428 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



Bibliotheca Graeca, in fourteen quarto volumes, 

 which contains an account of fuch Greek authors 

 only as have come down to us, and the Biblio- 

 theca Latina of the fame author, will be eafily 

 convinced on the one hand, that a knowledge of 

 authors (Notitia Au&orum) is indifpenlable to a 

 man of letters; and on the other, that the ftudy 

 of this part of erudition is lo extenfive, that a 

 work like this cannot pretend to give any detail 

 of it. 



II. We mall endeavour, however, to explain 

 fome of its firfl principles. The knowledge of 

 authors and their works, forms, as we have 

 faki, a part of literary hiflory. It is divided into 

 univcrfal and particular, facred and profane, &c. 

 It diflinguifhes books and authors, 



1. nto thole of the ancient, the middle, and 

 modern ages ; with regard to the time in which 

 the former have been wrote, and the latter have 

 lived. 



2. Into theoiogic, juridical, medicinal, philo- 

 fophic, thofe of literature, philology, &c. accord- 

 ing to the matter which each author has treated. 



3. Into Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, 

 Greek, Latin, German, French, and every other 

 language, ancient or modern, in which any au- 

 thor has wrote. 



4. Into profaic or poetic, according to the na- 

 ture and fpecies of expreflion. 



5. Into Pagan, Jewifh, Mahometan, Chriftian, 

 &c. according to the religion of each author, and 

 the objects he has embraced. 



6. Into 



