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occafion'd moft of the few occurring in Virgil. Befides that our preferving the juft profaic accent of words in verfe may fometimes have no difadvantageous effect, under the conduct of an exquifite writer, in varying his numbers, and very happily fuiting his imagery; of which Milton affords fome ftriking inftances.

Our author's verfes are confiderably unequal: he always manifefts a ftrong poetical propenfity, which now and then makes fuch an approach to power, that if he is as young as we apprehend, better productions may be expected from him. Doubtless poetry is in its nature fomewhat excurfive; but we can hardly admit the greater half of Pomery-hill, a poem addreffed to the Prince of Wales, to be employ'd in the loveplaint of the author, under the name of Gallus.

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His fong on Milton's il Penferofo & Allegro might as well have been on any thing else, but that folitary and penfive dɔ occur in the first stanza. His London wish in June has much more relation to the Penferofo. His verfes abound with interjections, which are rendered too infignificant from their frequency, and are fometimes merely expletive and ill-plac'd, flat and ungraceful. This is often the cafe of his at and et in the Latin poetry. SUDANTUR cortice pingui elettra is not Latin: The Latins have no fuch verb as fudor, but judo, which is active and neuter. And though our language has vulgarly annexed a paffive construction to this verb, it would be but indifferent English to write, amber is sweated from barks or trees; to fay little of the uncertainty, whether amber be a gum or not. Mufa dedit armore will not pafs, as we conceive the liberties of Virgil are fcarcely to be allowed our young Latin poet in fuch short sketches. He is nevertheless generally smooth and mufical in his hexameter verfe, to which his lyric numbers are inferior and the confiderable difference of his Latin diction too in various places, makes him appear at present in the light of an inaccurate and unequal writer, which can give little fanction to any regulations he propofes in matters of literature; though their own expedience and propriety may entitle them to our confideration.

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ART. XVII. The Scripture-account of a future ftate confidered. 8yo. Is. Griffiths.

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E have read this little piece with no fmall pleasure, as the author treats his fubject with a becoming freedom, and appears to be a fincere friend to the interefts of truth and virtue. He gives way indeed pretty often to fancy and conjecture, but his conjectures are, fome of them, ingenious, and his notions generally just.

He divides his performance into eight chapters, in the first of which he treats briefly of a future ftate in general, and thews that our best notions of God, as the moral governor of the world, lead us to expect a future ftate of retribution, where virtue will be rewarded with abundant honour, and the wicked receive that bitter portion which is due to their crimes. In the fecond he offers fome conjectures in regard to our entrance into the next ftate, which he imagines may be analagous to our entrance upon the prefent. As we are introduced into the prefent by the miniftration of others, fo he thinks we may be introduced into the next by miniftring. fpirits, and that the foul may require fome time before its organs are ripe for action on that new theatre; during which time the rational powers may continue fufpended, as they are here in fleep, and we may remain under the nurture of guardian angels or kindred spirits, during this ftate of inaction, fimilar to the stage of our infancy.

In the third chapter he treats of Hades, or the intermediate ftate between death and the refurrection; and as the difficulties that attend the fcripture doctrine of this ftate are various, he does not affirm any thing pofitively in regard to it, only thinks the two following conjectures of the learned, the moit probable, viz. that the region of departed fpirits is either in fome or other of the neighbouring ftars, or elfe in the interior parts of this earth. He thinks it highly reafonable to imagine, that foon after death there is fome proper method appointed for fevering the good from the bad, by obferving their prevailing difpofitions; and that attending angels, the witnefies of our conduct, may be likewife the meflengers of the lord or governor of the country, to conduct us to the regions of paradife, or tartarus (the abode of unhappy fpirits) according as our tempers and difpofitions then are.

After faying a little on the fubject of a general refurrection and general judgment, in the fourth chapter, our author proceeds, in the fifth, to examine into the meaning of the

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words for ever, for ever and ever, everlafting, &c. as they are ufed in fcripture; and fhews, that in their natural import, they do not fignify an abfolute eternity, in the metaphysical fenfe of that word, unless when applied to God.

In the fixth chapter he endeavours to fhew, that the notion of the endless duration of finners, in a state of torment, is not only unferiptural, but likewife highly abfurd, being contrary to all our best notions of the Deity, as a Being of infinite juftice and benignity. He obferves too, and we think justly, that the repeated attempts of many pious and well-meaning perfons to represent this abfurdity as a fcripture-doctrine, has contributed not a little to the growth of infidelity among the rational part of mankind.

In the feventh chapter he treats of the final ftate of the bleffed; and concludes, in the eighth, with some short practiçal reflections.

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MONTHLY CATALOGUE for August, 1754.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

N Address to the city of London, from Sir Grifp Gafcoign, knt. late lord mayor, relating to his conduct in the cafes of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires. Folio, 25. Hodges.

From the letters, certificates, informations, and other authorities exhibited in this addrefs, it appears that through the whole course of this affair, Sir Crifp has behaved in a manner becoming the character of a vigilant and active magiftrate.

II. A Liveryman's Reply to Sir Crifp Gafcoigne's Addrefs. Shewing that gentleman's real motives, and his whole conduct concerning Canning and Squires. 8vo. 1s. Reeve..

