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, 2. Novum Teftamentum Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti: 3. The Appendix to Dr. Drake's Anthropologia Nova; or, A new Syftem of Anatomy, with Fifty one Copper- 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 7. St. Athanafius's Four Orations against the Arians, and his Oration against the Gentiles. Tranflated by 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, 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-- III. A Letter containing an examination of the 36 VIII. An Account of the Antiquities in North- 57 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. 80 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. |