BRIEF RETROSPECT 



OF THE 



EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 



IN THREE VOLUMES : i ^ 



CONTAINING ^>^„^i^iCAL ^^ll^^ 



A SKETCH 



OF THE REVOLUTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN 



SCIENCE, ARTS, AND LITERATURE, 



DURING THAT PERIOD. 



7^ 



BY SAMUEL MILLER, A.M. 



ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IJ* 

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

 SOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER 01- 

 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



VOL. I. 



Printed at New York. 



LONDON: 

 HEPRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PALL's CHURCHYAJtE. 



1805. 



By S. Hamilton, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, 



