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With a new and accurate MAP of RADNORSHIRE, and a fine HEAD of Sir RICHARD STEELE, Knt. both neatly engraved. MULTUM IN PARVO. LONDON: Printed for R. BALDWIN, at the Rofe in Pater-Nofter-Row; Of whom may be had, compleat Sets from the Year 1733 to this Time, neatly Bound, or Stitch'd, or any fingle Month to compleat Sets. We return thanks to our ar ingenious correspondents, for ferves al excellent pieces received, which we Lave been obliged to omit for want of room; but jhall be injorted in our mext, particularly the precs encl-fed by F. P. and the curious mathematical quefion of w. B. which luft came too lutly as did many beautiful copies of verfes. THE LONDON MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, Extract from the Rev. Mr. HERVEY'S THERON and ASPASIO. To give our Readers a Specimen of this elegant Performance, we fhail oblige them with an extract from the 6th Dialogue, by zubich they will judge of the Author's Stile and A Manner. Thefe Dialogues certainly abound with many friking beauties, peculiar to this polite and pious Writer. THERON and ASPASIO are fuppofed to bave entered the Study of the former, which is firft defcribed. CHIMNEY-piece of grey marble, with plain, but bold and protuberant B mouldings, formed a very handfome appearance.In various little niches, were fixed elegant bufts; and on the feveral interftices, hung beautiful prints; reprefenting many of the most eminently learned men, who were the ornaments C and bleffings, both of ancient and modern times. The fhelves, all around, were accommodated, not encumbered with books. Afpafio, running over the letter'd backs, oblerved a collection of the moft valuable authors, in hiftory and natural philofophy, in poetry and divinity. D You will easily perceive, faid Theron, that I am fomewhat fingular in furnishing my study, as well as in ornamenting the avenue. My books are not for thew, but ufe; and claim a regard, rather on account of their worth, than their number. An immenfe multitude of volumes, I have always thought, is more likely to embarrass the attention, than to improve the understanding. A huge library feems E to refemble a perplexing labyrinth; and often bewilders the mind, instead of leading it expeditiously to the acquifition of truth. When people are eager to perufe a multiplicity of writings, it frequently February, 1755. 1755. happens, that in reading all, they digeft none. They tafte fome empty and tranfient amufement, but collect no folid or lafting advantage, Their minds are fomewhat like thofe capacious looking-glaffes, which we have feen expofed In the most frequented and populous ftreets of London. They receive all manner of fhadowy images, but no fubftantial impreffion. A thousand figures pafs through them, not one abides in them. Our books replied Afpafio, as well as our friends, fhould rather be felect than numerous. For my part, I would defire no more than two or three of the most correct and mafterly writers in any science. Thefe a perfon of moderate capacity may be able to comprehend; an not comprehend only, but enrich his memory with the choiceft fentiments, and make the fubitance of their works his own.- He will by repetition and familiar converse, enter into their fpirit, and acquire their manner. While a ramler in reading, does little more than gratify his fancy, without refining his tafte or amending is heart. Upon this Afpafio turned himself; and efpied, in one correr of the apartment, the celestial and terreftrial globes; in another, a large reflecting telescope; and on the top of a buroe, one or two of the best microscopes. Thefe inftruments, refumed Theron, have opened an inexhaustible fund of the finest entertainments. They have furnired us with new eyes; and brought up, I may venture to fay, a new world into our view. They give us a fight of worders, that may feem incredible to the incurious vulgar, and were utterly un known to the moft inquifitive fages of antiquity. They charm the eye with a difplay of inimitable beauties, where nothing worthy of notice was expected. They throw the mind into a pleafing tranfport of admiration; and ĥom the meanent, lowest objects, raife the mon amiabie and |