rld
the result of his careful and profound researches; who, drinking
largely at the fountain head of classical learning, and hence feeling
the renovated vigour of youth (without having recourse to the black
art of a Cornelius Agrippa[93]), circumnavigates 'the Erythrean
sea'--then, ascending the vessel of Nearchus, he coasts 'from Indus to
the Euphrates'--and explores with an ardent eye what is curious and
what is precious, and treasures in his sagacious mind what is most
likely to gratify and improve his fellow-countrymen. A rare and
eminent instance this of the judicious application of acquired
knowledge!--and how much more likely is it to produce good, and to
secure solid fame, than to fritter away one's strength, and undermine
one's health, in perpetual pugilistic contests with snarling critics,
dull commentators, and foul-mouthed philologists."

[Footnote 93: Let him who wishes to be regaled in a dull
dreary night--when the snow is heavily falling, and the wind
whistles hollowly--open those leaves of Bayle's _Historical
and Biographical Dictionary_ which relate to this
extraordinary character; and see there how adroitly Agrippa
is defended against the accusation of "having two devils
attending him in the shape of two little dogs--one of them
being called Monsieur, and the other Mademoiselle"--"whereas
Paulus Jovius, Thevet, &c., speak only of _one_ dog, and
never mention his name." Vol. i. 357, 361; edit. 1736, 10
vols. folio.

The bibliographer, who wishes to be master of the most
curious and rare editions of his works, may go from Bayle to
Clement, and from Clement to Vogt. He must beware of the
castrated Lyons' editions "per Beringos fratres"--against
one of which Bayle declaims, and produces a specimen (quite
to his own liking) of the passage suppressed:--another, of a
similar kind, is adduced by Vogt (edit. 1793, pp. 19, 20);
who tells us, however, that an edition of 1544, 8vo.,
without mention of place or printer--and especially a
Cologne edition of 1598, by Hierat, in 12mo.--exhibits the
like castrations; p. 20. This has escaped Clement, learned
as he is upon the Lyons' editions, vol. i. 94, 95, 96. Bauer
(_Bibl. Libr. Rarior._) is here hardly worth consulting; and
the compilers of the celebrated _Nouveau Dict. Historique_
(Caen edit. 1789, vol. i. p. 7. Art. Agrippa) deserve