that this word was ever taken in a good sense Terence after he hath produc'd the accusation of his Enemies in the same odious terms as they had exhibited it doth not reply decet contaminare fabulas but simply proves that it was lawful to do that which they call'd contaminare They pretended that Terence defil'd if we may use the expression Menander's Plays by adding to them somewhat of his own or by annexing certain passages taken from other pieces of the same Poet which being transpos'd lost a great part of their Primitive Beauty and Elegancy Therefore altho ' Madam D'Acier as to the main point is of the same opinion as the other Interpreters nevertheless every one will not admit that signification which she ascribes unto the word contaminare The other passage of the Prologue to the Andria which seems to stand in need of a small alteration is this Favete adeste aequo animo rem cognoscite Vt pernoscatis ecquid spei sit reliquum Post haec quas faciet de integro Comedias Spectandae an exigendae sint vobis prius Give attention favourably and examine this Piece that you may be able to judge what may be expected from our Poet and whether the Comedies which he shall hereafter make may deserve to be acted before you or whether they ought to be rejected without hearing Now let judicious Criticks determine whether this correction which consists in reading pernoscat is in two words be not more consonant to the words and design of the Poet. Give attention favourably c. To the end that he may know whether there be any grounds for him to hope for the future and whether you will vouchsafe to grant that the new Comedies which he may hereafter compose shall be acted or whether you will explode them without seeing At least this sense is more agreeable to these words Ecquid spei sit reliquum c. Which after whatsoever manner they are understood may be much better attributed to Terence than to the People of Rome Perhaps this Comedy was acted after the Hecyra or some other Play of this Poet was rejected which caus'd him to fear lest the like accident should again happen As for the People of Rome they had no reason to despair of the sufficiency of Terence's Pieces which they had already often approv'd but the Poet having once receiv'd a repulse might suspect lest this should have done some injury to his credit and should occasion the loss of the publick approbation The word reliquum joyn'd with spes seems altogether to favour this sense and is contrary to that of Madam D'Acier who by spes understands expectatio Moreover it is a frequent custom of Terence to make use of the Pronoun is instead of ille hic ipse as appears from the examples produc'd by Robert Stephen in his Thesaurus linguae Latinae V. CORNELIUS NEPOS de vita Excellentium Imperatorum Interpretatione notis illustravit NICOLAUS COURTIN Humanitatis Professor in Vniversitate Parisiensi Jussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini juxta Editionem Parisiensem 8o. Londini apud Abel Swalle 1691. p. 264. THo' Cornelius Nepos appears to be a very plain Author and easie to be understood he is so succinct and gives us the knowledge of so many Events and Antiquities that the publick is without question oblig'd to those who took care of the Education of the Dauphin of France and appointed a person of so much learning and judgement as Monsieur Courtin to unfold the knotty difficulties of this Author He has not given himself the trouble to make an unprofitable Paraphrase upon this Historian He has only explain'd his most extraordinary Idioms of Speech by the more common Phrases and tho' his Notes appear not very long however they leave no difficulty in this Author unexplained Now in regard the Ancients are no very exact Chronologers Mr. Courtin has plac'd before his Commentary a Chronology of 44 Olympiads or 176 years Which space of time includes all the lives which Cornelius Nepos has written and his Interpreter has taken care to mark out to what year the several Historical Actions therein recounted particularly refer This Chronology begins from the 72. Olympiad that is to say according to his accompt from the year of the World 3480. and the 261 year after the building of the City of Rome To the lives of Cornelius Nepos Mr. Courtin has added all the Fragments of that Author which are extant upon which he has also made Notes At the end there is an Index of all the words of that Historian conformable to the method of other Commentaries for the use of the Dauphin VI. D. JUNII JUVENALIS A PERSIS FLACCI Satyrae Interpretatione notis illustravit LUDOVICUS PRATEUS Rhetoricae Preceptor emeritus Jussu Christianissimi Regis in usum Serenissimi Delphini 8o. Lond. apud Abel Swalle 1691. p. 606. MOnsieur PRATEUS has translated these two Poets into other Latin with so nice an exactness as if he had studied for a Version of the Bible For as he is oblig'd to add words to the Text to make the construction and contexture of the discourse he has taken care to mark them in other Letters You will say perhaps that if he had made a freer Paraphrase