capacity, his argumentative instinct is larger than the natural instinct of beasts. For he hath instincts in him in order to the confervation of society; and therefore hath principles, that is, he hath natural defires to it for his own good; and because he understands them, they are called Principles and Laws of Nature, but are no other than what I have now declared. For beasts do the same things we do, and have many of the fame inclinations, which in us are the Laws of Nature, even all which we have in order to our common end. But that which is in beasts is Nature and an impulfive force, in us must be duty and an inviting power. We must do the fame things with an actual or habitual defignation of that end to which God defigns beafts (fupplying by his wifdom their want of understanding) and then what is mere nature in them, in us is natural reason.—JEREMY TAYLOR.

Intellectual Powers.

HESE abilities, wherefover they be found, are the infpired gift of God, rarely beftowed, but yet to fome (though moft abuse) in every nation; and are of power, befide the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the feeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and fet the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's Almightinefs, and what he works and what he fuffers to be wrought with High Providence in his Church; to fing victorious agonies of martyrs and faints, the deeds and triumphs of juft and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Chrift; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and ftates from juftice and God's true worship. Laftly, whatsoever in Religion is holy and fublime, in virtue amiable and grave, whatsoever hath paffion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily

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fubtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within; all these things with a folid and treatable smoothness to point out and defcribe; teaching over the whole book of fanctity and virtue, through all the inftances of example, with fuch delight, to those efpecially of foft and delicious temper, who will not fo much as look upon truth herself unless they fee her elegantly dreffed, that whereas the paths of honefty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed eafy and pleasant, they will then appear to all men both eafy and pleasant, though they be rugged and difficult indeed. -MILTON.

Intellectual Pleafures. NTELLECTUAL pleasures are of a nobler kind than any others. They belong to Beings of the higheft order. They are the inclinations of heaven, and the entertainment of the Deity.-Ibid.

Intemperance.

NTEMPERANCE is a dangerous companion. It throws people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous paffions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover fecrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the ftews.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Johnson's Dictionary.

R. JOHNSON published his Dictionary; and as the weight of truth and reafon is irrefiftible, its authority has nearly fixed the external form of our language, and from its decifions few appeals have yet been made. Indeed fo convenient is it to have one acknowledged ftandard to recur to-fo much preferable in matters of this nature, is a trifling degree of irregularity to a continual change and a fruitless pursuit of unattainable perfec

tion; that it is earnestly to be hoped, no author will henceforth on flight grounds be tempted to innovate. Dr. Johnfon is every where the declared enemy of unneceffary innovation; and the principles on which he founds his improvements, are the stable ones of etymology and analogy. The former fcience will not foon be more completely understood than it was by him; and if in the latter a few steps may have been made beyond the limits of his obfervations, they have been gained only by the pursuit of minute researches, inconfiftent with the greatness of his undertaking.-ARCHDEACON NARES.

Johnfon's Lives of the Poets. OHNSON'S lives of the poets merit great attention, and contain as many excellent principles of morality as of taste. They give ufeful hints to young men as to the conduct of life; and fhow them how frequently the powers of Genius and the rage of diffipation have been united in the favourites of the