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"Way foever you caft your Eyes in the Apartment,' 46 you fee nothing but Guns, Pistols, Swords, Boots, Sadles, mufical Books, and Inftruments. Vertilas "tells you immediately: Where was you Yesterday, my dear Friend, when I fent for you? I gave a Treat to all the Opera, and we had a charming Confort. The Italian Mufick and the Italian Muficians are mightily cried up. For my own "Part, I am for Lully and the French Mufick. The "Italians are quite wrong, and do not affect the Senfes as the French do. We have made a Hunt ing Match: Will you come in for one? I have fix "led Horfes the fineft in the World. I fhall take it as a Favour, if you will ride one, and fhare in our Diverfion. We are already Eight, and defign to treat one another by turns, and to hunt toge"ther. What have you to do at Paris? What Bu"finess can hinder you from going with us? I have won Three hundred Piftoles at Play within these few Days: That Money will ferve for our Charges, and for Powder and Shot.

"All those who vifit Vertilas, are Counts, Marquef fes, Courtiers, and Sword-men; for his Porter has Orders to let in 'no Body elfe. Vertilas has a Confort "of Mufick at Home twice a Week, when he is at "Paris, to which he invites none of his Relations of "either Sex, but only his Friends who love Mufick

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and Inftruments, and use to hunt, to play, and to "drink with him; for he glories in being a hard Drinker, and is always provided, and takes Care to provide his Friends with the best Wines. Not "contented to take a Journey into England in "order to buy Hunting-Dogs and Horses, he makes a Trade of it, and fells them to great Men, who are well fatisfied with him, and commend him "for his good Tafte. All his Domefticks are either "Huntsmen or Players upon Mufical Inftruments, or

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no Purpose to talk to him of marrying: He will not get a Wife fo foon, left fhe fhould deprive "him of his Liberty. He knows no better Occupa ❝tion than Hunting, Gaming, Mufick, and good "Cheer; and therefore cannot apprehend how any

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one can be happy that does not enioy thofe Plea"fures. Reading and good Books are no lefs in"tolerable to him than the Care of Reckoning with

his Farmers and Tenants. He wholly depends "for that upon an old Secretary, formerly a Serἐσ vant to his Father, and only defires to give a 66 Receipt for the Money he receives. He has fo "little Oeconomy, that he affects to let his Land at a low Rate, that he may eafily find a Farmer, and have a quick Return of his Money.' "He cannot abide the Company of Gown-Men,' and Men of Letters. They were born (fays he) to torment other People : The latter cenfure your Conduct, and do not approve you should enjoy any Pleafure: The former use "all their Industry to make you poor and uneafy,' " and talk of nothing but of Law Suits. These are "the Reasons for which Vertilas does not fee his "neareft Relations, who are Men of those two Pro"feffions: He hates them mortally, because Ten "Years ago they forced him to be a Magiftrate againft his Will and his Inclination.

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Here follows the oppofite Character of a Regular Magiftrate,

"Tho' Valerius has not been Six Years a Magiftrate, yet he is fo much esteemed for his conftant "Attendance, Application, and Judgment, that the most important Affairs are already put into his Hands. Being fenfible that he has not yet acquired a fuf"ficient Experience and Capacity, he ufes his ut"moft Endeavours to qualify himself for his Office. "He ftudies continually: He keeps a Man of Letters,

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quent Conferences, because he longs to be thoroughly acquainted with every Thing that concerns the Law. He is very fond of Converfing with the most famous Magiftrates and Advocates, knowing how much one may learn by their Converfation. His ii greatest Curiofity concerns good Books relating to his "Profeffion. He fpares no Coft to make a great "Collection of them, and confults the moft knowing "Perfons, when he has a mind to enlarge his Li"brary. As often as he goes to Court, he never "fits upon the Bench without trembling, left he "fhould give his Judgment in a Matter with which "he is not fufficiently acquainted. Being apprehen"five that his Secretary may be bribed, and wrong his Client, he himfelf keeps the Papers belonging to a Law-Suit, and takes Care to make him quickly draw up the requifite. Writings. When he is 66 upon any Bufinefs at Home, no Body can fee him "but thofe for whom he is actually concerned. He does not vifit his neareft Relations, and his best Friends, that he may make the quicker Dispatch. He is fo much difpleafed with young People, who are idle and ignorant, that when he converfes with fome young Perfons of that Character, he only does it out of Decency, tho they be related to "him. He obferves the fame Method with refpect to the Ladies: He is not fond of their Converfation, because one lofes a great deal of Time by it, without any great Advantage. Several Confi "derable Families have already propofed a Match "to him; but he returned this modeft Anfwer, That "he would ftudy Ten Years more, and ferve the

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Publick a long Time, and then he might think of "Marrying, and getting fome Heirs who fhould tread "in his Steps. He goes upon this Principle, That a "Magiftrate ought to establifh his Reputation, be"fore he enters upon the State of Marriage. Being "fenfible that he muft live a quiet Life, he has ta "ken a House in a Part of the Town very free from "Noife. He will have no Servants that are Mufi

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Dr. Du Pin has published a Supplement to his Bibliotheque of Ecclefiaftical Writers.

Bibliotheque des Auteurs Ecclefiaftiques Supplement, contenant les Principaux Points de l'Hiftoire de l'Eglife des IV. V. VI. VII. & VIII. Siecles, avec une Table Chronologique. Paris, 1711. in 8vo. Pagg. 450.

When Dr. Du Pin undertook to write his Bibliotheque, he defigned to lay afide the Hiftorical Part; which is the Reafon why the moft Confiderable Facts, relating to the Hiftory of the Church, are not to be found in that Work. The Author has thought fit to publifh a Supplement, wherein he gives an Account of the Chief Tranfactions of the IVth, Vth, VIth, VHth, and VIIIth Centuries. He begins with the Perfecutions of the Chriftians under Diocletian, and then describes the Flourishing State of Chriftianity in the Reign of the Emperor Conftantine. He gives us the Hiftory of the Donatifts, the Hiftory of the Manichees, Arians, Apollinarifts, Prifcillianifts, &c. In the next Place, he fhews what Bishops governed the Great Churches in the IVth Century; how the Monaftick Life was inftituted; and in what Condition the Church was under the Emperor Julian. Laftly, The Author has inferted an Abridgment of the Doctrine and Difcipline of the IVth Century.

The Readers will find in the remaining Part of the Book, an Hiftorical Account of what happened in the Vth, VIth, VIIth, and VIIIth Centuries; the HiAory of the Pelagians and Semipelagians, and what

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ever concerns the Bishops at that Time; the Hiftory of the Perfecution of the Vandals; the State of the Church of Italy and France in the Beginning of the VIth Century, &c.

The GENERAL HISTORY of the HIGHWAYS in all Parts of the World, particularly in Great Britain Containing I. The Manner of making and managing of them by the Carthaginians, Lacedemonians, Romans, Indians of Peru, and all other Na tions, from the remoteft Antiquity to this Time. II. An Account of Antoninus's Itinerary, and the Peutinger Tables. HI. The juft Proportion between the Ancient and Modern Furlongs, Miles, and Leagues. IV. The Original and Advancement of the Poft. V. Canals cut, Bridges built, and Ports made by the Romans. VI. An accurate Defcription of Rome, in three feveral Ages. VII. And lastly, An Account of the Modern Roads in Great Britain: With an Abstract of the Laws concerning them, &c. London: Printed, and are to be Sold by D. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; W. Innis at the Feathers in St. Paul's Church-yard; G. Strahan at the Golden Ball in Cornhill;

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