(To be continued MONTHLY, without any Irregularity whatever) Ot AN ENTIRE NEW MAGAZINE, On an Improved, General, Cheap, and very Defirable PLAN). With elegant, fuberb, and numerous Copper-Plates, by the very best Artists in London. (Price only SIXPENCE) Welk Hall (LONDON, WESTMINSTER, SOUTHWARK, &c.) Pantheon. E. Ind, Ho. Royal Acad. Loudon Tavo South Sea H Sadler's Wem Mafquerades Royal Circur Antiquarian Promenade Daily Newf Evening ditte Weekly Jours Admiralty O Doctor's Con Lincoln'sle Sir Ashton Lever's Ol Likon, &c LONDON MAGAZINE; BEING An Universal and Complete Monthly Repofitory O F KNOWLEDGE, INSTRUCTION, and ENTERTAINMENT: For JANUARY, 1789. CONTAINING More in Quantity, and a much greater Variety of New, Original, and Sele& Pieces fin Profe nd Verle) or every curious and entertaining Subject, than are to be found in any other Montbly Publication of the Kind whatever Comprehending a clear View of the MANNERS, ARTS, SCIENCES, FASHIONS, ENTERTAINMENT, POETRY, And all the various A MUSEMENTS of the AGE. AND INCLUDINGy Among a Multiplicity of other Particulara, Letters and Debates on various Subjects, as well : Eflays and curious Productions, relating to Mathematics, The Navy, The Stage, And other Mifcellaneous Subjects of Knowledge and Pleafure, which render this Work hath inftructive and entertaining to the Nobility, Gentlemen, Merchants, Farmers, Tradefmen, and all other Ranks of People of both sexes. With a faithful Regifter and Journal of the Whole Tranfactions of the Month, Foreign and Domestic; Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, Preferments, &c. and a Monthly, Critical, and Imparnal Review of New Books and Publications. The Whole Published under the immediate Direction of A SOCIETY OF LITERARY GENTLEMEN, or LONDON Primed for ALEX. HOGG, at the KING'S ARMS, No. 16, Paternofter-Row (by whom the Communications of ingenious Perfone-Poft Pawill be received, and immediately tranfmitted to the Editors and fold by all Bookfellers, Stationers, and Newicarsiers in and Country. NEW PUBLICATIONS, Printed for ALEX. HOGG, At the King's Arms, No. 16, Paternofter-Row and fold. by all Bookfellers. I. The Celebrated Works of HOMER Complete. To be comprized in Forty Numbers, Quarto, price odly Six-pence each. The Whole embel Bithed with a moft fuperb Set of Grand Quito Copper-plates, defigned and engraved by the moft capital Artifts, fo that there capidi Engravings will alone be worth more than the Purs chafe Money of the whole Work On Sunday next will be publifhed, (Price only Sixpence) printed with new Types, caft by Fry and Co. Letter-Founders to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; and adorned with the following Emocilihm ns, viz. 1. A capital Portrait of HOMER, and a View of the Siege of Troy, haety executed by Barclay.-2. The Contention of thofe brave Grecian Heroes, ACHILLES 3D AGAMEMNON, in which the former refolves never to aflift the latter, elegantly dehgned by Picat, and finely engraved by Fourdritets NUMBERI (To be continued Weekly) Of The WORKS of HOMER, The Celebrated GRECIAN POET 4 Including New and Complete Editions of The ILIAD and the ODYSSEY; Thofe very celebrated and univerfally-admired EPIC or HEROIC POEMS, The ILIAD-being composed on the Subject of the memorable Siege of Troy, interspersed with the most beautiful Allegories and containing a mofi fublime Description of the Battles between the Greeks and Trojans, during a Ten Years Siege, in which the great and valiant ALLEYS, the principal Hero of the War, after his Feconciliation with AGAMEMNON, flew Hector with hi own Hand, and afterwards dragged the Corpfeat his Chariot Wheels round the Walls of Troy. Comprizing a great Variety of valuable and ufetul Maxims in Military Discipline, Stratagems. Exploits in Civil Affairs, Politics, Virtue, Refolution, Prudence, Economy, and, in fhort refpecting all the various Offices and Dulics of Human Life, and affording the most importan agreeable, and entertaining Instruction, conveyed in the moft lively Manner, to Mankind i general... The ODYSSEY-among a Variety of other uffit and entertain ng Particulars, containing moft magnificent and delightful Defcription of the Voyages and Adventures of the wife and vene rable ULYSSES, King of Ithaca, in Greece, during his Ablence of Twenty Years from his Queer PELOPE and exhibiting not only a juft Picture of the Ancient Grecians, but a beautiful Syfte of Morality, Wifdom, Fortitude, Perfeverance, Moderation and Temperance, inftructive to Degrees of Men, and filled with itriking Images, Smiles, Examples, and Precepts of Civil a Domeftic Life. "Carefully Tranflated funt the Original GREEK. In the Execution of this New and Improved Edition, all former Editors and Commentators on HOMER will be carefully confulted, viz. Euftathius, Dacier, Ogilby, Chapman, Dryden, Parnel, &c, particularly that hitherto most eficemed Tranflation by ALEXANDER POPE, Efq.. Illuftrated with Large and Valuable NOTES, Critical, Hiftorieal, Philofophical, Allegorical, Poetical, Scholaftic, Political, Moral, Entertaining. Philological, and Explanatory. Comprehending the moft falutary Reflections and ufeful Remarks, with many important Referenees to Ancient Mythology, Geography, and Universal Hiftory, &c. To which w be carefully added, The ARGUMENTS at Large to every CHAPTER, AND THE MOST AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS of the LIFE of IIOMER; ΤΑ 3 ALSO, An Effay on Homer's Battles, Sc. and a Geographical Table of the Towns, c. in Homer's Catalogue of Greece. The Whole Revifed. Corrected, and Improved By WILLIAM HENRY MELMOTH, Eq. 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