Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Text in Old English characters is denoted as text.
The [bracketed] footnotes are as in the original.
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged.
ς (final form sigma) in the middle of a word has been normalized to σ. Greek diacritics were normalized to be all present or all missing, according to their preponderance in the quotation.
The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were identified but left as printed:
- Vanderkemp and Vander Kemp
- Mellish and Melish
- Rochefaucault, Rochefoucauld, Rochfaucauld
- Machiavilian and Machiavelian
- De Tutt, Destutt, Dustutt Tracy
- ascendancy and ascendency.
M. DE LOMERIE omitted from the table of contents.
[Page 76]: "orders of council have been repeated" should possibly be "orders of council have been repealed"