INTRODUCTION

TO THE

LITERATURE OF EUROPE,

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH

CENTURIES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, F. R. A. S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACADEMY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL
SCIENCES IN THE FRENCH INSTITUTE.

De modo autem hujusmodi historia conscribendæ, illud imprimis monemus, ut
materia et copia ejus, non tantum ab historiis et criticis petatur, verum etiam
per singulas annorum centurias, aut etiam minora intervalla, seriatim libri præcipui,
qui eo temporis spatio conscripti sunt, in consilium adhibeantur; ut ex eorum non
perlectione (id enim infinitum quiddam esset), sed degustatione, et observatione
argumenti, styli, methodi, genius illius temporis literarius, veluti incantatione
quadam, a mortuis evocetur.-BACON de Augm. Scient.

Fourth Edition.

IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1854.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY HRRARY MAY 25 1961

CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

PART II. continued.

CHAPTER III.

HISTORY OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY, FROM 1550 TO 1600.

HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND OF JURISPRUDENCE,

33

33

34