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Here are a band, by no employ disgraced ;
All their vocation to be men of taste :
A living catalogue, which never looks, 14.00
Beyond the title, size, and price of books ;
This stupid signpost stands at Learning's door,
Tells, “ Entertainment here," but knows no more.
The spawn of Idleness, a vagrant crew,
Base sons of Genius, whom he never knew,

Complain, unless a brazen pillar rise
150 To note their fame-neglected merit dies ;

Bid the revolving world its course forbear,
To hear a sonnet-to Melissa's hair.
Are they to learn, the author should unite
Wisdom with wit, and profit with delight?
Who thank the shower denied the thirsty plain,
Were all its blessings scattered on the main ?
If the cold soil no genial heat expand ;
The sunbeam wasted on the desart sand ?

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As they proceed within the mirrour rise
160 A sable group, and thus Experience cries,

Ruin to them who dare mislead mankind !
Shut their own eyes, and then direct the blind ;
Ruin to those who gain dishonest bread
With lips unclean-unconsecrated head !
Who from the worship of the temple rove
To the high hill, or the unhallowed grove ;
Unlicensed on the sacred offering feast,
Degrade Heaven's altar, and defraud his priest.

Empiricks who destroy without control,
170 The moral constitution of the soul ;

Promise to free the heart from sinful stain,
As quacks draw teeth, nor give the patient pain.
To heal the broken spirit, they infuse
Some grand specifick “ for an inward bruise.”+
Say, can the patent opiate they advise,
Compose to sleep the worm which never dies ;
Their lotions purify from guilty fears,
Like bitter floods of penitence and tears?

To restrain vice and folly is their plan,
180 Not by the fear of God, but fear of man ;

Unless the offence be known, no law is broke,
And future recompense for crime, a joke.
Oh, strip the miscreants of the robe they stain,
And drive them from the altar they profane.

Vain were the task, and endless, to describe
Of shape, so varied, each degenerate tribe

-monumentum æris perennius. HOR.
t-telling me the sovoreignest thing on earth

Was parmacity for an inward bruise. SHAK
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Riches and power their sordid souls enflame ; * but doað
Content with fortune, they deserve not fame.1
These haunt the Forum...these the law disgrace
Like birds of prey, who wear the human face,
Voracious harpies, they the food defile,
By rapine seized, that none may share the spoil.
They can fix bounds, or landmarks can remove,
Last testaments at pleasure break, or prove;
To furnish proof, in perjury they trade, 1
Invent an oath, or sell one ready made,
And from a chaos of discordant lies,

200 Systems elaborately harmonize.

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If raised by fortune, though by crime debased,
Have these the senatorial robe disgraced?

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They have a patient ear, smiles at command, mas
A supple body, an extended hand,

A rapid sight to instantly decide

Which is the weak, and which the strongest side
For right or wrong indifferently they vote,
Change principle or party with their coat.

There is to man, and so there is to heaven,

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210 A crime so black it cannot be forgiven!
"Tis not of human growth; the root is laid
In hell, and earth the branches overshade ;
It is the sin of fiends, apostates base,
Who shun the light which flashes in their face,
Whose lips express the lie the heart denies,
And the conviction which it feels, defies;
The patient power, protecting them, deride,
And spurn the bounty which their wants supplied.
Who scatter, like a mist, delusion round,

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220 Folly to blind, and ignorance to confound,
When they obscure the light of truth divine,
Then, sprung from filth, these exhalations shine.

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Sir, you mean me! some warning conscience cries.

You mean yourself, Experience replies:
Full many a tedious corner I go round,
Lest, my good friend, I trespass on your ground.
Who sat? the picture of a dog I drew,
Not" Tray, nor Blanch, nor Sweetheart"-Sir, did
Indeed no fancy portraits were designed,
230 Far less the individual...but the kind.

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I'm no assassin, murdering in the dark,
'Tis not the fool...the folly is my mark;
Swift flies the vagrant arrow from the string,
Shot at å venture, it may pierce a king.

-the little dogs,

Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see they bark at me.

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When timid friends retire, and hide their head
Behind the gathering cloud misfortune spread ;
When secret slander bids-her ruffian band
« Strike the death blow, but hide the guilty hand,"

And with the point of her envenomed dart 240 lowly engraves her memory in the heart ;

Then he will change...not principle, but place,
Far worse than death, the patriot fears disgrace ;*
With dignified retirement live content,
Self-satisfied, contemplate life well spent.
And when at last his country shall be just,
Malice and envy buried with the dust,
Then from the tomb, ascending to the skies,
Truth's injured spirit, just released, shall rise ;

There memory feels ber power of voice too weak, -250 There kneeling Gratitude, too full to speak,

His eye with mute, but most expressive praise,
In yonder temple views with steadfast gaze, 1
Beyond the grasp of Time, immortal Fame
Unite to WASHINGTON's her Adams' name.

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Experience ceased ; his eyes the traveller cast
Within the mirrour, to review the past ;
A straight and narrow path the plain divides,
Which to the rugged mountain's summit guides.

Above, her temple stood ; the pillars rise 260 Founded on adamant, and reach the skies.

Let us approach, he cried, the sacred fane,
Nor longer traverse this ignoble plain.
To him the sage replied, with frown severe,
Yet, as he spoke, restrained the falling tear,....
Just undeceived.? why hast thou spent the day
Where fashion, folly, vice, and pleasure stray ?
Now thy limbs totter, scarce the blood maintains
Its lazy current through thy stiffening veins ;

Weary and weak, 'uis now too late to climb
270 The mount; behold the downward course of Time ;

This was no mirrour, but a vacant frame,
To teach thee, past and future are the same.
What seemed illusive to thine eyes, was true ;
What seemed reflection, was the distant view.
Not an amused spectator hast thou been,
Thou wert a real actor in the scene.
The plain, the mountain, both appeared in sight;
This promised glory, that ensured delight.

