General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . the Em-peror Jovian, and a translation of some worksof the emperor Julian, Paris, 1748, 2 This production is not less valuablethan the preceding, though the comparativeobscurity of Jovian renders his history less in-teresting than that of Julian. Gibbon, whofrequently quotes both with applause, says ofthe history of Jovian, that it is a work re-markably distinguished by elegance of style,critical disquisiti
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . the Em-peror Jovian, and a translation of some worksof the emperor Julian, Paris, 1748, 2 This production is not less valuablethan the preceding, though the comparativeobscurity of Jovian renders his history less in-teresting than that of Julian. Gibbon, whofrequently quotes both with applause, says ofthe history of Jovian, that it is a work re-markably distinguished by elegance of style,critical disquisition, and religious prejudice ;(Decl. and Fall, chap. xxiv. note.) The Abbede la Bletterie also published a translation ofthe Life of Agricola, and the Manners ofthe Germans of Tacitus (his favourite author),and a life of that historian, in 1755; and a tran-slation of the first six books of the Annals,in 1768. This last has been much censured forthe style, which has been supposed to be infect-ed with the vulgarity of religious the abbe appears to have been a convert tothe doctrines of the quietist Quesnel; and hepublished a pamphlet in defence of the famous.
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