out and prove 
feveral eljential Errors, of very confiderasle 
Magnitude, contained in the Period of Time 
comprebended between the Birth of Abram 
and the Birth of Cori; the whole indifputably 
proved from Scripture. We are not com- 
petent to give an opinion of rhis work; but 
it ls. curious to remark, how the author 
rifes in his demands of confidence: his 
title-page begins with telling us, that in 
the inveftigation which oy it 1s pro- 
pfofed to point out feveral effential errors, 
&c.: it ends with telling us, that the 
whole is 7zzdijputably proved from icrip- 
ture. 
An eye-witnefs, who has lived man 
years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyt- 
fine empire, has given us A /oort ee 
of the Riwer Nile: of its Source and Cur- 
rent: of 1s overflowing the Champaguies of 
Egypt till it runs iniq the Mediterranean: 
and of other Curiofities. This relauon was 
fir publifhed by the royal fociety in the 
year 1688, having been tranflated from the 
Portuguefe language by Sir Peter Wyche: 
nothing can be more feafonabie than the 
prefent republication of this very interett- 
ing little work. 
An authentic Narrative of the Proceed- 
ines of his Mujefly’s Squadron under the 
Command of Rear Adnuyral Sir Horatio Nel- 
fon, from its failing from Gibraltar to the 
Conclufion of the pee 5 Battle of the Nile, 
has been drawn “up fr th the minutes of 
an officer of rank in the fquadron, and pre- 
fented to the public. 
Mr. JoHN Wrisow has publithed a 
very eta and compte heniive ee en- 
titled, Ta ath accurately ascertaining, by 
Y eight and Me ed gee Serength Hi Naas 
Liquors, from 307 10 35° of Tempera: (Te? 
with an Introduction, deleribing the Prin- 
ciples of the Tables, by a Variety of Ex- 
amples. “Khe author has taken for the 
foundation of his work the tables contain- 
ed in the 82d volume of the Philofo ‘phical 
Tranfactions, to which Be has made ma- 
terial improvements: he has alfo. given 
large extracts from Sir eae Biagden’s 
Reports, which accompany thofe tables 1a. 
the Sorh ahd 82d volume of that work. 
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