abfractions with which they are become 
affociated. 
SUPPOSED IMITATION. 
A French critic afcribes Pope’s famous 
fimile, «*So pleafed at firft the towering 
Alps we try, &c.’’ to the following paf- 
fage'from the Fourth Book of the Anti- 
Lucretius. 
Ac veluti medio jam feffus monte viator, 
Saxofum per iter poftquam ereptavit, -in-. 
alta 
Tandem rupe fedens 
dentem 
Tergit, et afcenfu labefaCtos recreat artus’ 
Tum tigidas cautes et que juga vincit an- 
helans . . 
Cernere amat, relegitque oculis veftigia latis: 
Surgit mox, avidus fummum. exfuperare 
vultum fudore ma- 
cacumen, ; : 
Quigue vie fupereft labor, hunc animofior 
implet. » 
LA BRUYERE. 
The Text of Theophraftus, with many 
additional Fragments derived from a Va- 
oe Manu(cript, accompanied by a 
French Verfion of the whole, has been 
publifhed at Paris, by Dr. Coray, a 
Greek: and the Parifians begin. to per- 
ceive, that_Bruyere’s. is a very inaceurate 
tranflation. It may poffibly be difco- 
vered fhortly, that his [mitations are 
smaukiff and vague, that as a characterizer 
' he is inferior to our Butler, and rhat ties 
celebrity, however great at home, 1S on 
of thoit French reputations, which, when 
weighed in the European fcale, is ‘almott 
unperceivable, 
WIGS. 
Some years ago we had to read the 
Pogonology. Caxons have. now: fucceeded 
to beards, and a fimilar work -appears, 
entitled Eloge aes -Perrugues par le Docleur 
Akerlio. Chis book -is -afcribed to De- 
Ae as , the tranflater of Petronius:; it 
deferves, fer micrology of erudition, a 
place in the Tranfaétions of the Society 
of Antiquaries ; and for frothinefs of elo- 
quence, to be ftudied by puffers and 
auctioneers. ; 
BROTHELS iavented by SOLON, 
_ Nicandre raconte dans le troifiéme livre 
des Chofes remarquable s de Colophon, 
quele legifiateur Solon a ete le premier qui 
ait baii un temzle a Lens Pandémos. 
Philemon ( Athenée liv XIII.’ p. 569) 
Joue beancoup la fage indulgence que 
Solon a ftemoignée -par cette loi pour la 
foibleffe humaife : ‘Solon tu as vraiment 
été le bienfaiteur du genre humain! car 
on dit ae c’eft toi qui as le premier pen{eé 
ae une chofe bien avantageufe au peuple, 
Gidi au Salut public. Oui, c’elt avec 
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raifon que je dis ceci, lorfque je, confidere 
notre ville pleine de jeunes gens d’un 
temperament bouillant, et qui, en confe- 
quence, fe porteroient a des exces punifla— 
bles. Cvelt pourquoi tu as achete des 
femmes, et les as placées dans des HeUes. 
ou, pourvues de tout ce qui leur eft nece{- 
faire, elles deviennent communes a tous 
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ceux qui en veulent. 
SEXUAL SYSTEM. 
The author of the Connubia Florum, 2 
Latin Poem, firft printed in 1727, and 
written by D. Delacrorx, aferibes to Vail- 
lant, author of Botanicon Parifienfe, thei in= 
vention of the fexual fyftem. 
At fibi ‘ftravit 
Inta&tum Vallantius iter, qua callidus arte 
Dirigat in flores etiam fua tela Cupido,. 
Vidi; et herbarum detexit primus amores. 
There are paflages in this Poem which 
the author of the Botanic Garden might 
have embellithed and employed. 
MERCIER’S OPINION of VOLTAIRE. 
‘« Voltaire,’ fays the author of the New 
P: ture. of Paris, ‘has been our grand 
corrupter: he flattered every king- and — 
He knew not how | 
every vice of his age. 
to ftrike at fuperftition without mortally 
wounding morality ; unlike Hercules, who 
transfixed the Centaur without hurting the. 
beautiful Dejanira. He faw nothing in 
the Theodicea of Leibnitz but a fubjeét 
tor his Candide, that mifchievous produc- 
tion, which attacks the confojatory doc- 
trine of.a Providence. With his eternal 
Sardonic fmile he has bequeathed us a 
fhameful pyrrhonifm and a crnel levity, 
which makes us glide alike over virtues 
and crimes. The writings of. the author 
of the Pocelle and Republican manners 
are incompatible. 
‘RALPH CUDWORTR'S WORKS. 
In the Life prefixed to Birch’s Edition 
of Cudworth’s Intellectual Sytem, it is 
fated, that the fill unpublifhed Manu- 
{cripts of this great author confilt of one 
thoufand folio pages. 
found though difcontinued learning, the 
perfpicuous though quaint precifion, the 
all-clafpirg. though overwhelming infor- 
mation, and the ufeful though myftical 
tendency of his weitings, entitle them all 
to publication, and would fecure, in thefe 
days_of architeStonic metaphyficians, a 
fufficiently extenfive fale. The Difquifi- 
tions.on Natural Juftice,, on the Hedonic 
Philofophy, on the Controverfy of Liberty 
and Néeeflity, and the Anfwer to Hobbes’s, 
Refle&ions (te fay nothing of the theolo- 
gical see t cannot or retain a high 
degree of intereft, 
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