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BOOKSELLERS in the Gross are taken for no critical Convert, were I to be Dragoon❜d into better than a Pack of Knaves and Atheistes; Religion by the Domineering Arguments of (tho' thanks to our few KINDRED among the Booted Apostles. I do not value any mans Stars, 'tis only by prejudic'd men) yet Religion by his ftarch'd looks or fupercilious among them there is a Retail of men who gravity. I hate to put on an unsociable Face, are no Strangers to Religion and Honesty. or fcrew my self into an ill-humoured RidI, that am one of that Calling, am bold to dle; I do not angle for the Character of a challenge the Title of Chriftian, neither am Saint, by magifterially declaiming against I asham'd to expose my Morals. I have the innocent Divertisements of Humane no reason to tax my Education, or blame Life, and ranking things indifferent among those who had the Care of my Juvenile the greatest crimes. Above all I cannot Years. My Tutors were Learned rned and Or-approve of those who are prone to faften thodox, and made it their Business to form Gods Judgments on particular Occafions, my Mind, and square my Soul by the best as if they alone cou'd unlock the Secrets Precepts and purest Examples. I profess of the Almighty, and were the Privy-Counmy self an impartial Lover of all good men, fellors of Heaven. I have no ambition to and do presume every man to be good till become an Eagle in Divinity, neither do I I find him otherwise. I have as little Zeal emulate the towring Flights of such as preabout things that are manifeftly indifferent, tend to extraordinary Revelations. I had (either pro or con) as any man in the rather walk under the Piazzas of Gods World, for 'tis a Principle I received from Church, than on the Battlements of the my Education, that the real differences of Devils Chappel, left my head fhould grow good and intelligent People are not fo wide giddy with Enthusiasms, and I be blown as they feem, and that through prejudice off from thofe Heighths and Pinnacles with and interest they do many times conteft fome wind of vain Doctrine. I look on all about words, whilft they do heartily think things to be govern'd by a fix'd Law and the fame thing. Eternal Destiny; and therefore cou'd quietly fit down with George Withers, and fay, Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo.

"I am not fond of the Names which diftinguish one Party from another in the Church. I esteem not a man the better for being regimented in this Communion, rather than in that. And for ought (c) I know in the Camp of God, a Reformade may be as acceptable, as in those of men,

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"I have no Pannick Fears of Death upon me, neither am I folicitous, how or when I fhall make my Exit from the Stage of this Life. Much lefs do I trouble my self about the manner of my Burial, or to which of "However a Mutineer in either is odi- the Elements I fhall commit my Carkass. ous, and to raife Factions about Religion, I can be contented to undergo the tedious is to adore Mars instead of Chrift, and to Converfation of Worms and Serpents, those War commence a ar for the fake of Peace. I greedy Tenants of the Grave, who will cannot approve of their bitter Zeal, who, never be fatisfied till they have eat up the if they cannot call down Fire from Heaven, Ground-Landlord. I dare not with fome will kindle it on the Earth against all that of the Jewish Rabbins say that all shall not think not as they do. He is an ill Difpu- rife at the great Day; much less will I pretant for Chriftianity, who ufes no other fume with others to particularize fo far as Topicks than Gun-powder and Steel. The to exclude all thofe who perifh'd in Noah's Logick of Mahomet becomes not a Disciple Flood; or with a third fort to confine the of Jefus; and I should make but an Hypo- Refurrection to the Children of Ifrael, as if