he might have better explain'd his Authors but he might as well have run himself into a mistake of sense So that there is no question but there are many people who will commend him for having been a little precise especially when they shall see that he has supply'd with ample Notes what might be wanting to compleat the perspicuity of the Paraphrase And indeed how was it possible to translate clearly and in few words those verses of the 4 Satyr of Persius Esto Dum ndetcrius sapiat Pannucia Baucis Cum bene discincto cantaverit Ocima vernae Ocimum is an Aromatick Herb which they never sow'd but with Curses and Maledictions believing it would grow the better Baucis was the name of a poor old Woman and proverbially taken for any old Herb-woman Socrates who in this Satyr represents the person of Persius tells Alcibiades representing the person of Nero that tho' he might have reason to boast of the Nobility of his Extraction and the Comliness of his Person yet for all that he might have no less cause to fear his being reproach'd for having no more wit than a Herring-wife that abuses a Footman This is the Interpretation and meaning which next to Casaubon Mr. Prateus gives of this passage in Persius You shall find in his Notes all that the most subtle Criticks have said to render Persius intelligible VII A DEFENCE OF DIOCESAN EPISCOPACY in answer to a Book of Mr. David Clarkson lately Published Entituled Primitive Episcopacy by HEN. MAURICE D.D. 8o. London 1691. p. 470. IF all Books were written like this I do not believe there is any Mortal would be so adventurous as to undertake to be a Journalist for
of Vessels which several sorts of Humors keep dilated and well sill'd so that Leanness and the Marasm it self do not proceed from that the fix'd Parts of our Body as the Flesh and Bones are depriv'd of their Substance which can never happen but by the violence of Corrosives which would cause an incredible pain nevertheless they feel no pain who are troubled with those languishing Diseases And therefore such an Atrophy must proceed from hence that the Humors which fill the Vessels and preserve them plump evaporating the Vessels shrunk and by that means impair the Dimension of the Parts The Author afterwards (m) p 143. makes the Application of his Principles to explain the manner and the limits of the growth of the Bones and how they are nourished which it is no difficult thing to do if the Reader forget not what has been already observ'd That both in the Foetus and a new born Child the Bones are made up of a Matter which is very tender and easiâ—y gives way but as it grows changes into Gâ—istles that the Particles which compose the Gristles do not form continued Threads but leave between them Cavities or void Spaces which in time are fill'd up with Nutritive Juice That it slides along a good while before all the Spaces of those Particles are fill'd up and that the Gristles are converted into perfect Bones and then it is that Growth ceases the Nutritious Particles no longer knowing where to lodge themselves According to this Hypothesis Dr. Havers explains the Reason why the Bones grow crooked in the Rickets and why both that Distemper and the Neapolitan Disease many times produce Knots or Excrescencies upon the Bone III. The Third Discourse treats of the Marrow (n) p. 161 All the World knows that the Marrow is an Oyly Substance which fills the Cavity of the Bones but you shall hardly any where else meet with so exact a Description of it as the Author gives here This Marrow is enclosed in small round Vesicles of which two or three or more are contain'd in Bags of different shape and these Bags in a transparent and very slender Membrane consisting of Fibres prolong'd from the Blood-Vessels which afford it Nourishment through the Pores of the Bones These Vesicles and little Bags are also furnished with Pores through which the Marrow 's Oyl passes from one to the other and communicates it self to the Joints So that these Vesicles are also a kind of Kernels and separate the Marrow from the other Parts of the Blood (o) p. 171. When these Vesicles are full they contract themselves as all puffed up Bladders do and then discharging their Oil the one into the other it passes from Vesicle to Vesicle and from Bag to Bag till it enters into the thwarting Pores of the Bones whence it sheds it self into the streight Pores and at the Articulations and is employed into the Cavities between their Joints which it keeps moist and slippery In the great Cavities of the Bones the Marrow appears whitish speckled with Red but absolutely Red in the lesser Cells which only proceeds from the different quantity of Veins and Arteries that nourish it Some parts of this Marrow are apt to congeal because they are mix'd with Nitre Though the Marrow (p) p. 178. contributes nothing to the Nourishment of the Bones that are furnished with Blood-Vessels appointed for that purpose it is otherwise many ways useful For 1. It moistens the Substance of the Bones and by its oyly Nature it preserves them in good condition