JORD BACON, in the midst of his laborious occupations, published, in the year 1605, his celebrated work The Advancement of Learning, which

profeffes to be a furvey of the then exifting Knowledge, with a defignation of the parts of Science which were unexplored; the cultivated parts of the intellectual World and the defarts; a finished picture with an outline of what was untouched.

Within the outline is included the whole of Science. After having examined the objections to Learning; the advantages of Learning; - the places of learning or Univerfities;-the books of Learning or Libraries, the fhrines where all the relics of the ancient Saints, full of true Virtue, and that without delufion or impofture, are preferved and repofed;-after having thus cleared the way, and, as it were, made filence to have the true nature of Learning better heard and understood, he invefties, all Knowledge:

ft. Relating to the Memory, or History. 2nd. Relating to the Imagination, or Poetry.

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