O F EL WHARTON GRIFFITH, UNIVERSAL HISTORY, Sacred and Profane, Ecclefiaftic and Civil; FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, ΤΟ ΤΗ Ε Year One thousand Seven hundred and Forty-three. A CATALOGUE of BOOKS neceffary for that PURPOSE; By Abbé LENGLET DUFRESNOY. In TWO PARTS. Tranflated from the laft French Edition; and continued down to the PART THE FIRST. LONDON: Printed for A. MILLAR, J. NEWBERY, R. BALDWIN. W. JOHNSTON, BAH Transfer frem Muhlenberg Br. May 21/1908 To the RIGHT HONOURABLE the EARL OF POMFRET. My LORD, A T the fame time that I have the honour of presenting this work to your Lordfhip, as an acknowledgement of your many favours to me; I have alfo the pleasure of reflecting on the propriety of offering a work of literature to your Lordfhip; who, to the knowledge of the modern languages, have fuperadded the more learned ones. These are the acquirements of many; but the exalted understanding, good fense, and masterly elocution which your Lordship posfeffes, in fo extenfive a degree, are the portion of few. The world is too fenfible of the truth of this, to fufpect me of adula tion. The difficulty attending this translation hath been far from that common to tranfla tors; tors; the many hundreds of names of perfons and places, which French writers are fo notoriously remarkable for corrupting, have coft me time and trouble to rectify, almost equal to that of compiling the whole work. Tho' I have taken great care, I fear fome mistakes have unavoidably escaped me: but if my part in this work fhould, upon the whole, meet with your Lordship's fanction, I am perfuaded it will receive the concurrent approbation of every other perfon, whose good opinion can do any honour to him, who is, MO W |