Reason subdued, thy conquering senses chose, 280 Averse to toil, inglorious repose.

Farewell! and learn, 'tis man's disastrous fate,
Time flies too soon, Experience comes too late.

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He ceased. With languid look the traveller glanced
The distant point from whence he first advanced ;:
Now far behind him, dwindling in his sight,
With swiftest pinion Time pursued his flight ;
He with the western sun declining fast,
The outward circle of the horizon past,

No more like him the “ eastern hill to climb" ; 290' Death is to man the eternal night of Time,

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NOTES. That truant garter, she adorned with stars.-Line 182.1 The order of the garter was instituted by Edward III, in the year 1350. Many events, which belong to remote periods of English history, are involved in , obscurity. Its origin has been attributed to an accident, which is related to have happened to the countess of Salisbury, the mistress of Edward. Perhaps ather conjectures are more plausible, and have nearer affinity to truth; but, all the world knows, truth better suits the purpose of the historian than the poet.

Charles I. afterwards added the star to the insignia of the order.

Voracious harpies, they the food defile.-L. 193.
They are described in the third book of the Æneid :

Triftius haud illis monftrum, nec fævior ulla
Pestis, & via Deum Stygiis sese extulit undis
Virginci volucrum vultus

unçæque manus & pallida semper
Ora fame.
Harpiæ, & magnis quatiunt clangoribus alas
Diripiuntque dapes, contaduque omnia fædant
Immundo: tum vox tetrum dira inter odoren.
Rursum in secessti longo, sub rupe cavata
Arboribus clausi circum atque horrentibus umbris,
Instruimus mensas, arisque reponimus igrein
Rursum ex diverso coeli, cæcisquc latebris,
Turba sonans prædam pcdibus circumvolat uncis,
Polluit ora dapes:

invadunt socii & nova prælia tentant
Obscænas pelagi ferro fædare volucres"
Sed neque vim plumis ullam, nec vulnera tergo

Accipient. If this were not narrative, the nefarious practices of an unprincipled attorney could not be more faithfully delineated in allegorical representation. We instantly know the griping talons, the pale famished visage, the noisy nonsense, "magnis clangoribus alas." We see him impertinently intrude into the recesses of domestick retirement, an unwelcome guest both at the table and the altar. If his conduct provoke indignation, he neither feels, nor regards in character or person, disgrace or chastisement.

.... neque vim plumis ullam, nec vulnera tergo “ Accipiunt.”

Have these the senatorial robe disgraced ?-L. 202. In ancient Rome, eloquence was principally confined to the senate and the fo. rum. Having described characters who disgrace the bar, we proceed to mark athers engaged in political pursuits. The term, senatorial, is here opposed to the term, forensick, and is not intended for a particular body, but for all who dishona our the legislative station, whether at present in publick or private life. By ill. nature more than ignorance it may be invidiously misapplied.

Swift flies the vagrant arrow from the string.-L. 233. Experience may not be so happy in this allusion to the sacred writings as to be readily understood. Chronicles, b. II. chap. xviii. «And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king between the joints of the harness,"? &c.He intends to illustrate his preceding remarks...He aims at the whole flock, he does not select a particular bird. Yet small and great being equally exposed, it: may happen that one of the leaders may be casually wounded by his arrow.

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Librum tuum legi & quam diligentissime potuí annotavi, quæ commutanda, quæ eximenda, ar bitrarer. Nam ego dicere verum assuevi. Neque ulli patientius reprehenduntur, quam qui maxime landari merentur.-Pliny.

ARTICLE 38..

* Concluded from page 428.

ADAM in Biography is another example of numerous and unwarrantable deviations from the origi

Vol. I. Part I. of The New Cyclonal work; and none of these altepedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. By Abraham Rees. First American edition. 4to. Philadelphia.

We now proceed to expose other important alterations, which the American editors have not thought proper particularly to indicate to their readers.

The article ACCOMMODATION in Theology in the English edition consists of about four columns and a half, in which compass much curious and interesting learning is introduced from several eminent writers. In the American edition all this is reduced to a very meagre,half-column, or about one ninth part of the original. Two whole pages are thus struck out, and the reader is not informed of it! But this is not all. A reference, which Dr. Rees makes to another part of the work, the article QUOTATION, where the subject would doubtless be resumed, is also suppressed. Are we to understand by this, that the American editors intend to suppress the whole article, to which this reference is made? If such is to be the management in the succeeding volumes, the publick, we trust, will, manifest that indignation, which is due to conduct worthy of the darkest ages of monkish cun ning.

rations, though among the most important in the volume, are designated by any mark. It should be observed also, that the conclud

ing sentence of a paragraph in the original article rendered it necessary to make a reference to the articles, FALL of MAN and ORIGINAL SIN. That sentence is struck out of the American edition, and with it the reference, and a new sentence of a very different import is substituted by the American editors; from which it is to be presumed,that those two important articles are to be wholly omitted. This has proceeded, undoubtedly, from the same motives with the suppression of the refer ence in the other instance we men. tioned. We leave the liberalminded reader to determine what name such conduct deserves.

We forbear extending our remarks upon other articles,in which similar mutilations have been made, but we think some of our readers will feel obliged to us, if we point out such as we have discovered, and leave the comparison of them with the original to the leisure of individuals. And here we would observe, that it is not merely in articles of magnitude that such reprehensible mutilations are made; the same spirit may be traced from the largest to the

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