reason and propriety of every action; and ex- |ment of human passions and practices which plaining, or endeavouring to explain, every pre-have raised you to your present height of station cept and declaration in its true meaning.

Let it not be hastily concluded, that we intend to substitute this book for the gospels, or obtrude our own expositions as the oracles of God. We recommend to the unlearned reader to consult us when he finds any difficulty, as men who have laboured not to deceive ourselves, and who are without any temptation to deceive him: but as men, however, that, while they mean best, may be mistaken. Let him be careful, therefore, to distinguish what we cite from the gospels, from what we offer as our own: he will find many difficulties removed; and if some yet remain, let him remember that "God is in heaven, and we upon earth," that "our thoughts are not God's thoughts," and that the great cure of doubt is an humble mind..

and dignity of employment, have long shown you that dedicatory addresses are written for the sake of the author more frequently than of the patron: and though they profess only reverence and zeal, are commonly dictated by interest or vanity.

I shall therefore not endeavour to conceal my motives, but confess that the Italian Dictionary is dedicated to your excellency, that I might gratify my vanity, by making it known, that in a country where I am a stranger, I have been able, without any external recommendation, to obtain the notice and countenance of a nobleman so eminent for knowledge and ability, that in his twenty-third year he was sent as plenipotentiary to superintend, at Aix-la-Chapelle, the interests of a nation remarkable above all others for gravity and prudence: and who, at an age when

ANGELL'S STENOGRAPHY, OR SHORTHAND very few are admitted to public trust, transacts

IMPROVED. 1758.

TO THE MOST NOBLE CHARLES DUKE OF RICH

ap

the most important affairs between two of the greatest monarchs of the world.

benevolence and boundless liberality by which all who have the honour to approach you, are dismissed more happy than they come, I am afraid of raising my own value, since I dare not ascribe it so much to my power of pleasing as your willingness to be pleased.

I am desirous to hope that I am not admitted to Yet as every man is inclined to flatter himself, greater intimacy than others without some qualifications for so advantageous a distinction, and shall think it my duty to justify, by constant respect and sincerity, the favours which you have been pleased to show me. I am, my lord, your excellency's most humble and most obedient

MOND, LENNOX, AUBIGNY, &c. If I could attribute to my own merits the faMAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE, The improve- upon me, I know not how much my pride might vours which your excellency every day confers ment of arts and sciences has always been es-be inflamed; but when I observe the extensive teemed laudable; and in proportion to their utility and advantage to mankind, they have generally gained the patronage of persons the most distinguished for birth, learning, and reputation in the world. This is an art undoubtedly of public utility, and which has been cultivated by persons of distinguished abilities, as will pear from its history. But as most of their systems have been defective, clogged with a multiplicity of rules, and perplexed by arbitrary, intricate, and impracticable schemes, I have endeavoured to rectify their defects, to adapt it to all capacities, and render it of general, lasting, and extensive benefit. How this is effected, the following plates will sufficiently explain, to which I have prefixed a suitable introduction, and a concise and impartial history of the origin and progressive improvements of this art. I have submitted the whole to the inspection of accurate judges, whose approbation I am honoured with, I most humbly crave leave to publish it to the world under your grace's patronage; not merely on account of your great dignity and high rank in life, though these receive a lustre from your grace's humanity; but also from a knowledge of your grace's disposition to encourage every useful art, and favour all true promoters of science. That your grace may long live the friend of learning, the guardian of liberty, and the patron of virtue, and then transmit your name with the highest honour and esteem to latest posterity, is the ardent wish of your grace's most humble, &c.

And as

servant,

London, Jan. 12, 1760.

J. BARETTI.

A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF ASTRONOMICAL
CHRONOLOGY, UNFOLDING THE SCRIP-
TURES. BY JOHN KENNEDY, RECTOR OF
BRADLEY, IN DERBYSHIRE. 4TO. 1762.

TO THE KING.

SIRE,-Having by long labour and diligent the chronology of the Bible, I hope to be parinquiry, endeavoured to illustrate and establish doned the ambition of inscribing my work to your majesty.

the tumult and anxiety of military preparations An age of war is not often an age of learning: seldom leave attention vacant to the silent progress of study, and the placid conquests of investigation; yet, surely, a vindication of the

BARETTI'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH inspired writers can never be unseasonably of

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TO HIS EXCELLENCY DON FELIX, MARQUIS OF
ABREU AND BERTODANO, AMBASSADOR EXTRA-
ORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM HIS
CATHOLIC MAJESTY TO THE KING OF GREAT
BRITAIN.

