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which was designed to aid the Puritans against the established church. This was followed by Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and whether it be deduced from the Apostolic Times, by virtue of those Testimonies, which are alleged to that Purpose in some late Treatises, one whereof goes under the Name of James Lord Bishop of Armagh.' In 1642 appeared The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy,' by Mr. John Milton; to which, in consequence of the remarks with which it was assailed, he added two more pamphlets upon the same subject during the course of the year. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce,' was succeeded by The Judgment of Martin Bucer, concerning Divorce, in 1644; and in 1645, appeared Tetrachordon, Expositions upon the four chief Places of Scripture which treat of Marriage.' These were the publications by which he appeared to smooth a way for the repudiation of his first wife; they were severely animadverted upon by the clergy, who petitioned the House of Peers to call the author to their bar, a suit which, though granted, appears to have availed little, for he was speedily dismissed, either out of favour or indifference. To this year,

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1645, has also been ascribed Areopagitica, a Speech by Mr. John Milton, for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing,' and the volume of Latin and English poems, in which 'L'Allegro' and Il Penseroso' were first inserted. A Treatise to A Treatise to compose the minds of the People after the King's death; 'Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels; and 'Iconoclastes,' a critical censure of Icon Basilike,' instigated by the Council of State, came next in rotation. Being required by the same authority to prepare an answer to the 'Defensio Regis,' published by Salmasius, at Leyden, he finished, in 1651, 'Defensio Populi,' a work highly praised for style, but little thought of for argument. The same remark applies to the Defensio Secunda,' which he completed three years after. A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases, and the Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church,' was sent to the press in 1659; and the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell was graced with two minor pamphlets-A ready and easy Way to establish a free Commonwealth; and Notes upon a Sermon preached by one Griffiths, entitled 'The Fear of God and the King.' In 1661, he aided the labours of the schoolboy, by a little book, Accidence com

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menced Grammar;' and next immortalised the year 1667, by 'Paradise Lost,' of which the first edition, consisting of ten books, was printed in small quarto; the second, consisting of twelve books, by dividing the seventh and tenth, appeared in small 8vo., in 1674; and the third, in the same size, came out in 1678. The History of England,' already noticed as the production of the same year, 1667, which gave birth to Paradise Regained, and Sampson Agonistes, extends no farther than the Norman Invasion, and is very injudiciously collated. In 1672, he mildly relapsed into the doctrines of a tutor, by bringing forward- Artis Logicæ plenior Institutio ad Petri Rami Methodum concinnata: 'A complete System of Logic, arranged according to the Method of Peter Ramus.' His last labours are now to be recorded; and of them it may be remarked, that the one had been better omitted, and the other seems to have sprung from a mere cacoethes imprimendi, for there can now be few to relish a "Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration, and the best means to prevent the Growth of Popery ;' and there are none to avail themselves of his volume of Familiar Epistles and Academical Exercises,' in Latin. Milton's Toleration, it is to be observed, is given to all who found their faith upon scripture solely; but is, nevertheless, denied to the Catholics, because, though they appeal to Scripture, they also appeal to other testimony; and for this difference, he would allow them to enjoy neither public nor private worship. Such, for a series of years, was the number of compositions known to have emanated from the great author of 'Paradise Lost;' but in 1823, Mr. Lemon, an assistant in the Secretary's office for the Home Department, discovered amongst the old manuscripts of the office, a Latin treatise on the Christian Faith, (De Fide Christianâ,') which has been pronounced the work of Milton, upon intrinsic evidence. It is distinguished by the same classical language and innovating doctrines which characterise the whole of his controversial labours, but can now be regarded rather as a curiosity than an acquisition in literature.

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A few words descriptive of Milton's person, habits, and fortune, will complete all that the narrow limits of this volume enable the writer to present to his readers. In youth his complexion was remarkably fair, his hair, a light brown, parted in the forehead,

and hung down on his shoulders: he was rather low in stature, and as he grew old, stout. His strength and activity were great, he fenced dexterously, and delighted in the exercise. Of wine or any strong drink he took little, and ate frugally. He rose at four in summer, and five in winter; dined at one, supped at eight, and after a pipe and a glass of water, retired to bed. What property he received from his father does not appear, but it is clear that he lent the bulk of it to the Parliament during the civil wars, and never received back the loan. His salary, when Latin Secretary, amounted to 2007. a year; he received 1000Z. for his 'Defence of the People,' and was farther rewarded for his political labours, by a grant of a small estate, producing 601. a year, which belonged to Westminster Abbey, and was taken from him at the Restoration. His widow reported that he lost 20007. which he entrusted to a scrivener, and 2000l. more, which he placed for better security in the Excise Office. A short time before his death he sold his library, but left his family 15007., which were seized by his widow, who gave a hundred pounds to each of two surviving daughters, and reserved the rest for her personal enjoyment.

SIR JOHN MOORE.

THE monument to Sir John Moore stands in the south tramsept of St. Paul's Cathedral, and is the work of Bacon, jun. It is large enough to be good enough; but the idea is dull, and the execution common. Valour and Victory are seen lowering the general into a grave, with a wreath of laurel; while the genius of Spain plants the standard of conquest over his grave. The tasteless style in which the monuments of our greatest heroes have been crowded with insipid figures of personification, has long been

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