Excerpt from The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts: Containing the Most Striking and Admired Passages in the Works of That Celebrated Divine, Philosopher, Moralist, and Poet; To Which Is Added, the Life of the Author IT is hot to he expected that the life of a man devoted fine: a state of infancy to study and te tirement, should be pre ant with such incidents as are apt to excite pu lie curiosity. The truly excellent person of whom it. Is our business to present the reader with some biographical anec dotes, was distinguished by a cheerful and unin terrupted discharge of every religious and moral duty, an imagination so fertile in original and great ideas as to seem incapable of being exhaust cd, a profound and solid judgment, and very ex tensive literary acquiremente.

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