and rise. Then he proceeds to the origin of weaving, dyeing, architecture, metallurgy, etching, embossing, carving, sculpture, and designing in general. Under this head he includes the first use of writing, and its progress to the year 1690 before the birth of our Saviour. Hence he proceeds to the sciences, under which he ranks surgery, anatomy, botany, and pharmacy, which in our opinion, he ought to have placed under the arts. His next division of science consists of arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, mechanics, and geography. Mechanics he treats of after geometry, because to it they owe their perfection. For the same reason astronomy ought to be placed after geometry and mechanics. It is true, that to geometry they both owe their high degree of perfection, but not their birth. The spade, the mattock, and balance were used, and many observations on the heavens made, before geometry came to be applied to discover the powers of the wedge and lever, or the distance and magnitude of the planets. To deep speculation, indeed, they owe their progress; but their discovery seems to be the result of accident, of necessity, and that sort of observation peculiar to the human intellect. Next follows the art of war, upon which M. Goguet has spent more pains in being explicit, than upon any of the former topics. Then he comes to the manners and customs of Asiatics and Europeans, without descending to the sub-distinctions of each particular nation; the whole historical part of this period concluding with critical remarks upon it. Having finished this barren disquisition, he proceeds to the second period, viz. from the death of Jacob to the establishment of monarchy among the Hebrews. This he has treated in the same order and method as the preceding. The third period contains a space of 560 years, that is, from the end of the former to the return of the Hebrews from captivity; to which are subjoined some curious extracts from Chinese writers, communicated to our author by the learned M. Hautes Rayes. These contain many valuable particulars concerning the history, manners, government, arts, and sciences of the ancient Chinese, to which M. Goguet has had frequent recourse in his history. As it would trespass on our plan to dwell minutely upon each of the above particulars, we must refer our readers to the author. Upon the whole, we will venture to say, that this work, with all its imperfections, has likewise its merit. The arrangement, harmony, and disposition of the several parts are nice and judicious. The style is concise, clear, and not inelegant, and if the reflections are not profound and laboured, they are at least pertinent, and naturally rising from the subject. It is in every respect well calculated for such as would be scholars without the trouble of much reading, and think it sufficient "To catch the cel of science by the tail." INDE X. Abridgments, i. 517. Abuse of our enemies, on, i. 325. 'Adventures of a Strolling Player,' Afer, Constantius, i. 400. Ah me? when shall I marry me?' Aikin, Miss, iv. 47-see Barbauld. Aldrovandus, ii. 484. Alexander the Sixth, i. 108. Anaxagoras, i. 255. Animals, cruelty to, ii. 54. Arts made use of to appear learned, Artificial miseries of some philoso- Asem the Man-hater, an Eastern Asia, treatment of females in, ii. 390. Asia, utility of travels into, ii. 417, Asia, Van Egmont's Travels in, re- Asiatic employments, projects for Author's bedchamber;' descrip- B. Bachelors, ii. 109. Bacon, Lord, ii, 418. Baker, Sir George; reply to an in- Bangorian controversy, i. 118. Bayly, Dr. Anselm, his Introduc- Beau, the philosophical, ii. 404. Beautiful Captive, History of the, Beauty, iv. 352-preference of Grace BEE, THE,' i. 1. Belles Lettres, on the cultivation of Bidderman the Wise, a Flemish Birds, Introduction to the History Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, i. 284. Boar's Head, Reverie at the, i. 179. Boethius, ii. 339. Boileau, i. 115, 370. Bookseller's visit to the Chinese Boswell's Life of Johnson quoted, i. Boswell, specimen of the Chinese, Botany, Introduction to the Study Brent, Miss, i. 201. British, character of the, iv. 25. Bunbury, Sir Henry, iv. 132. Burgess, Daniel, iii. 382. Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, iv. 'Burke on the Sublime and Beauti- Chaloner, John and James, their Charles the First, state of Eng- Charles the Second, his character, Charles the Twelfth of Sweden, anec- Charlevoix's History of Paraguay, Charteris, Colonel Francis, i. 4. China, the history of, replete with Chinese Matron, story of the, ii. 65. Chrysostom, St., i. 124. Churchill, Charles, ii. 437, 441. INDEX. Cibber, Theophilus, biography of, i. 361. Cibber, Mrs., actress, i. 39. Cicero, his treatise on Old Age, i. Cicero, panegyric on, by Erasmus, Cicero's Tusculan Disputations' Clergy, on the English, i. 331. Clive, Catherine, actress, i. 92. Club of Authors described, ii. 113, Clubs of London, on the, i. 158. Cognoscento, recipe for making a, Collins, William, i. 319, 437. Comedy, comparison between senti- Common Soldier, life of a, ii. 461. Confucius, ii. 26, 75, 190, 257, 260. Connoisseur,' review of the, iv. 362. Constitution, happiness in a great Cowper, William, iv. 362, 377. Crabbe, Rev. George, iv. 62 n. Crébillon, fils., i. 423. Cromwell, Oliver, iii., 435, iv. 475. D. D'Alembert, i. 423. D'Argens, Marquis, i. 423, iii. 211. ་ Davis's Chinese,' quoted, ii. 10, 26, De Caux, iv. 55 n. Deceit and falsehood, on, i. 134. - Denmark, state of polite learning Dependence, miseries of a life of, 'Description of an Author's Bed- DESERTED VILLAGE,' iv. 45. Dignity of human nature, ii. 417. Dobson, John, his translation of Car- Dodd, Rev. Dr. William, iv. 102. |