Excerpt from The Works of Soame Jenyns, Esq., Vol. 2 Ifaac Hawkins Browne, Efg. The [on of the Rev. Mr. Browne, vicar of Burton on Trent, was educated at Welt minfier fchool, from whence he wont to Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards fettled in lincoln's-inn, where he engaged in the profefiion of the law. In 1759 he publilhed this Poem, De Animi Imortalitate, which was univerfally read, and as univerfally admired, not only for the choice and arrangement of the matter, but the purity of the lan guage, which Lucretius himl'elf would have acknowledged as a perfeet copy of his fiile. Struck with the arguments, the difpofition of thofe arguments, and the beauty of the ex preflion, but above all with the bright contralt to the oh fcurity of the metaphyfical poets of the lull century; Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.