A

BRIEF RETROSPECT

OF THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

PART FIRST;

IN TWO VOLUMES:

CONTAINING

A SKETCH OF THE

REVOLUTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

IN

SCIENCE, ARTS, AND LITERATURE,

DURING THAT PERIOD.

BY SAMUEL MILLER, A. M.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

OF MASSACHUSETTS.

VOL. II.

PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED BY T. AND J. SWORDS,
No. 160 PEARL-STREET.

1803.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

Page.

CHAPTER XII. PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND

CHAPTER XIII. CLASSIC LITERATURE

CHAPTER XIV. ORIENTAL LITERATURE

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