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we that are of the Gentiles were not capa antient Sagés, a peculiar tradition of the ble of it as well as they! But above all I Jews, and the general Opinion of all the reject the Cenfure of the Talmudists, who Eaft. Itista fafficient Warrant to my Befay, that neither Bilha the Concubine of lief, that I no where in all the Scriptures Jacob that lay with Reuben; nor Doeg can find this Doctriné reprehended. When that caused Saul to kill Abimelech and the I confider alfo, that Origen and Ammonius Pricfts; nor Gehazi the fervant of Elijah taught it in the Schools of Alexandria, the Prophet; nor Achitophel, David's (Plotinus himself learning it from the lat Prime Minister of State, fhall rife from the ter) and that all the Primitive Fathers who Dead. Thefe are the Memoirs of Hebrew were Platonifts, afferted it not only as a fuperftition; invidious remarks, the pecu- Philofophical, but alfo as a Divine Truth; liar Herefe of that over-weening Na- I look upon it as an Effect of Gothick Bar tion. pods notio& Clylo / go barity and ignorance, which afterwards "I love not to humour my Spleen, or overfpread all Christendom, that neither gratifie my Hypocondria, by inveighing this, nor hardly any other Point of Plaagainst the Luxury of the Prefent Age, as ton/m were countenanced in the Chriftian if it were worse than thofe of old, and that Schools, but only the Dictates of Ariftotle our Fore-fathers did not Eat and Drink to and his Ghost Averroes. In fine, that cle Excefs as well as we; The prefent intem- gant flourish of St. Auguftine, Infundendo perance of Mankind is but the Tranfmi- creatur, creando infunditur, is no Rule of gration of the Former. And our Potterity my Faith in this point, fince it faftens fo fhall but act o're the Patterns we fet them. many irreverend confequences on God AlDrunkenness is as old as Noah's Flood, and mighty'; neither can I believe the Soul to Epicuri/m begun with Adam. The one be ex Traduce, because it carries in its had no fooner efcaped the Univerfal Inun- Front fo many Inconfiftencies: in Philofodation of Water, but he had like to have phy, befides the indignity that is done to been drown'd in a Deluge of Wine; And the Soul thereby, which amounts to a true the Other not content with the large In Scandalum Magnatum, fince 'tis levell'd dulgance and Commiffion God had given at the whole Order of inmaterial Beings. Him to cat of the Fruits of Paradice, muft I must therefore believe, That I had a Beneeds leap the Fence which guarded the ing long before I came into this Body, and Forbidden Tree, and when he might have yet not refolve the Manner of my ExiftBanquetted without Satiety or End on the ence into a meer Potentiality, or an unacVarieties which would have given him Life tive flumber in the Bofom of my Caufes, and Immortality, he plays the Glutton, as if I were then but a Seminal Idea in the and furfeits Himself with the Plant of Blood of my Fathers, or a Metaphyfical Death and Damnation. For my own Part, Dream of my present felf. './ I could be content with the Diet of Jo- "I honour the memory of Ludovicus hannes de Temporibus, who when he had Cartefius the Paduan Lawyer, who, in his lived three Hundred Years, being asked by laft Will and Teftament ordered, that no the king of France, What method he took fad Funeral Rites fhould be obferv'd for to preferve his Life to fo great an Age; re- Him, but that His Corps fhould be attendplied, Intus Melle, extra Oleo; I feem to ed with Mufick and Joy to the Grave, and my felf, not without Reason to embrace the as if it were the day of his Efpoufals, he Doctrine of the PRE-EXISTENCE OF SOULS, commanded that twelve fuits of Gay. Apfince it was among the Credenda of many parel fhould be provided instead of Mourn

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our Virility, without the Reunion of our loft Rib, that fubftantial and integral Part of our Selves. Those who are thus difjoynted from women, seem to inherit Adam's Dreams, out of which nothing can awake them, but the Embraces of their own living Image, the Fair Traduct of

