Directions for a Proper Choice of Authors to Form a Library: Which May Both Improve and Entertain the Mind, and Be of Real Use in the Conduct of Life

From THE PREFACE. THE short essay here offered to the Reader's Perusal, is intended by the Author, to be a Help, to him in the Choice of Books, which are worthy of his Notice in the several Subjects they treat of. Something of this Sort seems to have been long wanted, and the prodigious increase of Books, within these last fifty Years, makes it more necessary to distinguish those Writers, who have with Success, by their Merit, obtained a valuable Character, from those, who have merely by Ne...