THE

HISTORY

OF THE

WORKS of the LEARNED,

FOR THE

Year One Thousand Seven Hundred

and Thirty-nine.

CONTAINING

IMPARTIAL Accounts and ACCURATE

ABSTRACTS of the most valuable
Books published in Great-Britain
and Foreign Parts.

INTERSPERS'D WITH

DissERTATIONS on several curious and enter-

taining Subjects, Critical Reflections, and
Memoirs of the most eminent Writers in
all Branches of polite Literature.

VOL. I.

L O N D ON:
Printed for JACOB ROBINSON, under the Inner-

Temple Gate in Fleet-Street. MDCCXXXIX,

Cat 12-2962 PB10

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THE

H I STORY

OF THE

WORKS of the LEARNED.

For JANUARY, 1739.

ARTICLE I. To the Author of the History of the Works of

the Learned. A Vindication of the Jews and their Religion, from the Calumnies of the Egyptian, the Greek, and the Roman Writers.

Cupientes lædere dente Offendunt solido.

HORAT. Τετο τους πολλοίς ετέροις συκβέβηκεν δια την ταν ένίων

δυσμενεί αν διμαι γινώσκειν τις πλέον τους Ισορίαις εντυγχάνοντας. .

Jofeph. contra Appionem,

By CHARLES LAMOTTE, D.D.

HERE is not perhaps a greater In

stance in antient or modern History of Τ.

religious Aversion, national Hatred,

Spite and Malice, and at the fame Time of

great Falshoods, Blunders, and Mistakes, than what may be observed in the Accounts which the

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Heathen