NE W MEMOIRS OF LITERATURE, Containing an ACCOUNT of N E W BOOKS Printed both at Home and Abroad, WITH DISSERTATIONS upon several Subjects, Miscellaneous OBSERVATIONS, &r. JULY 1726. VOL. IV. LONDON: Printed for WILLIAM and JOIN INNYS at the West End of St. Paul's. MDCCXXVI, Price One Shilling BOOKS printed for W. and J. IN NY S. New Mathematical Di&tionary; wherein is con- 2. Novum Testamentum Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti : 3. The Appendix to Dr. Drake's Anthropologia Nova; or, 4. Bibliotbeca Biblica ; being a Commentary upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament. No. I. for 1724. being the last for Leviticus. With an Index. N. B. Any of the former Parts may be had separate. 5. Philosophical Transactions, No. 392. for January and February, 1726. Publish'd by 7. Furin, 11. D. Soc. 6. Juftini Historia, in usum Delphini. 8vo. Lond. 7. St. Athanasius's Four Orations against the Arians, and his Oration against the Gentiles. Translated by Mr. Samuel Parker. 2 Völs. 8vo. Oxon. 1713. 8. Praxis Medica Boerhaveana, being a compleat Body of Prescriptions adapted to each Section of the Pradi cal Aphorilins of H. Boerhaave, M. D. &c. 12o. 9. The Antiquities of Palmyra, alias Tadmor, built by King Solomon ; containing the History of that City, and its Emperors, from its Foundation to this present Time. With Cuts. By Ab. Sellers. 8vo. 10. An Introduétion to Natural Philofophy; or, Phi- lofophical Lechures read in the University of Oxford, 11. Lusus Poetici, olim confcripti à T. B. ° C. C.C. Oxon. Difcipulo. Svo. Lond. 1720. 12. C. Julii Cæfaris quae extartt, cum Indice locuple- tiflimo. Ex Recensione T P. A.M. 120. Lond. 1719. ig. Ben Foknjon's Plays, with Curs. Six Vols. Svo N Account of the second Volume of Mr. Rollin's method of teaching and II. An Account of an extraordinary case, con- cerning a bone, which was found in the heart III. A Letter containing an examination of the Notes and Emendations of Dr. Bentley upon IV. Letters of Francesco Redi, 35 VI. Miscellaneous Discourses, by Mr. Paris, si VII. The posthumous Works of Mr. William VIII. An Account of the Antiquities in North- IX. The History of the Chancery, X. A critical Remark upon a passage in Horace, 64 74 XII. A Defense of the Miracle of the Thunder. ing Legion. By Mr. Woolston, 69 XIII. Books published, or to be printed. 1. Lo Stato Geografico della Marca d'Ancona, 71 2. Bibliotbeca Ecclefiaftica, 72 3. De existentia Spirituum nervoforum, &c. 72 An account of all the natural and artificial Curiosities to be found at Breslaw, 73 5. A new Machine invented to extract the Stone out of the bladder, 73 6. Meditationes poeticæ in Libros Biblicos, 7. A new Edition of Lucan, 74 8. Miscellaneous Letters, 75 9. Hephestionis Enchiridion de Metris, &c. A new Edition, 76 10. Feitbius's Antiquitates Homericæ reprinted, 76 11. Advertisement about the Continuation of Abbot Fleury's Ecclesiastical History, 77 12. Directions for the Christian education of Children, 77 13. Abbot Fleury's Ecclefiaftical History translated into English, 79 14. A new Edition of Machiavel's Works, 80 15. Mr. Bush's Proposals for printing a Collection of Charters, Letters Patent, and other Instruments, concerning the Creation and Investiture of the Eldest Sons of the Kings of England, as Princes of Wales, &c. 80 New AN EXTRACT of the second 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.) The tbird Book. M R. ROLLIN proceeds to treat of Rhe toric. Though natural qualities (says he) are the main foundation of Eloquence, and sometimes sufficient alone to form an Orator ; yet it cannot be denied that precepts may be of great use, either by teaching him how to discern wħat is good from what is bad, or to improve the talents he has received from naJULY 1726. A ture. |