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LIVES

AND

CHARACTERS

OF THE

GREEK AND ROMAN

CLASSICS.

A NEW EDITIΟΝ,

Corrected and Enlarged, with fome

ADDITIONAL LIVES;

AND

A LIST of the BEST EDITIONS of each Author.

By EDWARD HARWOOD, D. D.

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for T. ВЕСКЕТ, and T. EVANS,
in the STRAND.

M DCC LXXVIII.

;

4-28-4.

Bates
Webster
3-20-42
44671

BY THE

EDITOR...

THE Reflection imparts

to me

fingular Satisfaction, that I have expended those Hours, which I have been able to redeem from my daily Occupation, on correcting. and enlarging a Work, which will eminently contribute to the Amusement and Improvement of young Persons. Teaching the Greek and Roman Classics has constituted the principal Employment and the principal Felicity of my Life, and I. look through a Series of Twenty Years with exalted Pleasure and Gratitude, in which I have done some Service to my Country, in inftructing Youth in the best Species of Erudition, teaching them to understand and relish the immortal Productions of Greece and Rome, and by these Standards of literary Excellence, forming them to Purity of Diction, Elegance of Taste, and Solidity of Judgment. This is the fole Department in which, as an INSTRUCTOR, I have done good, or in

deed can confcientiously serve Mankind. My

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