Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Classic Reprint) Book

THE E L o G E o F XvI. D E M 0 N T E S QUI E U. Tranflated from the FRENCH of , 11. D E M A U PER T U I S. From the MONTHLY REVIEW. era the AUTHORS of the MONTHLY REVIEW. G E NT L EM E N, SIN C E you were pleafed to give a place to my lirfi letter, in your Supplement to the Reviews of the paft year, I am encou .. raged to proceed in my abfiaas of (uch foreign books as may deferve the attention of your readers. I have lately met with nothing more reinarkable than a [mall Pamphlet, bearing this title-Eloge de MonJieur de MONTESQUIEU, par M. de MAUPERTUIS. Hambourg; 12 mo. It has ahvays been the laudibleclll10LD of A2Table of Contents CONTENTS; CHAP; 1 I THE inftmcy of Rome 2 The wars; it fuflained Page 25; II Of the ftience of war as praahiifhment of the BarbarianJ accounted; for Reafons why the lVeflern; empire was overturned before that ilz; Eafl 18 7; XX I The COllquefls of Juflinian 2Read More