Translations:Victor of Aveyron/127/en

It will be immediately conferred by every competent judge, that BosTuet it too Short and unsatisfactory; that Voltaire is too gay, unelaborate, and desultory; and that the English Universal History is rather to be consulted like a Dictionary than to be perused as an Analysis of the Science to which it relates. What these writers have not done, the author of the present work is anxious to do. He is felicitous to avoid the extremes of prolixity and brevity: to be distinct, pleating, and comprehensive; he hopes, therefore, to render this work a most desirable acquisition to Young Pcrfons, to Public Schools, to Ladies, to Circulating Libraries, to all private Collodions, and, in general, to all Persons to whom the Universal History, in sixty-ûx volumes, is either too voluminous or too expensive.