their name would be effaced from the regis ter of the world, he would have run fome rifk of his life; and if he had faid it to their fubjects, no one would have liftened to his prediction. If then fo many perfons are forgotten in spite of their rank, their magnificence, and perhaps their illuftrious actions, what useless pains were taken by millions of Egyptians, Ethiopians, Affyrians, Perfians, Indians, &c. in hopes of transmitting their names to posterity, to which they are totally unknown. In the mean time it cannot be doubted that in this immenfe number many poffeffed virtues, talents, and genius, in the most eminent degree. If it should be objected to examples fo convincing, that many of the ancients are known and celebrated, and that there are found every day monuments erected to their honour; the Antiquary eafily difcerns, that those who have arrived to this distinction belong to Ages and countries very near our own. This vicinity shews him the phyfical reason, why their memory has fallen within the reach of this light in cenfe per haps the most efficacious means of destroying that selfishness, which is fo great an enemy to mankind, and a defect fo pernicious to the common interests of society. I had reason then to say, that the reflexions occafioned by the study of Antiquities, would eafily enable him, who is engaged in it, to discover the weakest errors of human nature, to profit by that inconvenience which he has feen accrue from them to other characters, and confequently through his love of humanity, his excufe of their foibles, and above all by a perfect indifference for all the petty interests, which divide mankind to secure to himself happiness during the few days which he is to pass upon the Earth. THE END. Z ALOGIA, five Tragoediarum Delectus cum Adnotatione JoBURTON. Editio altera. Cui ones Indicemque Græcum longe , et emendatiorem adjecit THORGESS, A. B. e C. C. C. Oxonii, ALSO, ARDI DAWES Mifcellanea Critica ntianum Maurum, Pindarum, Callin, Homerum, Euripidem, Sophoclem, um in primis Ariftophanem. Iteita. Curavit, et Appendicem Adnos addidit THOMAS BURGESS, A. B. . C. Oxon. 1781. : |