432 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION.^ 



are entirely loft : what they now produce 

 as their works, are fpurious pieces, and fabri- 

 cated very lately. It follows therefore, that all 

 our ancient Erudition can begin only with the 

 Greek authors. Thofe books which lead us to 

 a knowledge of the Greek writers, as well as the 

 Latin, and thofe of modern authors of all na- 

 tions, relative to the arts, the fciences, and 

 doctrines, are therefore the only guides, the 

 only means we can propofe to thofe who are 

 defirous of applying themfelves to this part of 

 erudition. The red they muft learn by their 

 daily (Indies; and the only advice we can here 

 give them, is not to be prejudiced' in favour of 

 any author, ancient or modern ; but to read 

 them with circumfpedion, and endeavour to 

 diftinguim, in the writers of every age, the falfe 

 Hone from the true brilliant. 



VI. Among an innumerable number of works 

 that lead to the knowledge of books and their 

 authors, we (hall cite only, i. Diogenes Laertius, 

 and Eunapius de vitis philofophorum ; 2. Ge- 

 rard Jo. Voffius, de hiftoricis , item de poetis 

 Grsecis atque Latinis ; 3. Martinus Hanikius, 

 de fcriptoribus rerum Romanarum & Byzanti- 

 narum , 4. Bluntii cenfura auctorum ; 5. Jo- 

 hannis Alberti Fabricii bibliotheca Grseca; 6. 

 cjufd. Bibliotheca Latina , 7. ejufd. Bibliogra- 

 phia Antiquaria-, 8. Wolffii bibl. H^ebraica ; 9. 

 the bibliotheque hiftorique of M. le Long ; 10. 

 the bibliotheque poetiquc of abbe Goujet. In 



a word, 



