THE DOCTOR DISSENTS FROM A PROPOSITION OF WARBURTON'S AND SHEWS IT TO
BE FALLACIOUS.—HUTCHINSON'S REMARKS ON THE POWERS OF BRUTES.—LORD
SHAFTESBURY QUOTED.—APOLLONIUS AND THE KING OF BABYLON.—DISTINCTION IN
THE TALMUD BETWEEN AN INNOCENT BEAST AND A VICIOUS ONE.—OPINION OF
ISAAC LA PEYRESC.—THE QUESTION DE ORIGINE ET NATURA ANIMARUM IN BRUTIS
AS BROUGHT BEFORE THE THEOLOGIANS OF SEVEN PROTESTANT ACADEMIES IN THE
YEAR 1635 BY DANIEL SENNERTUS.
_Toutes veritez ne sont pas bonnes à dire serieusement._
GOMGAM.
CHAPTER CCXL.—p. 473.
THE JESUIT GARASSE'S CENSURE OF HUARTE AND BARCLAY.—EXTRAORDINARY
INVESTIGATION.—THE TENDENCY OF NATURE TO PRESERVE ITS OWN ARCHETYPAL
FORMS.—THAT OF ART TO VARY THEM.—PORTRAITS.—MORAL AND PHYSICAL
CADASTRE.—PARISH CHRONICLER AND PARISH CLERK THE DOCTOR THOUGHT MIGHT
BE WELL UNITED.
Is't you, Sir, that know things?
SOOTH. In nature's infinite book of secresy,
A little I can read.
SHAKSPEARE.
CHAPTER CCXLI.—p. 495.
THE DOCTOR'S UTOPIA DENOMINATED COLUMBIA.—HIS SCHEME ENTERED UPON—BUT
‘LEFT HALF TOLD’ LIKE ‘THE STORY OF CAMBUSCAN BOLD.’
I will to satisfy and please myself, make an Utopia of mine own, a new
Atlantis, a poetical commonwealth of mine own, in which I will freely
domineer, build cities, make laws, statutes, as I list myself. And why
may I not?
BURTON.
CHAPTER CCXLII.—p. 502.
FARTHER REMARKS UPON THE EFFECTS OF SCHISM, AND THE ADVANTAGES WHICH
IT AFFORDS TO THE ROMISH CHURCH AND TO INFIDELITY.
—_Io non ci ho interresso
Nessun, nè vi fui mai, ne manco chieggo
Per quel ch'io ne vò dir, d'esservi messo.
Vò dir, che senza passion eleggo,
E non forzato, e senza pigliar parte;
Di dirne tutto quel, ch'intendo e veggo._
BRONZINO PITTORE.
CHAPTER CCXLIII.—p. 512.
BREVITY BEING THE SOUL OF WIT THE AUTHOR STUDIES CONCISENESS.
You need not fear a surfeit, here is but little, and that light of
digestion.
QUARLES.
CHAPTER CCXLIV.—p. 513.
THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO SPEAK A WORD ON CHRISTIAN CHEERFULNESS:—QUOTES
BEN SIRACH,—SOLOMON,—BISHOP HACKET,—WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR,—BISHOP
REYNOLDS,—MILTON,—&C.
--_Ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν, βιότου ποτί τέρμα
ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος._
SIMONIDES.
FRAGMENTS TO THE DOCTOR.—p. 527.
A LOVE FRAGMENT FOR THE LADIES,—INTRODUCED BY A CURIOUS INCIDENT WHICH
THE AUTHOR BEGS THEY WILL EXCUSE.
Now will ye list a little space,
And I shall send you to solace;
You to solace and be blyth,
Hearken! ye shall hear belyve
A tale that is of verity.
ROSWALL AND LILLIAN.
A FRAGMENT ON BEARDS.
Yet have I more to say which I have thought upon, for I am filled as
the moon at the full!
ECCLESIASTICUS.
FRAGMENT ON MORTALITY.
FRAGMENT OF SIXTH VOLUME.
FRAGMENT.
_J'ay fait le précédent Chapitre un peu court; peut-être que celui-ce
sera plus long; je n'en suis pourtant pas bien assuré, nous l'allons
voir._
SCARRON.
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