BRITISH SYNONYMY; OR, AN ATTEMPT AT REGULATING THE CHOICE OF WORDS IN FAMILIAR CONVERSATION. INSCRIBED, WITH SENTIMENTS OF GRATITUDE AND RESPECT, TO SUCH OF HER FOREIGN FRIENDS AS HAVE MADE ENGLISH Minervam narrat Homerus, poetarum princeps, inter bel lantium turmas Diomedi apparuiffe; oculorumque caliginem, ut bellantes Deos ab hominibus poffet difcernere, difcuffiffe. Quod figmentum Plato in Alcibiade Secundo, p. 150, tom. ii. nihil interpretatur quam rationem ipfam, quæ, difcuffa caligine qua quifque tenetur, animum fæcibus purgat, ut mala bonave poffit propius contemplari. SANCTII MINERVA. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK FROM CROX PREFACE. AND now left the motto of this book fhould, though infinitely the best part of it, pafs unobferved; a loofe tranflation shall serve to retrace it, if coarsely, on the reader's mind, and fix more firmly there the first impreffion. "Homer then, prince of poets, relates that Minerva appeared to Diomed in the battle, and clearing his fight, fet to view the warring deities, giving him power to discern which were gods and which were men.▬▬▬▬▬ While Plato explains the allegory into no more than this: How Wisdom or Reason fhould in like manner fo difpel the mifts of the mind, that it may be at liberty to discern, examine, and contemplate what is good and what is evil." If |