Circumstances respecting the philosopher Pythagoras

Mrs. Piozzi’s concert, with the affiance of Mr. Piozzi's playing, and mifs Hamilton's elegant finger ie the moft attractive in town.—The laft af- DIS 79 vith green AREA Ry sith fembly was brilliant in charadters aud appearance, beyond all others. Among the profeffinnal men were Cramer, Cergetto, and Harrifon.— The mufical fund concert does not take place this year in the Abbey, but there are to be two concerts at the Pantheon for the purpofes of the chari- Tea Circumflances refpeBing the pipes PYTHAGORAS, Colleted by Ar. GONSRRLAND from ancient Authors. THE parents of Pythagoras put him ty—at which place, the ancient mutical fift under the tuition of Pherecydes The dreffes for ta month at Paris were, for walking, a robe and petticoat tius muft be flagrantly miftaken in faying that Pythagoras fludied under this philofopher till his death. He was ve young when he went into Syria for this concert has commenced under the di- of Syrus. Pherecydes did not die tilt Olymp. LXVI. fo that Diogenes Laerreftion of the marquis of Carmarthen. united, of fattin itriped green and violet without trimming.— À long cloak of white fatrin, trimmed purpofe, for he retumed to Samos to is parents, and after fludying fome with fox-fkin. On the neck, a plain fichu, full and projecting. time under Hermodamas there, fet out upon his travels into Egypt at the age of Wolf's (kin; ornamented with a knot At this ir age he had acquired all Gn the arms, a large muffof Siberian eighteen. the erudition the philofophers of Greece of Aurora ribband, He had already vifited The head-drefs is a chapeau la l'Ef- could give him. pagnole. The brim of black fattin is many cities of Syria, and performed his tucked up on the right fide with a loop initiations. It is faid he had confulted of rofe fattin. The crown is of white Thales in perfon, and had been advifell fattin, bound with a‘weeath of rofe rih- by that fage to profecute his ftudies aband cut. An aigrette of two large mong the learned Egyptians. But this sufe and white feathers, and three black is doubtful ; it is altogether improbable is fixed to that part where the brim is that he fkould depart from Samos at the age of eighteen, upon the patriotic tucked up. The hair is eraped on the fides and motive afcribed to him by Laertius, of done in detached curls on the forehead, avoiding the growing tyranny of his behind it Roats in’ringlets. countryman Polycrates ; efpecially when The thoes rofe fattin, trimmed with the fame biographer informe us that he filver fringe. took letters of recommendation from Caraco a la Sultana—Ia made of light Polycrates to king Amafiz, defiring him violet fattin ‚with long ficevea of the to give orders for Pythagoras being in» fame colours, trimmed, with gauze ruf- ftruded by tbe Egyptian prieits. fies cut in pointe. The fkirts are !eng With this letter Pythagoras repaired . and cut in the fhape of lozenges, there to Amafis, and obtained an order to the are two necks, the upper is narrow and priefts agreeable to the requefts of Poly» ‚of violet fain, the under broad and of crates; with this he went firit to white fattin, priefts of Heliopolis; they declined the Under the Caraco a ftomacher and execution of it by referring them to their long Petticoat, united of white fattin. brotherp at pon bie as heing their fe» À broad girdle of black velvet, on which are two large medalions, gilt and niors in the facerdotal rank; thefe again evaded the order, and difpatched him to Diofpolites; he found thefe fages as little difpofed to compliance as the priefts of Heliopolis or Memphis: however as the king’e command was urgent, they enamelled The head-drefs a pe cap, omamented with a knot of Aurora ribband. The hair dreffed en tapet. Four curls en each fide, fall exactly on the bofom : did not think fir abfulutely to dicker behind lofe and in feparate curls,} t it, but took amethod which Oa the neck a fichu jabet, very open. | would anfwer the fame purpoîe, andbeCircumstances respecting the pisivsepher Pr thagers. Callerted by Mr. ancient authors. Cumberland fren Enthalten in Town and Coynirs Magazine for 4749. February Gr 7ITRI. March pe Ts ought

