Letters on the study and use of history
By: By the late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 11835.
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar
Published: 1752
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 481
Subjects: History -- Study and teaching; Europe -- History -- 1648-1715
Other titles: Study and use of history
Notes: Vol. 1, p. 23 misnumbered "25"; vol. 2, p. 286 misnumbered "68."

Half-title: Letters on the study and use of history. To which are added, two other letters, and reflections upon exile.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11835)

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Table of contents: title: v. 1. Letter I. Of the study of history.  Letter II. Concerning the true use and advantages of it.  Letter III. 1. An objection against the utility of history removed. 2. The false and true aims of those who study it. 3. Of the history of the first ages, with reflections on the state of ancient history prophane and sacred.  Letter IV. 1. That there is in history sufficient authenticity to render it useful, nothwithstanding all objections to the contrary. 2. Of the method and due restrictions to be observed in the study of it.  Letter V. 1. The great use of history, properly so called, as distinguished from the writings of mere annalists and antiquaries. 2. Greek and Roman historians.; title: 3. Some idea of a complete history. 4. Further cautions to be observed in this study, and the regulation of it according to the different professions, and situations of men: above all, the use to be made of it (i) by divines, and (ii) by those who are called to the service of their country.  Letter VI. from what period modern history is peculiarly useful to the service of our country, viz, from the end of the fifteenth century to the present. The division of this into three particular periods: in order to a sketch of the history and state of Europe from that time.  Letter VII. A sketch of the state and history of Europe from the Pyrenean treaty in one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine, to the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight. - v. 2.  Letter VIII. The same subject continued from the year one thousand six hundred eighty-eight. Appended letters: I. A plan for a general history of Europe. II. Of the true use of retirement and study: to the Right Honorable Lord Bathurst. III. Reflections upon exile.