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Inftance, in the Actions of fuch an humble Perfon as the Man of Rofs, than in all the Victories of our Edwards and our Harries? or (to go farther back in Hiftory) how much more amiable is the Death of Socrates, than the whole Life of Alexanander the Great?

''ཨཉྙཱ ཝཱ

As Virtue is the fupreme Beauty, fo is Vice the moft odious of all Deformities. I do not know how to make this more evident to you by any Inftance, than by that of the different Conduct of Two very celebrated Poets, Milton and Taffo, in defcribing the fallen Angels: Taffo's Devils are chiefly made hideous by their Shape; their Horns and Tails are the principal Ingredients of Deformity in his Defcriptions of them; whereas Mton generally omits thofe little Particulars, and paints out the Deformity of their Minds; their Pride, Impiety, Malignity, and Obftinacy; by which Means his Devils are tenfold more Devils, and more odious and horrible to the Reader, than thofe of the Italian Poet.

There is a mighty eafy Confequence to be drawn from all this, which well deferves to be more generally obferved. If Virtue be the chief Beauty, People, to be beautiful, fhould endeavour to be virtuous; and fhould avoid Vice, and all the worst Sort of Paffions, as they would fly Deformity. I with the more beautiful Half of the human Creation, in particular, were thoroughly fenfible of this great Truth; "That the readiest Way to be "beautiful, is to be good ;" and fuch of them as are more folicitous about choofing and adjusting

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what they wear, and how that will appear, than about forming their Minds, and regulating their disagreeable Paffions, will really fall under the Cenfure I mentioned before, from one of the Latin Poets; and fhew too plainly to all the World, that they, in their own Hearts, confider their Drefs as the better Part of themfelves.

I must have quite tired you, I believe, added CRITO, rifing; and should be glad if you would take a little Walk, to refresh us all after this long Harangue. It has been far from seeming long to us (replied MILESIUS, as they were all going together out of the Tent:) "Tis a Subject that can fcarce ever be tirefome; and your Manner of treating it has, in general, been very pleasing; only I must fay, that, toward the Conclufion, it began to grow a little too like a Sermon. I wish, fays TIMANTHES, that fome Ladies of your Aequaintance had been present at the whole Difcourfe, and particularly at that Part of it; for I don't know whether it might not have done them more Good, than any Sermon that they ever were at in their Lives. However, as there were no Ladies here, I wifh CRITO would give us, who were of his Audience, Leave to beg he would be fo good as print it, for the Benefit of the Fair Sex in general; for, I dare fay, it would be of good Ufe to fome of them. I know not whether it would be of any Ufe to them, replied' CRITO; but if you really thought fo, and could recolle& enough of it to write it down, it is entirely at your Service; and you have my füll Leave to fend it to the Prefs, as foon as you please.

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A PAR

A PARTICULAR

ACCOUNT

OF THE

EMPEROR of CHINA'S

GARDENS, near PEKIN:

IN A

LETTER from F. ATTIRET, a French Miffionary, now employed by that Emperor to paint the Apartments in thofe Gardens, to his Friend at Paris.

Tranflated from the French;

By Sir HARRY BEAUMONT.

ADVERTISEMENT

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TO THE

PUBLIC.

T is now above Half a Century, fince the French have been publishing a Collection of the Letters of their Miffionaries; from all the most distant Parts of the World. This Collection is already grown very voluminous. The famous Pere du Halde was the Perfon who had the chief Hand in making and publishing it. There were but Eight Volumes that had appeared before he undertook the Care of it, which was in the Year 1711; and he carried it on, in Eighteen more, to the Year 1743; when the Death of that Father, and fome other Incidents, occafioned an Interruption of the Work, for about Six Years. It was refumed in 1749, by F. Pattouillet; who then published the 27th Volume. The following is a Tranflation of the Firft Letter in-that Volume; and is, perhaps, as curious as any one in the whole Collection.

A LET

LETTER

FROM A

FRENCH MISSIONARY

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CHIN A.

SIR,

PEKIN, Nov. 1, 1743.

T was with the greatest Pleasure that I received your Two laft Letters; one of the

13th of October, and the other of the 2d of November, 1742. I communicated the very interesting Account of the Affairs of Europe, which you gave me in them, to the rest of our Miffionaries; who join with me in our fincere Thanks. I thank you too, in particular, for the Box full of Works in Straw, and Flowers, which came very fafe to me: but I beg of you not to put yourfelf to any fuch Expence for the future; for the Chinese very much exceed the Europeans, in those

kinds

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