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books: in fuch a review, the Hiltory of 
Eriander might delerve paring to the 
pulp. : 
‘There was a Burton, who wrote a Hif- 
tory of Scotland, a Hittory ot Ireland, 
and a Hiftory of Britith Empire in Aahe- 
rica, which were publithed between the 
years 1685 and 1695: fome Hiltory of 
Enelith Acquifitions in Africa exifts by 
the fame pen. Was this the Enriander 
Burton? 
PERSECUTION. 
Can fome one tcll me who wrote the 
following hymn? I met with it im the 
laid-afide bymn-book of a congregation 
of Unitarian Diffenters. It is the. only 
attempt I recolleét to make the doctrine 
of toleration a part of the liturgic precepts 
of chriftianity. In this point of view it 
is indeed precious, 
Abfurd and vain attempt ! to bind 
With iron-chains the free-born, mind ; 
To force conviction, and reclaim 
The wandering by deltructive fame. 
Bold arrogance! to {natch from heaven 
Dominion not to mortals given ; 
O’er confcience, to ufurp the throne, 
Accountable to God alone. 
Jefus, thy gentle law of love 
Does no fuch cruelties approve; 
Mild as thyfelf thy doétrine wields 
No arms but what perfuafion yields. 
By proofs divine, and reafon ftrong, 
It draws the willing foul along ; 
And conquefts to thy church acquires 
By eloquence, which heaven infpires. 
VEGETABLE TALLOW. 
At Gratz in Silefia, a differtation has 
lately been publifhed to recommend the 
inftitution of a new candle-manutactory. 
‘The author fiates, that the blofioms of 
the populus nigra, or black poplar, yield 
by preffure an oil, or refin, winch con- 
folidates in the ufual temperature of the 
atmofphere, and which, when made into 
candle, is found to give a light cheaper 
than that of tallow, “and more brilliant 
than that of wax. The only inconve- 
nience, and this the author hopes by 
chémical bleaching to overcome, is that 
thefe new tapers have a tawny colour, 
duller than that of bees-wax, or of rein 
foap. 
REMARK OF LESSING. 
He who writes for bread, has feldom 
money to buy, or leifure to quote, the 
books which treat beft on his topic: he 
who writes to kill time, willingly orders 
and awaits and compares fcarce editions 
and curious documents; he fauaters to 
the public libraries, revies with faitidious 
Extracs from the Port-folio of a Man of Lattens. 
[May 1, 
care, and fatigues his amanuenfis by his 
caprices. Hence it happens, that a poor 
author is almoft. always fuperior to his 
book; anda rich author alm pit always 
inferior to his book, 
JARGON OF GRAMMARIANS. 
‘Ghere is much jargon in our, belt gram- 
mars: things are. pretendedly explained 
and clafled in unmeaning words. The 
combination demonjtrative pronoun 1s 
One inftance. To point at, to indicate, 
to fhew; to demonfirate, cannot be an 
attribute of that which /iands for a noun: 
thus the thing indicated would be its own 
index, it would be at once active and 
paffive, fhowing and fhown. Articles 
are the very fafme parts of fpeech as 
thefe demonftrative, or indicative, pro- 
nouns: they might he claffled together 
under the intelligible. denomination 7- 
dicaters. Some, which is 
called a pronoun, is the plural of a, 
which is commonly called an ar ticle: 
the is amiddlé term between this and 
that, wholly of the fame fort. Mr. 
Lindley Murray changes the epithet de- 
monfiratwe, which is defenfible; but re- 
tains the term pronoun, which is wholiy 
improper: he claffes one, all, fuch, other, 
either, neither, each, any, every as ad- 
jective pronouns. In rude languages 
thefe fhades of idea are exprefled “by 
gefture—dsimrizws—by various motions 
of the fingers; their names aré verbal 
fubttitutes for different forms of pointing 
at objets. Articles—quafi iqre-hnger- 
joints—is not an abfurd denomination 
for this peculiar clas of words. 
ANECDOTE OF HOBBES. 
Lord Clarendon contidered the Levia- 
than of Hobbes as a defence of the Bri- 
tiih republicans, and for that reafon com- 
pofed a refutation. He fays that Hobbes 
fhewed him at Paris a proof-iheet, which 
he had juft received from England; and 
added, that his lord{hip would not re- 
lifh his conclufions. Clarendon enquired 
why he would publith fuch do¢trine. 
Hobbes, between jeft, and earneft, an- 
{wered: The truth as, T have a mind t@ 
go home. 
ON GOOD AND EWIL DAys. 
Notwithftanding the ridicule which of 
later ages has been defe rvedly thrown on 
the idea of cood and evil days, it is cer- 
tain that, from time immemorial, the molt 
celebrated nations of antiquity, the Chal- 
deans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, and 
the Romans, adopted and placed implhi- 
cit faith in this fuperftitious notion, which 
is ftill prevalent in all parts of the Eatt. 
According to Plutarch, the kings of 
Exypt 
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