1801. ] 
German artifts, which he two years ago, 
out of his own pocket, inftituted at Wei- 
mar. The candidates for laft year’s prize 
fent, from various parts of Germany, 
twenty-feven pictures, which were for 
fourteen days exhibited to the Weimar 
From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters, 
43 
public. Further informaticn relative to 
this prize-exhibition may be found in the 
Propylden, of which fix numbers have ap- 
peared. } 
(Some further Account of the Literati of Wicmar 
will be given in our next.) 
‘ 
Extradis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
ea 
A FORGOTTEN REMEDY. 
ISHOP BERKELEY, in his conti- 
nuation of Siris, fays, that when 
the yellow fever raged in the Welt Indies, 
the Negroes, with a tub of tar-water in 
their quarters, did well : but fome of the 
better fort mifcarried, among whom the 
phyfician himfelf lay at the point of death. 
His brother recovered’ him, however, by 
pouring down his throat in fpoonfuls fome 
of the fame liquor that recovered the Ne- 
groes. ‘This fact derives from a gentie- 
man in the ifland of St. Chriftopher. 
Berkley’s Works Ul. 660. 
Apropos of Bifhop Berkeley! Is it 
certain that he wrote the Travels of Gau- 
dentio di Lucca? Which papers in the 
Guardian and the Spetator did he furnifh? 
Where can his letter to Dr. Freind on the 
Tarantula be met with? Why were none 
‘of thefe writings included in the quarto 
edition of his works ; or rather why is 
there not a new and complete edition of 
every thing written by the Britifh Plato? 
A NEW DISH PROPOSED. 
Tn Bootan, fays Captain Samuel Tur- 
ner (Embafly to the Lama, p. 126.), the 
inhabitants boil their tea-leaves until they 
are tender, and eat them with butter, falt, 
and flour, a!l the ingredients being inti- 
mately blended together. ‘This was a re- 
gale, he adds, from which at firft our taftes 
revolted with difguft; but our early recon- 
-ciliation to it convinced me, that this kind 
of tea gruel wants only the recommenda- 
tion of cuftom to be efteemed’a luxury. 
We read, in the old magazines, of a 
lady, who, when tea was a novelty in Eng- 
land, received a pound as a prefent from 
her fon in the Eaft Indies.. Not knowing 
how to fwallow it,- fhe boiled the whole 
parcel, like a dith of brocoli, and offered 
it to her guefts with melted butter and 
falt, as we eat greens. Every one ad- 
mired exceedingly the new vegetable. 
May we not from thefe inftances infer, 
that inftead of throwing away ‘our tea- 
leaves after breakfaft, they might be 
warmed for fauce to the dinner: an eco- 
nomy of food by na means infignificants, 
MILTON’S EARLY READING. 
Milton vifited Italy in 1638. He may 
there have met with the following poems 
on facred fubjects : 
Alighieri Dante’s DivinaComedia, print- 
ed in 1472.—Bernardo Pulci’s Paffone di 
Gief¢ Chriffo, 1490.—Bernardo Pulci’s 
Vendetta di Giefu Chriffo, 1491.—Teofilo 
Folengo’s Umanita di Dio, 1533.—Marco 
Jeronimo Vida’s Chriflias, 1535.—Erafimo 
di Valvafone’s Angeleida, 1590.—Tor- 
quato Taflo’s Mondo Creato, 1592.—Gio- 
vanni Soranzo’s Adamo, 1604.—Giovanni 
Nizzoli’s Digiuno di Chrifio nel Deferto, 
1611.——-Giovanni Domenico Peri’s Monde 
Defolato, 5637. . 
The Paradife Loft was given to the 
printer in 1667: fo that before its come 
pletion Milton may have received Toldo 
Coftantini’s Guidicio Eflremo, printed in 
1648. Itis highly probable that Taffo’s 
Mondo Creato, a poem in blank verfe, and 
Soranzo’s Adamo, have fuggefted much of 
the outline of Paradife Loft; and Valva- 
fone’s Azgeleida much of the angelic war 
defcribed in the fifth and fixth books. Niz- 
zoli’s Digzuno is no lefs likely to have in- 
fluenced the plan of Paradife Regained. 
MATTHEW'S FORM Of BAPTISM 
(XXVil. I9.). 
_ Was not the Syriac language in popu- 
lar ufe at Jerufalem during the time of 
Chrift?. Are not the Syriac words, corre- 
fponding with the agion pueuma of the 
Greek tranflation of Matthew’s Gofpel, 
more exactly rendered (fee ,Mafclef’s 
Grammatica Syriaca, p. 189.) by the La- 
tin words /piritus fanditatis, than by ani~ 
ma fanéa, or fpiritus fanéius? Would 
not thefe words be clotely interpreted by 
the Englith phrafe /pirit of holinefs, and’ 
fairly exprefled by the fingle word faxda- 
almity or religion ? 
If fo, the baptifm was to be given in 
the name of God, of Chrift, and of Reli- 
gion,.a natural and expreflive invocation. 
In other paflages of the Chriftian Scrip 
tures, the terms religion, or holy minded- 
nefs, may, with obvious advantage, be 
fubftituted for the words Holy Good, woicit 
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