and hinders them from shivering 2. With the Mucilage it makes the Joints of the Bones slippery and consequently sit for Motion 3. Mixt with the clammy Mucilage it cools them and prevents their contracting a more than ordinary Heat by their Motion 4. It prevents them from wearing out wasting and bruising by rubbing one against another 5. It is after the same manner serviceable to the Ligaments which tie the Bones together preserving them from being dry and stiff and keeping them supple and slippery IV. The Fourth Discourse treats of the Mucilage and the mucilaginous Kernels (q) p. 187. These Kernels are one of the principal Discoveries of the Author who tells us they were never discerned by any person before himself They are of two sorts the one sort which is very small and numerous take up the whole Membrane of the Joint unless in that part where you meet with the second sort of these Kernels which are conglomerate bigger and consequently more remarkable than the first They are made up of several Kernels or small Membranes extended one upon another long and large at the bottom and ending usually in a point though there are some that are flat and of other different Figures They are soft and supple and not brittle so that they yield to and suffer the impression of the Bones without receiving any harm The Blood-Vessels with which they communicate are not streight but oblique so that the Blood circulating round about them the mucilaginous Particles have time to separate when they enter the Kernels The Mucilage (r) p 201. which distills out of these Kernels is a clear and clammy Liquor almost like the White of an Egg. It is composed of Watry Salt and Terrestrial Parts but the Salt and the Earthy Parts make no more than about the 32d part of the Mixture It partakes of the nature of the Serum only that it is not to be all turn'd into a Coagulum by the heat of the Fire as the Serum is It serves for the same Use as the Marrow and they assist one another to perform their Functions The Mucilage renders the Marrow 's Oyl more slippery and that Oyl hinders the Mucilage from growing too thick It is formed as the Author says in the Spleen which is of a Viscous and Kernelly Substance and which has two forts of Pores the one proper for the distilling of Acids through them and the other is a Stiptick Juice which serves as a Ferment for the Blood to produce the Mucilage there Dr. Havers sets down several Experiments (s) p. 217. which he has made upon this Liquor of which the most considerable in relation to Physick are That violent Acids as Salt and Oyl of Vitriol Aqua fortis and Spirit of Nitre and Vinegar coagulate the Mucilage chiefly when it is hot so that it will become thin and fluid and that you may separate from it a kind of Whey or Serum The Author tried whether by the help of Powder of Coral Antimony Diaphorerick or Crabs-Eyes he could make it resume its first Nature but he could not bring it to pass Yet with Spirit of Sal Armon and Salt of Tartar all the Coagulation would be dissolved The Parts where these Kernels are seated are subject to Catarrhâ— because these Kernels not only separate the Mucilage from the Blood but many times also other Morbisick Humors which Nature desires to be rid of When those
how reconciled to the Church of Rome Blasphemies of the French Panegyrists Pag. 1. II. A New Bibliotheque of Ecclesiastical Authors An History of the Author and his Book Canonical Scriptures Ancient Liturgies whether St. Denis was ever in France What Honour is due to the Saints No Bishop of Bishops Doctrine of the Three first Centuries Of the Power of Councils Invocation of Saints Worship of Images and Celibacy Pag. 2. III. Horatius Rodellii Whether Mecoenas was descended from the Kings of Etrury Deus esse Oculo irretorto Descendere Vinum Pag. 14. IV. The Comedies of Terentius by Madam D'Acier Character of Plautus and Terentius and their Comedies Contaminare New Explication of a perplex'd Passage in the Andria Pag. 19. V. Cornelius Nepos Nic. Courtin Pag. 23. VI. Juvenalis Persius Lud. Pratei Passage of Persius explain'd Pag. 3. VII A Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy Opinions of the Independents Pag. 25. VIII Description of the United Netherlands c. Vsefulness of Travels London bigger than all the Cities of Holland together Pag. 27. IX Vauban's New Method of Fortification Character and Contents of this Book Original of Fortification Situation of Places to be fortified Orillon Flank retired Bastion c. Pag. 28. X. Haver's Osteologia Nova An Idea of the Formation of the Foetus of the Periosteum the Bones and the Teeth Of Growth and Nourishment Of the Marrow Of the Mucilage and Mucilaginous Kernels Of the Cartilages Pag. 33. 