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"We read of a filver Heaven sent by the Emperour Ferdinand for a Prefent to Soliman the grand Signior, which was carried by twelve men, with a book along with it that fhewed the use of it, and how to order and keep it in perpetual motion. Du Bartas makes mention of both, and concludes his description of them with this Rapture touching humane wit:

O compleat Creature! who the starry Sphears Canft make to move, who 'bove the heavenly Bears Extend'st thy power, who guideft with thy hand The days bright Chariot, and the heavenly brand, “Kircher doth highly extol and admire the Artificers of this latter age for making Sphears and Globes, and fuch representations; who can make them, faith he, with fuch exactness and perfection in all points, that Jupiter might have jufter caufe to complain of them, than he did of Archimedes (in Claudian) for their presumptuous emulation of his handy-works."

"Among the Moderns, one Cornelius van Drebble, a Dutchman of Alcmar, may deserve just admiration. This man lived here in England, and

was Regi Jacobo à Mechanicis (as one faith) King James his Engineer; he prefented the King with a rare Inftrument of perpetual motion, without the means of Steel, Springs, or Weights; it was made in the form of a Globe, in the hollow whereof were Wheels of Brafs moving about, with two pointers on each fide thereof, to proportion and fhew forth the times of days, moneths, and years, like a perpetual Almanack: it did reprefent the motions of the heavens, the hours of rifing and fetting of the Sun, with the Signe that the Moon was in every 24 hours, and what degree the Sun was diftant from it; how many degrees the Sun and Moon are diftant from us day and night, what Signe of the Zodiack the Sun was in every moneth; it had a circumference or ring which being hollow had water in it, representing the Sea, which did rife and fal, as doth the flood, twice in 24 hours, according to the courfe of the Tides. This Bezaleel was fent for by the Emperour of Germany, who fent him a chain of gold.

"One Janellus Turrianus, a citizen of Cremona, made brazen heavens in imitation of those of Archimedes, and far furpaffing them for Art, faith Gaffarellus in his book of Curiofites; and Ambrofe Morinus in his description of Spain. Erafmus had a golden Ring given him by one of the Princes of Germany, which being explicated, was a perfect

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celeftial fphear, juft of that form we call the Armillary fphear, as we read in his life."

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'Janellus before mentioned did recreate the Emperour Charls the Fift (when he had refigned up his Empire, and retired to a monaftique life in Spain) with ingenious and rare devices. times when the cloth was taken away after dinner, he brought upon the board little armed Figures of Horfe and Foot, fome beating Drums, others founding Trumpets, and others of them charging one another with their Pikes. Sometimes he fent wooden Sparrows into the Emperours Dining room, that would fly round about, and back again; by accident, fufpected him for a Conjurer. He fo that the Superiour of the Monastery coming in framed a Mill of Iron that turned itself, of such fubtile work and fmalness, that a Monk could eafily hide it in his fleeve; yet would it daylie grinde fo much wheat as would abundantly serve eight perfons for their days allowance. This was he who made the Water work, which by a new Miracle of Art, drew up the River Tagus to the top of the Mountain of Toledo. All this we have from Famianus Strada's excellent Hiftory of the Low Country Wars."

Chapter III. treats Of fundry Machins, and Artificial Motions, and begins as follows:

"God framed the world by Geometry, (as we may fay,) that is, with wonderful Art; he did all Arifthings in Number, Weight, and Measure. totle calls him, 'The great Engineer of the World, that tacked this rare Systeme of heaven and earth together, tacked the Center to the Sphears, and made the whole Frame to move in a wonderful order from its first creation to this day."

"As the great world is an Automaton, fo is the little world (Man) a sort of self-moving Engine, that performs its feveral motions by certain Springs, and Wheels, and Chords that are acted by one secret principle of all motions, to wit, the heart and fpirits therin contained, and which are from thence difperfed through the whole frame of the work, Mens agitat molem, & parvo se corpore miscet.

"Now it is observed, that the wit of man by a diligent and attentive perufal of the world and himself, hath framed fundry ufeful Machins and artificial motions, after those patterns, after the frame and model of those two primary Automata that God himself made. A Mill was first made after the pattern of a man's mouth, as Seneca tells us in his ninth Epiftle; An Organ pipe had its pattern from mans weazand, which is inspired

with the Lungs, and many other Inventions have been hinted unto us from the Organs of mans body, and the actions performed by them, All artificial motions (generally) are performed by Ayr, or by Water, and fo all Engins, at least fuch as move of themselves, are (or may be) divided in Spiritalia et Aquatica. Heron of Alexandria writ books de Spiritalibus Machinis, or wind motions or machins moved with ayr or wind; and Baptifta Porta hath some thing de Pneumaticis experimentis, or wind-motions, in his fifth book of Natural Magick, and Marinus Merfennus hath written Phenomena pneumetica. I will here produce. fome inftances or examples of both kindes, and first of pneumatic or wind motions.

tinople in the Emperours palace, when he was
fent thither upon an Embaffie from Berengarius
King of the Lombards, Anno Dom. 950, as the
faid Luit-Prandus relates in the fixth book of his
Hiftory. Such was that Statue of Albertus Mag-
nus which spake to Tho. Aquinas, and that brazen
head of Roger Bacon a Carmelite Friar of Oxford,
and perhaps that Image that Sir Richard Baker
faith was made by Necromancy in the time of
Richard the Second, and not long before the Par-
liament that wrought Wonders, as Histories speak;
which Image uttered at an hour appointed these
words, The head shall be cut off, the head shall be
lift aloft, the feet shall be lift up above the head;
Sir Richard Baker in the life of Rich. 2.”
(To be continued.)

