Is Tempelmanni numeris defcripferis orbem. *H': Cum fex centuriis Judæo millia feptem.
Myrias Ægypto ceffit bis feptima pingui. Myrias adfcifcit fibi nonagefima feptem Imperium qua Turca ferox exercet iniquum. Undecies binas decadas et millia feptem Sortitur Pelopis tellus quæ nomine gaudet. Myriadas decies feptem numerare jubebit Paftor Arabs: decies octo fibi Perfa* requirit. Myriades fibi pulcra duas, duo millia pofcit
To the above Lines (which are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment), in the Doctor's manufcript, are prefixed the words, "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the firft of the verfes, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations that are the fubject of them, his work has been accordingly confulted, the title of which is, "A new Survey of the Globe,” and which profeffes to give an accurate menfuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and other divifions thereof, in the fquare miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the feveral numbers in thefe verfes with thofe fet down by Templeman, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the fame; the rest are not quite fo exactly done. For the convenience of the Reader it has been thought right to fubjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's work, to that in Dr. Johnfon's verses which refers to it.
In this first article that is verfified, there is an accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who fets down the fquare miles of Palestine at 7,600.
2 The fquare miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700. 3 The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at 960,057 fquare miles.
* In the four following articles, the numbers, in Templeman and in Johnfon's verfes, are alike.-We find, accord
Parthenope. Novies vult tellus mille Sicana. Papa fuo regit imperio ter millia quinque. Cum fex centuriis numerat fex millia Tufcus".
Centuriâ Ligures augent duo millia quartâ. Centuria octavam decadem addit Lucca fecundæ. Ut dicas, fpatiis quam latis imperet orbi 10 Ruffia, myriadas ter denas adde trecentis : "Sardiniam cum fexcentis fex millia complent. Cum fexagenis, dum plura recluferit ætas, Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra" colendas. Vult fibi vicenas millefima myrias addi, Vicenis quinas, Afiam" metata celebrem. Se quinquagenis octingentefima jungit Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa" doctæ. Myriadas feptem decies Europa" ducentis: Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit.
ingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be fet down at 7,220 fquare miles.-Arabia, at 700,000.-Perfia, at 800,000.and Naples, at 22,000.
5 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400.
The pope's dominions, at 14,868.
7 Tuscany, at 6,640.
* Genoa in Templeman, as in Johnson likewise, is fet down
10 The Ruffian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is fet down at 3,303,485 fquare miles.
Sardinia, in Templeman, as likewife in Johnson, 6,600. 12 The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in fquare miles, at 30,666,806.
13 Afia, at 10,257,487. * Africa, at 8,506,208. 15 Europe, at 2,749,349.
Myriadas denas dat, quinque et millia, fexque Centurias, et tres decadas Europa Britannis". Ter tria myriadi conjungit millia quartæ, Centuriæ quartæ decades quinque " Anglia nectit Millia myriadi feptem fœcunda fecundæ Et quadragenis decades quinque addit Ierne ", Quingentis quadragenis focialis adauget Millia Belga" novem.
Ter fex centurias Hollandia " jactat opima Undecimum Camber " vult feptem millibus addi.
16 The British dominions, at 105,634.
17 England, as likewise in Johnson's expression of the num ber, at 49,450.
19 In the three remaining inftances, which make the whole that Dr. Johnfon appears to have rendered into Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with those of Templeman; who makes the fquare miles of the United Provinces, 9540-of the province of Holland, 1800-and of Wales, 7011.
* The Lady on whom the Greek verses, and the Latin ones that immediately follow, were written (page 397), is the celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, who tranflated the works of Epictetus from the Greek.
ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, x. 322. Of the ruins of the monaftery there, 324.
Aberdeen, account of, x. 327. Dr. Johnfon meets with an old ac- quaintance, Sir Alexander Gordon, there, 327. Account of the King's College, 329. Account of the Marifchal College, 330. Account of the Library, 330. The course of education there, 331. Account of the English chapel, 332.
Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not fought for in another place, exemplified in the ftory of Gelaleddin of Baffora, viii. 300.
Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vii. 289. Abfence, a destroyer of friendship, viii. 9o.
