ON HISTORY, AND GENERAL POLICY; TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ESSAY ON A COURSE OF LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AN ADDITIONAL LECTURE ON THE CONSTITUTION THE WHOLE CORRECTED, IMPROVED, AND ENLARGED: WITH A CHART OF HISTORY AND A CHART OF BIOGRAPHY. BY JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. F. R. S. AC IMP. PETROP. R. PARIS. HOLM. TAURIN, AUREL. MED. PARIS. Juvat exhauftos iterare labores, Et sulcata meis percurrere litora remis. BUCHANANI FRANCISCANUS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Philadelphia: PRINTED FOR P. BYRNE, No. 72, CHESNUT-STREET. 1803. [Copp-right Secured.] CONTENTS. PART V. Or the most important Objects of Attention to a Reader of History LECTURE XXXIII. Page. I Different Objects to different Persons, &c. ibid. LECTURE XXXIV. General Observations on political Measures. Periods of History more particularly worthy of Attention LECTURE XXXV. The Rise and Declension of the Roman Empire. The Time when the History of several European Countries begins to be interesting to the rest of Europe LECTURE XXXVI. The most remarkable Periods in the English and Scots History. The most interesting Periods in the History of Literature and the Arts. A 2 13 19 27 LECTURE |