495 INDEX INDICATORIUS. excufe our not inferting his "Poem on a Friend."-With our heartieft Goodwishes for the Soccefs of the Maritime School, and our particular Thanks to D. we hope to be excufed for omitting the "Anniversary Song."-The Piece of Money found in Mr. Delafons' Garden at Town Malling is already engraved in Folkes, Suppl. Plate IV. No 8.-OGLE was the Verfifier of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." The Palace of Nonefuch will be engraved whenever our Friend favours us with the Drawing and Defcription.-E. R's Solution of the Question, What is Faith? though logically attempted, is not logically defined. Take the following Specimen FAITH, Fides, 1. These three, in their refpective Languages, are ufed in various Acceptations. “I have no Faith in fuch a Report;" i. e. I do not believe it." It is a rempting Scheme, but I have no Faith in its" i. e. I cannot venture on it." He is a Man of no Faith," i. e. that is of no Integrity. So exactly in the Latin and Greek. Here are three diftinct Notions of Faith, and Iknow of no more. Can we unite them? Suppofe 1 fay that "TRUST" is the Root of this triple Ramification, fhall I make it out? The firft Notion of Faith was believing, affenting with the Fudgement. This is not taking Things upon Truft. But what a Man has affented to becomes an Axiom, a Premije, whence to proceed in Deductions. We do not always repeat its Examination and Evidence. We take it for granted. Is not this trufing to it? The Meaning of "I believe" is, "the Propofition is become a Principle to me, on which I will hereafter reafon concerning thefe Things." Again, "Affent to the Reafon of Things, and unanfwerable Series of Arguments, is Science." This Specimen will enable the intelligent Reader to form a Judgement of E. R's logical Powers, fo far as they refer to the Definition of FAITH.-The Remarker on Dr. Priestley's Sermon on the Importance of Free Enquiry in Matters of Religion, &c. is too prolix to gain admiffion in a Magazine calcu lated for general Information, not for Polemical Difcuftion. For the fame Reason, an ingenious Paper on Money Matters is excluded, in which the Principles of Dr. Price are examined and refuted. "Specie," fays the Dr. "represents fome real Value in Goods or Commodities." Specie," fays the Remarker, is itself Commodity Paper," fays the Dr. " reprefents Nothing immediately but Specie. is an Obligation to pay a given Sum in Coin on a certain Day." "Now," fays the Remarker, "the Dr. makes Specie and Coin fynonymous, though effentially different for the above Reafon. Specie is itfelf a Commodity, and may, like every other Commodity, be freely bought and fold on all Occafions in every civilized Country. Coin has a fixed and permanent Value, invariable, according to the Standard to which it is rated in every Country." Such is the Remarker's pice DiIcrimination throughout his elaborate Paper.-One of Birmingham confiders it as not the fmalleft Recommendation of the Gentleman's Magazine, that it is adapted to give the earliest Information of all new Projects, &c. and refers it to Dr. Priestley's new Pamphlet, intituled, The Theological Repoftory, in which, he says, the Dr. means to keep a Stage open for all heretical Theologians to try their refpective. Strengths, only concealing their Names. This our Correfpondent difapproves; and, in its Room, recommends a new Plan under the Direction of a Society, in which every Writer fhould fign his Name, and be anfwerable for his own Principles. Of this Society he would with Dr. P. to be a Member; but does not like he should have the Regulation and Difpofition of all Writings wholly in his own Power.→ J. R. wishes us to add to our Catalogue of New Publications a Word or Two of Praife or Reprehenfion, as, good, well-executed, indifferent, trifling, &c. but would not this look too much like a Licenser of the Prefs? And would not our Fellow-labourers in the Field of Literature have Realon to complain fometimes of our rafh and dogmatical Decifion? Reviewers generally give Reasons for their Praise or their Cenfure; but our Correfpondent would have the Public give us Crecht for more than we deserve or defire. R. B. L. wishes to know about what Time Wife's Edition of Afferius Menevenfis", was published? Recollecting the Account of the Works of Quintilian being found in fome Monaftery at the Bottom of an old Cheft, he thinks a thort Hiftory of the fift Discovery, and various Fate of the Works of antient Authors, would afford a Fund of Entertainment for the Curious; and wishes that fome Perion or Perfons, properly qualified, would purfue the Hint. He is in particular folicitous to know the Time and Place when and where the precious Remains of Tacitus were recovered; the Mutilation of whofe excellent Writings is fuch an irreparable Lofs, that if Time could reftore one Half of the Roman Writers who illacrymabiles urgentur ignotique longa nocte, he would mt atone for the Injury. [* Answer. In 1772. EDIT.] Review of New Pablications. 