teen Years of Age, he went to _Athens_, and
abode with _Plato_, he pass'd twenty Years in his School, and when his
Master was dead, he went to _Hermeas_ the Tyrant of _Atarna_, a City of
_Mysia_; he went from thence to _Mytelene_, from whence he was call'd by
_Philip_, to be his Son _Alexander's_ Tutor; he was eight Years, with
that Young Prince, and after _Philip's_ Death, returned to _Athens_,
where he Taught, in the _Lyceum_ twelve Years, till the Death of
_Alexander_. For _Antipater_ having carried the War into _Greece,
Aristotle_, who fancied, the _Athenians_ suspected him, by reason of the
strict Friendship, which was between him, and the Viceroy of _Macedonia_,
retir'd to _Calchis_, where he died soon after, by a Fit of Sickness in
the sixty third Year of his Age. He left one Son, and one Daughter, both
Young, and made _Antipater_ Executor of his Will, and Administrator of
all his Goods, which were very considerable, if we may judge of them by
_Alexander's_ Liberality, who gave him eight Hundred Talents, for his
History of Animals, that is according to the lesser Talent, one hundred
and forty Thousand Pounds Sterling, or according to the greater, one
Hundred eighty six Thousand, six Hundred, sixty five Pounds, thirteen
Shillings and four Pence. The most precious of his Moveables was his
Library, which was afterwards Sold to _Ptolomy Philadelphus_, and which
he had Enrich'd with four Hundred Volumes, of his own making. In those
of his Writings which now remain, and are happily a considerable Number,
we find a very discerning Spirit, a solid Judgment, a wonderful Method,
prodigious Knowledge, and an Eloquence both strong and sweet. He himself
found out more, than the most Knowing now, learn with a great deal of
Labour and Pains, and as for those things which depended on the Vivacity
of the Spirit, no Man ever carried his Knowledge further, or Establish'd
more sure, or extensive Principles. In Dialecticks, Logick, Rhetorick,
Politicks, and Morality, we have little but what he taught us.

By making a proper use of his Informations, there have appear'd Works
in some of these Sciences, preferable to his, but his Rhetorick is the
most Preferable we as yet have. His Art of Poetry is more to be admir'd,
for in his Rhetorick, he made use of the Precepts of those, who Wrote
before him. But he is the first that discovered the Grounds, and Secrets
of Poesie, and none since have undertaken to Write, but in Explication
of his Th