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Printed, for the PROPRIETORS, by B, M'MILLAN, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.
PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, NO. 22, DLD BOSWELL-COURT, STRAND,
BY J. WHITTLE; AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOMS
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO BY SERJEANT, NEW YORK.

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TO

THE PRELATES, NOBLEMEN,

HEADS OF HOUSES,

AND

OTHER MEMBERS

OF

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

WHO

HAVE RESOLVED TO ERECT

MONUMENT OF RESPECT. AND GRATITUDE

TO THE LATE

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PITT;

THIS VOLUME OF A WORK,

IN WHICH THE MERITS OF THAT EMINENT STATESMAN

WERE APPRECIATED WITHOUT PREJUDICE,

HIS VIRTUES PRAISED WITHOUT FLATTERY,

AND

HIS DEEDS RECORDED WITH TRUTH,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

ANTI-JACOBIN

Review and Magazine,

&c. &c. &c.

For JANUARY, 1806.

Ge. Quo in ftatu funt res Gallicæ ? Li. Sanè turbulento. Magnæ bellorum minæ funt, quid mali allaturi fint hoftibus, nescio: certè Galli jam ipfi non dicendis malis affliguntur. Ge. Unde proficifcuntur ifti bellorum tumultus? L. Unde, nifi ex ambitione monarcharum? Ge. At horum prudentiâ conveniebat fedari rerum humanarum tempeftates. Li. Sedant illi quidem, fed ut Aufter mare. Perfuadent fibi se Deos esse, fuâque causâ Mundum hunc effe conditum. Ge. Immo princeps reipublicæ gratiâ conftituitur, non refpublica Principis causâ. Li. Imò non defunt Theologi, qui frigidum fuffundant, et ad hos tumultus clafficum canant. Ge. Iftos ego ftatuerem in primâ acie. Li. At illi fibi cavent post principia.

ERASMI COLLOQUIA; PER CONT. REDUCEM.

ORIGINAL CRITICISM.

Academical Queftions. By the Right Hon. William Drummond, R. C. F.R.S. F.R.S. E. Author of a Tranflation of Perfius. Vol. I. 4to. PP. 412. Cadell and Davies.

THE

HE favourable expectations which we were induced to form of the work before us, when its title and author were first announced to the public, were greater than we ordinarily indulge; and we acknowledge with pleasure that the entertainment, no less than the inftruction which we have derived from its perufal, has borne a fair proportion to what we had largely anticipated. If in some fundamental and very important refpects we have been difappointed, let us not on that account withhold the praises which it amply demands, nor fcatter them with the thrifty and penurious measure of critics by profeffion." We gladly then contribute our teftimony of applaufe to the learning, ingenuity, and elegance which the author has difplayed throughout the whole of this performance. An extenfive acquaintance with the opinions of the beft metaphyfical writers, both antient NÓ. CL, VOL. XXIII.

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