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DISSERTATIONS upon feveral Subjects,

Miscellaneous OBSERVATIONS, &C.

JULY 1726.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

Printed for WILLIAM and JOHN INNYS, at the Weft End of St. Paul's. MDCCXXVI,

Price One Shilling

BOOKS printed for W. and J. INNYS.

I. New Mathematical Dictionary; wherein is con-

Atein'd not only the Explanation of the bare

Terms, but likewife an Hiftory of the Rife, Progress,
State, Properties, c. of Things, both in pure Mathe-
maticks and Natural Philofophy, fo far as it comes un-
der a Mathematical Confideration. By E. Stone, F. R. S.
800. 1726.

2. Novum Teftamentum Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti:
Interprete Theodoro Beza. 120. 1726.

3. The Appendix to Dr. Drake's Anthropologia Nova; or,

A new Syftem of Anatomy, with Fifty one Copper-

Plates. 8vo. 1726.

4. Bibliotheca Biblica; being a Commentary upon all

the Books of the Old and New Teftament. No. I. for

1724. being the laft for Leviticus. With an Index.

N. B. Any of the former Parts may be had separate.

5. Philofophical Tranfactions, No. 392. for January

and February, 1726. Publifh'd by F. Furin, M.D. Soc.

Reg. Secr. 4to.

6. Juftini Hiftoria, in ufum Delphini. 8vo. Lond.

7. St. Athanafius's Four Orations against the Arians,

and his Oration against the Gentiles. Tranflated by
Mr. Samuel Parker. 2 Vols. 8vo. Oxon. 1713.

S. Praxis Medica Boerhaveana, being a compleat Body

of Prefcriptions adapted to each Section of the Practi-

cal Aphorifms of H. Boerhaave, M. D. &c. 12°.

9. The Antiquities of Palmyra, alias Tadmor, built by

King Solomon; containing the Hiftory of that City, and

its Emperors, from its Foundation to this prefent Time.

With Cuts. By Ab. Sellers. 8vo.

10. An Introduction to Natural Philofophy; or, Phi-

lofophical Lectures read in the University of Oxford,
A. D. 1700. To which are added, the Demonstrations
of Monfieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the Cen-
trifugal Force and Circular Motion. By F. Keill, M. D.
Sav. Prof. Aftr. F. R. S. The 2d Edit. 8vo. 1726.

11. Lufus Poetici, olim confcripti à T. B. è C. C. C.

Oxon. Difcipulo. Svo. Lond. 1720.

12. C. Julii Cæfaris que extarit, cum Indice locuple--

tiffimo. Ex Recenfione T. P. A. M. 12. Lond. 1719.

13. Ben Johnĵon's Plays, with Cuts, Six Vols. 8v

XII. A Defense of the Miracle of the Thundering Legion. By Mr. Woolfton,

XIII. Books published, or to be printed.

69

1. Lo Stato Geografico della Marca d'Ancona, 71 2. Bibliotheca Ecclefiaftica,

72

3. De exiftentia Spirituum nervoforum, &c. 72

4. An account of all the natural and artificial Curiofities to be found at Breslaw,

73

5. A new Machine invented to extract the Stone out of the bladder,

6. Meditationes poeticæ in Libros Biblicos,

7. A new Edition of Lucan,

8. Mifcellaneous Letters,

73

74

74

75

9. Hepbæftionis Enchiridion de Metris, &c. A new Edition,

76

10. Feithius's Antiquitates Homerica reprinted, 76 II. Advertisement about the Continuation of Abbot Fleury's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory,

77

12. Directions for the Chriftian education of Children,

77

13. Abbot Fleury's Ecclefiaftical History tranflated into English,

79

14. A new Edition of Machiavel's Works, 80 15. Mr. Bub's Propofals for printing a Collection of Charters, Letters Patent, and other Inftruments, concerning the Creation and Inveftiture of the Eldeft Sons of the Kings of England, as Princes of Wales, &c.

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New

New Memoirs

OF

LITERATURE.

For JULY 1726.

ARTICLE I.

AN EXTRACT of the fecond Volume of Mr. ROLLIN's Method of teaching and learning polite Literature. (The Account of the first Volume may be seen in the third Volume of this Journal, Art. XLI. and XLVI.)

Mi

The third Book.

R. ROLLIN proceeds to treat of Rhetoric. Though natural qualities (fays he) are the main foundation of Eloquence, and fometimes fufficient alone to form an Orator; yet it cannot be denied that precepts may be of great ufe, either by teaching him how to difcern what is good from what is bad, or to improve the talents he has received from naJULY 1726. A

ture.

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