"It will not, I hope, be an unpardon able tranfition, if I start back from the melancholy horrours of Death, to the innocent Comforts of Humane Life, and from the Immortal Nuptials of this Italian, pafs to the Mortal Emblem, the Rites of Matri- the first Metamorphofis in the World, the mony, the Happiness of Female Society, Bone converted into Flesh. They are aland our Obligations to Women. 'Tis an ways in Slumbers and Trances, ever fepuncourtly Vertue, which admits of no prof arated from themselves, in a wild Purfuit elytes but men devoted to Colibacy, and of an intolerable Lofs, nor can any thing he is a reproach to his Parents, who fhuns fix their Volatile Defires, but the powerful the entertainments of Hymen, the Blissful Magnétifm of fome charming Daughter of Amours of the Fair Sex, without which he Eve. I wou'd have our Commerce with himself had not gain'd fo much as the Poft Females as General as is their Number that of a Cypher, in the Numeration of Man- deferve it, whofe Knowledge and Vertue kind, though he now makes a Figure too will be a fufficient fecurity from criminal much in Natures Arithmetick, fince he familiarities, and from the Scandals of the wou'd put a stop to the Rule of Multipli World. 'Tis no small point of Discretion, cation. I wonder at the unnatural Phancy I own, to regulate our Friendships with of fuch as could with we might procreate Women, and to walk evenly on the Borlike Trees, as if they were afham'd of an ders and very Ridge of a Paffion, whofe Act, without which they had never been next Step is a Precipice of Flames not kincapable of fuch an extravagant: Thought. dled from the Altar of Vertue. However, I hate the Cynical Flout of those who can 'tis not impoffible to conserve Innocency, afford Women no better Title than Necef on the Frontiers of Vice. I am of Opinfary Evils; 'Tis an ungrateful return, thus ion that Men can boast of no Endowments to abuse that Gentle

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Race of Adam as great, if not a greater Emineney. There are caft: As if they deferv'd no better have been Mufes as well as Amazons, and treatment at our Hands, than we ufually no Age or Nation but has produced fome give to Saffron Bags and Verde Bottles, Females Renowned for their Wisdom or which are thrown into a Corner, when the Vertue. I have always been flow and cauWine and Spice are taken out of them. tious in contracting Amities, left I should The Pagan Poet was little better than a run the Rifque of his Mistake, who while Murderer, who allow'd but two good he thought he had an Angel by the Hand, Hours to a Woman, held the Devil by the Foot. But where ell (Únam in Thalamo, alteram in Tumulo. I have once pitch'd my Affection, I love

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For my Part, I fhould efteem the World"I am confident nothing more betrays but a Defert, were it not for the Society of the Weakness and Infirmity of Humane the FAIR SEX; and the most Polished Part Nature, than Impatience under our present of mankind wou'd appear but like Hermets Circumftances, and a bufie Curiofity of -in a Mafquerade, or a kind of Civilized prying into the Affairs of others. To do -Satyrs, so imperfect and unaccomplish'd is our own proper business, and to know our

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felues, is the only important Employment and prudence, in the dark night of barbar we have in this World. And he that can ity and ignorance. Thus rationally, and do the latter, will never be at a lofs in the ufefully, was his time employed in the serformer. We are Mafters of every thing vice of God and his fellow-men, for he was before us, and a wife Man hath an admi- ever mindful of the two great commandrable Dexterity of drawing Sweetnefs from ments of the Gospel, endeavoring by acts what others call a Calamity, and makes all of charity to soften the rigors of poverty. the Injuries of Fortune, ferve his Designs, His generofity is recorded to have been as and further his Advancement to uniform as it was extenfive;Land, we are I pretend not by the Title of this small told that he was very bountiful to the dif Treatife to any extraordinary Scheme or treffed, and weekly bestowed eight quannew Draught of Religion for Men of my ters of wheat made into bread, exclufive of own Profeffion; much less would I be the accustomed fragments from his table, thought flighly to fuggeft any neglect or de- and pecuniary affiftance. During a ride ficiency of theirs in the Practice of the Old: from Newcastle to Durham, he diftributed I am very well affur'd that Religio Biblia- eight pounds in alms, and going from Durpola feems a direct Tautologie. But furely ham to Stockton five pounds. He made it can be no Offence to fay, that I could large donations of rich vestments and other with we were all more in earnest for Heav- ecclefiaftical paraphernalia, peculiarly used en, and that we had all the Wisdome and by the Church of Rome in her ceremonies, Vertue that ever appeared in the guise of true Reason in the World, fumm'd up and amassed in a Christian Book-seller." «rom stoda „gonsin vaqeć syd pr af oved doid w 1953 mitr 1 sát to DE AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD DE BURY,

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DE BURY'S Custom was, after dinner and fupper, to have fome book read to him, unlefs interrupted by the prefence of any noble -vifitor, whereof he would difcourfe with his chaplains a great part of the day following, if no event of importance intervened; or he -withdrew for the purpose of private meditation and ftudy, to the quiet feclufion of the clofet, furrounded by the filent yet eloquent inftructors and counsellors of former ages exhibiting a splendid example of wisdom

to his own cathedral; which are minutely enumerated by Chambre,* to whom we must refer the readers Todos 91

