glorious Prospect gives us abundant reason to hope, that Liberty and
Learning will be perpetuated together; and that the bright Examples of
Virtue and Wisdom, set in this Reign by the Royal Patrons of Both, will be
transmitted with the Scepter to their Posterity, till this and the other
Works of Sir ISAAC NEWTON shall be forgot, and Time it self be no more:
Which is the most sincere and ardent wish of_

_MADAM,_

May it please YOUR MAJESTY,

YOUR MAJESTY's most obedient and most dutiful subject and servant,

_John Conduitt_.

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THE CONTENTS.

_A Short Chronicle from the first Memory of Things in page 1
_Europe_, to the Conquest of _Persia_ by _Alexander_ the
Great._

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended.

Chap. I. _Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the_ p. 43
Greeks_._

Chap. II. _Of the Empire of_ Egypt_._ p. 191

Chap. III. _Of the_ Assyrian _Empire._ p. 265

Chap. IV. _Of the two Contemporary Empires of the p. 294
_Babylonians_ and _Medes_._

Chap. V. _A Description of the Temple of _Solomon_._ p. 332

Chap. VI. _Of the Empire of the _Persians_._ p. 347

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