A TABLE of the ARTICLES ART. VI. For FEBRUARY 1733. A LL the Phyfical Works of to her Majesty Queen Caroline. Page 85 VII. A Turkish Grammar; or a short and easy Method of learning the Turkish Language; &c. 94 VIII. A Confutation of Mr. Bayle's Criticisms on St. Auguftin, &c. 103 IX. Obfervations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypfe of St. John. By Sir Isaac Newton. I2I X. The Anatomy of the Human Bones. By Alexander Monro, Profeffor of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, and F. Ř. S. 142 State THE PRESENT STATE OF THE Republick of Letters. For FEBRUARY 1733. ARTICLE VI. JOHANNIS FREIND, M. D. Sereniffimæ Reginæ Carolina Archiatri opera Medica omnia. Londini: Typis Johannis Wright; Impenfis Gul. Innys & Ric. Manby, Regia Societatis Typographorum; & L.Gilliver in vico vocato Fleetftreet. 1733. That is, ALL the Phyfical Works of Dr. John by by John Wright; for William Innys and Richard Manby, Printers to the Royal Society; and Lawton Gilliver in Fleetstreet. 1733. Fol. p. 591. befide the Dedication and Preface. T HE feveral Phyfical Treatifes, written by the Learned Dr. Friend, have been fo well received, and juftly admired, efpecially by the Gentlemen of the Faculty, that it would have been a great Injury to the World not to preserve them in the beft Manner that could be done. This is perform'd by collecting them into one large Volume, which is laid at her Majefty's Feet, accompanied with an elegant Dedication, compofed by Dr. Robert Freind, the worthy Matter of Westminster School, and Brother to the late Author of them. THESE Works are fo well known, and have been fo long publifhed, that it is unneceffary for us to give any other Account of them in this Place, than what we have of them, and the Author's Life from Dr. John Wigan; who has written a Preface to this new Edition, in which he not only pays his laft Duties to his admired Friend, but takes feveral Opportunities of doing Juftice to his Sentiments, and fhewing his own Skill in his Profeffion. John Freind was born in 1675 at Croton in Northamptonshire, where his Father, a Man of Learning, Probity and Piety was Rector. As he knew the Advantages which attend a publick Education, he placed his two Sons under the care of Dr. Busby at Westminster School; from whence they were removed to Chrift Church in Oxford, . Oxford, after they had made a confiderable Progrefs in their preliminary Studies. Dr. Aldrich was then at the Head of that College, a Man fo well qualified for his important Poft, that he feem'd born for it. As only Men of Merit are capable of knowing and valuing it in others, Mr. Freind there contracted a Friendship with Persons, who have fince made the greatest Figure in the learned World, or appear'd in the moit exalted Stations. He ever retain'd a grateful Senfe of his Obligations to this Place of his Education, to which he on all Occafions profels'd he owed his Proficiency in Learning, his Skill in his Profeffion, his Reputation in the World, the Improvement of his Fortune, his Friends, and every Pleasure and Enjoyment of Life. His firft Years in that Seat of Learning, were employ'd in the ufual Studies of Philofophy and the antient Poets, Orators and Hiftorians. The Purity, Perfpicuity, Strength and Beauty of the Stile of his Latin Works are at once a Proof of the Judgment and Succefs with which he perused thofe Authors, and that Phyfical Difcourfes are capable of appearing in correct and truly Claffical Language. Before he had fpent two Years at the Univerfity, he convinced the World that he had not been idle or mifapplied his Time, by publishing an Oration of Efchines, and one of Demofthenes, with a new Latin Verfion, and an exact alphabetical Index, in which fome difficult Paffages in thofe Pieces, are explain'd in a learned, clear and fatisfactory Manner, THESE Studies, how engaging foever they appear'd to him, were not allow'd to engross his whole Mind; he therefore proceeded to the Mathematics, which he apprehended would not F 2 only |