"There is a noble hymn in French, which Monsieur Bayle has celebrated for a very fine one, and which the famous author of the Art of Speaking calls an admirable one, that turns upon a thought of the same nature. If I could have done it justice in English, I would have sent it you translated; it was written by Monsieur Des Barreaux, who had been one of the greatest wits and libertines in France, but in his last years was as remarkable a penitent."

'Grand Dieu, tes jugemens sont remplis d' equité;
Toûjours tu prens plasir à nous étre propice :
Mais j' ai tant fait de mal, que jamais ta bonté
Ne me pardonnera, sans choquer ta justice.
Oui, mon Dieu, la grandeur de mon impieté,
Ne laisse à ton pouvoir que le choix du supplice :
Ton interest s' oppose à ma felicité,
Et ta clemence meme attend que je perisse.
Contente ton desir, puis qu'il t' est glorieux ;
Offense toy des pleurs qui cou lent de mes yeux ;
Tonne, frappe, il est temps, rens moi guerre pour guerre :
J'adore en perissant la raison qui t' aigrit,
Mais dessus quel endroit tombera ton tonnerre,
Qui ne soit tout couvert du sang de Jesus Christ.'

"If these thoughts may be serviceable to you, I desire you would place them in a proper light; and am ever, with great sincerity,

"SIR, Your's &c."

END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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INDEX

TO VOL. II.

A.

ABSENCE of lovers, page 37. Death in love, 38. How to be
made easy, ibid, &c.

Academy for politics, 258. Regulations of it, 259.

Admiration, one of the most pleasing passions, 29. It is short-
lived, 72. A pleasing notion of the mind, 363.

Adversity, no evil in itself, 31.

Advice usually received with reluctance, 534.

Allegories, like light to a discourse, 395. Eminent writers faulty

in them, ibid.

Allusions, the great art of a writer, 395.

Almighty, his power over the imagination, 397. Aristotle's say-

ing of his being, 464.

Amazons, their commonwealth, 398.

How they educated their

children, 401. Their wars, 402.

They marry their male

allies, 403.

Ambition, the end of it, 65. Never satisfied, 72. The effect of
it in the mind, ibid. Subjects us to many troubles, 75. The
true object of a laudable ambition, 79.
Americans used painting instead of writing, 376.
Ancients in the east, their way of building, 370, &c.
Ann Boleyn's last letter to King Henry VIII. 332.
Apollo's temple on the top of Leucate, by whom frequented, and
for what purpose, 2.
Appearances, things not to be trusted for them, 458.
Architecture, the ancients perfection in it, 370. The greatness
of the manner how it strikes the fancy, 372. Of the manner
of both ancients and moderns, 373. The concave and convex
figures have the greatest air, ibid. Every thing that pleases
the imagination in it, is either great, beautiful, or new, 374.
Argumentum Basilinum, what, 31. Socrates's way of arguing, 33.
In what manner managed by states and communities, 35.
Aristotle, the inventor of syllogisms, 33. His definition of an
entire action in epic poetry, 93. His sense of the greatness of
the action in a poem, 94. His method of examining an epic
poem, 96. An observation of that critic's, 100. One of the
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