Here are a band, by no employ disgraced ; Complain, unless a brazen pillar rise Bid the revolving world its course forbear, As they proceed within the mirrour rise Ruin to them who dare mislead mankind ! Empiricks who destroy without control, Promise to free the heart from sinful stain, To restrain vice and folly is their plan, Unless the offence be known, no law is broke, Vain were the task, and endless, to describe -monumentum æris perennius. HOR. Was parmacity for an inward bruise. SHAK 3N Of vile impostors; wretches, who degrade A liberal science to a menial trade o ++itpfpn¥p!," 200 Systems elaborately harmonize. If raised by fortune, though by crime debased, H They have a patient ear, smiles at command, mas A rapid sight to instantly decide Which is the weak, and which the strongest side There is to man, and so there is to heaven, 210 A crime so black it cannot be forgiven! 1 220 Folly to blind, and ignorance to confound, Sir, you mean me! some warning conscience cries. You mean yourself, Experience replies: t I'm no assassin, murdering in the dark, -the little dogs, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see they bark at me. d you , on! ? SHAK. Leur ** i And with the point of her envenomed dart 240 lowly engraves her memory in the heart ; Then he will change...not principle, but place, 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, Experience ceased ; his eyes the traveller cast Above, her temple stood ; the pillars rise 260 Founded on adamant, and reach the skies. Let us approach, he cried, the sacred fane, Weary and weak, 'uis now too late to climb This was no mirrour, but a vacant frame, Reason subdued, thy conquering senses chose, 280 Averse to toil, inglorious repose. Farewell! and learn, 'tis man's disastrous fate, He ceased. With languid look the traveller glanced No more like him the “ eastern hill to climb" ; 290' Death is to man the eternal night of Time, 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. Triftius haud illis monftrum, nec fævior ulla unçæque manus & pallida semper invadunt socii & nova prælia tentant 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. 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 |