all things elfe forfake me, befides my 'God, my duty, and my prayer."

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I thank you for lord Corke's fentiments of Mr. Hume's "hiftory of Great Bri"tain *." His lordship's judgment of books is incontestable, and therefore from his character of it I fhall become a purchafer.

I am, dear Sir,

Your affectionate humble fervant,

HEN. JOHNSON.

Viz. "The ftyle is particularly lively and ex"cellent. Where he is obfcure, I believe, he is af"fectedly so. An impartial historian will not ever "exift. His materials are admirably put together;

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many very curious remarks; fome new facts; and "all old and known ftories put into a new method, "and perfectly entertaining." His lordship adds, "The Scotch are running away with all our litera"ture. I never faw a foolish Scotchman: I believe . I fhall now scarce ever see an illiterate one."

"THE

"THE

"UNIVERSAL THEATRE of CRITICISM,

"Various DISCOURSES on all kinds of matters "for the confutation of VULGAR ERRORS.

"By the Rev. Benedictine Father, JEROM FEIJOO, "Abbot of St. VINCENT ȧt OVIEDO.

❝ V O L., I.

"The voice of the people. Virtue and "vice. High and low fortune. The best po

licy. Uncertainty of phyfic. Regimen "to preserve health. Defence of the pro"feffion of letters. Judicial aftrology and "almanacks. Eclipfes. Comets. Climac"teric years. The fenectude * of the world. Profecution of the former fubject. Against modern philofophers. Church"mufic. Parallel between the French "and Spanish languages. Defence of

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These two were published feparately (in English) a few years ago.

* See the next letter.

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Philofophical wars. Natural history. "Divining arts. Suppofititious prophecies. "Ufe of magic. The modes. Moral fe"nectude of mankind. Apparent wif "dom. Antipathy of the French and Spa"niards. Critical days. Weight of the "air. Sphere of fire. The anti-periftafis. "Phyfical paradoxes. An intellectual map, or a comparison of nations.

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"Saluters (or charmers.) Secrets of "nature. Sympathy and antipathy. Hobgoblins and familiar fpirits. The divi"ning rod, and fecond-fighted men (cal"led Zahories *.) Suppofititious miracles. "Mathematical paradoxes. Philofopher's "ftone. Rationality of brutes. Love of "native country, and national paffion. "Scale of Aftræa, or right administration of juftice. Ambition in fovereign princes. Philofophical fcepticism.

V O. L. IV.

"Apparent virtue. Value of nobility, "and influence of blood. Inextinguish"able lamps. Every man his own phy"fician. Sacred peregrinations and pil

grimages. American Spaniards. Merit "and fortune of Ariftotle. Reflections "on hiftory. Transformations, and magical tranfmigrations. Fable of the "Batuecas, and imaginary places. A "new cafe of confcience. Refurrection of "the arts, and apology of the ancients †. "Glory of Spain, in two parts.

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"A mathematical rule for human faith. "Phyfiognomony. A new art of phyfiog"nomony. Machiavelifm of the ancients. "Common obfervations. Signs of actual "death. The exterminating aphorifm*, "Divorce of hiftory and fable. New phy"fical paradoxes. Books of politics. "The grand magiftracy of experience.

* See the next letter.

" New

"New properties of light. Existence "of a vacuum. Intranfmutability of the "elements. Solution of the grand histo"rical queftion concerning the peopling of 66 America, and revolutions of the terraqueous globe. Popular traditions. A "new precaution against the artifices of alchymifts, and vindication of the author against a grofs calumny *."

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LETTER

CLVII.

Mr. JOHNSON to Mr. DUNCOMBE.

DEAR SIR,

Berkhamsted, March 4, 1756.

...THE appofite enquiries you

make, concerning the titles of fome of Abbot Feijoo's difcourfes, fhew the extreme

* "The honour and advantage of agriculture, the "13th difcourfe of the viiith volume," said to be tranflated by a farmer in Chefhire, was printed for Dodfley in 1760. "This," fays the author, "i "the only art which had its origin in man's ftate VOL. III.

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