XXIII.

HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE CHURCH OF FRANCE IN

THE REIGNS OF LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH, LEWIS THE

FIFTEENTH, LEWIS THE SIXTEENTH; AND THE FRENCH

REVOLUTION

page 240

ST. VINCENT OF PAUL-HENRI-MARIE DE BOUDON-AND

2.-And of the Chancellor d'Aguesseau

3.-Account of the Mississippi Scheme of Law

1. The Ancient and Modern Eras of Literature ib.

2.-The Era of British Literature

298

3-Comparison of the Writers in the British Era of

Literature with those in the French

300

4. The present general Diffusion of Learning among

all Ranks of Persons

5.-General Diffusion of Literature among the Ladies

of Great Britain

304

305

6.-Suggestion of a Work on the Manichean Con-

APPENDIX.

NOTE I.-referred to in page 84.

page

Extracts respecting the authorship of the Letters of Junius 333

NOTE II.-referred to in page 203.

Extracts from Letters, with which Doctor Parr has honoured

the Reminiscent; On the high polish of Virgil's diction—

On the Character of Archbishop Cranmer-and on Polemic

Moderation in religious Disputes

340

The Inaugural Oration on laying the First Stone of the London

Institution

NOTE IV.-referred to in page 239.

347

Mr. Porson's Problem, with its Solution by the Reminis-

A Letter addressed to Mrs. Edward Jerningham, on Ancient

and Modern Music

361

The Plate of the Gamut and Hexachords

15 is to face p. 369

of Guido

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Several

M. Pellisson, in his account of M. Huét the celebrated bishop of Avranches, observes of him, that," from his tenderest years, he gave himself to study; that, at his rising, his going to bed, and

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during his meals, he was reading, or had others to "read to him; that neither the fire of youth, the

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