HISTORY. 89 



The hiilory of erudition, which gives an 

 account of the (late of the other fcicnces among 

 all nations. 



Technical hiftory, that treats of the progrefs 

 of the arts, as well liberal as ufeful. 



6. The hiftory of the learned , which relates 

 the lives and productions of the learned men of 

 all ages, in thofe works that are called Biogra- 

 phies. 



7. Mifcellaneous hiftory (Hiftoria mixta vel 

 mifcellanea) -, which contains all forts of anec- 

 dotes, political, ecclefiaftic, military, literary 

 and civil, that are of any importance, and that 

 are not included in pragmatic or political hi- 

 ftory. 



XXI. They make in the fchools ftill other 

 divifions of hiftory, as into 



Sacred and profane. 



Univerfal or fundamental, and particular or 

 fpecial. 



il and poetical or fabulous. 



Antediluvian and poftdiluvian. 



Kuropean, Afiatic, African, American, &c. 



c\IC. 



But without attending to thefc divifions, 

 which are founded iHs in the nature of the ob- 

 that relate to hiftory, than in the imagina- 

 tions of thole who profefs it, and which, far from 

 ; elating this fciencc, lerve only to perplex it, 

 vcrloading the memory, we mall content 

 thus merely enumerating the 



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