[4] The essay is handily available in W. J. Bate's anthology, Criticism: The Major Texts (New York, 1952), pp. 292-295.
DISSERTATIONS,
Essays,
AND
PARALLELS.
BY
JOHN ROBERT SCOTT, D. D.
LONDON:
Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court,
AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON, 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD;
AND MESS. C. & R. BALDWIN, NEW BRIDGE STREET,
BLACKFRIARS.
1804.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| A Dissertation on the Influence of Religion on Civil Society | 1 |
| A Dissertation on the Expulsion of the Moors from Spain, and the Protestants from France and the Low Countries | 33 |
| A Dissertation on the first Peopling of America | 75 |
| A Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts | 125 |
| A Dissertation on National Population | 181 |
| An Essay on Writing History | 219 |
| An Essay on the Question, Was Eloquence beneficial to Athens? | 245 |
| An Essay on the Influence of Taste on Morals | 269 |
| Comparison between William III, of England and Henry IV, of France | 303 |
| Comparison of Cardinal Ximenes and Cardinal Richelieu | 323 |
| Comparison between Augustus Cæsar and Lewis XIV | 343 |
| Comparison of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham | 361 |