MY LORD, That acuteness of penetration into characters and designs, and that nice discern

fered to the Defender of the Faith, nor can it ever be improper to promote that religion without which all other blessings are snares of destruction, without which armies cannot make us safe, nor victories make us happy.

I am far from imagining that my testimony can add any thing to the honours of your majesty, to the splendour of a reign crowned with triumphs, to the beauty of a life dignified by virtue. I can only wish, that your reign may

long continue such as it has begun, and that the | THE ENGLISH WORKS OF ROGER ASCHAM, effulgence of your example may spread its light through distant ages, till it shall be the highest praise of any future monarch, that he exhibits TO THE RIGHT HON. ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, some resemblance of George the Third. I am, Sire, your majesty's, &c.

MADAM,-To approach the high and the illus- I have not suffered the zeal of an editor so far trious has been in all ages the privilege of poets; to take possession of my mind, as that I should and though translators cannot justly claim the obtrude upon your lordship any productions same honour, yet they naturally follow their au- unsuitable to the dignity of your rank or of your thors as attendants: and I hope that in return sentiments. Ascham was not only the chief for having enabled Tasso to diffuse his fame ornament of a celebrated college, but visited fothrough the British dominions, I may be intro-reign countries, frequented courts, and lived in duced by him to the presence of your majesty.

and live at the mercy of winds and seasons, shall | wards; and only the hope of inciting others to by the paternal care of your majesty enjoy the imitate him, makes it now fit to be remembered, plenty of cultivated lands, the pleasures of so- that he enjoyed in his life the favour of your ciety, the security of law, and the light of reve- majesty. lation. I am, sire, your majesty's most humble, most obedient, and most dutiful subject and

servant,

GEORGE ADAMS.

BISHOP ZACHARY PEARCE'S POSTHUMOUS

WORKS.

The tumultuary life of princes seldom permits them to survey the wide extent of national interest without losing sights of private merit: to exhibit qualities which may be imitated by the highest and the humblest of mankind: and to be at once amiable and great.

Such characters, if now and then they appear in history, are contemplated with admiration. May it be the ambition of all your subjects to

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simple acquisition; and not like fancy, inclined to wander after new pleasures in the diversification of objects already known, which, perhaps, may lead to error.

AMONG the writers of fiction, whose business; when in possession of truth, is satisfied with the is to furnish that entertainment which fancy perpetually demands, it is a standing plea, that the beauties of nature are now exhausted: that imitation has exerted all its power, and that nothing more can be done for the service of their mistress, than to exhibit a perpetual transposition of known objects, and draw new pictures, not by introducing new images, but by giving new lights and shades, a new arrangement and colouring to the old. This plea has been cheerfully admitted: and fancy, led by the hand of a skilful guide, treads over again the flowery path she has often trod before, as much enamoured with every new diversification of the same prospect, as with the first appearance of it.

But notwithstanding this general disinclination to accumulate labours for the sake of that pleasure which arises merely from different modes of investigating truth, yet, as the mines of science have been diligently opened, and their treasures widely diffused, there may be parts chosen, which, by a proper combination and ar rangement, may contribute not only to enter tainment but use, like the rays of the sun col lected in a concave mirror, to serve particular purposes of light and heat.

In the regions of science, however, there is not The power of arithmetical numbers has been the same indulgence: the understanding and tried to a vast extent, and variously applied to the judgment travel there in the pursuit of truth, the improvement both of business and science. whom they always expect to find in one simple In particular, so many calculations have been form, free from the disguises of dress and orna- made with respect to the value and use of money, ment: and, as they travel with laborious step that some serve only for speculation and amuse and a fixed eye, they are content to stop when ment; and there is great opportunity for select the shades of night darken the prospect, and ing a few that are peculiarly adapted to common patiently wait the radiance of a new morning, to business, and the daily interchanges of prolead them forward in the path they have chosen, perty among men. Those which happen in the which, however thorny, or however steep, is se- public funds are, at this time, the most frequent verally preferred to the most pleasing excursions and numerous: and to answer the purposes of that bring them no nearer to the object of their that business, in some degree, more perfectly search. The plea, therefore, that nature is ex-than has hitherto been done, the following tables hausted, and that nothing is left to gratify the are published. What that degree of perfection mind, but different combinations of the same above other tables of the same kind may be, is ideas, when urged as a reason for multiplying a matter, not of opinion and taste, in which unnecessary labours among the sons of science, many might vary, but of accuracy and usefulis not so readily admitted; the understanding, ness, with respect to which most will agree. The

THOUGHTS

ON THE CORONATION OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY
KING GEORGE THE THIRD;

OR, REASONS OFFERED AGAINST CONFINING THE PROCESSION TO THE USUAL TRACK, AND POINTING OUT OTHERS MORE COMMODIOUS AND PRoper. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A PLAN OF THE DIFFERENT PATHS RECOMMENDED, WITH THE PARTS ADJACENT, AND A SKETCH OF THE PROCESSION. MOST HUMBLY SUBMITTED TO CONSIDERATION.

FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1761.

By the late method of conducting the coronation, all these purposes have been defeated. Our kings with their train, have crept to the temple, through obscure passages; and the crown has been worn out of sight of the people. London in his coach, most of the Lords being there before. The king went early in the morning to the Tower of Of the multitudes, whom loyalty or curiosity And about ten of the clock they set forward towards brought together, the greater part has returned Whitehall, ranged in that order as the heralds had ap without a single glimpse of their prince's gran-pointed; those of the long robe, the king's council at deur, and the day that opened with festivity

THOUGHTS ON THE CORONATION.

IX. The return from the Abbey, in either case, to be as usual, viz. round St. Margaret's churchyard, into King-street, through Unionminster Hall. street, along New Palace-yard, and so into West

It is almost indifferent which of the six first ways now proposed be taken; but there is a Some of the I. From St. James's Palace, along Pall-Mall stronger reason than mere convenience for and Charing Cross, by Whitehall, through Par-changing the common course. liament-street, down Bridge-street, into Kingstreet, round St. Margaret's churchyard, and from thence into the Abbey.

streets in the old track are so ruinous, that there
with people, all pressing forward in the same
is danger lest the houses, loaded as they will be
direction, should fall down upon the procession.
The least evil that can be expected is, that in so
close a crowd, some will be trampled upon, and
a single life, is too dearly bought. The new
others smothered; and surely a pomp that costs
streets, as they are more extensive, will afford
In this proposal I do not foresee any objection
place to greater numbers with less danger.
that can reasonably be made. That a longer
march will require more time, is not to be men-
The longest
tioned as implying any defect in a scheme of
which the whole purpose is to lengthen the
march and protract the time.
hour's walk in the Park. The labour is not
course which I have proposed is not equal to an
such, as that the king should refuse it to his
people, or the nobility grudge it to the king.
Queen Anne went from the palace through the
and when old and infirm, used to pass on solemn
Park to the Hall, on the day of her coronation;
thanksgivings from the palace to St. Paul's
church.*

In order to convey to the reader some idea how highly parade and magnificence were estimated by our of the manner of conducting Lady Anne Boleyn from ancestors, on these solemn occasions, I shall take notice Greenwich, previous to her coronation, as it is recited by Stow.

King Henry VIII. (says that historian) having divorced who was descended from Godfrey Boloine, Mayor of the Queen Catharine, and married Anne Boleyn, or Boloine, city of London, and intending her coronation, sent to orVIII. From Westminster Hall along Palace-der the Lord Mayor, not only to make all the prepara. yard, into Parliament-street, and continued in the last mentioned path, viz. through Bridgestreet, King-street, and round the churchyard, to the west door of the cathedral.

being limited, to the dukes ten, to the lords eight, to the viscounts six, and the barons four, all richly clad, as their other servants were. The whole show was the most glorious in the order and expense, that had been ever seen in England; they who rode first being in Fleetstreet when the king issued out of the Tower, as was known by the discharge of the ordnance: and it was near three of the clock in the afternoon, when the king alighted at Whitehall. The next morning the king rode in the same state in his robes, and with his crown on his head, and all the lords in their robes, to Westminster Hall; where all the ensigns for the coronation were delivered to those who were appointed to carry them, the Earl of Northumberland being made high constable, and the Earl of Suffolk earl marshal, for the day. And then all the lords in their order, and the king himself, walked on foot, upon blue cloth, from Westminster Hall to the Abbey Church, where, after a sermon preached by Dr. Morley, (then bishop of Worcester,) in Henry the Se. venth's Chapel, the king was sworn, crowned and anointed, by Dr. Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, with all the solemnity that in those cases had been used. All which being done, the king returned in the same manner on foot to Westminster Hall, which was adorned with rich hangings and statues; and there the king dined, and the lords on either side at tables provided for them: and all other ceremonies were performed with great order and magnificence.-Life of Lord Clarendon, p 157.