69. Novum Teftamentum Græcum, à Codice 2x3 HE Alexandrine MS. (as it is tament had been accurately examined The intrinfic merit of this ancient MS. of the Scriptures, and its preference to that in the Vatican, had been fully established by the learned Dr. Grabe, when he published from it the Orateuch, in 4 vols. folio and octavo, $707, 1709, 1719, 1720. Among his papers were found, after his death, the Alexandrian texts of the New Teftament, and of Saint Clement's Epiftles, with notes by Young, who affumed the name of Junius, But he never difcovered his defign of printing them, and fo completing the edition of the whole MS, left he fhould prejudice the fale of his friend Dr. Mill's New Teftament, as Dr. Hickes affures us. It was referved therefore for the in duftry and application of Mr. Woide, one of the librarians to the British Mufeum, to refcue this valuable MS. from the fate which befel a MS. of the Sep. tuagint in the Cottonian Library, of equal antiquity, type, and value, and 497 of which a very few fragments escaped numerous and refpectable lift of fub- The learned Editor introduces his work by a Latin preface, containing, in feven fections, the hatory, defcription, age, merit, and ftyle of the MS, his motives for undertaking, and his man➡ ner of conducting, this edition. The Hiftory of the MS, as far as the Donor's atteftation of it goes, is well known, and Mr. W. confirms what is therein fet forth: that it was written in Egypt, by a lady named Thecla, and her companions in the monaftic life 7, after the Council of Nice, and was the property of the Greek patriarch of Alexandria, till brought away by Cyrill to Conftantinople, and by him prefented to Charles H. The letters are of the pattern called uncial, upright, elegantly cut and round, and ranged in double columns.-The whole Bible is com→ prifed in four volumes; the Old Teftainent in the three firit, and the New Teftament, now printed, in the fourth, But the bookbinder has pared the mar gin fo clofe as, in fome inftanses, t have cut off part of the writing, and, in general, most of the red letter contents. The firft 5, and part of the 6th, chapters, to the middle of verfe 6, of St. Matthew, are wanting; alfo from vi. 50 to viii. 53 of St. John3, and from iv. 13 to xii. 6 of 2 Corinthians, befides fundrý flicings of the binder's knife. 2. Dr. Morton, the principal librarian of the British Museum, appears to have formerly entertained thoughts of fuch a defign. 2 Only the Acts of the Apostles, in Greek and Latin, in a Bodleian MS. published by Hearne, Oxe 1715, and two fragments of the Four Gospels at Wolfenbuttel, by Knittel 3 Of whom fee "Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer," p. 318. 4 In which he was affitted by the prefent Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Butler, who had obtained leave to have the MS. itfelf at his houfe in London, but was prevented by the duties of his diocefe. Mr. Harper allo, of the Mufeam, kindly went over the collation with him. To whom Mr. W. pays a very proper compliment in his preface, p. xxx. 6 Near 450, at 21. 25. the fet for the common paper, and 51. 55. for the fine paper co pies, of which only 25 have been printed. Ten copies are taken off on vellum; andof a vis no more than fix have the notes and illuftrations. 7 Mr. W. observes a difference of hands and-inks in the MS. ́ Thefe two hiatus feem to make exactly four pages. The 498 Review of New Publications payment of firft fruits and tenths, or were lately discharged from any payment to those revenues on account of the smallness of their The objections of Wetstein to the merit of this MS. are largely answered in Mr. Woide's preface, fect. 5.-In fect. 6 he enters fully into the impeach-income and which are, for the fame reason, ments brought against its ftyle, as formed on the Latin verfion of the New Teftament, and obviates them all, fhewing them, from the date of the MS, to be impoffible.