Of this pamphlet a competent idea may be formed from the words of the author, p. 23. I have no particular knowledge of circumftances: I hear what is reported, and I fuppofe it true. I fhall be ready to be convinced, if I err; for I am impartial.'

III. A Counter-addrefs to the Public, relative to the cafes of Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: being a proper introduction to the Refutation of Sir Crifp Gafcoigne's account of his own conduct. Folic, 2d. Blunt.

A catch-penny job.

IV. The Chronicle of the Canningites and Egyptians, or Gipfeyites, from their firft founders, Elizabeth Canning and Mary

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Squires, to the prefent time: giving a fuccinct account of their direful wars and confufions in courts, taverns, coffee-houíes and ale-houses, as well as in private families; particularly the woeful conflict of the ladies at the tea-table. Interfperfed with curious obfervations and anecdotes, fuitable to the fubject of fo famous an hiftory. 8vo. 6d. Corbet.

There is nothing remarkable in this pamphlet, except fome aukward pretenfions to humour, in which the author is ridiculously unfuccessful.

V. A Refutation of Sir Crifp Gascoigne's account of bis conduft, &c. 8vo. Is. No publisher's name.

This is an ironical defence of Canning, probably done by fome friend of Sir Crifp's, with an intention to prejudice the cause it pretends to vindicate.-The Liveryman's Reply, (fee art. II.) appears to have been written with the fame view, tho' not by the fame hand.

VI. An Addrefs to the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, for the county of Oxford, on their late prefentment of a libel against his majefty's perfon and government. 8vo. Is. Cooper.

It contits chiefly of general obfervations on the wickedness and folly of diflaffection and difloyalty to the prefent happy go

vernment.

VII. A Charge delivered to the Grand Jury, at a general quarter feffions of the peace, held for the town and liberty of Berwick, the 15th of July, 1754. 8vo. 4d. G. Freer.

We are not told by whom this charge was delivered. The horrid nature and confequences of perjury, among other crimes, is particularly the fubject of the author's animadverfion.

VIII. Curious Remarks and Obfervations, extracted from the hiftory and memoirs of the royal academy of fciences at Paris. Vol. II. which concludes the general phyfics. By Dr. Peter Templeman. 8vo. 5s. Davis.

An account of the firft volume of this work, with feveral extracts from it, may be feen in the Review for laft November: but tho' we fincerely concur with our induftrious compiler, that obfervations of nature will neceflarily lead a contemplative mind to the acknowledgement and adoration of the author of nature;' yet as the fubjects treated of in this volume, which contains 43 articles, entirely relate to the fame branch of science as the former, our readers will excuse our not being more particular upon them.-Dr. Templeman informs us, that he shall next proceed on the anatomical part of his work, and as there are many curious diffections of the brute animals, particularly of the wild kind, from the French king's Ménagerie, he intends to divide his fubject into human and

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comparative anatomy.'-As foon as we are favoured with this, the public may be aflured that due refpect fhall be " paid to it.

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IX. A Phyfical Effay on the Animal Oeconomy. Wherein the circulation of the blood, and its caufes, are particularly considered; also what affiftance the heart and lungs give thereto : and this both from anatomy and experiments. To which are added, fome occafional reflections on inflammatory disorders, and fome others, which attend a difordered circulation. By Francis Penrofe, furgeon, at Bicester. 8vo. 1s. Owen.

This truly fpeculative gentleman has already given the public fpecimens of his capacity for fyftem-building, in his treatifes of electricity and magnetism; of which a pretty full account may be seen in the fixth volume of the Review, p. 438, and in the eighth, p. 439.-Our author's reafonings, in the performance before us, feem to be founded on the hypothefis advanced in the latter of the abovementioned tracts, viz. that the fluids are the moving agents, and that the folids are abfolutely paffive; from whence he concludes, that the animal machine, is neither more nor less than a mere fteam-engine; we therefore prefume the majority of our readers will excufe our not enlarging upon a fubject that appears to us incapable of furnishing much inftruction, and ftill lefs entertainment.-It may be deemed a happiness almoft peculiar to Mr. Penrefe, (as it is not very common with hypothetical writers) that his reverence for a particular theory, has had no bad influence on his practice, which is far from appearing injudicious, and which, according to his own account, has been remarkably fuccefsful.Tho' we can find nothing very extraordinary to commend either in his diction or his argument, we cannot but take notice of the evidence he has given of his learning.-The advantages and utility of a handfome motto are particularly confidered by, the Spectator, (vol. III.) who obferves, that the ladies were generally beft pleafed with a fcrap of Greek: whether the confideration of this prevailed with our author to affix half a score He brew letters to his title-page; or that, as old Don Lewis, in the Fop's Fortune, was fond of Greek only for the found of it, he might expect to attract readers by the fight of a few uncouth characters, we shall not take upon ourselves to determine; but for the fake of those who may have purchased this effay, without being able to interpret the learned fuperfcription *, we fhall inform them, that, according to our tranflation of the bible, it fignifies no more than that the life of the fefb is in the bload.

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