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Similitudes of Demophilus;

OR,

THE REMEDY OF LIFE.
Tranflated by William Bridgman.

"Of this kinde I conceive was that Wooden Dove of Architas, which he made to fly in the Ayr, which was by the means of Ayr pent or inclofed within, which in the motion being fomthing rarified, kept it up aloft, and with fome wheels contrived in the concavity thereof, did fet it forward; fo Aulus Gellius gives us fome hint of the contrivance of it, Ita erat libramentis fufpenfum, & aura fpiritus inclufa, & occulta confitum, &c. Julius Scaliger understood the feat full well it feems, for he profeffeth the fkill to make the like with a wet finger, as we say. By the fame art did Regiomontanus make a wooden Eagle to fly from Norimberg to meet the Emperour on his way thither; and when it met him, it hovered over his head with a Tonick motion, and then returned along with him the fame way that it came. 2. Learning is fimilar to a golden crown, for it Fly was the like device, made by the fame Regio- is both honorable and advantageous. montanus, which springing from under his hand, would fly round about the room with a humming noise, and then return back under his hand again. "Simon Stevinius a Dutchman, made a Chariot to go with fails, which was as swift almoft as the wind that drove it; for it would carry eight or nine perfons from Scheveling in Holland to Putten in two hours, which was the space of forty miles and upwards,

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"Caelius Rhodiginus relates, that the Ægyptians had made fome Statues of their Gods, both to walk of themselves, and alfo to utter fome words articulately; for their motion, it must be afcribed to fome wheels and fprings within, like the contrivances of Dadalus his Statues, and Vulcan's Tripodes: But for their voice or fpeech, it must be afcribed unto fome Ayr forced up through fome pipes placed in the heads and mouth of those Statues. So we must conceive of the artificial Lions that roared like the natural ones; and the artificial Birds that imitated the voices and tunes of real Birds, which Luit-Prandus faw at Conftan

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1. FLATTERY is like painted armor, because it affords delight, but is of no use.

3. Flighty men, like empty veffels, are eafily laid hold of by the ears.

4. Life, like a musical inftrument, being harmonized by remiffion and intention, becomes more agreeable.

tiful form to the foul.
5. Reason, like a good potter, introduces a beau-

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6. The intellect of wife men, like gold, poffeffes the greatest weight.

7. Boafting, like gilt armor, is not the fame within as without.

8. Reason has the fame power as an ointment; for it benefits us when we are difordered, but delights us when well.

9. Of a bad man, as of a bad dog, the filence is more to be dreaded than the voice.

10. It is neither becoming to prefer a mistress to a wife, nor flattery to a friend.

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30. Neither the blows of a fick man, nor the threats of a stupid one, are to be feared.

31. It is neceffary to provide an inward garment for the protection of the breaft, and intellect as a protection against pain.

32. The diet of the fick, and the foul of the unwife, are full of faftidiousness.

33. Untaught boys confound letters; but uneducated men, things.

34. The intellect derived from philosophy is fimilar to a charioteer; for it is prefent with our

18. Restive horses are led by the bridle, but defires, and always conducts them to the beauirritable minds by reasoning.

19. Jefts, like falt, fhould be used sparingly. 20. Both a well-adapted fhoe and a well-harmonized life are accompanied with but little pain.

21. Garments reaching to the feet, impede the body; and immoderate riches, the foul.

22. To thofe who run in the ftadium, the reward of victory is in the end of the race; but to those who delight to labor in wisdom, the reward is in old age.

23. It is neceffary that he who haftens to behold virtue as his country, should pass by pleasures,

as he would the Sirens.

24. As those who fail in fair weather are wont to have things prepared against a storm, so alfo thofe who are wife in profperity fhould prepare things neceffary for their affiftance against adverfity.

25. Garments that are made clean and bright, become foiled again by ufe; but the foul, being once purified from ignorance, remains fplendid forever.

26. Fugitive flaves, although they are not purfued, are affrighted; but the unwife fuffer perturbation, although they have not yet acted badly.

tiful.

35. Time, indeed, will render the herb abfinthium fweeter than honey; but circumftances may fometimes make an enemy preferable to a friend.

36. A good pilot fometimes fuffers shipwreck, and a worthy man is fometimes unfortunate.

37. Thunder efpecially frightens children; but threats, the unwife.

38. Figure aderns a ftatue, but actions adorn a

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46. Clouds frequently obfcure the fun; but the paffions, the reasoning power.