Abyffinia, preface to the tranflation of Father Lobo's voyage to, ix. 431. Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, ii. 88. Acaftus, an inftance of the commanding influence of curiofity, vii. 60. Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince fupplicating life, improper for a picture, viii. 180.
Action (dramatick), the laws of it flated and remarked, vii. 97. Action (exercife), neceffary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the mind, vi. 81.87. The fource of cheerfulness and vivacity, 86. Action (in oratory), the want of, confidered, viii. 361. Tends to no good in any part of oratory, 362.
Actions, every man the best relater of his own, viii. 259. The in- juftice of judging of them by the event, ix. 83.
Adams Parfon, of Fielding, not Edward but William Young, iv.
Addison, Jofeph, fuppofed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues on Medals from Dryden's Effay on Dramatick Poetry, ii. 315. His life, iii. 41. Born at Milton, in Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, 41. The various fchools at which he received inftruction, 41. Cultivates an early friendship with Steele, 42. claims it by an execution, 43. Account of his Latin poems, 44.
Lends 100l. to Steele, and re- Entered at Oxford, 1687, 43. Account of his English poems,
On being introduced by Congreve to Mr. Montague, becomes a courtier, 46. Obtains a penfion of 300l. a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 46. Publishes his travels, 47. Succeeds Mr. Locke as Commiffioner of Appeals, as a reward for his poem The Battle of Blenheim, 48. Went to Hanover with Lord Halifax, 48. Made Under-fecretary of State, 48. Writes the opera of Rofa- mond, 49. Aflifts Steele in writing the Tender Huíband, 49. Goes to Ireland with Lord Wharton as Secretary, 49. Made Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, 49. The oppofite characters of him and Wharton, 50. His reafon for refolving not to remiť any fees to his friends, 50. Wrote in the Tatler, 51. Wrote in the Spectators, 51. His tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and fupported both by the Whigs and Tories, 57. 59. Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 59. Other honours and enmities fhewed to Cato, 60. Cato tranflated both into Italian and Latin, 60. Writes in the Guardian, 61. His fignature in the Spectator and Guardian, 62. Declared by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, with the story on which that comedy is founded, 62. Wrote feveral political pamphlets, 63. Appointed Secretary to the Regency, 65, In 1715 publishes the Freeholder, 65. Marries the Countess of Warwick, Aug. 2, 1716, 66. Secretary of State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore refigns it, 67. Sir J. Hawkins's De- fence of the character he had given of Addifon in his Hiftory of Mufick against the author of the Biog. Brit. 67. 72. Purpofes writing a tragedy on the death of Socrates, 72. Engages in his Defence of the Chriflian Religion, 73. Had a defiga of writing an English dictionary, 73. His controverfy with Steele on the Peerage Bill, 74. During his laft illness fends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promifes, if he recovered, to recompenfe him, 77. Sends for the young Earl of Warwick, that he might fee how a Chriftian ought to die, 78. Died June 17, 1719, 78. His cha- racter, 78. The courfe of his familiar day, 81. His literary cha- racter, 84. Account of his works, 85. Extracts from Denni,'s Obfervations on Cato, 91. Confidered as a critick, 107. Com- mended as a teacher of wisdom, 110. Character of his profe works, 110. Example of his difinterested conduct in difpofing of places, 111. A converfation with Pope on Tickell's tranflation of Homer, 233. Becomes a rival of Pope, iv. 39. Suppofed to have been the tranflator of the Iliad, published under the name Tickell, 43. His critical capacity remarked, vi. 91. 140. 143. Obfervations on his tragedy of Cato, ix. 267. Delcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 183.
Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, vi. 25.
Adventurer, No. xxxiv. ix. 1. No. xli. 8. No. xlv. 14. No. 1. 20. No. liii. 26, No. lviii. 32. No. Ixii. 39 No. Ixix. 47. No. lxxxiv. 54. No. lxxxv. 61. No. xcii. 68. No. xcv. 77. No. xcix. 83. No. cii. 9o. No. cvii. 97. No. cviii. 103. No. cxi. 109. No, cxv. 116. No. cxix. 123. No. cxx. 129. No. cxxvi. 135. No. cxxxi. 142. No. cxxxvii. 149. No. cxxxviii. 156.
Adverfaries, the advantage of contending with illuftrious ones, iv. 501.
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