Funes Ensayo de la Historia de Paraguay, Buenos Ayres y TuBuenos Ayres, 1816. 2 vols. 8vo. cuman. The original Spanish authors are these: Fernandez, Historia del Peru. Seville, 1751. 2 vols. folio. Garcilasso de la Vega, Commentarios. Lisbon, 1709. 2 vols. folio. In Italian, Molina has given a history of Chili. As to Portuguese America, there are Rocha, Historia da America Portugueza; Cordeyro, Historia Insulana das Ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no Oceano Occidental; and Southey's History of Brazil. : CHAPTER LXXII. MODERN HISTORY. European Colonies. Argensola Histoire de la Conquête des Isles Molusques, par les Espagnols, par les Portugais, et par les Hollandais. Traduit de l'Espagnol. Amsterdam, 1706. 3 vols. 12mo. Heeren, A. H. L.: History of the Political System of Europe and its Colonies, from the Discovery of America to the Independence of the United States. Northampton, Mass., 1829. 2 vols. 8vo. - Manual Historique du Systeme Politique de l'Europe et de ses Colonies, depuis la Découverte des deux Indes. Traduit de l'Allmand et Revu par le Baron de Reiffenberg. Bruxelles, 1834. 3 tomes. 12mo. Martyn, Montgomery: History of the British Colonies. London, 1835. 4 vols. 8vo. It has a fifth volume. Raynal: Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Indes. Hague, 1774. 7 vols. 8vo. : Philosophical and Political History of the Settlement and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated. Edinburgh, 1804. 6 vols. 12mo. This book was, in some sort, the common production of the sect of philosophers of which Voltaire and Diderot were the chiefs. Breathing their opinions in religion and politics, and written with animation and even eloquence, it obtained a success to which its present reputation does not answer, but much of which it deserved. Diderot is said to have written fully a third of it; and Holbach, Pechmeja, Paulze, Dutasta, Deleyre, the Abbé Martin, Counts Aranda and De Souza, with many others, to have been concerned in it. It is often irreligious, and sometimes impure. Adam, Robert: The Religious World Displayed; or, a View of the Four Grand Systems of Religion: Judaism, Paganism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism, and of the various existing Denominations, Sects, and Parties in the Christian World; to which is subjoined, Deism and Atheism. Philadelphia, 1818. 3 vols. 8vo. Allen, Benjamin: History of the Church of Christ. Philadelphia, 2 vols. 8vo. 1833. Alden, Timothy: An Account of Sundry Missions performed among the Senecas and Munsees; with an Appendix.. NewYork, 1827. 12mo. Annual Reports of the American Bible Society, from 1817 to 1821. 8vo. --: Of the British and Foreign Bible Society, from 1805 to 1819. 5 vols. 8vo. Barruel, Abbé: History of the French Clergy during the French Revolution. Dublin, 1795. 12mo. : Bower, Archibald History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time. London, 1749. 4 vols. 4to. To complete this, three volumes more are necessary. This is the book, of which the apostate fury against popery drew even some Protestant divines to its vindication. The first of these was Douglas, bishop of Salisbury, who, in 1756, published, in a pamphlet, the detection of many of B.'s falsifications of history. It was this which gave occasion to Goldsmith to say, in his "Retaliation" (Douglas being a Scot), that he, "the scourge of imposters, the terror of quacks," being dead, "New Lauders and Bowers the Tweed shall cross over, The Rev. Henry Temple also fell upon him, in 1758, with a pamphlet full of exposures. The Catholic historian, Alban Butler, answered him, also, in Letters on the History of the Popes. He, on his part, defended himself with more skill than a cause so ill should have possessed; but, while the literary war was at its height, Douglas suddenly brought to light proofs that Bower had reapostatized had secretly reunited himself with the Jesuits, whom he had before deserted and betrayed. He appears finally to have died a Protestant, after thrice apostatizing between the two faiths. His book, in spite of the just reproach it bears, is regarded by Horace Walpole as marked with talent and learning. But what are these worth when you cannot trust them? Brook, Benjamin: The History of Religious Liberty, from the First Propagation of Christianity in Britain to the Death of George III., including its Successive States, and Beneficial Influence, and Powerful Interruptions. London, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. L Milton's Areopagitica, 1644, may be said to be the first great enunciation of the principles of toleration. Jeremy Taylor's discourse on the Liberty of Prophecying (1647) has, because directed more immediately towards the matter of religious freedom, been usually celebrated as the foundation of the doctrine. In these two, Locke found ample materials for the argument of his Letters on Toleration. Brown, Thomas: An Account of the People called Shakers; to which is affixed, a History of their Rise and Progress to the Present Day. Troy, 1812. 