TO THE

LITERATURE OF EUROPE,

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH

CENTURIES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

De modo autem hujusmodi historise conscribendæ, illud imprimis monemus, ut
materia et copia ejus, non tantum ab historiis et criticis petatur, verum etiam per
singulas annorum centurias, aut etiam minora intervalla, seriatim libri præcipui, qui
eo temporis spatio conscripti sunt, in consilium adhibeantur; ut ex eorum non per-
lectione (id enim infinitum quiddam esset), sed degustatione, et observatione argu-
menti, styli, methodi, genius illius temporis literarius, veluti incantatione quadam, a
mortuis evocetur.-BACON de Augm. Scient.

FIFTH EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. IV.

WIEN

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1855.
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594803-B.

The right of Translation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,

AND CHARINg cross.

CONTENTS

.OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

PART IV.

ON THE LITERATURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY.

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE IN EUROPE, FROM 1650 TO 1700.

2 Bentley

9

His Epistle to Mill

9

10

11

Latin Grammars.

Perizonius

4

Gronovius

12

Delphin Editions.

Fabretti

13

23

Le Fevre and the Daciers

Henry Valois. Complaints of

Decay of Learning

English Learning. Duport

Greek not much studied

15

Gataker's Cinnus and Antoninus 8

CHAPTER II.

HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE, FROM 1650 TO 1700.