gan by deterring and alarming the in- Thefe conform to the prefent prac. quifitive youth hy their preparatory aufterities. Pythagoras had a conftitution that could endure hardthips, and an am» bition that nothing could daunt. He Submitted 10 the ceremony of circumcifion, and was initiated into their farites, unintimidated by all the horrors with which they contrived to fet them forth. — os They began then to regard him with more: benignity and refpect, and when tice among the Brahmins, which may thes tint him learning their language Thoughts on the Iliad. be would be contented with the appellafor what invention can be deviled to fe. cure the longevity of any fyftem, better than that upon which the facerdotal order of Brahmins is eftablihed ? By the Perfian Magi he was inftruéted one in many particulars of Jewifh know. ledge, chieHy their interpretations. of ms. : We have Cicero’s authority for this part of his travels, and Valerits ‘ THOUGHTS. 8 fée ILıan. * ' THE expedition of the Greeks againfî o From Babylon he pufhed his travels into Perfia, and was inftructed by the Magi. in their religion and way of living. From them he received thofe rules -of diet which he afterwards prefcribed to his dilciples, with various opinions of things clean and unclesn which were -among his maxims. | meridian vigour, was an objec that the wife of his cotemporaries might look It snuft be owned no poet ever made a happier choice, for what could be CRETE 7 e î Ni more —| The juftice of the undertaking forti- heathen poet, for which the chriftizn fies the ubes, that it enables him to throw into the fcale of the Trojans every human pewers, and below'the dignity of divine, violate our reafon while they epifode of pity,. every ortament -of ftrive to amufe our fancy; bpt the pa magnanimity and valor, which, can gan theoriit can find a deity for every courfing, they with one. voice applauded | i beautify, his title he would in fut of cresting the off ed by. what wildom, and demand ure-be addrelfed. * & lover of wifdom; his pretensions’ did if not go to the pollefion qf at; and they would call his a PHILOSOPHE ‘with a moral, fecures the has no fubititute; for thofe moderns, good opmion of his readers, and inte- who in order to create furprize have inrefts them cordially in his caufe; it is vented capricious beings to produce exfo permanent a pledge for their. good travagant eveuts, above the reach of if it was a mortal that had been dif poffetfion of a jufter reprefentation of fuperior effences - is eafy to comprehend how much that. -hands, whofe influence is unlimited by. brilliant variety of character, which now ‘the laws of nature; thefe extraordinary. gives fuch dramatic luftre to the com- perfonages, at the fame time that they pofition, would have loft by the nature take a part very ellential to the a@ion of fuch a fubjeét; whereas the emulation of the drama, bring about the incidents of the rival leaders conflitutes that com- by thofe fudden and fupernatural means, pound action, that ftriking contraft and which mortal heroes of the moft roman-difcriminatioz of character, which ren- tic fort could not fo readily effect. . der the Iliad fo n | enchanting. | This is an advantage on the part of a im nature, began to pour forth ders of his dottrine. Aftonifhment feized the hearers, and almoft doubting ways no ed to be merited; he wifh remembered or defcribed, then <3 2 . Had it recorded the expedition of could not impart; while their immorone great monarch againft another, it tality anil power are engines in the poet's e was fixed with rapture and de- * a leftlef them his partben they PE tes fora difinctio fo well g.to a Grecian reader. ing brilliancy to the picturefque and deone of their number. forms light upon one of the mofl perfeét the wonor fophifts; for his part be The manner in which Homer employs his deities, with the machinery that accompanies them, gives an amaze The event itfelf was magnificent; imaginary -bcings fet them on a level a coalition of the Grecian flates in vin- | with human nature, fo far-as to give us dication of an injured prince, who was an intereft in their fituations, which a field of the Pythagoras anfwered, that their feven though they are continually carried out than the recital of an action founded in feriptive powers of the » the vir. ‘tunes, vices, prejudices, pailions of thofe juftice and terminated in fuccefb. on the the Grecian fages aed byOlympic games, whilft eve-. fi his . of the epic art... ... up to with veneration little fhort-ofido- . agoras, in this attitude, furlatry. ry uniformity of defign; the fubjeét remains fimple and entire: our ideas never Rray from the main objet of the poem, . Troy, has sappia a fubje to an upon excurfions through the regions of remains the wonder earth and heaven, upon the ftrongeft heroic poet). Y _ of all times, and theunrivalled ftandard pinions of fancy. _ n his face homewards, taking the Ifle of | A. ‘His recommendations from Egy fecured bim a reception from the Chaldees and Magi. Here he was a difciof Nazaratus the Allyrian; and we are told by Porphyry, that he was purified by Zabratus from all defilements of his former life. By what particular mode of difcipline this purification was effe@ed, Porphyry does not explain. So wonderful an aflemblage of parts meet in this work, that there is not a paflion in the human breaft but will find