Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . of theanaprestic system. In the course of ninety-eight pages hecorrects or explains more than sixty Greek and Latin was an achievement which spread his fame beyond the boundsof England: and two of the foremost scholars of the age,Grievius and Spanheim, hailed him as the new and alreadybright star of English letters. In the following year he wasappointed to deliver the first course of lectures on
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . of theanaprestic system. In the course of ninety-eight pages hecorrects or explains more than sixty Greek and Latin was an achievement which spread his fame beyond the boundsof England: and two of the foremost scholars of the age,Grievius and Spanheim, hailed him as the new and alreadybright star of English letters. In the following year he wasappointed to deliver the first course of lectures on the foundationof Robert Boyle; and, in connection with his argument for the ^ Monks Life of Bentley, i. 31. note. ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIP, 1570-17Jt^. 81 existence of an Intelligent Providence, he gave the first popular exposition of the discoveries of Newton (whose Principia had been published only five years previously). In the same year, 1692, Sir William Temple published his Essay on Ancient and Phaiaris; Modern Learning, attacking the opinions of Perrault (1687) and. mCHAED BENTLEY, BY THOMAS HUDSON. (Trinitij College, Cambridge.) Fontenelle (1688), who had recently been claiming for themoderns a superiority in point of genius over the foremostwriters of antiquity. For our present purpose the following isthe most important passage :— It may, perhaps, bo further affinnod in favour of tlie Ancients, thatthe oldest books we have aro still in their kind the best. The two mostancient that I know of in prose, among those we call profane authors, are204 82 TEE AGE OF WALPOLE. -iEsops Fables and Phalariss Epistles, both living near the same time,which -was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first lias been agreedby all ages since for the greatest master in his kind, and all others of thatsoit have been but imitators of his original; so I think the Epistles ofPhalaris to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius,than any others I have ever seen, either ancient or m
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