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yours to.the lowest pit of hell;” on which 
rit turoing on his heel, answered, 
 Vhere, my lord, L leave you.” 
BUFFON. 
His private character was that of a li- 
bertine, and he was extremely vain of 
his person and his talents, “ ‘he works 
of emiment. geniuses (he would say) are 
few, they are those of Newton, Bacon, 
Leibniz, Montesquieu, and tay own. 
He left an only son, who: sutiered under 
Rebespierre in 1799, On the scatiold 
he said to the peuple, “* Citizens, my 
name 1s Button.” 
GRAMAM 
Not only distinguished himself by the 
accuracy vf his ume-pieces, but by the 
invention of several valuable instruments 
fur astronomical observations. “Lhe great 
mural arch in the observatory of Green-, 
wich was made under his inspection, 
and divided by his own hand. He in- 
vented and made the sector with which 
Dr. Bradley discovered two motions in 
the fixed stars. He furnished the mem- 
bers of the French academy, who were 
sent to the North to measure a degree of 
the meridian, with the instruments for 
ihat purpose. 
NIDHARD, 
A German jesuit, who accompanied 
the Areh-duchess Maria to Spain, when 
she married Philip the Fourth. That mo- 
narch made, him his confidant and: mi- 
mister, which occasioned. many disputes 
between the jesuit and bis rival the duke 
of Lerma, to whom Nidhard once said: 
“Hoas you that ought to respect mc, as I 
have every day your Godt in Ly hand, and 
your Queen atany feet.” He was a mi- 
Serable mipister, and brought the afiairs 
et the nation to.a very peor Condition, 
NEW Ail 
Sir Isaac had agreat abhorrence of 
infidelity, and ,neyer failed to. reprove - 
those who, made free with Revelation in 
‘fis presence, of which the following is an 
instance. Dr, Halley was. sceptically in- 
clined, and sometimes tock the liberty of 
Sporting with the: Scriptures. 
au occasion Sir Isaac said to bim— 
“ Dr. Halley, [ am always glad to 
hear you when you- speak about as- 
trunotay, or other parts of mathematics, 
because that is a subject wlich you have 
studied, aud well understand; but you 
should not tattle of christianity, - for 
you. have not studied it; I have, and 
Akuow you know narhing of the matter.” 
BONIFACE VIII. 
As, said to have frightened his predeces- 
sor Celestine into a resignation, by de- 
nouncing to him at midnight eternal 
damnation if he did not quit ine puntit- 
Extracts from the Portfolio of a Man of Leiters. 
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eal chair. The credulous pope, think 
Ing it was a supernatural vaice, obeyed 
the command next day, and the craliy 
cardinal was elected, ‘This happeaed in 
1294. He commenced his pontificate 
by imprisouing his predecessor, and lay- 
ing Denmark under an interdict. 
CASSINI JOHN D. - 
He had such a turn for Latin poetry, 
that some of his compositions were print- 
ed when he was only eleven years old. 
In 1652, he determined the apogee and 
eccentricity of a planet from its true and 
mean place, a problem which Kepler had 
pronounced impossible. In 1653, he cor- 
rected and settled a meridian line on :he 
great church of Bologna, on which ec- 
casion a medal was struck. In 1666, 
he printed at Rome a theory of Jupiter's 
satellites. Cassini was the first profes- 
sor of the royal observatory in France. 
He made numerous observations, and in 
1684, he discovered. the four satellites of 
Satarn ; 1695 he went to~ltaly to: ex- 
amine the meridian line he had settled 
in 1653 ; and in 1760, he eoutinued 
that through France. which Picard had 
begun, ms 
ANDREW I US. 
Tn his comment upon Joshua, he SAYS, 
that Noah kept the bones ef Adain very 
sacredly ina coflin, and after the world 
had become dry, divided these bones with 
the world, among his three sons: and 
that Shem being his pet, he gave him the 
scuil, with tie ‘ 
JOSEPH ACQS 4 AS a 
in his Lib. i.de Nutur. Nov. Orb. c 16. 
gravely decides that no second ark of 
Noah landed in America, nor any angel 
conveyed the ancestors of the Indians 
through the air. 
ARNALD DB VILLA NOVA—-JUE. 
LUS—-THO. GARZONI. | 
These writers maintained that-a real 
inan could be made by alchemistry, 
they absolutely made the experiment, 
humane semine cuse cum guibusdam sun 
plicihus medicumentis incluso f fo Univ. 
Garzon, disc. 44... This is a flight of al- 
chemy, to.add to the philosopher’ $ stone, 
&c.—What a feast for Spallanzani, had 
he lived in their age. . 
DEBRIO. 
He and his Epitemator Torreblanca de 
Magia 1.256%. BO. 6.32. and. Bay dee 
cide that a real man cannot be created 
by magic; beeause God made him a per- 
fect man at first. See Macrob. and 
Lepsiag in acd Sivic. d. 3. diss, 6. 
bec. ! : 
BARCEPHAS, 
‘This. writer. im: Lib: de Paradiso, says, 
that in the beginning of the wordy and 
the 
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