present Times, and their Native Country, and they heardly speak the Language of it, and know so little of the affairs of it, that as much might reasonably be expected from an animated _Egyptian_ Mummy. They are very much disturbed to see a Fold or a Plait amiss the Picture of an Old _Roman_ Gown, yet take no notice that their own are thredbare out at the Elbows, or Ragged, and suffer more if _Priscians_ Head be broken then if it were their own. They are excellent Guides, and can direct you to every Ally, and turning in old _Rome_; yet lose their way at home in their own Parish. They are mighty admirers of the Wit and Eloquence of the Ancients; yet had they liv’d in the time of _Cicero_, and _Cæsar_ wou’d have treated them with as much supercilious Pride, and disrespect as they do now with Reverence. They are great hunters of ancient Manuscripts, and have in great Veneration any thing, that has scap’d the Teeth of Time and Rats, and if Age have obliterated the Characters, ’tis the more valuable for not being legible. But if by chance they can pick out one Word, they rate it higher then the whole Author in Print, and wou’d give more for one Proverb of _Solomons_ under his own Hand, then for all his Wisdom. These Superstitious, bigotted Idolaters of time past, are Children in their understanding all their lives; for they hang so incessantly upon the leading Strings of Authority, that their Judgments like the Limbs of some _Indian_ Penitents, become altogether crampt and motionless for want of use.