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sor ali appearances in the vis hie worid, by second eavisses, by the powers of matter. and mechanismi and thus they might come insensib ly to larget or neglectthe great original causo os all. This Lind of rea ning convinced the multitude, o verawed the wiser seis, and essectualty put a stop to the progress os usesul Iinowledge. . Such, tu generat, Here tho dispositions os man-hInd. When stir Francis Bacon came in to the Woride
which ali iacis ali he had, tili then. held them. As a plausibie hypothesis. a shining theorV, a re more amuis sing to the imagination . and a shorter Way to fame, han the patient and humble methon os experiment. In g, os pursuing nature thro' ali her labyrinths by factarid observatiori ; a philosophy, butit oti this principierould not. at sirst. mahe any lii lden or generat rovolution in tho Iearned worid. But iis progress , like ibatos time. quiet, Ilow, and lare, has in the end been might y and universat. He was not however the firstamong tbe modern s. who ventured to dissent Dom Aris. tolle. Ramus, Patricius. Brutio, Severinus, to Nam e
en to do ovor the persons of men. But these Writers invented ii ille that was valvable themselves. howeveri u stly they might reprehend many ihings in him. Andaa to the real improvemetits made in sonae paris Os natural knowledge, belare Our author appeared. by Gil heri, Haroey, Copernicus. Father Paul, and sonae fewothera, they are Heli linown, and have been deserved -Iν celebra ted. Υet there was still wanting one great, and comprehensive Plan, that might embrace tho al- nost
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most infinite varioties os scienem anst guide our en qui-xies aright in all. Thia Sir Francia Bacoti first conceivedri in ita .ulmost extent, to his own Iasting honour. and to the generat latilily of man Lind. I f.we stand fur priZed at the happy imagination os such a System. o ursurpriete redolabies upoci Us, when we reneci, that he invented and methodized this System, persected scimuch, and shelched out so much more of it. amicis the drud gery of bustiess. and the civit tumulis of ac Ti. Nature seems to have intended him peculiartylar this province, by bes o wing on him with a liberalhand est the qualities requisite: a sancy volubie and prompt to discover ilic similitudes of things; a judg- .ment steady, and intent to note their subilest differen ces; a Iove os meditation and enquiryι a patience iudouhting; aslowneis and dissiden ce in assim ing; a sa ellio os retracting; a judicious anxiety to planatiddis 'Pola. A mind of such a cast, iliat Dei ther assected no- Sesty. nor idoli aed antiquity, that was an enony is allim postiare, must have had a certain congeniali ty ana relation to truth. u These characters, whicli ith a no tile confidelice he has applyed io himsele, are obvious and eminent in his Instauration of the sciences: a Orh. by hsm designed. not as a monument to his own fame, hut a perpetuat lega to the common benefit os othera.
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produced in a long and eager discussion of this idIequestion, may be easty collected. Is ridicule be applied to any position as the thesi os truth, it will theti Become a question, whether such ridicule he j ist; ana his cati only be decided by the application os truth, as the test os ridicule.
Two meri, searing, one a real. and the other a sancied danger, will be sor a while equalty exposed tolhe inevitabie consequences Oscowardice,Contemptuo uscensure, and ludicrous representation; . and the truu
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mitted into the College of Physicians; he wrote liti le
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Poetry. but published Dom time to time med eal es. Lys and ohserv atiotis; he betam e physcian tb St. Thomas's Hospital; havlng teaililhe Guistonian Lectu res In Anatomy, ho began to give; sor the Cronian Lectu--. ati history of the revivat os Learning Rom. whichhe laon desisted ; and , in conversation, he Very ea gerly forcen himself into notice by an ambitio us ostentationos elegance and literature. His Disco urse ori the Dyler te 1764 was considered as a very conspicuous specimen os Latini in which intit Iod him to the fame height of place among the scholais as he possessed besore among the wiis, and he might perhaps have risen to a greater elevation os Character, hut that his studies inere en ded with his ii by a putrid sever, Iuno 25. 177O. in the forty-ninthyear of his age. Ahenfide is to be cosidered as a didacti ch and ly. xicli Poet. His great wo in is the Pleasu res of Imagina
ple of great felicity of genius, and uncommon amplis tude of acquisitions, of a young mind stored with ima-ges. and much exercised in combining and comparing
Wilh the philosophical or religious tenets of the au. thor. I have nothing to do; my busi se is inith his poe-t . The subjectis Hell-cho seri, as it incIudes alti magea that cati strihe or plea , and thus comprises every species of poetical delight, The only difficulty is in the choice of examples and ilIustrations and it is not ea sy in sucti
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exuberanee of matter. to find the middie potnt belwee. penury and satiety. The Paris seem artificiatly dispo. sed . inith sufficient coheretice, so as that they cannotchange their places intibo ut injury to the generat dersign. His images are displayed with lach luxuriance of expression. that they are hidden, lihe Butiler's Μoon.
hy a Veii οἱ Light; they are forms saniasticatly ιost uti. dex superfluily os drela et Para minima est ipsa puella sui. The words are multiplied illi the sense is hardjPerceived; attention deseris the mind. and latiles in theear. The reader wanders through the gay diffusion. lamelimes ama Eed, and lamelimes delighted; hut, a Rier many turnings in the nowery labyrinth, comes outas he went in. He remarhed litile, and laid hola ori nothing. To his versilication, justice requires. that pratis should not be detii ed. In the generat fabrication of his lines, ne is perhaps superior to any other writer of blatili verse; his flow is smo oth, and his paulas aremuscat; hut the concatenation of his verses is commonly too long continued, ani the fuit close do es notrecur With sufficient frequen . The sense is carried onthrough a long intertexture of complica ted clauses, andas nothing ia distinguished, nothing is remembred. The exemption whicli hiatili verse affords Rom the Nocessii y of closing the latita with the couplet, bet rara luxuriant and active minda into such indulgence. thatthey Pile image upon image, ornament uPOn Orna ment. and are not ea silypersuaded to close the sense at .all. Blatili verse will theresore, I sear. be too ostenseund in description exuberant, in argument loqua
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His dictioti is certain ly so far poetical as It is notprosaich. and so far Valuable as it is uot common. Hela to he commended as having Lewer artifices os disgost than molt of his brethern of the blatili lang. Herare-Iy. ei ther recalIs old phrases or' twisis his metre intoharsh inversions. The sense however of his Worda is stra ined, when he vie a the Gauges from AIEine heights. that is, Dona mountains like the Alps. Anathe pedant su rely in trudes, hut when was hiatili vo without pedan try2 when he telis how Planeta absolveihe stated round of Time. It is generalty hnown to the readers of poetV. thathe intended to revise and augment this Hork, but diei helare he had completed his design. The reformedworh, as he lest it, and the addition, he had made. are very properly reta ined in the late Collection. He seemato have so me what contracted his diffusion; but Ilino in Dot, whether he has gained in clo nefa what he has Iost in splendor. In the additional booli, the Tale of Solon is too long. His other poems a re now to he considered; but amori consideration will dispalch them. It is Dot ea syto mela, Why he addicted himself so diligently to Ly-