The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

CURIOUS THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF MAN. Tr. 1789.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. Tr. 1759.

[1] PERSIAN LETTERS. (LETTRES PERSANES 1721.) Tr. by J. Ozell, 1730.

REFLECTIONS ON THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (Causes de la Grandeau des Romains et de leur Decadence 1734.) Tr. 1751.

SPIRIT OF LAWS. (De l'Esprit des Lois, 1748). Tr. by Mrs. Nugent, 1752.

THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS: a poem. Tr. by John Sayer, 1765.

WORKS. Translated, 1777.

[1] 'A criticism of the social and religious conditions of contemporary France. The book is an expression of freethought, and the reaction against monarchical and ecclesiastical despotism expressed later in the "Esprit des Lois"'.

MONTI, VINCENZO. b. 1754, d. 1828. Italian poet.