THE MODERN PART OF AN Univerfal History, FROM THE Earliest AccOUNT of TIME. Compiled from ORIGINAL WRITERS. By the AUTHORS of the ANTIENT PART. IN RECTO DE CVS LONDON: Printed for T. OSBORNE, A. MILLAR, JOHN PREFA CE. A FTER a long delay, occafioned by a variety of accidents which could not be foreseen, the Modern Univerfal Hiftory now makes its appearance; and the Editors hope it will be found entitled to some degree of public approbation. They are perhaps more fenfible than the readers can be of its defects, but they plead in alleviation, that the greater part of those defects are fuch as could not be remedied; nor was it even practicable to finish the work according to the letter of the plan on which it was undertaken. We will venture however to affirm, that this Modern Univerfal Hiftory, with all its imperfections on its head, is by far the compleatest work of the kind that ever was offered to the public in any nation or language. An author who fits down with a plenitude of materials for relating paft events, is apt to applaud himself upon his arrangements, and the lights which he is enabled to throw upon particular periods. He is encouraged to hope that he fhall find the fame magazines, and the fame variety of provifions at every stage of his hiftorical progrefs.-How miferably he is deceived, our experience can teftify. Nothing is A 2 more |