The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Vol. 23: From December to April (Inclusive), 1806; With an Appendix ... of Foreign Literature (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or Monthly Political and Literary Censor, Vol. 23: From December to April (Inclusive), 1806; With an Appendix Containing an Ample Review of Foreign Literature

In an elegant and difcurfive preface, the author Reps forth to vin dicare metaphyfic fcience from the groundlefs prejudices, thevulgar depreciation, and the prefumptuous calumnies under which it basin thefe days, moft unmeritedly laboured. He combats the different clafi'es of its opponents with the fpirit of a fcholar, afierting the dig nity of thofe purfuits which occupied the fublime genius of a Plato and an Ariltotle, a Cicero antla Seneca; whilft in the varied ufe of his weapons he exhibits the [kill of a prat'ftifed dialeéiician. We would gratify our readers by prefenting to them fome extracts from this preface, did not our limits compel us to haflen to the more im portant matter of the work itfelf.

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