OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR AUGUST, 1810.. Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart. NEW WORKS. The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages, in two parts; containing all the words in general use, and authorized by the best writers; the several parts of speech-the genders of the French nouns-the accents of the English words, for the use of foreigners—an alphabetical list of the most usual Christian and proper names, and of the most remarkable places in the known world. By Thomas Nugent, L. L. D. The first American, from the last London edition, carefully corrected, with the additions of the new words, inserted in Moutardier's and Le Clerc's last edition of the National French Dictionary; the irregularities of the English Verbs and Nouns; and a comprehensive view of the pronunciation and syntax of the French Language. By J. Ouiseau. Boston; Isaiah Thomas, jun. 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By Mary Ann Clarke. 2 vols. THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY, FOR SEPTEMBER, 1810. FOR THE ANTHOLOGY. A DISCOURSE, INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF Φ. Β. Κ. ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY, THE DAY AFTER COMMENCEMENT AT By one of its Members. [Mr. WILLIAM TUDOR, unexpectedly called to embark for England, just before the anniversary of the society, was induced by his respect for those who appointed him to leave his discourse at their disposal. They have consented to its publication in the Anthology; and thus have expressed their regard for the author, and a sense of the merit of the performance, which we presume no one who reads it will think undeserved. We publish it with a pleasure impaired only by our regret for the absence of the author, now on his passage; and in the language of Horace, pray Sic te diva potens Cypri, Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, Navis, quae tibi creditum Debes Virgilium finibus Atticis, ED. ANTH.] THE ambition of appearing before you, my friends, on this occasion, has been attended with more difficulties than I had apprehended. The attention is not directed by custom or injunction to any particular class of subjects. The few precedents furnished by our society, are only insulated objects in the wide expanse of literature, that induce hesitation which to follow. Without fatiguing you by dwelling on these previous obstacles, I now solicit your indulgence to a few general remarks on the state of learning in some countries of Europe : and for some observations on its condition among ourselves, and on the circumstances peculiar to our situation, that excite our fears and our hopes for the future. The fourteenth century was rendered memorable by the revival of learning in Italy, where the streams of knowledge again burst forth, after being concealed by centuries of ignorance and barbarity; as certain rivers sink into the earth, leaving it barren and desolate, to reappear in another region which they vivify and adorn. It was by the patronage of the Medici, and other illustrious citizens of Tuscany, that some Greeks from Constantinople, who still retained a glimmering of the philosophy of their ancestors, were brought to the free cities of Italy to found schools of philosophy and language; and to aid that spirit of research, which gradually brought to light all the treasures of antiquity. Zeal for these new discoveries soon became a predominant passion: Homer, Virgil and Horace, Plato, Aristotle and Cicero, were now the rich mines that were earnestly examined; and their precious metal, which time could not injure, was again brought into currency among the learned. Books were made, and reputations established from the lawful pillage of their works. So the modern inhabitants of Rome, from the magnificent edifices of ancient architecture, derived the well-prepared materials, with which they have constructed palaces and edifices innumerable: still those majestick piles remain monuments of solitary, unequalled grandeur, amid the elegant, the convenient, but the diminutive structures around them. Poetry and commentaries on the classick authors were the first results of this new excitement of the mind. Philosophy was indeed pursued with avidity; the disciples of the two schools of Aristotle and Plato were often opposed to each other with such warmth and zeal, that their fondness for wisdom rather resembled the passion of a lover than the attachment of a friend. The teachers of philosophy were tolerated in the ecclesiastical state; but sufficient precautions were used to prevent their doctrines from proceeding any further than theory. The variety of small, free states, the very peculiar construction of the papal power, occasioned great proficience in the |