-The Laudian MS. at Oxford is here defended on the fame ground. Mr. Woide has clearly afcertained the original reading of this MS, in the famous controverted paffage 1 Tim. iii. 16. to be in favour of the orthodox doctrine, 90s (and not os) sagen. The original has been fo well thumbed 9 that the cross ftroke in O is now almoft evanefcent, fhortened, or reduced to a point, as well as in the s in the two lines next immediately following this 10-After citing the earlier teftimonies of writers who faw this cross ftroke in the last century, when there was no controverfy about it, Mr. W. hews the fallacy and impoffibility of Werftein's reprefentation of it, as ocfioned by the central ftroke of an on the back of the leaf feen through. Mr. Woide is in poffeffion of the collations of the Vatican MS. by the celebrated Dr. Richard Bentley, as well as of others from MSS. in France and Spain, which, but for fear of increafing the unavoidable delays of the prefent publication, he intended to have annexed. He contents himself, therefore, with subjoining to this fplendid edition 90 pages of Variations in the Alexan. drine MS. as ftated by Young, Walton, Mill, Grabe, and Wetfein., 70. LIBER REGIS, vel Thefaurus Rerum Ecclefiafticarum. By John Bacon, Efq. Receiver of the First Fruits. With an Appendix, consaining proper Directions and Precedents relating to Prefentations, Inftitutions, Inductions, Difpenfations, &c. and a complete Alphabetical Index. 4to. THIS ufeful compilation is formed on the foundation of "Eaton's The"faurus," which it nearly doubles in quantity, greatly exceeds in accuracy, and almoft wholly fuperfedes. "It contains an account of the valuations of all the ecclefiaftical benefices in England and Wales, which are now charged with the entitled to receive the benefit of the royal bounty, in fuch proportions, and according to fuch appointments, as are fet forth in the excellent rules of the corporation founded and constituted by her late Majefty Queen Anne, for that purpose. "The author, in order to render this work more complete than any thing hitherto published relating to thefe affairs, has taken a particular care to infert the names of the patrons of the feveral benefices under their refpective churches and chapels, and fuch references and extracts from the original returns as appeared to him neceffary for the information of the clergy. And in order that the nature and efficacy of these returns, taken upon the eve of the Reformation, might be more clearly understood, he has prefixed the King's commiffion, with his faftructions to the commiffioners for the taking of the furvey; and has made these original returns, and the Liber Regis, his conftant guide for the value. The Liber Regis is a beautiful MS, tranfcribed, as tradition fays, by a Monk of Westminster; one copy of which was lodged in the King's Library, and the other in the Court of First Fruits and Tenths in the Exchequer.. "In fettling and afcertaining the true names of places, the ancient and modern way of writing them are retained. And, to guard againft errors of every kind, as much as poífible, feveral of the right reverend the Bishops have corrected the copy which related to their refpective diocefes, before it went to the prefs. "The Appendix contains Directions and Precedents relating to Prefentation, Inffitufome other matters are added, with proper tion, Induction, Difpenfations, &c.; and references to the authorities from whence they are taken, which, it is conceived, may be of very good ufe. These things may ferve to lead the younger clergy through that part of knowledge neceffary for them, which, at their first fetting out, muft appear very intris cate and difficult, as they lie fcattered and difperfed in divers Acts of Parliament and Canons, &c. intermixed with matters of a quite different nature, and which, in fome inftances, have been rendered more intricate and obfcure, through the want of care or judge. boured to render them more plain and clear." ment of fome who have unfuccefsfully la 71. Principes de l'Art Oratoire, par Dom. François-Philippe Gourdin, Religion 9" Locus digitis frequenter & imprudentius tačtus," fays our Editor. 