knowledge is in comprehending that he made not, that is, himself. And this is also the greatest knowledge in man. But these are contemplations metaphysical: my humble speculations have another method, and are content to trace and discover those expressions he hath left in his creatures, and the obvious effects of nature: there is no danger to profound these mysteries, no sanctum sanctorum in philosophy: the world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man: 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts; without this, the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive, or say there was a world. The wisdom of God receives small honour from those vulgar heads that rudely stare about, and with a gross rusticity admire his works; those highly magnifie him, whose judicious inquiry into

a Man is placed in this stage of the world, to view the several natures and actions of the creature not idly as they view us.

his acts, and deliberate research into his creatures, return the duty of a devout and learned admirationa.

17. Wisdom reacheth from one end to another, mightily and sweetly doth she order all things. I loved her and sought her out from my youth: I desired to make her my spouse; and I was a lover of her beauty, for she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works. If a man love righteousness, her labours are virtues, for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude, which are such things as men can have

a Sir Thomas Brown; of whose writings it has been said, “I wonder and admire his entireness in every subject that is before him. He follows it, he never wanders from it; and he has no occasion to wander, for whatever happens to be the subject he metamorphoses all nature into it. In that treatise on some urns dug up in Norfolk, how earthy, how redolent of graves and sepulchres, is every line! You have now dark mold, now a thigh bone, now a skull, then a bit of a mouldered coffin, a fragment of an old tomb-stone with moss in its Hic jacet, a ghost or a winding sheet, or the echo of a funeral psalm wafted on a November wind; and the gayest thing you shall meet with shall be a silver nail or a gilt Anno Domini, from a perished coffin top.”—C. L.

nothing more profitable in their life. If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtleties of speeches and can expound dark sentences; she foreseeth signs and wonders and the events of seasons and times. Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, knowing she would be a counsellor of good things and a comfort in cares and grief. After I am come into my house I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness, and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy. Nevertheless when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her except God gave her me, (and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was,) I prayed unto the Lord and besought him, and with whole heart I said, my "Oh God of my "fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all

things with thy word, and ordained man through

thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the

"creatures which thou hast made, and order the

"world according to equity and righteousness, and "execute judgement with an upright heart, give me "wisdom that sitteth by thy throne, and reject me "not from among thy children."

Query JJ.

Supposing the Love of knowledge to be a Motive for the Acquisition of knowledge: is it a powerful Motive?

1. DURING a considerable part of the time in which Savage was employed upon his tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury, he was without lodging and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study, than the fields or the streets allowed him: there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accidenta.

* Johnson's Life of Savage.