| I must confess that one of the things I very much der at is that as the Parliament of Great Britain have promised a reward of pounds sterling to any person who may discover the longitude they should never have once thought to imitate Louis XIV in his munificence with regard to the arts and sciences | ||
| Neither the English nor any other people have foundations established in favour of the polite arts like those in France There are Universities in most countries but it is in France only that we meet with so beneficial an encouragement for astronomy and all parts of the mathematics for physic for researches into antiquity for painting sculpture and architecture Louis XIV has immortalised his name by these several foundations and this immortality did not cost him two livres a year | ||
| Merit indeed meets in England with rewards of another kind which redound more to the honour of the nation The English have so great a veneration for exalted talents that a man of merit in their country is always sure of making his fortune Mr Addison in France would have been elected a member of one of the academies and by the credit of some women might have obtained a yearly pension of twelve livres or else might have been imprisoned in the Bastile upon pretence that certain | ||
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