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A

BRIEF RETROSPECT

OF THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

PART THE FIRST ;

IN THREE VOLUMES :

CONTAINING

A SKETCH

OF THE

REVOLUTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS

IN

SCIENCE, ARTS, AND LITERATURE

DURING THAT PERIOD.

BY SAMUEL MILLER, A.M.
NE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILO-
SOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS.

VOL. II.

Printed at New York.

LONDON:
REPRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD,

By T. Davison, Whitefriars.