The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan (Volume 18) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1794. Excerpt: ... as rebels, who must sooner or later be chastised; almost' all hare fiuorn your ruin as ivell as ours, and be assured that George III. has not entered into their league but on this condition. Your expedients, your management, will not change this system; and if the ministers who reside with you hold a different language, it is only the better to deceive you. They triumph at the security into which they have plunged you, at the very moment when their courts are insulting; you in every quarter, except on your coasts, wht-re they know we have forces; but their tone will change whilil ours shall remain insatiably the same, true and sincere. Accept my respect, 'Geket.' NOVELS. AlT. xv. 77je Confessions of James Baptijle Cnulcau, Citizen ef France. Written by Himself: and Translated from the Original French, by Robert Jephson, Esq. illustrated with nine Engravings. In two Volumes, u-mo. Price 8s. in boards. Dcbrett. t/94. Though the writer has decorated his work with the fame title, which Jean Jacques Rousseau chose for a posthumous publication, the reader must.be informed, that the two productions differ entirely in one very estmtial point. Whereas the celebrated philosopher of Geneva in his Confessions laid open the secrets of his heart, and the-detects of his character, with a.degree of honesty seldom exercised on such occasions; this citizen of France is represented as boasting of' crimes, which he never committed, and as assuming to himself a degree of depravity, which can scarcely be conceived to belong, in reality, to any human being. We have said, that James Baptine Coutcau is represented as doing this; for, in truth, this story seems throughout a mere fiction, written for the unnecessary purpose of loading the french nation with new reproach, for the en...