to deliver up to fortune whatever other part of his body she had a mind to deprive him of, provided with the remainder he could live with glory and in the esteem of mankind."-Demofthenes, in drawing this picture of Philip, little thought that he was drawing that of the greatest of our kings. We fee Henry in every feature of it, with this difference only, that he had the good fortune never to be wounded but once, though he often expofed himself to the greatest dangers.

No princes ever carried clemency and moderation a greater length than Henry and Philip. The first pardoned his greatest enemies, without referve; thofe feditious preachers of the league, who, converting the chair of truth into a fchool of fedition, uttered the most horrid invectives, fpread the most infamous and atrocious libels against him, and kept the people fo long in rebellion. Though he had it feveral times in his power to take the city of Paris by affault, he would never do it, for fear of expofing it to rapine and plunder. After the battles of Argues and Ivry, he difmiffed a great number of prifoners without ranfom, even thofe of the first rank, and who had been his greatest enemies,

Philip too, after the victories he obtained over the Greeks, often difmiffed his prifoners, and granted them peace upon terms the most advantageous for them. Their ambaffadors being with him one day, in order to affift at the ratification of a treaty, which he had made with them, he declared he would forget every ground of complaint he had against them. When he took his leave of them, he afked them in a very obliging manner, if he could do them any fervice? Yes, replied Demochares, who was one of them, you'll do us an excellent piece of fervice, if you'll hang yourfelf. Philip, without any emotion, cafting a look of contempt at this infolent wretch, faid to the other emballadors; tell your mafters, that those who dare to make use of fuch language, are far lefs difpofed to peace than those who can pardon it. Being preffed, after the battle of Cheronæa to march against Athens; the gods forbid, replied he, that a prince, who kas fought only for glory, fhould destroy the temple and theatre of glory.

Both our princes were equally fortunate in generals and minifters. Sully and Biron were men who may well be compared with Antipater and Parmenio.This is Marfhal Biron, faid Henry one day to Cardinal Aldobrandin, introduce him chearfully both to my friends and enemies.-I declare to you, faid he once to the Dutchess of Beaufort, if I was reduced to the alternative of having you or Sully, I had rather lose ten iftreffes like you, than one fervant like him.-His life abounds with inftances of the efteem and regard he had for them, and all the other captains who served him faithfully; he took plcafure in commending them upon every occafion.

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to choose ten generals every year; for my part, I have never been able to find but one, and that is Parmenio. We may give ourselves up to pleasure, faid he one day to his friends, with whom he was taking his glafs a little too freely; it is enough that Antipater does not drink. Another time, having flept longer than ufual, as foon as he rofe he found Antipater in his antechamber with the embaffadors of the different nations of Greece;-I might well, fleep, faid he, addreffing himself to the ambaffadors, fince Antipater was awake.

The friends and minifters of both thefe princes might carry their fincerity to the utmost extravagance, if I may use the expreffion; they were never offended with the firmness of their remonftrances. We have feen that Henry, far from being offended with Rofny for tearing the promife of marriage, which he had made to Madam d'Entragues, made him, not long after Grand Mafter of the Ordnance. The memoirs of this minifter are full of inftances of the firmnefs wherewith he spoke to his mafter. Marfhal Biron too fpoke his fentiments with the utmost freedom, without ever giving any offence.

Demarathus, one of the moft illuftrious citizens of Corinth, coming to fee Philip, this prince, afked him the news of Greece, and if the feveral ftates lived in harmony with each other?--Why, Sir, replied Demarathus, fhould you concern yourfelf about the union of the Greek cities, whilft your own family is filled with diffenfion and difcord?-Philip, charmed with his freedom, begged his friend to affift him in reftoring the peace of his family, which he did by prevailing upon Olympias and Alexander to return to court, which they had left through fome discontent.

The day after the battle of Cheronæa, Demades, one of the first orators of Athens, who had been made prifoner, being on the field of battle, when Philip, heated with wine, was dancing and finging for joy of the victory, faid to him, with the freedom of a republican;-is it poffible, Sir, that you can act the part of Therfites, when fortune puts it in your power to act that of Agamemnon !--Thefe words reftored Philip to himself; he gave Demades his liberty upon the fpot, and loaded him afterwards with marks of his efteem and friendfhip.I might reLate many more inftances of the generofity and affability of both thefe princes; but I fhall coutent myfelf with referring my Readers to what I have faid upon this head in the life of Henry and that of Pbilip.

There is a great refemblance in thefe princes in regard te their attachment to the fair fex. This paffion which they ing dulged with too much ardor, was the occafion of much domestic vexation and uneafinefs to both; but it never made them commit an action contrary to their intereft or their glory. They always entertained thofe fentiments of love and refpect for their

wives, with which virtuous women never fail to inspire good men. Their wives were never expofed to any bad treatment from them. It is true that Philip feemed to put away Olympias when he married Cleopatra. It is thought, however, that he did not put this Princefs away, as fhe remained at court after the marriage. The Kings of Macedonia were probably allowed to have feveral wives, though this feldom happened.

Henry had always the greatest refpect for Mary de Medicis, notwithstanding the uneafinefs the gave him. He even named her regent to govern the ftate whilst he was engaged in war. We have feen, in the life of this prince, what pains he took to footh the Queen under all her vexations, though he well knew that they were generally occafioned by her favorite Galigai, whom he could not prevail upon himself to dismiss, for fear of making the Queen uneafy; and what thews that he never entirely forfook her, is, that during the nine years they were married, he had fix children by her. Though he had many reasons to complain of Margaret his firft wife, yet he always preserved that respect for her which was due to her birth, and he has never been reproached for parting with her.

