B50 
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ull the 24st of July 1807 ; when a coup de 
solei/* reduced him to an incurable state, 
and ultimately put am end to his life 
after six days passed in the agitations of 
SS a 
% aAn affection not uncommon in warmer 
elimates, proceeding from exposing the head 
to the too powerful heat of the sua. 
Searce Tracis, Ke. 
[May f, 
a convulsive lethargy. On opening, his 
head, it was found that there had been wy 
large ulcer on the surface of the left side 
of the brain, but which had healed to 
the extent of two-thirds - this probably 
was the cause of his: first attack, and 
would have healed entirely if a fresty 
accident had not occurred to prevent it. 
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SCARCE 
TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
: ~ EE 
i is proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Nature, with the Use 
of which we may be favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head to 
= troduce also the Analyses of Scarce an 
d Curious Books. ~ 
—— 
& The Hierarchie of the blessed Angels ; 
their Names, Orders, and Offices; the 
Fallof Lucifer with his Angels: written 
by Thomas Heywood.” London, 1635. 
“HIS is a poem in nine books, to 
‘Tt which are attached profuse notes; so 
that one is at a loss to guess whether the 
verse was made in order to usher in the 
prose,or the prose to usher in the verse. The 
author is 2sincere friend to piety and su- 
perstition : he is willing to worship the 
Trinity and all the nine orders of angels 5 
and to believe in devils, imps, alastors, 
and every other class of cacodemons. 
Tlis poetic and his religious love of the 
marvellous are so mingled, that it may 
be doubted whether he abhors atheism 
more as the foe of imagination, or as the 
‘oe of credulity. 
ts first edok is entitled Uriel, or the 
Seraphim ; and descants on the being ofa 
God. Instances are given of heaven’s 
revenge against impiety. This is one: 
The atheist Lucian held God’s son in scorn ; 
And, walking late, by dogs was piecemeal 
torn; 
Yet for the love I to his learning owe, 
This funeral farewell I on him bestowe, 
“Unhappy Luciany what sad passionate 
verse 
Shall I depose upon the marble stone 
That covers thee? How shall I deck thy 
herse 
With bays or cypress? Ido not bemone 
Thy death, bus thus thy dying. Had thy 
creed } 
As firm been as thy wit fuent and high, 
All that have read thy works would have 
agreed s 
To have transferr’d thy soul above the sky, 
And sainted thee. 
The second book, or tractate, is called 
Jophiel, or the Cherubim ; and treats of 
tie unity ofthe Godhead, in opposition to 
the polytheists : the author’s orthodoxy is 
exemplary: 
The monady, or number.one, we see 
In this great godhood doth arise to three + 
And then this mystical trine, sacred alone, 
Retires itself inte the number one. 
Three persons in this trias we do name 3 
But yet the godhood still one and the same = 
Each of the three by right a God we call 5 
Yet is there but one God among them all: 
The third book is called Zaphkiel, or 
the Thrones; and describes the structure 
of the universe. 
Fhe “fourth book is Zadchiel, or the 
Dominations. According to the~au- 
thor’s own argument, or summary, 16. 
examines | 
What ternions and classes be 
In the celestiai hierarchie; 
With what degrees they are instated 5 
How’mong themselves concatenated: 
Angels and demons made apparenty — 
By ethnic and by scripture warrant. 
In a note to this book the following 
amusing relation occurs: 
« T have read of a noble centurion in 
the lower part of Germany, of great 
opinion and estimation with the pzople, 
for his approved goodness and known ho~ 
nesty, who reported this discourse foilow=- 
ine:—That walking one evening through & 
thicket or grove, not far distant from the 
place in which he lived, with only one 
man enda boy to attend him, he saw 
approaching toward him a fair and 
goodly company of knights and gentle- 
men, all seeming persons of great emi- 
nence, for they were mounted on tall and 
-brave horses, and well accommodated at 
all points; all which, without any saluta= 
tion, in great silence past by him. In 
the lag of the troop, he fixed his eye with 
some astonishment on one,’ who, to his 
presens 
