227: 
he was circumfpect even to timidity in 
forming his opinion ; he was never jong 
in feizing the whole of a queftion, and in 
the twinkling of an eye diftinguifhed all 
its parts with their relations, pointing out 
with equal promptitude that which fhould 
neceflarily connect the others; paffion- 
ately fond of truth, he was unwearied in 
his purfuit of it, and {poke it unceafingly. 
It feems as if nature infpires thofe who 
know her, with her charaéter_ of fimplicity 
and grandeur, nearly the moft ftriking 
trait of moral perfe&tion. 
SPALLANZANI was univerfally eftcemed; 
his virtues, without. any aufterity, were 
difplayed on all occafions: he knew how 
to make facrifices to friendfhip ; and, in 
particular, rendered himfelf amiable to 
his family : it is there, however, that the 
man is feen in the utmoft difhabille, and 
where his defects put off the mafk which 
covers them inthe world. He was adored 
by his relations, whofe delight he always 
was; he never quitted them but with regret, 
and he ever returned to them with eager- 
nefs. He had infpired thera with fimilar 
taftes to his own: his brother Nicolas, 
a doGtor of laws, affified him when he're- 
turned to Pavia. His fifter is a dittin- 
guithed naturalitt, fhe is perfectly acquainted 
with her brother’scabinet of naturalhiftory, 
and knows the properties of each piece it 
Etterary and Philofopbical Intelligence. 
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contains, being moreover able toreafon upon 
them, Her mind is modelled upon that of 
this great man, whom it was a pleafure to 
her to fiudy and imitate. . 
SPALLANZANI carefully direéted the 
education of his nephews, and he has had 
the pleafure to fee the eldeft, an- honorary 
profeffor of medicine at Padua. - 
On the rsth Pluvioje (Feb. 4.) 17995 
SPALLanZAnI had frefh attacks of a re- 
tention of urine, the fame night was un- 
quiet, and in the morning he loft all powers 
of reafon, which he never recovered but 
during very fhort intervals. His intimate 
friends, citizen Tourdes, a French phyfi- 
cian,and the celebrated profeffor Scarpa, did 
every thing which could be expected from 
genius, experience, and friendfhip, to fave 
‘him; but he died the 17th, after having edi- 
fied thofe around him by his piety. This la- 
mentable event overwhelmed all his family 
in forrew, occafioned the tears to flow from 
all his friends, filled his difciples with a 
deep affliction,-and excited the regret of 
a nation proud of having given him birth. 
The 25th, his colleague, the profeflor Gre- 
gorio Fontano, made an eloquent motion im 
the council of juniors at Milan, for ereét- 
ing a monument to the memory of his de- 
parted friend, to be placed by the fide of 
thofe of Frifi, Beccaria, and Verri, who 
had given luftre to the Cifalpine Republic, 

VARIETIES, Literary anp PHILOSOPHICAL. 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
4% Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received: 
—— ee 
R. Barrett, fenior fellow and li- 
brarian in the Univerfity of Dublin, 
is employed on a Hiftory of Ancient Aftro- 
nomy, in which that gentleman’s univerfal 
and profound learning will be fully dif- 
played. 
ARTHUR Browne, efq. L.L.D. and 
Member of Parliament for the fame Uni- 
verfity, has applied, for fome time, with 
confiderable fuccefs, to the ftudy of Orien- 
tal literature, and is faid to be now en- 
gaged in the tranflation of a curious Per- 
tian “Manufcript. The example of this 
gentleman has, we are informed, induced 
fome others, in the fifter kingdom, to de- 
vote their attention to Eaftern literature; 
and the eftimation in which that ftudy is held 
there, may be underftocd from the unanti- 
mous vote of a degree of Dodior of Laws, 
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lately conferred on the learned Sir Wa, 
OusELEY, by the Univerfity of Dublin, an 
academic honour weil deferved, but peculi- 
arly flattering, as Sir William is the frit 
literary character fince Dr. Samuel Johnfon, 
who has been thus highly diftinguifhed. 
By order of the provoft, alfo, a complete 
font of Arabic and Perfian types is to be 
fent over for the Univerfity Prefs. 
By the Rev. Dr. RENDER, teacher of 
the German Language in the Univerfity of 
Cambridge, and well known as the elegant 
tranflator of feveral clafiichl German works 
into the Englifh language, has mage a 
new Tranflation of the admired ftory of 
the Scrrows of Werter. There has never. 
yet appeared in England a genuine tranfla~ 
tion of this celebrated piece. That which 
was publithed fome years fince, was merely 
@ trant- 
