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BRIEF RETROSPECT 



OF THE 



EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



PART THE FIRST -, 



IN THREE 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 

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

 SOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF 

 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 



VOL. n. 



Printed at New York. 

 LONDON: 



BEPRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON^ ST. PAUL's CHURCHYARD, 



By T. Dauson, Whitefnars. 

 1805. 



