SIVE RISUS ESSENT MOVENDI, SIVE LACRYMÆ, AFFECTUUM POTENS, AT LENIS DOMINATOR. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED, FOR THE PROPRIETORS, BY W. & R. CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH; W. ORR, LONDON; AND W. CURRY, JUN. & CO. DUBLIN. MDCCCXXXIII. AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE 1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning, 2. A View of the Obscure Ages, 3. On the present state of Polite Learning in Italy, 4. Of Polite Learning in Germany, 5. Of Polite Learning in Holland, and some other countries of 7. Of Learning in Great Britain, 8. Of rewarding Genius in England, 9. Of the marks of Literary Decay in France and England, 56 |