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tents of the one, and the intentions of the 
other. It is impoffible as yet to form 
Galvanijm into a perfec fyhem, or even 
to deduce ail its principles. The whole, 
at leaft fo far as we are acquainted with it, 
may be reduted to a few principal pofi- 
tions, the confequences refulting from 
which appertajn to futurity ; forthe new 
facts and new experiments may at fome 
ether period throw light on the nature of 
that caufe, on which depends the aétion 
ef the nerves, and which confequently 
produces our moticns and fen{ations. 
Humboldt’s work contains a Variety of 
experiments entirely original ; it -prefents 
the reader with an analyfis of all the 
mumerous books hitherto publithed on 
Galvanifm.; it overturns Many erroneous 
conceptions, and it exhibits a few modeft 
conjectures on the caufes of the phexno- 
mena, after having defcribed the effects 
with exactnefs. ‘Ihe tranflator, C. Ja- 
delot, has introduced order and method 
mto the arrangement, and has preceded 
the whole with an account of a Variety of 
experiments made by himfelf. 
Divinity. 
_ “ Sermons fur le Chriftianifme Moral,” 
&c. Sermons on Moral Chriftianity ; 
‘by J. L. A. Dumas, Paftor of the Re- 
formed Church at Drefden. The reve- 
rend author of this collection, has taken 
Zollfer, Blair and Romilly for his 
models ; and like a good and honeft man, 
carefully avoiding controverfial fubjeéts 
has endeavoured only to promote the belt 
interefts of morality and true religion. 
Of the twenty fermons contained in this 
volume, the following are confidered as 
the beft: III. On Religion confidered 
as effentially different from Superttition ; 
FV, On Jefus, confidered as a Model of 
Moral Perfeétion; VI. On Chriftianity 
confidered as a Moral Religion; 1X. On 
the Refpect due to Ourfelves; X. On 
Chriftian Intrepidity; KI. On the Re- 
fpeét due to every Man; and the XII. 
and XIII. On the Love of ‘Truth and of 
our Duty. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
“ Remarques fur une  Infcription 
Grécque, publi¢e @ Aix, l’an VII de la 
Republique,” &c. Remarks ona Greek 
infcription publithed at Aix, 7th year of 
the French Republic, 4to.. Aix 1799. 
St. Vincent, one of the judges of the par- 
Hhament of Aix, and an antiquary of 
confiderable celebrity, difcovered a marble 
with a Greek in{cription, in the houle 
formerly-inhabited by the famous Peiresc. 
On his father’s death, which occurred 
Retrofpe® of French LiteratureArite 
but a few months fince, his fon, whe 
ftyles himfelf Citizen Fauris, publithed 
not only the original infcription, but alfo 
tranflations in Latin and French, which 
were found among the papers bequeathed 
to him. As Spon, the Abbé Prevot, 
Anffe de Villaifon, Millin, &c. have been 
at great pains to interpret the paffage in 
queftion, we fhall here prefent it to the 
reader in Latin and Englith. 
Koiros, ego voco te, Theophile, non jam mor- 
talisy 
Juvenis juvenibus eadem atate fimilis 
Navigantium fervatoribus Amyclzis Diis. 
Navigator fuper flu€tus maris navigans ftabam: 
Nunc autem, pietate parentum, fortitus hunc 
tumulum, liberar : 
Morbis et fatigatione et dolore et labore. 
Hec enim apud viventes hominum corpora 
habent acerba. 
Apud mortuos autem fimul congregata fiunt 
Duplicia; quorum una pars quidem fuper 
terram errat, 
Altera vero cum aftris celeftibus choreas agit. 
Cujus exercitus ingreflus fum, fortitus Deum 
ducem. 
The paffenger invokes and interrogates 
Koiros, to whom he addrefies himfelf as 
follows: 
‘¢ I invoke thee, Koiros! young man be- 
loved by the gods, thou who art no longer 
mortal, and who refembleit both in age and 
fituation the Amyciean gods (Caftor and 
Poliux), the faviours of navigators.” 
¢ Koiros replies : 
P 
“* I was formerly a navigator (like them) 
plowing amidft toil and~difficulty, the waves 
of the ocean. Now that, in confequence of 
the piety of my parents, this tom» hath be- 
come my inheritance, I am delivered from 
difeafe, from fatigue, from grief and from 
trouble. . While men refide among the living 
they are condemned to fuffer all thefe. When 
they repair among the dead, they ate divided 
into two troops, one of which heing terreftrial 
wanders on earth; the other is admitted to the 
dances of the celeftial bodies. It is into this 
celeftial army that I have entered, being 
reunited to God who is their leader.” , 
The French tranflation has already 
given rife to much criticifm, and it ap- 
pears far from improbable, that the in- 
terpretation of this epitaph will occafion 
fill further controverfy among the anti- 
quaries on the Continent. 
ARTS. 
** Notice fur la Manufaftire Nationale 
des Gobelins,” &c. A few Remarks re-. 
Jative to the National Manufactory of the 
Gobelins, by C. GuitLauMoT, Architeét, — 
and Direéior of the Manufaétory. In this 
little work the author -gives an interefting 
account of one of thefe eftanlifhments of 
Col 
