"LIST OF HISTORICAL WRITERS WHOSE WORKS I HAVE PERUSED IN
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES."
_"History of England._--Hume, Rapin, Henry, Smollet, Tindal,
Belsham, Bisset, Adolphus, Holinshed, Froissart's Chronicles
(belonging properly to France).
_"Scotland._--Buchanan, Hector Boethius, both in the Latin.
_"Ireland._--Gordon.
_"Rome._--Hooke, Decline and Fall by Gibbon, Ancient History
by Rollin (including an account of the Carthaginians, &c.),
besides Livy, Tacitus, Eutropius, Cornelius Nepos, Julius
Caesar, Arrian. Sallust.
"_Greece._--Mitford's Greece, Leland's Philip, Plutarch,
Potter's Antiquities, Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus.
"_France._--Mezeray, Voltaire.
"_Spain._--I chiefly derived my knowledge of old Spanish
History from a book called the Atlas, now obsolete. The
modern history, from the intrigues of Alberoni down to the
Prince of Peace, I learned from its connection with European
politics.
"_Portugal._--From Vertot; as also his account of the Siege
of Rhodes,--though the last is his own invention, the real
facts being totally different.--So much for his Knights of
Malta.
"_Turkey._--I have read Knolles, Sir Paul Rycaut, and Prince
Cantemir, besides a more modern history, anonymous. Of the
Ottoman History I know every event, from Tangralopi, and
afterwards Othman I.
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