2. Ruyschius Observationes Anatomico-Chirurgicae Wonderful Cure of an Aneurisma Of the Membrant Hymen Pag. 46. XI Leonardi Plukenetii Phytographia Pag. 42. XII Praxis Mayerniana .. Whether the Smoak of Tabacco can reach the Brain Pag. 47. XIII Richerius De Potestate Ecclesiae Votes of the Third Estate in France against the Pope's Power The Doctrine and Practice of the Gallican Church prov'd agreeable with them Rules to examine whether a Doctrine be orthodox or no Whether it be lawful for the People to depose Princes Of Ecclesiastical Power and Excommication Sentiments of Marsilius of Padua Blasphemy of Pope Gregory VII against Royal Dignity Pag. 48. XIV An Universal Analysis of Equations Pag. 53. XV. Leybourn's Cursus Mathematicus How to know the Length of the Way which a Vessel makes XVI Some Observations made in the great Congregation of Waters communicated by the Honourable R. Boyle That Sta-water is colder on the deep below than by the Surface Pag. 58. XVII Inscriptionum Antiquarum Sylloge Whether the Daughter of the first Christian Emperour builded a Church to S. Agnes Whether the Idolatry of the Heathens be excusable Pag. 59. XVIII The Falshood of Humane Vertues Whether Subjects may rebel against their Kings Pag. 62. THE HISTORY OF LEARNING I. HISTOIRE DU ROY LOUYS LE GRAND par les Medailles Emblemes Devises c. History of Lewis the Great Taken from the Medals Emblems Devices Inscriptions Armories and other Publick Monuments Collected and Explained by Father CLAUDIUS FRANCIS MENESTRIER Jesuit A new Edition augmented with five Plates Fol. Paris 1691. F. 64. IF the Contents of this Work were answerable to its Title and if the Author had given us an exact and continued History of the Exploits of his Hero and had proved the most remarkable Actions that were performed under his Reign by the Medals that were coined and other publick Monuments that were erected on that occasion it would without doubt have been a very useful Book but nothing of all this is to be found therein for the Medals are confusedly placed the order of time which is the most principal matter in a History is not well observ'd and instead of a Commentary there is only a licentious Interpretation of the Latin Inscriptions or some other trivial Circumstances and that too but very rarely insomuch that it can neither be esteemed as an History nor a Panegyrick but a gross and imperfect Collection of whatsoever could be invented by Flattery to aggrandize the Idea of a Prince that delights in Vain-Glory and is perhaps too much addicted to the love of popular applause And indeed what can be devised more vain than the Medal (a) 25.5 wherein he is represented in the midst of the Cities of Genoua and Luxemburg turning the Globe of the World on the point of his Sword with this Motto Quod libet licet I do whatsoever I think fit Altho' the Character of a Jesuit and a Panegyrist doth not well agree with that of a sincere Writer never heless we are induc'd to believe that Father Menêtrier hath found it to be a very difficult task to produce these Medals as undoubted proofs of the Historical matters and facts related by him as being conscious to himself that the greatest part of them were founded only on Hyperbolical exaggerations or on the false reports of hired News mongers As for example it is well known to all the World that in the War that happen'd between England and Holland in the Year 1666 France amused this Commonwealth with feigned Succours that those few French Vessels that joyned with de Ruyter served only to molest and perplex him by breaking all his measures or giving an account thereof to the Enemies and that the Forces that were sent thither by Land marched only to espie out the Country and to contrive intrigues and plots against them as it afterwards appeared by the design which was discovered in the Year 1672. Therefore we may very well turn the reverse of the Medal and instead of (a) f. 13.2 Batavis terrâ marique desensis Religio foederum put Batavis terrâ marique proditis Derisio foederum There are others likewise that are absolutely repugnant to evident matters of fact particularly that which is consecrated to Lewis the Great for granting peace (b) p. 26.3 to the Hollanders whom he had Conquer'd to the Germans whom he had every where Vanquished and almost to all Europe that had combined together against him For without reckoning Switzerland Italy and the most part of the Princes of Germany Poland and Moscovy who were not engag'd in this quarrel France was assisted by England Sweeden and the Bishop of Colen and Munster through whose Territories they attacked the Hollanders at unawares Moreover in the beginning of the War all Europe seemed unanimously to concur in promoting the ruine of the United Provinces since Spain opened a passage to their Enemies and the Emperour for a long time stood still as it were a Spectator to which if we add the Intelligence that the French obtain'd within the Country and the Cowardise of some of those that had the Command of the Principal Posts it may well be concluded from thence that these Conquests are not so Glorious as they would have them to be believed But on the contrary there accrues to King William Everlasting Glory which cannot be eclipsed by the most inveterate Envy for rescuing by his Valour and Prudence at the Age of about 22 Years four Great Provinces out of the Hands of so Haughty and