If there was fo great a refemblance between Philip and Henry, there was no lefs between Olympias and Mary de Medicis. They were both haughty and imperious; they were both too impatient on account of the occafional gallantries of their husbands; they reproached them with all the feverity and bitterness of the moft violent jealoufy, without confidering that this conduct had no other effect than to alienate those affections which they might have fecured the entire poffeffion of by gentlenefs, good humour and complaifance; they filled their families and their courts with quarrels and diffenfions, the bad effects of which their fovereigns had the wifdom to prevent. Olympias, ambitious of governing, occafioned great disturbances in Macedonia after the death of her fon Alexander, and ruled there with the utmoft cruelty; fhe facrificed to her refentment the whole family of her hufband; fhe behaved herself in fo tyrannical a manner, that fhe was even detefted by thofe very perfons to whom the owed her authority; they abandoned her, and delivered her into the hands of Caffander, the ufurper of Macedonia, who put her to death.

Mary de Medicis had neither the vices nor the malignity of Olympias; her faults were jealousy and a love of power. The errors the committed during her regency were owing to incapacity; fhe had not extent of genius fufficient to fupport the weight of fo difficult and laborious a government as that of the kingdom of France, nor to keep in awe the reftlefs, difcontented, and ambitious fpirits of the generality of the Catholic Lords and Huguenots, as the King her husband had done. When Lewis the thirteenth was of age, he was obliged to re

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A Dictionary of Anatomy and Phyfiology, containing imo. an accurate defcription of all the Parts of the human Body; 2do. the etymology of many difficult Terms; 3tio. pathological and therapeutical Reflections on the Parts defcribed; 4to, the Manner of making all Kinds of anatomical Prepa rations, and the art of preferving them; 5to, the phyfical and mechanical Explication of all the human Functions, with pathological and therapeutical Reflections on the Diforders to which they are liable. 8vo. 2 Vols. Paris, 1766.

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UR Readers will obferve, that, in tranflating the title, we have omitted the word raifonné, for want of a term in our language to exprefs it precifely in the fenfe here intended. In its common acceptation, it meanslational, or rather argumentative, or reafoning, none of which our idiom will permit us to apply, in this inftance, with propriety. The French are fo fond of this term, that, as all fcience is congefted into dictionaries, fo all their dictionaries are raifonnés. Concerning that which now lies before us, we must first observe, that it is without an Author; a circumftance which will not prejudice the Reader much in its favour, naturally concluding, that the writer, or rather compiler, would have put his name in the title, if he had not been confcious, that it would be of no advantage to his book. This, we fay, is a natural conclufion, and in general a just one.

From the title of these volumes it is eafy to conceive the impoffibility of conveying an adequate idea of their contents, we fhall therefore select an article which may ferve not only as a fpecimen of the Author's manner, but at the fame time be of utility to fome of our anatomical Readers. The art of preparing different parts of animal bodies by injection, though of Jate confiderably improved, and diffufed, is nevertheless far from being univerfally known: we fhall therefore tranflate the following article.

INJECTION, injectio, as a term of anatomy, is the preparation made with a liquor, hot or cold, differently coloured, and destined to fill the veffels of a dead body, whether of man on brute.

With regard to the confiftence of the liquor injected, there are two forts, viz. fine, which is made of fome fpiritous liquor, fuch

the whole of his conduct but juice and equity.-Such was the ambition of Henry and Philip, if we may judge of it by their conduct till they were in a condition to execute thofe grand projects they had formed in order to gratify it.

Philip's project was to deftroy the power of the kings of Perfia, who had been enemies to the Greeks, and in order to fucceed in it, he had taken the wifeft and beft concerted meafures. Like Henry, he begun with fecuring to himself the peaceable poffeffion of his own kingdom, by vanquishing thofe who invaded it. He put an end to civil diffenfions, and made his fubjects the beft foldiers in Europe. When he had made trial of the bravery of his troops in feveral engagements wherein they were victorious, not thinking himself as yet powerful enough to attack the empire of Perfia, he falls upon the Greeks, and fubdues them, not fo much with a view to make them his fubjects, but rather the companions of thofe victories which he propo'ed to gain over their inveterate enemies. He granted the republics their liberty, but obliged them to join their troops to his, by which means he formed an army capable of fubduing the whole world.

At a time when he might have flattered himself with seeing the accomplishment of his defigns, he was aflaflinated, in the forty-eighth year of his age; but his meafures were taken with fo much skill and accuracy, and Alexander executed the defigns of his father with fo much courage, that he pufhed his conquefts as far as India. Death, however, put a stop to his career in the thirty-third year of his age, and he left nothing to his fubjects, or the nations which he conquered, but the feeds of wars and diffenfions, which they engaged in with great fury, till they became fubject to the Roman empire.

Such was the project of Philip; that of Henry was much more noble and moderate; he did not defire to invade the poffeflions of his neighbours, nor aim at the glory of conqueft; fatisfied with gaining the affections of his fubjects, and rendering them happy, he only wanted to make other nations enjoy the fame bleffing. He took for his model the council of the Amphyctions, once fo famous in Greece. The glorious victories gained by the Greeks over Darius and his fon Xerxes, kings of Perfia, and the defeat of the powerful armies which were fent to invade their country, convinced all the ftates of Greece of the advantages which they derived from their union. Being firmly perfuaded that the preservation of this union was the only means of defending their liberties against the ambition of their enemies, they formed a council, compofed of the deputies of all the ftates of Greece. Whatever concerned the general intereft was brought before this council; it was the arbiter of peace and war; determined the disputes that arose between the feveral ftates; regulated the quota of troops which