Volume 1

The origin of laws, arts, and sciences, and their progress among the most ancient nations / Translated from the French, vol. III by R. or A. Spearman. Of the President de Gouguet ... Adorned with cuts.

  • Goguet, Antoine-Yves, 1716-1758.
Date:
1761
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    ADVERTISEMENT t . • ' > By the TRANSLATOR. nn HE Prehdent de Goguet has been fo full in -£ 1 preface, as to eider any further account ot his work unrtecef try'dn the part of the tranflator. But as the ai thor has fpoken with great freedom both of ancient and modern writers, it may be pro- per to obferve, that, in general, we think his cri- ticifm juft and new, and his objections unanswerable, with exception only td what he fay., of our learned countryman Dr Pococke. ' ■ 1 * 3 r,■ o, We hope to be eafily exdufed this reflection in favour of that truly refpectable writer, to whom thd learned world is fo* much obliged for his elaborate refearches into the remains of antiquity, and for the immenfe pains he has taken to illuftrate them; We refer the reader to The defcription of the Eajf publifhed in 1743. There he will fee how much the President himfelf has been obliged to a work, which, we are forry to fay, he has treated very un- handfomely. We think the account of the ancient architecture of the Egyptians in the firft volume perfpicuous and fatisfa£tory, and the difcovery of their ignorance of vaults and arches due only to that work. (See the Origin of laws, vo]. 3. p. 74.) Vol. L ç In