10 Had the words been in a different arrangement, this paffage might have been cut out by the bookbinder, as the word before (Mungov) actually has been. ✦ Elected honorary fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, May 1986. Benedi&in, Review of New Publications, Benedi&in, &c. A Rouen, 1785. Sm. 8vo. (Reviewed by a Correfpondent.) · THIS treatife was first read to the Academy of Rouen in 1773. It seems to be well written, and with precifion. The principles of oratory, as well as good writing, in every fpecies, is good fenfe, or logical and clear deductions of reafon. With thefe principles, therefore, our author very properly fets out. Part I, On Invention, contains Inftances of the Sublime from Virgil and Corneille. "At the very moment when the poet (Virgil) was to paint all the "fury and defpair of Dido, he feems to 66 out of his way to defcribe the rego pofe of Nature, in the ftill calm and filence of the night; but he does this "that he may draw the contraft of "Dido's paffion the better, At non infelix animi Phanifa, &c."-Cicero's Oration for Deiotarus.-Application of his Precepts to Rouffeau's famous Let ter on Duelling. In Sect. 1. On Ideas and Words. ftance from Young's Night Thoughts, p. 20, and again from Night XXIII. In English, the laft night is the IXth, called Confolation, Young is justly blamed for the harfhnefs of his me taphors. 2. On Propofitions. 3. On Reasoning. St. Auguftin.-Application of his Precepts to the Cinna of Corneille, Augufte, Maitre de Rome," &c. Syllogifm: "We ought not to abdicate a lawful com"mand. "But, Cæfar, your empire is lawful; "Therefore you ought not to abdicate," &c. "On ne renonce point aux grandeurs legitimes," Or, "Votre grandeur eft legitime," &c. Chap. II. Of Invention with refpect a the Heart. Hiftory and Difcourfe of Shon, En. II.-Pfalm cxxvi. compared with Horace, L. I. Ode, 20. Horace laments the Death of Quintilius; David, the Captivity of the Ifraelites in Babylon. 2. Succeffion & Filiation des Paffions. M. Hume on the Paffions.-Horace, Od. I. L. I.-Hector, in the Iliad, awaits Achilles under the walls of Troy, 'and thus reafons with himfelf: "Malbeureux veux tu fuir & rebtrer dans "tes Mars?" &c, The Speeches of Priam and Hecuba: Cher Helor, o mon fils; feyl & fani nos ** fecours.” Hecuba fpeaks: 499 Ecoutez moi, jetter un regard attendri.” Furthermore, Voyons comme M. Geffner, à traitè cette Succeffion des Paf fions dans fon Poeme, chant. 2: "Vois, dit Adam à Eve," &c. Application of these general Rules to Corneille's Horace and a Plan of the Tragedy. Part II. Of Difpofition. Sect. 1. Of Definition. Inftance from Dr. Blair's Sermon, Sur la Douceur.-. Of Pride, by M. de Bernis. 2. On Divifion. Application of those Precepts (Rules) to the first Part of Ci cero's Oration for Milo.-De l'Ordre moral du Sentiment. Speech of Ilioneus, from Virgil.-Speeches of Ajax and Ulyffes, in Ovid's Metamorpholes. Bonaventure de Fouteroy faid, that, to become an Orator, it would be fufficient to read and confider those two Speeches.Speech of the Centurion, Clemens, from Tacitus, Lib. I. Cap. 28, Quoufque filium Imperat. obfidebimus. On the whole, we must allow that the principles laid down in this treatife are happily illuftrated by appofite quotarender the work equally entertaining tions from a variety of authors, which and inftructive. 2 72. Another Review of the "Effay on Old "Maids" (fee p. 322), by a Correfpondent THIS work begins with an Introduction; then gives the evil propenfities of Old Maids, and afterwards their good qualities, both of which are illus-trated in the Ift volume of this extraor dinary performance, which contains a number of interesting stories, where fome excellent characters are exhibited, and fome very ridiculous and outré among the ancient virgins; though the generality are worthy, and, after a love tale, the heroine, inftead of concluding as common novels are wont to do, with marriage or death, they end in a fettled Old Maidifm.-And here had the author stopped, it had been well; but this is only his prelude, and written to introduce two other very reprehenfible volumes, in which it is feared the author moft delighted; yet it is hoped they will meet only with the disapprobation and difguft of the publick, notwith flanding there is reafon to fuppofe that thefe Effays are written by one of the first poets of our age, the favoured author of feveral beautiful and claffical Epiftles, in verfe, to Romney, Howard, &c. goo Review of New Publications. c. as well as of that truly interefting, elegant, and energetic poem, The Triaviphs of Temper. Of this fufpicion one fentence feems almoft to convict him, being nearly the fame words he has ufed in a note in one of his publications with his name. He fays, "The great living Hiftorian of the Roman "empire in thofe farcaftic remarks on "Chriftianity which are the only blemihes in his exquifie compofition," &c. &c. In vol. II, the ftory of Kunaza is nely and touchingly related; the power of affecting the human heart used to the worst purpose; the whole ftory, and its tendency, is profligate and profane. "Old Maids always perfectly free from "that most difgufting of all mental in4 firmities, mifanthropy." Arch and fa tirical, befitting an enemy to the fect our author pretends to befriend.