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Rh of Paris is on a quite different Foot, 'tis no wonder that our Tranactions are drawn up in a more jut and beautiful Manner than thoe of the Englih. Soldiers who are under a regular Dicipline, and beides well paid, mut necearily, at lat, perform more glorious Atchievements than others who are mere Voluntiers. It mut indeed be confes'd that the Royal Society boat their Newton, but then he did not owe his Knowledge and Dicoveries to that Body; o far from it, that the latter were intelligible to very few of his Fellow-Members. A Genius like that of Sir Iaac belong'd to all the Academies in the World, becaue all had a thouand Things to learn of him. celebrated Dean Swift form'd a Deign, in the latter End of the late Queen's Reign, to found an Academy for the Englih Tongue upon the Model of that of the French. This Project was promoted by the late Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treaurer, and much more by the Lord Bolingbroke, tary