Volume 4

Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth ... / Translated by Mr. Humphreys.

  • Noël-Antoine Pluche
Date:
1740-53
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Credit: Spectacle de la nature: or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth ... / Translated by Mr. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fr] eT EER EROM TH E PRIO CHEVALIER. SIR, POU defire me, {and from.a ae Friend fach Defires are Commands) Firft, To pick out for + you a Set of choice portable Books fit for a Gen- _tfeman of the Sword : Secondly, To write down for you, and fend youthe Sequel of our Converfations on the Spofta- tle de la Nature ; that Abfence, as you are kindly _ pleafed to fay, may not be a Bar to your Pleafures. I fhall readily, and to the belt of my Power, comply with your Defrés on both thefe Heads. Nor can I, indeed, with any Decency, give a -cool Anfwer to fach judicious and reafonable Requelts 5 and I fhall, perhaps, find my own - Account, in trying to fill up fome of your {pare Hours, - When you are not engaged in your Exercifesand Travels. _ A Soldiers Library (efpecially when heis an Service, or on the Road) neither muft or can confift of many Vo- lumes. A judicioas Choice is the chief Merit of his _ Books ; and thefe may very el be reduced to the three Vor, IV B - follow- —