and Rome are the Subject of every Converſation, ſo that every Man is under a Neceſſity of peruſing ſuch Authors as treat of them, how diſagreeable ſoever it may be to him; and this Study leads naturally to that of polite Literature. Mankind in general ſpeak well in their reſpective Profeſſions. What is the Reaſon why our Magiſtrates, our Lawyers, our Phyſicians, and a great Number of the Clergy are abler Scholars, have a finer Taſte and more Wit than Perſons of all other Profeſſions? The Reaſon is, becauſe their Condition of Life requires a cultivated and enlightned Mind, in the ſame Manner as a Merchant is oblig'd to be acquainted with his Traffick. Not long ſince an Engliſh Nobleman, who was very young, came to ſee me at Paris in his Return from Italy. He had writ a poetical Deſcription of that Country, which, for Delicacy and Politeneſs may vie with any Thing we meet with in the Earl of Rocheſter, or in our Chaulieu, our Sarraſin, or Chapelle. The Tranſlation I have given of it is ſo in-
