thoufand Beauties of another kind? The Variety of the Subjects, the Graces of the Diction, the Solidity of the Reflexions, the delicate Turn of the Criticism; in fine, the noble Fire, which enlivens all the Compofitions of Mr. de Voltaire, delight the Reader perpetually. Even the most serious Letters, fuch as thofe which relate to Sir Ifaac Newton's Philofophy, will be found entertaining. The Author has infus'd into his Subject all the delicate Touches it was fufceptible of; deep and abftrufe enough to fhew that he was Mafter of it, and always perfpicuous enough to be undertoodood garrad paw ว SOME of his English Readers may perhaps be diffatisfied at his not expatiating farther on their Conftitution and their Laws, which A 4 moft moft of them revere almoft to Idolatry; but this Reservedness is an Effect of Mr. de Voltaire's Judgment. He contented himself with giving his Opinion of them in general Reflexions, the Caft of which is entirely new, and which prove that he had made this Part of the British Polity his particular Study. Befides, how was it poffible for a Foreigner to pierce thro' their Politicks, that gloomy Labyrinth, in which fuch of the English themselves as are beft acquainted with it, confefs daily that they are bewilder'd and loft ? WHILE this Work was in the Prefs, there came to London a Manuscript Letter of Mr. de Voltaire, in anfwer to the Complaints made by the Citizens of Hamburgh against a Paffage in the Hiftory of Charles the Twelfth, re |