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240 a Law in the French Academy, to publih all thoe Dicoures by which only they are known, but they hould rather make a Law never to print any of them.

the Academy of the Belles Lettres have a more prudent and more ueful Object, which is, to preent the Publick with a Collection of Tranactions that abound with curious Reearches and Critiques. Thee Tranactions are already eteem'd by Foreigners; and it were only to be wih'd, that ome Subjects in them had been more thoroughly examin'd, and that others had not been treated at all. As for Intance, we hould have been very well atisfied, had they omitted I know not what Diertation on the Prerogative of the Right Hand over the Left; and ome others, which tho' not publih'd under o ridiculous a Title, are yet written on Subjects that are almot as frivolous and illy.

Academy of Sciences, in uch of their Reearches as are of a more difficult