After having prefided over the Sees of Durham rather more than eleven years, with equal credit to himself and benefit to the community, this excellent prelate died at Aukland, on the 14th of April, A. D. A345, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, leaving a reputation untarnished by the breath of calumny. The affociate of monarchs-the patron and friend of learning and learned men-he was alike distinguished by both; and it is difficult to determine whether the dignities conferred on him by Edward III., or the exalted fituation he occupied in the opinion and esteem of Petrarch, and other eminent scholars of the fourteenth century, shed brighter luftre on his memory. He was unquestionably the most wonderful man of his time, not merely on account of his genius and erudition, which alone place him far above all, his constemporaries, but for that union of Christian piety and virtue which is rarely conjoined * Ap. Wharton, Ang. Sac., vol. i. pp. 766, 467.

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with other endowments in the fame indi-Though this valuable infcription is called Ividualien in SHT a Teftament, it hardly correfponds to any meaning which we ordinarily attach to that word. It is, in fact, an account, written by Augustus himself, a fhort time before his death, of the acts and honors of his life. This account was engraved upon two plates of bronze, which were placed in front of the tomb of Auguftus.

Fourteen days after his death he was bu ried, “quodammodo, honorificè, non tamen cvm honore fatis congrvo," fays Chambre, before the altar of the bleffed Mary Magdalene, at the fouthern angle of the cathe dral church of Durham. it

The people of Ancyra, the modern An

Bale, in the brief notice he has given of Richard de Bury, attributes to him the following works woed vilbow bas bogora, having built a temple to the honor Philobiblo, Lib. Thefaurus def- of Auguftus, had this micription engraved derabilis fapientiama boltoos upon the façade of the edifice; and as it obi Epistolae Familiares, Lib. 1. Ricar- was in Latin, they placed there alfo its dus miferatione divina. slibes wor o tranflation into Greek, fince Latin was univerfally understood among the learned of Afia Minor.

Orationes ad Principes, Lib. 1" Adding, et alia fcripfit. Be this as it may, we have not been fo fortunate as to trace any other than the Philobiblion nor do we believe them to be extant, certainly not in print and it must be remembered that Bale is not particularly accurate, either in the collection or arrangement of his materials. 1979 İsbi 1 gaival 751+A

It is not our intention on the present occafion to analyze the fcope of this treatife; chiefly because a new edition, with an English. tranflation, has been published, which will enable every reader to judge of its contents E. R. POOLE IST 3 1762! -neat to susiboas sail „pruibe to add Tunsi to basin bus egter 5dr

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It was most fortunate for us that they bethought themselves of this tranflation; for, by the lapfe of time, the injury of the weather, and the vandalism of the Turks, in whofe poffeffion the temple has been for fome time, the infcription has greatly fuffered: but, by a happy chance, those portions of the Latin text which have been deftroyed are intact in the Greek, and vice verfa; fo that we now have for the first time the entire réfume of the life of Auguftus as written by himself.

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After M. Perrot, the thanks of the world for this refult are due to the French government. The Turks, who care but little for matters of archæology, had built their The Testament of the Emperor Au- houfes against the temple, and covered the adrid no bom Augustus.

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greater part of the inscription. To remove thefe houfes needed not only enough money to buy them, but enough authority to force their owners to fell them. Both of these means were furnished by the French governmenti bolo mangsaink

AMONG the archæological riches of the Museum of Napoleon III., which has been open to the public of Paris only during the past few months, is the fac-fimile of what is called The Teftament of the Emperor Before the entire original is published, Auguftus." This fac-fimile is due to the labor of M. Perrot, who discovered "the Teftament" engraved upon the façade of a temple to Auguftus, in Angora, in Afia Minor. nordWq&

together with the Greek translation, a nostice of the principal facts recorded in the infcription may prove interefting to the readers of The Philobiblion. The heading is as follows bilasen e gulv Kal

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