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neral History, in two volumes. This work has since pass- 
ed through four editions, and has been found so useful‘ by 
those engaged either in the business of private or public edu- 
cation, as affording a concise and luminous arrangement of 
historical events, that it is now used as a text-book in some 
of the principal seminaries of education in England, and has 
Become (as I understand) the ground-work of historical study 
in some of the Universities of America.—Of the lectures them- 
selves, while they remain unpublished, it would be preposter- 
ous to offer any opinion: yet, when they are given to the 
world, I shall be much deceived, if they are-not found to fill 
up an important desideratum in English literature,—to afford. 
to the minds of the young more pleasing and more enlighten- 
ed views of the history of Man, and the progress of the Hu- 
man Race, than any other similar work in our language pre- 
sents them, and to accomplish the generous ambition of their 
author, in rendering the study of history subservient to the great 
end of all education, that of forming good men and good citi- 
zens. . 
‘The labours im which Mr Tyrer was thus employed, were: 
sufficient to occupy, but not to engross, his attention. Hecon- 
tinued assiduously his practice at the Bar; and he followed, 
with the interest of a man of letters, the progress of Science 
- and Philosophy around him: ~The reputation which his taste 
and talents had now acquired, created many appeals to him for 
literary advice or assistance, and to him every labour was wel-. 
come, in which he could serve the cause either of literature or: 
of friendship. 
In 1778, when Dr Grecory was publishing an edition of the: 
Works of his Father, Dr Joun. Grecory, he solicited Mr Tyt- 
ter to prefix to it a short account of his life and’ writings. 
It was a task which Mr Tyrer willingly undertook, from his 
early: 
