Elements of General Knowledge, Vol. 1 of 2: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science, with Lists of the Most A Paperback -

There are a few topics indeed, with refpet to which I think I may be allowed to afl'ert fome claims to novelty. For many of my remarks on the Greek Language I am indebted principally to my own Obfervations upon its nature and compas rative merits; the Hiflory of Chivalry, important as the influence of that remarkable inflitution has been upon manners, is a fubjet upon which I have not been able to colleft much information from Englifh Authors; and the Hfiory ofthe Revival of Claflz'cal Learning, although a topic of the ftrongeft interefi to every man of letters, has never been fully treated by any writer, with whofe works I am ac, quainted.

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