12mo. Brown, William: History of the Propagation of Christianity among the Heathen since the Reformation. New-York, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. Browning, W. S.: History of the Huguenots during the 16th Century. London, 1829. 2 vols. 8vo. Brownlee, Rev. W. C.: See Reid (Miss R. C.), infra. Buchanan, Claudius: Works, comprising his Researches in Asia, &c. New-York, 1812. 12mo. : Sermons on Missionary Subjects. New-York, 1812. 12mo. Buck, Charles: Religious Anecdotes. New-York, 1831. 8vo. Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury: History of the Reformation of the Church of England. Dublin, 1730. S vols. folio. Parliament paid this book, on the appearance of the 1st part (1679), the singular honour of voting its thanks to the author, and requesting him to complete it. History of the Reformation, abridged by the Rev. Benjamin Allen; to which is added, Sketches of the Lives of Luther, Calvin, and Zuingle, the three celebrated Reformers of the Continent. Washington City, 1820. 12mo. The bishop himself and his son Gilbert having made an abridgment of his book (1682, 8vo, frequently reprinted), there was no sort of occasion for Mr. Allen's. Chateaubriand, the Viscount: The Martyrs; or, the Triumph of the Christian Religion. From the French. New-York, 1812. 3 vols. 12mo. Clarkson, Thomas: Researches, Antediluvian, Patriarchal, and Historical. London, 1836. 8vo. : Cobbett, William History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland. New-York, 1832. 12mo. D'Israeli, I.: Genius of Judaism. London, 1833. 12mo. Eusebius, Pamphilus: The Ancient Ecclesiastical History of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ; from the Greek. London, 1577. folio. The first edition (but not the best) of this esteemed translation. The folio reprint, London, 1709, is preferred. The version is from the excellent Greek edition of Valesius. It contains the continuations of Socrates and Evagrius, and Dorotheus's Lives of the Prophets, Apostles, and Seventy Disciples. The translator is Meredith Hanmer, Master of Arts. Fox, or Foxe, John: Universal History of Christian Martyrdom: being a complete and Authentic Account of the Lives, Suffer ings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive as well as Protestant Martyrs in all Parts of the World, from the Birth of our Saviour to the latest Period of Popish Persecution; a New Edition, with Additions. London, 1824. 8vo. It is to be remarked that this, and even more voluminous editions of what is current as Fox's work, are only extracts and abridgments of his proper book. Of it, the tenth edition (London, 1684. 3 vols. folio) is the last complete one. Fox was Prebendary of Salisbury: born 1517; died 1587. : Gleig History of the Bible. (Harpers' Family Library.) NewYork, 1830. 2 vols. 18mo. Hawkes, Francis L.: Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America. New-York, 1836. 8vo. It relates chiefly to the earlier church in Virginia. Howitt, William: History of Priestcraft in all Ages and Nations. New-York, 1835. 12mo. Inquisition, History of the; including the Secret Transactions of those horrid Tribunals. Plates. London, 1810. 4to. This anonymous affair is probably taken from Lavallée's Histoire des Inquisitions," published at Paris the year before. 2 vols. 8vo. The book of Limborch (translated by Chandler, London, 1731, 2 vols. 4to) is the best account in English. Llorente's "Historia Critica de la Inquisicion" is also much esteemed. It has been translated from the Spanish into French by Pellier. Paris, 18174 vols. 8vo. Goujet, Marsolier, Montanus, and others have given histories likewise. Dupin's and Moshiem's ecclesiastical histories afford many particulars. 18. Horner, Rev. J. M.: Popery Stripped, &c. See Reid, Miss T. A., infra. Lardner, N.: The Credibility of the Gospel History; or, the Principal Facts of the New Testament Confirmed by Passages from Ancient Authors, who were Contemporary with Christ; with a Supplement, embracing Histories of the Apostles, &c. London, 1748. 