THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, MDCCCXII. Nemo adeò ferus eft, ut non mitefcere poffit, VOLUME XL. HORT London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. 1812. PREFACE. NE branch of the new art of MNEMONICS We Nave always practifed and taught, the art of remembering what good books have been published, in any branch of knowledge. In many other things, we agree with Themiftocles that the art of forgetting must be the most desirable; and in particular we very quickly forget what books and authors we have been obliged to cenfure. Of these, therefore, no traces remain in our half-yearly Prefaces; which may not improperly be called, the beauties of literary recollection. First then, as ufual, for theological memorials. DIVINITY. The pleasure of commending a valuable work is fenfibly diminished, when the author can no longer enjoy the commendations he has earned. That this fhould happen in the cafe of Dr. Pearson, we particularly regretted. His pious and ufeful labours at Rempftone we had often celebrated; and when we faw him not only in the pulpit of Warburton, but at the head of a College in Cambridge, (Sidney) we A 2 rejoiced |