its ruling intereit gratified by the peru- * fal; and it is fo happily contrived that the combination of thofe parts, multitudinous as they are, never violates the [To be concluded in cur next.) . “on. truth, seh da ol op Krk fee into univerfal contempt. with furprizing rapidity, and conforming to their difcipline with the moft ri- Maximus fays the Perfian Magi taught gul exadinels, they looked upon him him a mofì complete fyftem of ethics; with furprize and admiration; they that they likewife itfiruéted him in the now refolved to hold nothing from ta- motions and courfes of the heavenly lents fo extraordinary, and a temper fo bodies, their properties and effects, and conformable; he learned their three the influence every far refpedctively is forts of letters; they admitted him to fuppofed to have. In the courfe of thefe travels he pafled their facrifices, and difclofed the moît fecret rites of their religion, mylteries more than twenty years; he then turned — never imparted before to any foreigner. “He refided in Egypt a long time, dur- Crete in his way: here and at Lacedzof ing which he read the books of the an- mon he perufed thelr famous code cient priefls, and there he difcovered laws, and having now completed the the fources of the Grecian theology, great tour of fcience, and flored his and how erroneous the fyftem was, "mind with all the hidden ftores of oriwhich they had derived from thefe ental knowledge, he prefented himfelf- | fources. He is fuppofed henceforth to for the firft time to the admiring eyes of have held the gods of the heathens in Greecc, affembled at the Olympic games. A. fpeétacle no doubt it was for unicontempt, and to have entertained fuitverfal admiration and refpe@. An unable ideas of the Divine Being. Having perfected hinifclt in the geo- derftanding fo enriched and full of ite metry and aftronomy of the Egyptians, . and acquired the obfervations of intinite ages, as Valerius Maximus exprefles it, he determined upon exploring new and more diltant fcenes in fearch of knowledge, and from Egypt went to Babyfo near the time of ation a3 to confine his sd to the limits of friét hiflorical tom this time the name of philofowell be fuppofed to have been inviol. ably preferved from that feperate and facred caf from times of high antiquity; 8r * - without the danger purpofe without giving fcandal tn the falfe prejudices in behalf of believer,, or revolting the philcfopher. _ sin’ we can mourn Amongft the numberlefs excellencies for Heétor, and not regret the victory of the Iliad there is none more to headof Achilles. mired than the corr: precifion with If Homer found thefe incidents ready which Homer draws his characters and to his hands, their combination was fupremely happy; if he created them, his anvention was almo® miraculous. j The period at which he wrote was no dela fontinate, beiag neither too remote to impair the intereft of his fubje€t, nor "Fes. 1769. preferves them uniformly through the poero; an excellence in which Virgil and the other Roman poeta in general are greatly his inferiors. With Homer's are heroes we have more than hiftorical quaintance, we are made intimate with ther

memoration of the noble fervices that brave people rendered the crown of England. “Fo inlult a Welfhman on St. David's day is therefore grofs ingra. titude. JE the ‘Londoners who, under the impreffion of vulgar prejudices, abufe not only all foreigners, but even the of Engimhabitants of different counties fand, would takethe trouble of perufing Daniel De Foe’s fatire, called, “ The true born Englifhman,” they would find, chat though they E ? accounts we have read in a Morning paper which we fuppofe mufl be true, as we are told it is written by a parfon. We have read of the roaring bulls of Babylon; the bolls of Colchis who the Golden Fleece ; but the Trih bulls, according to the parfon’s account, exceed them all—and we offer up daily prayers to preferve us from their Lorzs, Yours, The TAB3183 of RICHMONB, privileges refpeSing the Philofopker their> | Circumflances they have no great caufe to plumeor their PYTHAGORAS, collefed by Mr. pride either on their genealogies “virtues; for the truth is that a London of all ally a mixture mily is gener blocds and nations. Yet there is nothing morecalma eeleg nea ing of a Port lew CUMBERLAND from Ancient Ax ° thors. ten , AT, has been already obferved that Pyftaunch proteftant, a found whiz, and he wilted the famous philofoplier Epime. a true-born Englifhman : roar for Mag- nides. im on the bill of rights and Jamblichus muft be na Charta, eaph in their chrono when loft in oppofing regal tyone of of the blood which his no—and talk ] they make Epimenides ble anceftors ranpy, and fighting for the liberties of ras’s fcholars; Laertins’s account is his country. Indeed