Letter

 1 XIV |            Fontenelle spoke in the Academy of Sciences. M. de Fontenelle
 2 XV  |        Sorin in the Memoirs of the Academy of 1709, and M. de Fontenelle
 3 XXIV|       Academies~The English had an Academy of Sciences many years before
 4 XXIV|          it was founded before the Academy of Paris; for had it been
 5 XXIV|            and laws. A seat in the Academy at Paris is a small but
 6 XXIV|           of being a member of the Academy, and of receiving the royal
 7 XXIV|        study, the mathematics.~The Academy of Sciences is prudently
 8 XXIV|           methinks the founding an academy merely for the polite arts
 9 XXIV|        encouragement; and that the Academy of Paris is on a quite different
10 XXIV|         Queen's reign, to found an academy for the English tongue upon
11 XXIV|     ornament and protector of that academy. Those only would have been
12 XXIV|         protectors of the intended academy, a circumstance that was
13 XXIV|    literature. The members of this academy would have had a very great
14 XXIV| circumstance, to which the English Academy should especially have attended,
15 XXIV|          the memoirs of the French Academy. I answered, they have no
16 XXIV|          It is a law in the French Academy, to publish all those discourses
17 XXIV|         print any of them.~But the Academy of the Belles Lettres have
18 XXIV|           frivolous and silly.~The Academy of Sciences, in such of
19 XXIV|          With regard to the French Academy, how great a service would