A critical and philosophical enquiry into the causes of prodigies and miracles, as related by historians . With an essay towards restoring a method and purity in history. In Which, The Characters of the most celebrated Writers of every Age, and of the several Stages and Species of History, are occasionally criticized and explained. In two parts.

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