fuch perfons have “more probable, who fays he was one of been generally the moft violent and moft Pythagoras’s mafters, which naturally foreigners, as well as a- accounts for that philofopher’s feeking fevere againft gaint the Irih, Scotch, and Well, an interview with him in Crete, as he who are equally entitled to every privi- did afterwards with Pherecydes on his death-bed in Syria. late two public prints, In this interview Fythagorss no doubt below; but of of the whofe duty fhould be to inculcate liber» gave on account to Epi ality of fentiments, have degenerated many marvellous things he had learned into the vile meannefs of national and in his travels, and fo far the difciple . . may be faid to have inftructed the mafperional abufe. lege and being the conftitution :can One of thefe papers being notorioufly ter. Epimenides himfelf= le t in the marvellous, a conduéted by a clergyman, may be con- a > fidered as a melancholy proof of neracy. Thisunchriftian-like prieft ve through Greece of his paga Bye tind afterhis long fepole eg he relianed his lach for fome fheep wakin which his father had fent him yl than half a century before. The flory does not fay that he found thofe sheep; he returned however to his father a houfe, and was rather furprized pole ferve Mammon: and does not fuch difcoveing a new generation in from the fion, who knew no more of Epimenidrs conduét call for animadverfion than they did of his fbeep. _ ‘1 bis fleepE:fhop of his diocefe? ing phi , however filled up the To tte OBSERVER. SIR gap in his life well, for Xenophanes fays he lived to one hundred and the Cre E are all frightened to death in this fifty-feven years of age; and part of the country, by the horrid nine years, modelily Ropping £...t of ‚ View to either, fur curiofity and amufethree centuries. j ment only; fo we, who are travellers Deducting therefore fifty-feven years «and adventurers, as it were, from anof cep, during which he probably made no very great advances in feience, he might have occafien to ge to fchoc!, when he waked, and though an aid man, might be 2 young fcholar under Pythagoras, if the credibility of the above ftory can once be admitted. . From the Olympic games Pythagoras a place called in the time of Antipho, other life and another nature, come amongh mankind, indiilerent to the or. dinary aflurements of avarice or ambition, and fludious of nothing hut the truth and efence of things. Such may be -called lovers of wildom, or in one word philefophers—ani, like the unconcerned fpcélators defcribed, have no other interefls to purfue, but the acquifitions of knowlepe and the rational en- (who is quoted by Laertius) Pythagore joyments of a contemplative mind.” Hemicyclus. Ja this reply he plances at his docliere he began a practice he con- = ni the ap arog AE ürued in Italy of retiring to a cave n his progrefs towards Italy Pythawithout the town for the purpofe of Audy, but in fact the idea was, like give the more authority to his precepts, moft others of his, oriental. Hermits upon per of his having recieved goras went to Delphi, that Re eke (Concluded, or $1.) of a Savoyard thagoras on his return from the Eaft, pito the Ronin Catholic, boaft of his being a took the ifland of Crete in his way ; here “ defcended from the pulpit to condvAl a news-paper. Has laid afide his fermons to become a writer of libels; and ine ftead of aéting as a peace-maker to the fubjcéts of his king, has done every thin _ to promote: di in his What is this’ but relinquifhing God to 117 their account ta two Lindred.ad ninety. » ferved that others attend without any repaired to Samos, and opened fchool in may fairly boaft of their municipal rights and Coreumflances vcf Tim Pythagoras. 3 tans, who are liars upon record, Ka have it to this day, and if mortification is ufed to recommend religion, folitude may be chofen to fet off wifdom. Pythapnras in a cave vilited in the dead of nicht, with awful reverence and credulity, might país ftories upon his hearers,: which he could not rifque in the face of the fun and the fireets of the city. He was not, however, fo far fequeftered from the concerns of .the world, as to enjoy himfelf in his cave, under the tyranny of Folycrates, now more oppreflive than at his departure for Egypt. He thereupon refulved to go into Italy and took Delos in his way. Here he wrote the veríes on the feyulchre of Apollo which Porphyry records. From Delus he paffed to Philius, the ancient country of his family; and at them from the prieftefs Theoclea. In Italy he ellablifhed himfelf uuring life, and ae n forty years wanting one, in his colleges at Metapontum Heracles, and Croton. ° He ftaid twenty years at Croton before he went to Metapontum. Mylo the famous Olympic victor was one of his {cholars at the former of