16 vols. 8vo. Manners and Customs of the Jews, and other Nations mentioned in the Bible. With Plates. Hartford, 1833. 12mo. Mason, Henry M.: Compend of Ecclesiastical History. NewYork, 1828. 12mo. : Mills, Charles History of the Crusades for the Recovery of the Holy Land. Philadelphia, 1826. 8vo. His History of Chivalry forms a fellow book. Both are very slight performances, only popular from the want of other books in English. James has written a History of Chivalry and the Crusades, which see in History of Orders. And Vertot's History of the Knights of Malta has been translated. London, 17-. 5 vols. 12mo. The best book on the subject is that of Michaud; Histoire des Croisades. Paris, 1819. 7 vols. 8vo. It includes an account of all the historians of these wars. Heeren has written upon the question of their influence on the subsequent civilization of Europe (in French, Paris, 1808, 8vo), which is also discussed by Robertson in the introductory part of his history of Charles V. See Sismondi below. The collection entitled Gesta Dei per Francos (by Bongarsius), Hanover, 1611, 2 vols. folio, is important. The latter volumes of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and Sismondi's Overthrow of the Roman Empire, are also useful in this matter. Of the crusades against the Albigenses, some account is found in Vertot's Knights of Malta; and of the persecution against the Waldenses, and a notice of that people, in Gilly's Researches among the Vau dois (or Waldenses), London, 1825, 8vo. Also, a good notice in the Quarterly Review, vol. XXXIII., P. 134. : Milner, Joseph History of the Church of Christ. Boston, 1809. 5 vols. 8vo. The same; abridged by the Rev. Jesse Town send. Utica, 1816. 8vo. Missionary Magazine; or, Evangelical Intelligencer. Philadelphia, 1806, 7. 2 vols. 8vo. Missionary Herald; containing the Proceedings at Large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with a General View of other Benevolent Operations. Boston, 1822-34. 13 vols. 8vo. Missionary Register (American); embracing the Principal Transactions of the Various Institutions for the Promulgation of Christian Knowledge, with the Proceedings at Large of the United Foreign Missionary Society; edited by Z. Lewis. New-York, 1821-24. 4 vols. 8vo. Mosheim, John Laurence: Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Present Century; in which the Rise, and Progress, and Variations of Church Power are considered in their Connexion with the state of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe during that Period. New-York, 1824. vols. 8vo. 4 Without having examined this, I take it for granted that it is Maclaine's translation, with Cootes's continuation, from 1700 to 1800. Of the history itself, Bishop Warburton says, "Mosheim's compendium is excellent; the method admirable; in short, it is the only one deserving of the name of an ecclesiastical history." Such is the general judgment upon it. Warburton speaks of it as a compendium, in reference to the great collections of Baronius (Rome, 1588 to 1728. 31 vols. folio), of Natalis Alexander (Paris, 1699. 8 vols. folio), of Lenain de Tillemont (Paris, 1693. 16 vols. 4to), of Fleury and Fabre (Paris, 1691. 37 vols. 4to). Mosheim gave two volumes under a different title, important as a supplement to his work. They have been translated by Vidal, under title of "Commentaries on the affairs of the Christians before the time of Constantine." London, 1813. 2 vols. 8vo. Mysteries of Popery Unveiled, in the Unparalleled Sufferings of John Coustos, at the Inquisition of Lisbon; to which are added, the Origin of the Inquisition, and its Establishment in various Countries, and the Master Key to Popery, by Anthon Gavin, one of the Catholic Priests of Saragossa; the whole concluded with a Chronological Sketch of the Lives of the Popes. Hartford, 1820. 12mo. Neal, Daniel History of the Puritans, abridged by Edward Parsons. London, 1811. 2 vols. 8vo. The original, of course, is preferable; the best edition of which is that of Toulman. Bath, 1793-7. 5 vols. 8vo. Yet it has often been stigmatized as full of the grossest falsehoods. Such is Warburton's sentence on it; and the Quarterly Review calls it "the most dishonest book in our language-Dodd's Roman Catholic Church History not excepted." Yet Neal was only guilty of taking very sectarian views. Maddox, bishop of St. Asaph, and Dr. Zachary Grey answered him. He has been continued by Benjamin Brook, |
