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to very unworthy objects, and often very 
dearly earned : 
Yes, things that are old, and fome things 
that are new, 
IT love and I hate ; yet J play you no trick; 
T like an old friend, and I own I like you; 
But I hate the new taxes, and {till worfe 
Old Nick. 
But you like oldthings, becaufe they are old; 
The Church fo believes*, and fo you believe 5 
Then I vow by the Church, that my faith 
you fhould hold 5 
For mine is ancient as Adam ana Eve. 
But Adem, like Nick, is too old; then, dear 
friend, 
Pray'take up your bible,and readitright on; 
And what can you find from beginning toend, 
But Abram and Sarah, Ruth, Mary, and 
ohn? 
So you fee that I bere at leait fquare with the 
Church 5 
A Church, old enough too, not wanton 
in youth 5 
Wor think that hell leave an old friend in 
the lurch, ; 
Who tticks to his oldeft and beft friend— 
Dame Truth. 
N.B. In the next month’s Magazine will 
probably appear fome lines, in favour of ti- 
tles, by the fame perfon. 
CLXXIV.—DR. THORNTON'S SEXUAL 
_ SYSTEM OF LINNZUS. 
Occafion was taken, fome months fince, 
of introducing an account of an extraor- 
dinar ly magnificent work preferved at 
Cambridge. This was a Treatife on na- 
tural hiftory and the occult {ciences, diftin- 
guifhed by many exquifite paintings, and 
in the higheft prefervation, though feveral 
centuries old. The volume is exhibited 
as a kind of fhew-book at the public li- 
brary. Works of this defeription may be 
reckoned by many, more coftly than fcien- 
tific; more fhewy than uftful; dazzling 
to the eye, but repulfive to the touch; 
like the fenfitive plant, tremblingly alive 
through every pore; or, like what is re- 
marked by a pleafant writer of a lovely 
woman, very delicaiely fair, and finely 
fhaped. He compares her to a set of 
beautilul china, which yet is fo hable to 
retcive injury, that he fhould be afraid to 
touch it, left he fhould break it. 
On the other hand, it may be obferved 
in favour of fuch undertakings, thai they 
encourge the fine arts; that the arts 
aud Iciences, having a kind of relation- 
fhip, and being connected, as Cicero ex- 
prefles it, by a chain, explain and mu- 
tually 2f{ff each other; and further, that 
* See the poetry in the laft month’s Ma- 
gazine. 
Cantabrigiana. 
[May 1, 
fuch produétions are monuments of the — 
ftate of the arts in a country at-a given 
period. 
Thefe remarks are occafioned by the. 
perufal of a fplendid work, now publifh- 
ing, defigned ‘o illuftrate botany by the 
aid of fculpture, poetry, and painting. 
The author is Dr. Thornton, a gentle. 
man formerly of Cambridge-Univerfity, 
and now a public Icéturer on Botany. As 
a work of art, this attempt to dluftrate 
the Linnzan fyiiem may _ be- expected 
to rival, if not to eclipie, any fimilar 
work in other countries ; being adorn. 
ed with plants and flowe's, and my- 
thological defigns by our firft mafers, 
Ba: tol zzi, Opie, Beechy, Ruffel; and en- 
livened by many poetical fkerches, illuf- 
trative of the paintings. Expenfive per- 
formances hke this can recommend them- _ 
felves only to perfoas, who, with atafte — 
for the polite arts, poffefs alfo the means 
of indulging it; and to public libraries, the 
archives of what is curious in a country. 
Dr. Darwin, cur fine botanical poet, 
was alfo of Cambridge. His poetry is 
f:equently made to illuftrate thefe pages. 
Probably, therefore, we may take the li- 
berty of introducing into the Cantabrigia- 
na, on fome opportunity, a few lines in- 
tended fer this work, in reference to Dr. 
Darwin's Loves of the Plants, and allufra- 
tive of a defign in Dr. Thornton's work. 
CLXXV.—-SIR WILLIAM JONES. 
Sir William Jones was a ftudent of 
Univerlity-coilege, Oxford, but took his 
Mafter of Arts degree at Cambridge; a 
name that both univerfities are proud to — 
own. His writings, as avere his talents, 
are various, His Specimen Poelews Afia- 
tice, though a juvenile work, and found. 
ed, indeed, on Bifhop Lowth’s book, de 
Sacra Poe Hebreorum, is certainly an 
elegant and uieful work ; an extraordinary 
performance for fo young a man as he 
was when he compofed it. Its merit on 
the fcore of poetry is at leaft equal to its 
pretenfions in criticifm. 
Subjoined to this volume is his Limon, 
feu, £4ifcellaneorum Liber, which conilts 
of Greek and Latin verfions of fome ad- 
mired pafliges of Englith poetry. Having 
formerly given an Englith verfion of an 
original Greek epigram of Jofhua Barnes's, 
we fhall, by way of variety, bere take the 
liberty of ‘prefenting the reader with 2 
Greek verfion of an exquifite little morfel 
of Englith poetry by Sir William Jones, 
though not original ; for it is in his Limon. 
The Englith is that admired piece, 
Little, curious, thirfty, Ay, — ; 
Drink with me, and drink asI, é&c. 
The 
