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neral History^ in two volumes. This work has since pass- 

 ed through four editions, and has been found so useful by 

 those engaged either in the business of private or public edu- 

 cation, as affording a concise and luminous arrangement of 

 historical events, that it is now used as a text-book in some 

 of the principal seminaries of education in England, and has 

 become (as I understand) the ground-work of historical study 

 in some of the Universities of America. — Of the lectures them- 

 selves, while they remain unpublished, it would be preposter- 

 ous to offer any opinion : yet, when they are given to the 

 world, I shall be much deceived, if they are not found to fill 

 up an important desideratum in English literature, — to afford 

 to the minds of the young more pleasing and more enlighten- 

 ed views of the history of Man, and the progress of the Hu- 

 man Race, than any other similar work in our language pre- 

 sents them, and to accomplish the generous ambition of their 

 author, in rendering the study of history subservient to the great 

 end of all education, that of forming good men and good citi- 

 zens. 



The labours in which Mr Tytler was thus employed, were 

 sufficient to occupy, but not to engross, his attention. He con- 

 tinued assiduously his practice at the Bar ; and he followed, 

 with the interest of a man of letters, the progress of Science 

 and Philosophy around him. The reputation which his taste 

 and talents had now acquired, created many appeals to him for 

 literary advice or assistance, and to him every labour was wel- 

 come, in which he could serve the cause either of literature or 

 of friendship. 



In 1778, when Dr Gregory was publishing an edition of the 

 Works of his Father, Dr John Gregory, he solicited Mr Tyt- 

 ler to prefix to it a short account of his life and writings. 

 It was a task which Mr Tytler willingly undertook, from his 



early 