47. Neither does a golden bed benefit a fick man, nor fplendid fortune a ftupid man.

48. Pure water diffolves inflammation; but mild difcourfe diffolves anger.

49. Austere wine is not adapted for copious

drinking, nor ruftic manners for converfation.

50. The anger of an ape, and the threats of a

flatterer, are to be alike regarded.

51. Of life, the first part is childhood, on which account all men are attentive to it, as to the first part of a drama.

light upon the history of the human mind and the advancement of knowledge. The Edinburgh Review for 1853, in an article on Church Parties, fays:

"In the last century, the comprehenfive Christianity of Tillotfon and Burnet degenerated into the worldlinefs of the Sadducean Hoadly. And the unbelieving petitioners of the Feathers' Tavern reprefented the opinions of many hundreds of their brethren whofe fcepticism was manifefted, not by public protefts, but by filent neglect of their duties and selfish devotion to their interests. . . . .

"In 1772, two hundred and fifty cler

52. It is neceffary that we should be cautious in gymen prefented this Feathers' Tavern Peour writings, but fplendid in our actions.

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tition to Parliament. Its prayer was that the petitioners might be relieved' from fubfcription to the thirty-nine Articles, 'and reftored to their rights' as Proteftants, of interpreting Scripture for themselves, without being bound by any human explications thereof.... The whole Petition... is the most naïve avowal of dishonesty on record, and leaves the modern advocates of a nonnatural fenfe' far behind. Paley, in the pamphlet which he published in defence of thefe Petitioners, acknowledges that they continue in the Church without being able to reconcile to their belief every propofition impofed upon them by fubfcription,' and speaks of them as 'impatient under the yoke.' (Paley's collected Works, p. 362.) This pamphlet was published anonymously at the time; and it is faid that when Paley was himfelf urged to fign the Petition, on the ground that he was bound in confcience to do fo, he replied that he was too poor to keep a conscience.” ”

In the Catalogue of Dr. Samuel Parr's Library (p. 610), there may be found the titles of fome thirty pamphlets in which this movement either originated or to which it gave rife; and in a note to Dr. Powell's "celebrated" Sermon in Defence of Sub

scriptions (p. 611), Parr fays: "Powell's Sermon stirred up the difpute. Mr. Wollafton, Vicar of Chislehurft; Porteus, then Rector of Lambeth, afterwards Bishop of London; and York, then Dean of Lincoln, afterwards Bishop of Ely; waited upon Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, to obtain his fupport for a Review of the Thirty-nine Articles, and a reform of the Church Service on Dr. Clarke's plan. They failed; but Porteus, many years after, attacked the Socinians in a pamphlet without his name, which I have not, and which was lent to me by the late worthy and learned Dr. Matthew Raine, of the Charter-house. I fmiled at the converfion of Porteus when he wore a mitre."

Porfon used to call Bishop Porteus "Bifhop Proteus" (as one who had changed his opinions from liberal to illiberal). Dyce's Porfoniana, p. 321.

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Dr. Parr (Catalogue, p. 672), after applying to Paley the epithets of the vain, the inconfiflent, the...., the selfish, the acute, the witty," adds: “I never thought Paley an honeft man. He could not afford, forfooth, to have a confcience, and he had none. He had great fagacity, wit, and fcience, and fome good humour."

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Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Durham, once invited Porfon to meet Paley at dinner. Paley arrived first. When Porfon (who had never before feen him) came into the room, he feated himself in an arm-chair, and looking very hard at Paley, faid, "I am entitled to this chair, being president of a fociety for the discovery of truth, of which I happen at present to be the only member."-Dyce's Porfoniana, p. 304.

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"That your petitioners apprehend themfelves to have certain rights and privileges which they hold of God only, and which are subject to his authority alone. That of this kind is the free exercise of their own reafon and judgment, whereby they have been brought to, and confirmed in, the belief of the Chriftian religion, as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures. That they efteem it a great bleffing to live under a conftitution, which, in its original principles, enfures to them the full and free profeffion of their faith, having afferted the authority and fufficiency of Holy Scriptures in- All things neceffary to falvation; fo that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it fhould be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requifite or neceffary to falvation. That your petitioners do conceive that they have a natural right, and are alfo warranted by those original principles of the reformation from Popery, on which the Church of England is conftituted, to judge in fearching the Scriptures each man for himself, what may or may not be proved thereby. That they find themselves, however, in a great meafure precluded the enjoyment of this invaluable privilege by the laws relating to fubfcription; whereby your petitioners are required to acknowledge certain articles and confeffions of faith and doctrine, drawn up by fallible men, be all and every of them agreeable to the faid Scriptures. Your petitioners therefore pray, that they may be relieved from fuch an impofition upon their judgment, and be restored to their undoubted right as Proteftants of interpreting Scripture for themselves, without being bound by any human explications thereof, or re

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