A 



BRIEF RETROSPECT 



OF THE 



EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



PART FIRST; 

 IN TWO VOLUMES: 



CONTAINING 



A SKETCH OF THE 

 REVOLUTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN 



SCIENCE, ARTS, AND LITERATURE, 



DURING THAT PERIOD. 



BY SAMUEL MILLER, A. M. 



ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES 



IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING 



MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



VOL. II. 



PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS. 



NEW-YORK: 



PRINTED BY T. AND J. SWORDS, 

 NO. 160 PEARL-STREET. 



1803. 



