343 fhould not think the addition of it fufficient acknowledgment of his merit; especially fince I am informed, that the fimplicity of his life is agreeable to his useful know. ledge and learning subres

The praife of this author feems to me to be the great perfpicuity and method which render his work intelli gible and pleafing to people who are strangers to facht inquiries, as well as to the learned. It is a very defirable entertainment, to find occafions of pleasure and fatisfaction in those objects and occurrences when we have all our lives, perhaps, overlooked, or beherd without exciting any reflections that made us wifer or happier.. The plain good man does, as with a wand, fhow us the wonders and fpectacles in all nature, and the particular capacties with which all living creatures are endowed for their feveral ways of life; how the organs of crea tures are made according to their different paths in which they are to move, and provide for themselves and fami lies; whether they are to creep, to leap, to fwim, to fly, to walk; whether they are to inhabit the bowels of the earth, the coverts of the wood, the muddy or clear ftreams; to howl in forefts, or converfe in cities. All life, from that of a worm to that of a man, is explained: and, as 1 may fo fpeak, the wondrous works of the creation, by the obfervations of this author, lie before us as objects that create love and admiration ; which, without fuch explications, ftrike us only with confufion and amazement.

The man who, before he had this book, dressed, and went out to loiter, and gather up fomething to entertain a mind too vacant, no longer needs news to give himself amusement. The very air he breathes, fuggefts abundant matter for his thoughts. He will confider, that he has begun another day of life, to breathe with all other creatures in the fame mafs of air, vapours, and clouds, which furround our globe; and of all the numberlefs animals that live by receiving momentary life,. or rather momentary and new reprieves from death, at their noftrils, he only stands erect, confcious and con templative of the benefaction.

A man who is not capable of philofophical reflections from his own education, will be as much pleased as with

any other good news which he had not before beard. The agitations of the winds, and the falling of the rains, are what are abfolutely neceffary for his welfare and accommodation. This kind of reader will behold the light with a new joy, and a fort of reasonable rapture. He will be led from the appendages which attend and forround our globe, to the contemplation of the globe! itfelf, the diftribution of the earth and waters, the variety and quantity of all things provided for the ufes of our world. Then will his contemplation, which was too diffufed and general, be let down to particulars, to dif ferent foils and moulds, to the beds of minerals and ftones, into caverns and vulcanos, and then again to the tops of mountains, and then again to the fields and vallies.

When the author has acquainted his reader wi⚫. the place of his abode, he informs him of his capacity to. make himself eafy and happy in it, by the gift of fenfes, by their ready organs; by fhewing him the ftructure of thofe organs, the difpofition of the ear for the receipt of founds, of the noftril for smell, the tongue for tafte,: the nerves to avoid harms, by our feeling, and the eye by our fight, straynon de ceilingt i

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The whole work is concluded (as it is the fum of fif teen fermons in proof of the existence of the Deity) with reflections which apply each diftinct part of it to an end, for which the author may hope to be rewarded with an immortality much more to be defined, than that of remaining in eternal honour among all the fons of men. ers, beijaib, „dood and bad of 97old cla.m

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The figures refer to the numbers of the papers.

ACtive parts of mankind
compared with fpeculative

130
Adamites, a fect fo called 13:3
Advertisement about a modesty
piece 145. About the Exa
miner 1.70
Alehouse keeper, an- elegant
one on the road to Hamp
stead 144. Alexander's letter
to Ariftotle III.
All for love, tragedy of, faulty,
and in what i ro."
Allegory, directions for using it

152.

Alnarefchin, the Great, King
of Perfia, his story 167.

Art, thofe that are capable of

it most fond of nature 173.
Aftronomy, the study of it re-
commended 169.

Atalantis, author of, to whom
a kin 107.

Athalia of Racine, fome parts
of it fublime г17.
Attraction between bodies 126,
Auguftus, Virgil's praises of him
138.
Aurelia, a dream that she had a
window to her breaft, and
what was in it 106.
Aurengezebe, tragedy of, faulty,
and in what. 110.

customs of that place

Alphonfo, story of, as told by 4. Praifes of the waters ib.

Strada's Lucan 19 AV
Anacreon's inftructions to a
painter to paint his mistress
-'168.*
Anaximander, his faying upon
being laughed at $35.
Androcles, the ftory of him

and the lion 139.lifoni:
Ancestry renders the good only
illuftrious 122. To value
one's felt upon it ridiculous
137. To be venerated ib.
Anger, a definition of it 129.
Its ill confequences ib.
Annihilation, a dull and phleg-
matic thought 89.
Ants, their way of nefting in
Siam 157. and elsewhere ib.
A letter about them 166,
Antient authors,how distinguish
ed in Strada's prolusion 1 19.
Ariftotle, his contempt of cen-

fure 135

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Beauty at war with fortitude 15 2
Bias's faying of calumny 135.
Binicorn, Humphrey, his letter

to the Guardian 124.
Bodkin, Timothy, his letter a-
about his thort sword 145.00
Boileau's account of the sublime

CAre, Dorothy, her letter Coxcombs, lettered, where to