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the universe. The very title of Bruno's poem proves, that this honour belongs to him.

Feyjoo lays claim to a knowledge of the circulation of the blood for Francisco de la Reyna, a farrier, who published a work upon his own art at Burgos, in 1564. The passage which he quotes is perfectly clear. Por manera, que la sangre anda en torno, y en rueda por todos los miembros, excluye toda duda. Whether Reyna himself claimed any discovery, Feyjoo does not mention;-but, these words seem to refer to some preceding demonstration of the fact. I am inclined to think that this, like many other things, was known before it was discovered; just as the preventive powers of the vaccine disease, the existence of adipocire in graves, and certain principles in grammar and in population, upon which bulky books have been written and great reputations raised in our days.

PERITURÆ PARCERE CHARTE.

WHAT Scholar but must at times have a feeling of splenetic regret, when he looks at the list of novels, in two, three, or four volumes each, published monthly by Messrs. Lane, &c. and then reflects that there are valuable works of Cudworth, prepared by himself for the press, yet still unpublished by the University which possesses them, and which ought to glory in

the name of their great author! and that there is extant in manuscript a folio volume of unprinted sermons by Jeremy Taylor. Surely, surely, the patronage of our many literary societies might be employed more beneficially to the literature and to the actual literati of the country, if they would publish the valuable manuscripts that lurk in our different public libraries, and make it worth the while of men of learning to correct and annotate the copies, instead of but it is treading on hot embers!

TO HAVE AND TO BE.

THE distinction is marked in a beautiful sentiment of a German poet: Hast thou any thing? share it with me and I will pay thee the worth of it. Art thou any thing? O then let us exchange souls!

The following is offered as a mere playful illustration:

“Women have no souls," says prophet Mahomet.

Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?

I said you had no soul, 'tis true:
For what you are, you cannot have—

'Tis I, that have one, since I first had you.

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PARTY PASSION.

WELL, Sir!" exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Mr. Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism," Well, Sir! and will you dare deny that Mr. Wilkes is a great man, and an eloquent man?"-" Oh! by no means, Madam! I have not a doubt respecting Mr. Wilkes's talents!"-" Well, but, Sir! and is he not a fine man, too, and a handsome man?” Why, Madam! he squints, doesn't he?”— Squints! yes to be sure he does, Sir! but not a bit more than a gentleman and a man of sense ought to squint!"

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GOODNESS OF HEART INDISPENSABLE TO
A MAN OF GENIUS.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being the good poet without being first a good man. Dedication to the Fox.

Ben Jonson has borrowed this just and noble sentiment from Strabo.

Ἡ δὲ (ἀρετὴ) ποιητοῦ συνέζευκται τῇ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ οὐχ οἷόντε ἀγαθὸν γενέσθαι ποιητὴν, μὴ πρότερον yevnlévтa avopa ȧyalóv. Lib. I. p. 33. folio. γενηθέντα ἄνδρα

MILTON AND BEN JONSON.

THOSE Who have more faith in parallelism than
myself, may trace Satan's address to the sun in
Paradise Lost to the first lines of Ben Jonson's
Poetaster:

Light! I salute thee, but with wounded nerves,
Wishing thy golden splendour pitchy darkness!"

But even if Milton had the above in his mind, his own verses would be more fitly entitled an apotheosis of Jonson's lines than an imitation.

STATISTICS.

We all remember Burke's curious assertion that there were 80,000 incorrigible jacobins in England. Mr. Colquhoun is equally precise in the number of beggars, prostitutes, and thieves in the City of London. Mercetinus, who wrote under Lewis XV. seems to have afforded the precedent; he assures his readers, that by an accurate calculation there were 50,000 incorrigible atheists in the City of Paris! Atheism then may have been a co-cause of the French revolution; but it should not be burthened on it, as its monster-child.

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MAGNANIMITY.

THE following ode was written by Giordano Bruno, under prospect of that martyrdom which he soon after suffered at Rome, for atheism : that is, as is proved by all his works, for a lofty and enlightened piety, which was of course unintelligible to bigots and dangerous to an apostate hierarchy. If the human mind be, as it assuredly is, the sublimest object which nature affords to our contemplation, these lines which portray the human mind under the action of its most elevated affections, have a fair claim to the praise of sublimity. The work from which they are extracted is exceedingly rare (as are, indeed, all the works of the Nolan philosopher), and I have never seen them quoted :

Dædaleas vacuis plumas nectere humeris
Concupiant alii; aut vi suspendi nubium
Alis, ventorumve appetant remigium ;
Aut orbitæ flammantis raptari alveo ;
Bellerophontisve alitem.

Nos vero illo donati sumus genio,

Ut fatum intrepedi objectasque umbras cernimus,
Ne cæci ad lumen solis, ad perspicuas
Naturæ voces surdi, ad Divum munera

Ingrato adsimus pectore.

Non curamus stultorum quid opinio
De nobis ferat, aut queis dignetur sedibus.

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