thefe places. Es ng his dndtrines drew 2 prodigious refort to his college ; no lefs than fix hundred pl dEi Da his feétures nightiy. He impofed rules of preparation and a fvflem of difcipline, for his fludents, admirably coutrived to infpire them with veneration for. his perfon and to train their minds to the exercife of patience and refpeét. He prefcribed a probationary filence of five Philius, Cicero informs us, he expoun- years, during which initiation ded feveral pointy of his new philofophy were not once admitted to the to the tyrant Leo, who being ft with his dodtrine, demanded of lim = bot of fcience he principally pro — = Pythagoras replied that he profefled Bone ;—bot was a pli/ofopher. ename was new to Leo and he defired to be informed of its Ggnificà son-and wherein philofophers differed from other profcflors of the learned | fight of their mailer, who in the mean time, like an invifible and fuperior fpirit, governed them after the muft abfolute manner by mandates, which they never “alal but through ga of his were ufhered with much soa mò ubordinate agents. At th the awful prefence. à re a courfe of difcipline could not al to prepare every mind, capabiv of fences, —— _ oing it, forthesurvclion Revie Pythagoras anfwered— That it ap- which at certain times he introduced intn to him men were drawn to a his leCiures touching the dodtrine of the . rent objects and purfuits in life, as the Greeks were to their Olympic games, ‚me for glory, fome forgain. « At the fametime,” fays he, < you muft haveobmetempfvchoßs, and the revelation of his own divinity. He frupled not to tell them that he was the Apollo of the Hyperbores:.t, znd he corroborated his

Letters on figurative Paffages ofScripture. was not The idea of tranfmigration affertion by expefing to view hie thigh ftarted by Pythagoras, it was of Eañera gold. compofed of folid too far out of fight for any ‚which was of the fimpleft fort was con- origin; butto trace it toits fource. He alive then er mann a veyed,to him in his recefs in vered to told his fcholars he fhould re-vifit the fo fecret, that he was not difco ites and earth in two hundred and fix years after be fubjeét to the common appet i fities of human nature. His perfon his death. by expels His food, necef In mathematics, aflronomy, and mo. ; was moft comely and commanding philolophy, he was an unrivalled ral and lineß clean ed ftudi and his drefe of er. de Cale Teri deferved the milk n cladi s fimplicity. He was alway were tempera principles white garments of the pureît wool, He name. things - through moral, bumase, Kar above all told them his foul had paffedthat it had pacifying and conciliatory. When he and , forms edent feveral antec he when admitted a difciple into his prefence, u Merc from originally received cordial moft his into after ever him took fon lides ZEthe it inhabited the body of of migrating friendfhip and confidence; and men cf» of that God, the privilege into that of teemeitd the highch honour of their after the death of one body their probation in m- lives to have p another, with the faculty of reme the fchoo! of Pythagoras and to be ale rient præte its of ns aétio bring al the lowed accefs to his perfon. were tions migra tranf lates. That thefe After he had ftaid twenty years at in vals, inter not immediate, but after he removed to the Metapontum, Croton the of which his fouf vifited the regions cent houfe admitted to the where he had a magnifi * other world, and was ts. intoa vir- which was afterwards converted whick Thinat fpiri d departe of fociety to Ceres, and a fchool tue or pars sie it pos after Temple was called the Mufeum. Here he was s lide Æthe of body de from fome timeEuph by the famous Abaris, -priefl of vifited dwoun was who orbu-, to that of orean Apollo ; and bis fahuHyperb , the Troy of e fieg ed by Menelaus at the cious of what lous hiftorians give out, that having and in his perfon was conf predeceffor. taken Abaris’s arrow he rode upon it had occurred in that of his earth in the through the air to Taurominlum in cne That it next appeared on from Metapontum of Hermotimu», who gave proofs day, though diflant n aling to the fome days ‘ailing. aged mafter| Phere-| of his reminifcence, by appele of Apollo Hearing that his a loathfome difeafe fhield fufpended in the temp was dying of of Menelaus- From Her-a cydes by the hands Delos, he went thither and exerted in hus Pyrr one into ed paff it mus moti art to recover him; and wlien he the like confciouf- all hisdead, fitherman, retaining lodg having buried him with all the re was whe f itfel ed had y nefe; and laftl mu- ceremonies due to a father, he returned it now was, fing all the accu ra- tó Italy. * r à is the laît © This inftance of headíh of ite paft tranímig ated recolleétion , , aët recorded in his