to the Lords Egremont and VLETTERS, of Lady Mary Wortley Bofwell, feld, LINGUET'S Hiftory of the Age of MAD AD-Houfes, fee Report. tions on the Means of regulat- MACINTIRE'S marine Difcipline, MALLET'S Elvira, a Tragedy, 67 MARIN'S Letter on a Project inter- MARMONTELL'S Treatife on 563 492 MODERN Univerfal Hiftory, Vol. 76 OLI 567 SPANISH Settlements in America, SQUIRE, Dr. his Catechifm, 396 244 STUART'S Antiquities of Athens, 79 SOISSONS, Bishop of, his Paftoral 402 V. Instructions concerning the Je-VATTEL's Remarks on Wol- VENUTI's Differtation on the God- VIRGIL'S Eclogues made eafy, 245 VOLTAIRE, Critical Reflections THREE Original Letters, 240 TOUSSAINT'S Illuftration of the THE Tower, a poetical Epistle to 157 TRUE State of the Cafe, 157 492 W ALES, Principality of, Pro- WARD's Medicines, Receipts for Edition, WATKINSON on Oeconomy, 4th WESLEY'S Letter to the Bishop of Charndler's Answer to ditto, MONTHLY REVIEW, For JANUARY, 1763. Emilius and Sophia: Or, a new Syftem of Education. Tranflated from the French of J. J. Rouffeau. By the Tranflator of Eloifa, Vols. III. and IV. 5s. fewed. Becket and De Hondt. in our former accounts of this accom Η Hpanied Mr. Rouffeau to the end of his third book, we en ter, with him, in his fourth, on that alarming period of youth, when inftinet hath fully awakened the paffions, and the man begins to grow fenfible of his moral existence. Man, fays Mr. Rouffeau, (apologizing for the quaintnefs of the expreffion) is born twice; first to exift, and then to live; once as to fpecies, and again with regard to fex.-At the age of puberty commences this fecond birth, when he is truly born to live, and enters into full poffeffion of the powers of human nature. Our care hitherto, therefore, fays he, has been little more than childrens play: it now becomes of real importance. But, tho' nature points out the time when a youth emerges from infancy, he obferves, that this period may be either accelerated or retarded by education: and, as he conceives, a great deal depends, as well with regard to the phyfical as the moral conftitution, on the late appearance of this crifis, he advifes thofe who have the care of children, to avoid every thing in their difcourfe and behaviour that may excite curiofity, or kindle the paffions. The inftructions of nature, fays he, are late and tedious, thofe of man are almost always premature. In the firft cafe, the fenfes rouze the imagination; in the fecond, the imagination awakens the fenfes, and gives them a too early activity, which cannot fail to enervate individuals, and in time the fpecies. It has been long a general and certain obfervation, VOL: XXVIII. B that |
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