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THE

HISTORY

OF THЕ

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.

LONDON:

Printed for JACOB ROBINSON, under the Inner-
• Temple Gate in Fleet-Street. MDCCXXXIX,

THE

HISTORY

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 folido.

HORAT.

Τέτο τοῖς πολλοῖς ἑτέροις συκβέβηκεν δια τὴν τῶν ἐνίων δυσμενείαν διμαι γινώσκειν τὲς πλέον ταῖς Ἱσορίαις ἐντυγχάνοντας. Jofeph. contra Appionem.

By CHARLES LAMOTTF, D.D..

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HERE is not perhaps a greater Instance in antient or modern Hiftory of religious Averfion, national Hatred,

Spite and Malice, and at the fame Time of great Falfhoods, Blunders, and Mistakes, than what may be observed in the Accounts which the Heathen

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