1601.] 
Js fill the fame man; his mind ever bu-’ 
fied in financial fchemes ; his head is‘ full 
of figures, of agios, and of banks. His 
fortune is very fmall, yet he loves to game 
high.” Indeed of all his more than 
princely revenues, he only faved, asa 
wreck, a large white diamond, which, 
when he had no money, he ufed to pawn. 
Voltaire faw his widow at Bruflels. She 
was then as humiliated, as miferable,and as 
obfcure,as fhe was triumphant and haughty 
at Paris. Such revolutions are not the 
Jéeaft ufeful obje&s in hiftory. 
MACHIAVEL. 
THE Prince of this profound obferver 
of human nature’is a work, which being 
diabolical in its principles, it has ingeni- 
oufly been imagined, that the author 
meant it as an ironical work, like Swift’s 
Advice to Servants, where you are very 
minutely informed how to do thofe things 
which ought not to be done, but which the 
writer was aware were conftantly prac- 
tifed, 
Some of his maxims are thefe; «* When 
a man refolves to injure another, he fhould 
do it in fuch a manner as to cut off all 
poflibility of revenge; if the injury is 
flight, he is able to return it; but, if it is 
done to the purpofe, it isnot in his 
power. 
The Prince who would keep poffeffion 
of a new acquifition, muf, in the firt 
place, take care to extinguifh the whole 
family of the lat reigning Prince. 
The Prince who conttibutes to the ad- 
Literary and Philfophical Intelligence: 
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vancement of another caufes his own dimi- 
nution of power, 
When Caefar Borgia inveigled, by re= 
concilement, feveral dukes, and ftrangled 
them as foon as they entered his palace, 
-Machiavel fays, that this evinced a great 
politician, and is worthy of imitation. 
He fays, that in the fable of Achilles 
educated by the Centaur Chiron we are 
to underftand that a great Prince ought to 
be half man and half beaft, and make the 
lion and the fox his pattern.” 
GIANTS. 
Sir Walter Rawleigh’s Hiftory of the 
World abounds’ with very eloquent pal 
fages. Writing on the Gianrs of anti- 
quity, he gives the whole a very pleafing 
turn, 
«¢ Jt is certain that the ace of TIME 
hath brought forth ftranger and more in- 
credible things than the 1NFaNCY. For 
we have now GREATER GIANTS for vice 
and injuftice, than thesworld had in thofe 
days for bodily ftrength ; for cottages and 
houfes of clay and timber, we have raifed 
palaces of flone: we carve them, we paint 
them, and adorn them with gold, info- 
much as “men are rather known by their 
houfes, than their houfes by them. We 
are fallen from two dithes to two hundred 3 
from water to wine.and drunkennefs ; from, 
the covering of our bodies with the {kins 
of beafts, not only to filk and gold, but to 
the very fkins of men. Time will take - 
REVENGE of the excefs we bring forth }”* 
VARIETIES, Literary: anp PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domefiic and Foreign. 
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ITERATURE may be faid already 
to feel the return of Peace. Orders 
for books from the country and for fo- 
reign markets are given with lefs referve, 
and various projects have been revived 
which had previoufly been fufpended., In 
fhort, we have reafon to fuppofe, that, in 
{pite of oppreffive duties, the prefent will 
be a bufy winter, as well among the pub- 
lifhers as the retailers, and the readers and 
purchafers of books. 
~The complete edition of the Britifh 
Poets, which had been abandoned on ac- 
count of the high price of paper, has been 
refumed in coniequence of the peace, and 
will be publifhed with all convenient 
Speed. 
A Hiftory of the War, from the com- 
mencement of Hoftilities between France 
and Avuftria, till the Peace with Great 
Britain, has been undertaken by Mr. 
ALEXANDER STEPHENS, and will make 
its appearance early in the enfuing {pring, © 
in two volumes, quarto, accompanied by 
maps and otter fuitable embellifhments. 
Dr. Mavor has undertaken to edit a 
a Popular View of Univerfal Hiftory, from 
the Creation of the World, till the Peace 
of London in 1801, to be completed in 
about twenty-five {mall volumes, The 
ignofance of the bulk of the Englith nae 
tion ppon fubjects of General Hiftory, 
may, in a great meafure, be afcribed to 
"the deficiency of our literature in popular 
aXe hiftories» 
