demy of Paris is on a quite different Foot, 'tis no wonder that our Tranſactions are drawn up in a more juſt and beautiful Manner than thoſe of the Engliſh. Soldiers who are under a regular Diſcipline, and beſides well paid, muſt neceſſarily, at laſt, perform more glorious Atchievements than others who are mere Voluntiers. It muſt indeed be confeſs'd that the Royal Society boaſt their Newton, but then he did not owe his Knowledge and Diſcoveries to that Body; ſo far from it, that the latter were intelligible to very few of his Fellow-Members. A Genius like that of Sir Iſaac belong'd to all the Academies in the World, becauſe all had a thouſand Things to learn of him.
The celebrated Dean Swift form'd a Deſign, in the latter End of the late Queen's Reign, to found an Academy for the Engliſh Tongue upon the Model of that of the French. This Project was promoted by the late Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treaſurer, and much more by the Lord Bolingbroke, Secre-