-"The difhonourable tranquillity of a fingle "life," fays he, ftill, without doubt, fneering at the fifterhood, and no veil to cover his malignity. — Again, "We "might infer," he fays, "that the "molt fpirited of the old Romans were "not perfectly able to manage their wives." A Incer no lefs on marriage than on celibacy. Then what clafs are exempt? The vicious, who live equally free from the reproach of celibacy, if any reproach there be, as from the hackles of holy matrimony?--The narration of Thecla and St. Paul is alfo profane, as he infinuates an intrigue which we dare not pursue to reprobate. Vol. III. "St. Chryfoftom contrafts the fingle and the married life, in every point of view, and uniformly decides in favour of the first.” How abfurd this polifhed faint, and all the hoft of faints, who could never have feen this world, or hoped for existence in a better, if their parents had been as prudent and chafte as their decided opinions declare to be right!--P. 37, Paula and St. Jerom; another, and another antrigue, fuppofed under the mask of religious friendship-P. 56 deferves to be tranfcribed, as it is detached from the general fubject, and the judicious Sentiments and the ftriking comparifons are worthy of the author, before he dif graced his pen with ribaldry and wick ed wit, directed against a defenceless and refpe&table fociety, whofe virtue and modefty ought always to claim the mot generous protection from that fex who gencrally think they raise their own confequence when they ridicule 46 thofe who, from numberlefs delicate circumstances in the courfe of life, have chanced to avoid that connection, which is not always mere happy, though the natural destination for all man and wo◄► mankind. The paffage is as follows: "The paffionate compofitions of a bold "and vigorous mind, enriched with "extenfive learning, are generally en"tertaining, though full of error and "abfurdity. There is an attractive energy in fatirical wit, however de"Atitute of truth, when it is tharpened "by indignation or envy. It is owing, "perhaps, in fome measure, to this "forcible charm, that fome unjuft com"pofitions of two very different au"thors, Voltaire and Dr. Johnfon, "have been read with peculiar avidity. "In many ftrokes of perfonal charac"ter, and in the compact vigour of "their ftyle, these great writers both "refembled St. Jerom. Sarcaftic ima"gination, and literary pride, were 66 perhaps the predominant character"iftics of this fingular triumvirate; "they all delighted to exert the talents "which they all poffetled, of blowing 66 an adverfary to pieces with a fpark"ding explosion of irritable wit.” And may we not, with forrow, add our author to his triumvirate, who, worse than thofe he has condemned, has turned the fparkling explosion of his wit, not againft an adverfary, but against a defencelefs fet of beings, that never could have offended him?He proceeds, with the fame mixture of wicked whim and wit, ironically to explore the legendary tales of miracles wrought by the fainted virgins, Editha, &c. the chate Queen Ediftruda, and others of fabulous record, which ferve only to grace the wantonnefs of his indecent page, and to difgiace his own preten Gons to religion and morality, and. rather to fhock, than entertain, a decent and liberal reader of either fex. Nor maiden, wife, or widow, efcape his cenfure. Would he annihilate the female race-He, however, condefcends to give a very fine Mexican poem, by Juana Juez de la Cruz, who was honoured with the title of "The Tenth **Mufe:" She concludes with dif carding any connection with mankind, which conduct the, with great spirit, advifes to her own fex. The confe quence of thefe principles is obvious; fome new fpecies must be produced to people the earth, and to enjoy its various and bountiful productions, and |