li e. tions were, hill public Daring as thele fidii r of his death is var manne The of rs powe the for ; they were credited sorted as well as the age at which be au- | repo tionshis mind were wonderful, and the 119 and buried in graves and corrupui a filial reverence and attention, was ı dead his e efcape; but not tion; or elfe that dey exift in the very 3 olicited to mak willing to expofe himfelf to the laweft fcale of being; in a flatcof fleep, 1 as a fugitive to preferve life, blindnefs, alienihip from God, &c. E friends were on the point of that their lives are merely a ‘imal: that gering, he refifted their entreaties, | and was burnt to death. Others contend that he efcaped from on this account, figuratively fpeaking, ra ‚are giants, tons, &c. &c. pra foxes, And dogs, dead while chey live. It is then, p> thar th and was killed in purfuit. is ever fuppoled, «vell being, that that he took refuge in the being a privation at Metapontum, where in feripture is called life; and m ATNaRrEDSeRIADaGE MgRPrUeTg victuals forty days he and other hiftorians with of this, death. Jt follows then that the du&rine, Spirit, or life of Chrift, which was before Abrabam, is the Creator of all living things, or fuhjeéts, in a fcriptural view. And there is no beginnin of real being afcribed to any perfun ti this creation in fome proportion has taken place. It being then only true to us, that in the beginning was, or is the Word, and that atl things are made by him when we begin to have a true knowledge of ourielves as creatures, or dependent or peaceable fubjects. But creation, .&c. is faid by the litertbe jalifts Litters on figurative Pafagr: oferato belong to the creation of outif this kriptures, from original Confid Per upon the Principles of Common LETTER :IV. Upon theTarwity from Johni.x. the ing Ir ward matter, it will rot agree with the phrafeology of the Apoitle, Gal. iii. 22. Ephef. i. 20, 22. who not only fays that all things were created by Jefus Chrift, bur that they are. quickened or made alive by him; that they were before fhut up “under fin; are reconciled to was the Word, Sc. God, &c. which can never accord with There are three that bear record the idea of the material heavens, the in Heaven, _ the Father, the Word, earth, or the fea, which cannot in any cathe Spirit, We. Fobn, Epifilei. fenfe be faid to have been fhut up under fin, &c. unlefs we could fuppofe inani» pl mate objects capable of committing To the Editor x the Town and Country tranf which would be abfurd in the extreme. It has been falfely ima» SIR gined from the phrafe in the-Old T--fta- : "TO examine the dodtrine of the Triment, intimating that the Lord curfed the earth for the fake of man, that the nity as afferted in the Holy Scrip- material carth was a partaker in his tores (not a Trinity of perfons), it will crime! chat the force of nature is weakle neceffary to enquire what kind of ened in confequence, &c. &c. The fir part of this mifconception arifcth from mf the Deity, w rance of compoSticn, want «. dife + iyeundtion between faQ and figure; and probable account fixes over his hear- died; the moft thority hie had eftablithed and years. eighty ar it s niou inge era by fuperior wifdom The curious As to the cataftrephe of his death device was unbounded.in the Eaft, and the relation molt to be credited, informs the wy be Y ee refearches of his fludy e contracted for us that one Cylonof Croton, arich,ambi- A ofpradical, intimate i aba. By the paffion he had therrnatural, infpir- tious, and di orderly man, havin À g offered . the latter is every year obviated by exthe marvellous and fupe tion of palling himfelf to the college and being É F nt VTA depres cf now. perience. Al! this to the eye of diiternambi the with by, him there ed goras, was fo enrag mob, lle muft be the obje of the higheft ment is eafily unriddled, when it is conld for fomething by Pytha he hired himflf upon the worhad a éted colle ng havi of intellect, exalted by goodneis, that as man is a compound being, gained on the that the houfe of: Mylo when Py- 3 Powers shove human. He fuch art, affaulted truth, and virtue. It is on this account confifting of an animal, fenfitive; a * afthere credulity of his difciptes with were ples difci ever he thaporas and his the boufe with every rational fool, all that is addreffed ro the that he found it would hear what fembled, and burnt fenrees of men ignorant, or former is addreffed to the Adamical nawas He fe. impo to er prop who . ught pted “tho two or three exce in body in it he tranfcended all men living fu{ible narrowly efcaped. Fythagoras,to whom. a e aflum to ed refolv he wifdom and his difciples even ig the laft periosity of nature alfo. paid cod, that ture, orthe firft manof the earth, earthy; and all that is addsefled to the Latter is