[1] Three or four of these Essays have been reprinted in "The
Restituta," vol. iii. The original book is very rare.
[2] See Ellis' "Specimens."
[3] I found the origin of this eloquent and factious performance in
an account of JOHN HALL, prefixed to his translation of "Hierocles on
the Golden Verses of Pythagoras:" it proceeds from a friend--John
Davies of Kidwelly. The treatise of Hall, in its original edition, is
so rare, that no copy has been found at the British Museum, nor in
the King's Library; it was, however, reprinted at the time in London.
[4] A piece of great learning, entitled 'The Height of Eloquence,'
written in Greek, by Dionysius Longinus, rendered into English from
the original, by John Hall, Esq., London, 1652, 8vo.--_Brueggeman's
English Transactions._