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From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
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POLYGLOT LEXICON PROPOSED. 
N 1726, Solbrig recommended a poly- 
glot lexicon, whergin the corre{ponding 
words of the different languages fhould be 
numbered ‘alike: thefe numbers, he ob- 
ferved, would then form a fit bafis for an 
univerfal character, or, as it is now called, 
‘a pafigraphy. No fub/equent propofal is 
fo pra¢ticable and rational. — 
ORIENTAL CELEBRATIONOF THE LORD'S 
“SUPPER. 
‘The Oriental Chriftians, as Fra. Paolino 
has lately told us, celebrate the Lord’s 
fupper, as the Sandemanians do their love- 
fealis, ina very convivial manner. About 
the year 510, a fect of monks, called Na- 
firseans, arofe at Perrha on the Euphrates, 
who made it a rule never to eat and drink, 
except when they took the facrameot. 
(Affeman’s Biblioth. Orient. I. 412). Af- 
ter a fhort time, they efteemed it a duty to 
receive it twice a day. 
GAYETY IN RELIGION. 
The ancients made religion a pleafure: 
they roafted a kid and emptied a pouch of 
wine in honor of their gods: they left it 
to their Stoic and Cynic philofophers to 
preach fclf-denial and mortification. Opi- 
nions are now reverled : our priefts recom- 
mend aufterity, and our philofophers in- 
culcate libertinifm. Some attempts have 
however been made to render modern reli- 
gion chearful and amufing. An odd one 
is recorded in Latocnaye’s Rambles. A 
fect has been formed at Edinburgh, fays 
he, fince my former vifit to this place, 
which affects to oppofe the gloom of Puri- 
tanifm, and which maintains that God is 
beft honoured by the gaiety and happinefs 
of his creatures. Its pfalms are fet to 
opera tunes, the congregation join jollily 
in chorus, and at the end of the anthem 
very pioufly and ‘erioufly burft into a peal 
of laughter. 
LEIBNIT2z’S OPINION OF LOCKE, 
Leibnitz thought as lowly of Locke as 
Hume did. In his fecond letter to M. de 
Montmort, he fays; M. Locke avoit de la 
fubtilité et deTadreffe, et quelque efpece de 
metaphyfique fuperfcielle quil favoit rele- 
ver; mais il ignoroit la methode des mathe- 
maticiens.  Elfewhere Leibnitz clafles 
Locke with Puffendorff. 
EXTREMES PRODUCED BY RIDICULE. 
Ridicule is an efficient but not a fafe re- 
micdy for moral diforders: it produces the 
Oppofite extveme. Cervantes (as Sir W, 
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Temple remarks) cured the Spaniards, not 
only of chivalry, but of active courage. 
Voltaire cured the French, not only of Pu- 
ritanifm and janfenifm, but of morality and 
piety. | 
HOUSEHOLD-SERVANTS. 
The following curious paper contains 
regulations for the houfehold-fervants of an 
Englith Baronet, about the year 1566. 
I. That no feruant bee abfent from 
praier, at morning or euening, without a 
lawfull excufe, to be alledged within one 
day after, vpon paine to forfeit for every 
time 2d. 
II, That none fwear anie othe Vppon 
paine for euery one rd. 
III, That no man leaue any doore open 
that he findeth fhut, without theare bee 
caufe, vppon paine for euery tyme id. 
IV. That none of the men be in bed, 
from Our Lady-day to Michaelmas, after 
6 of the clock in the’morning ; nor out of 
his bed after 10 of the clock at night; nor 
from Michaelmas till Our Lady-day, in 
bed after 7 in the morning, nor out after g 
at night, without reafonable caufe, on paine 
of-2d. 
V. That no man’s bed be vnmade, nor 
fire or candle-box vncleane, after 8 of the 
clock in the morning on paine of 1d. 
VI. That no man make water within 
either of the courts, vppon paine of euery 
tyme it fhall be proued rd. t 
VII. That no man teach any of the chil- 
_dren any unhoneft {peeche, or baudie word, 
or othe, on paine of 4d. 
VIII. That'no man waite at the table 
without a trencher in his hand, except it 
be vpon fome good caufe, on paine of id. 
IX. That no man appointed to waite at 
my table be abfent that meale without rea- 
fonable caufe, on paine of 1d, 
X. If anie man breake a glafle hee hall 
aun{wer the price thereof out of his wages; 
and if it bee not known who breake it, the 
butler thall pay for it, on paine of 12d, 
XI. The table muft be couered halfe an 
houer before 14 at dinner, and Gat fupper, 
or before, on paine of 2d. 
XII. That meate be readie at rr or be- 
fore at dinner, and 6, or before, at fupper, 
on paine of 6d. 
XIII. That none’ be abfent, without 
leave or good caufe, the whole day, or anie 
part of it, on paine of 4d. 
1¥, That no man firike his fellow, 
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