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OF
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M.B.
WITH
A LIFE AND NOTES.
SIVE RISUS ESSENT MOVENDI, SIVE LACRYME AFFECTUM POTENS,
AT LENIS DOMINATOR.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.
LONDON:
THOMAS TEGG & SON, CHEAPSIDE; R. GRIFFIN & CO.
GLASGOW; TEGG, WISE & CO. DUBLIN.
1835.
ENGLISH OXFORD
LIBRARY
EDINBURGH:
Printed by ANDREW SHORTREDE, Thistle Lane. CONTENTS.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE
LEARNING.
CHAPTER
PAGE
INTRODUCTION,
3
1. The Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning,
4
2. A View of the Obscure Ages,
11
3. On the present state of Polite Learning in Italy,
14
4. Of Polite Learning in Germany,
16
5. Of Polite Learning in Holland, and some other countries of
9. Of the marks of Literary Decay in France and England,
38