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- c fur in this book I have begun with general rule?, and
' hereafter, with God's affiftance, (hall undertake another
- ' treatife upon particulars," &c. He wrote a great many
amorous verfrs, ut when he grew old he cait them into the fire [D]. " Man, fjs he, will he judged by his words; 44 and if I have fpoken ill, I will not let my folly be known.
- l my verfes (hould ple^fc any peribn, he would take me
" for a wife man, nni 1 do not find that I am fo." His other poems are all loit, except a Imall piece, in which he cicc larc-s tnat when he was young he ated againft his rca- ion ; but (hat whm he was in years he foJlowed the dilates o' it ; p m which he utters this wifti, " Would to God I
- ' had been horn old, and that in my youth I had been in a
" ihite 01 peircc'.i'Ti." What wiih could be formed more Bayle, vvonhy a philofopnerf [n] u We may gather from this," " under the profeffion of Mahometiftn. fjys Bayle, "thai Come vices are com- " I fay under the profeflion; for it is " mon to .11 c untries, religions, and " doubted whether in hi heart he be-
- ' ages. We find Mahometans doing " lieved any thing of religion. His
' that in Spain in the twelfth century, " prediction with regard to the misfor- " which a great many Chriltians at " tunes of . orduba is no proof of the ' Paris have done in the leventeenth. " contrary; for it is very natural to " We rmy r.bferve likewife that there " think, that a dreadful corruption of '* are Come good aliens, of which we " manners, and fuch a degeneracy of " find inftances in every country, age, " mind, as lea is men to contemn what " and religion. If Chriftians in the " is held Cacred, and to love what is " latter times have thrown their pro- " thought vicious, will occafion great " fane, amorous, or lafcivious verfes " diforders in a city."
- ' iiAo the fire, Averroes diJ the fame
AUGUSTIN, or AUSTIN, (ST.) the firft archblfhop of Canterbury, was originally a monk in the convent of St An- drew at Rome, and educated under St. Gregory, after wardsBede, Hlft. pope Gregory I. by whom he was difpatched into Britain, Ecl - Gen . r ' with forty other monks of the fame ord-r, about the year^" 6 ' ' 596, to convert the Eng!ifh Saxons to Chriftianity. They H. Hunting, landed in the Ifle of Thanet ; and having fent feme French K 'ft. i,b.;;i. interpreters to king Ethelbert, with an account of their er 5"" ^ rand, the king gave them leave to convert as many of hisBedam, fubjecls as they could, and affi^ncd their plnce of relidence at Francof - Dorovernum, fince called Canterbury. To this fpot they ^ i 1 r ' Br - f were confined till the king himfelf was converted, whofe ex- ample had a powerful influence in promoting the ronverfion of his fubjedls ; but though he was extremely pleaftd at their becoming Chrirtians, he never attempted to compel them. He had learned (fays venerable Bide) from his in(trutors in the way of falvation, that force and dragooning was not the D d 2 method
