180 Lucian, the Roman philologer-Dimsdale, Dryden, Franklin.

180 Marcus Aur. Antoninus, Roman Emperor and philosopher Collier, Elphinstone.

193 Galen, the Greek philosopher and physician. 200 Diogenes Laertius, the Greek biographer, fl. 229 Dion Cassius, of Greece, the Roman historian, fl.

254 Origen, a christian father, of Alexandria.

Herodian, of Alexandria, the Roman historian,
Al.-Hart.

258 Cyprian, of Carthage, suffered martyrdomMarshal.

273 Longinus, the Greek orator, put to death by Aurelian-Smith.

320 Lactantius, a father of the church, fl.

336 Arius, a priest of Alexandria, founder of the sect of Arians.

342 Eusebius, the ecclesiastical historian and chronologer-Hanmer.

379 Bazil, bishop of Cæsarea.

389 Gregory Nazianzen, bishop of Constantinople. 397 Ambrose, bishop of Milan.

415 Macrobius, the Roman grammarian.

428 Eutropius, the Roman historian.

524 Bothius, the Roman poet, and Platonic philosopher-Bellamy, Preston.

529 Procopius, of Cæsarea, the Roman historian -Holcroft.

The names at the end of each denote the best translators of the different authors.

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Modern Authors.

735 Bede, a priest of Northumberland; History of the Saxons, Scots, &c.

901 King Alfred; history, philosophy and poetry. 1259 Matthew Paris, monk of St. Alban's; History of England.

1292 Roger Bacon, Somersetshire; natural philosophy.

1308 John Fordun, a priest of Mears-shire; History of Scotland.

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1400 Geoffrey Chaucer, London; the father of English poetry.

1402 John Gower, Wales; the poet.

1535 Sir Thomas More, London; history, politics, divinity.

1552 John Leland, London; lives and antiquities. 1568 Roger Ascham, Yorkshire; philosophy and polite literature.

1572 Rev. John Knox, the Scotch reformer; history of the church of Scotland.

1582 George Buchanan, Dumbartonshire; history of Scotland, Psalms of David, politics, &c. 1598 Edmund Spencer, London; Fairy Queen, and other poems.

1615-25 Beaumont and Fletcher, 53 dramatic pieces.

1616 William Shakespeare, Stratford; forty-two tragedies and comedies.

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1622 John Napier, of Marcheston, discoverer of logarithms.

1623 William Cambden, London; history and antiquities.

1626 Lord Chancellor Bacon, London; natural philosophy, literature in general.

1634 Lord Chief Justice Coke, Norfolk; laws of England.

Ben Johnson, London; 53 dramatic pieces. 1641 Sir Henry Selman, Norfolk; laws and antiquities.

1654 John Spelden, Sussex; antiquities and laws. 1657 Dr. William Harvey, Kent; discovered the circulation of the blood.

1667 Abraham Cowley, London; miscellaneous poetry.

1674 John Milton, London; Paradise Lost, Regained, and various other pieces in verse and prose.

Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Wiltshire; History of the civil wars in England.

1675 James Gregory, Aberdeen; mathematics, geometry and optics.

1677 Rev. Dr. Isaac Barrow, London; natural philosophy, mathematics and sermons. 1680 Samuel Butler, Worcestershire; Hudibras, a burlesque poem.

1685 Thomas Otway, London; 10 tragedies and comedies, with other poems.

1687 Edmund Waller, Bucks; poems, speeches, letters, &c.

1688 Dr. Ralph Codworth, Somersetshire; Intellectual System.

1689 Dr. Thomas Sydenham, Dorsetshire; History of Physic.

1690 Nathaniel Lee, London, 11 tragedies,

1690 Robert Barclay, Urie; apology for Quakers. 1691 Sir George McKenzie, Dundee; Antiquities and laws of Scotland.

1694 John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, Halifax; 254 sermons.

1697 Sir William Temple, London; politics and polite literature.

1701 John Dryden, Northamptonshire; 27 tragedies and comedies.

1704 John Locke, Somersetshire; philosophy, government, and theology.

1707 George Farquhar, Londonderry; 8 comedies. 1713 Ant. Ash. Cowper, Earl of Shaftesbury; characteristics.

1714 Gilbert Burnet, Edinburgh, bishop of Salisbury; history, biography, divinity, &c. 1718 Nicholas Rowe, Devonshise; 7 tragedies, translation of Lucan's Pharsalia.

1719 Rev. John Flamstead, Derbyshire; mathematics and astronomy.

Joseph Addison, Wiltshire; Spectator, Guardian, poems, politics.

Dr. John Kell, Edinburgh; mathematics and astronomy.

1721 Matthew Prior, London; poems and politics. 1724 William Wollaston, Staffordshire; Religion of Nature delineated.

1727 Sir Isaac Newton, Lincolnshire; mathematics, geometry, astronomy, optics.

1729 Rev. Dr. Samuel Clarke, Norwich; mathematics, divinity, &c.

Sir Richard Steele, Dublin; four comedies; papers in Tatler, &c.

William Congreve, Staffordshire; seven dramatic pieces.

1732 John Gay, Exeter; poems, fables, and 11

dramatic pieces.

1734 Dr. John Arbuthnot, Mearn-shire; medicine, 'coins, politics.

1739 Dr. Edmund Halley; natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation.

Dr. Richard Bentley, Yorkshire; classical learning, criticism.

1744 Alexander Pope, London; poems, letters, translation of Homer.

1745 Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dublin; poems, politics and letters.

1746 Colin M Laurin, Argyleshire; Algebra, View of Newton's Pliilosophy.

1748 James Thomson, Roxburghshire; Seasons, and other poems, five tragedies.

Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts, Southampton; logic, philosophy, psalms, hymns, sermons, &c. Dr. Francis Hutcheson, Ayrshire; System of Moral Philosophy.

1750 Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton, Yorkshire; life of Cicero, &c.

Andrew Baxter, Old Aberdeen, metaphysics, and natural philosophy.

1751 Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, Surrey; philosophy, metaphysics and politics.

Dr. Alexander Monro, Edinburgh, anatomy of the human body.

1754 Dr. Richard Mead, London; on poison, plague, small-pox, medicine, precepts.

Henry Fielding, Somersetshire; Tom Jones,
Joseph Andrews.

1757 Colley Cibber, London; 25 tragedies and comedies.

1761 Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London; 69 sermons, &c.

Benjamin Hoadley, bishop of Winchester; sermons and controversy.