Opera;" "Reland de Relig.
Mahomedica;" "Galli Opuscula Mythologica;" "Apollodori
Bibliotheca;" "Palingenius;" "Apuleius;" and every classical
author of antiquity. As he was then employed in his curious
history of the Druids, of which only a specimen is preserved,
we may trace his researches in the following books: "Luydii
Archaeologia Britannica;" "Old Irish Testament," &c.;
"Maccurtin's History of Ireland;" "O'Flaherty's Ogygia;"
"Epistolarum Hibernicarum;" "Usher's Religion of the ancient
Irish;" "Brand's Isles of Orkney and Zetland;" "Pezron's
Antiquites des Celtes."

There are some singular papers among these fragments. One
title of a work is "Priesthood without Priestcraft; or
Superstition distinguished from Religion, Dominion from Order,
and Bigotry from Reason, in the most principal Controversies
about Church government, which at present divide and deform
Christianity." He has composed "A Psalm before Sermon in
praise of Asinity." There are other singular titles and works
in the mass of his papers.

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A lover of all literature,
and knowing more than ten languages;
a champion for truth,
an assertor of liberty,
but the follower or dependant of no man;
nor could menaces nor fortune bend him;
the way he had chosen he pursued,
preferring honesty to his interest.
His spirit is joined with its ethereal father
from whom it originally proceeded;
his body likewise, yielding to Nature,
is again laid in the lap of its mother:
but he is about to rise again in eternity,
yet never to be the same TOLAND more.

GENIUS THE DUPE OF ITS PASSIONS.

POPE said that STEELE, though he led a careless and vicious life, had
nevertheless a love and reverence for virtue. The life of Steele was
not that of a retired scholar; hence his moral character becomes more
instructive. He was one of those whose hearts are the dupes of their
imaginations, and who are hurried through life by the most despotic
volition. He always preferred his caprices to his interests; or,
according to his own notion, very ingenious, but not a little absurd,
"he was always of the humour of