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The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature

The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature

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TO WHICH IS ADDED VOLNEY'S ANSWER TO DR. PRIESTLY, A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE BY COUNT DARU, AND THE ZODIACAL SIGNS AND CONSTELLATIONS BY THE EDITOR.

CONTENTS (abridged list)
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE OF THE LONDON EDITION.
PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN EDITION.
ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN EDITION.
PARIS TRANSLATION,
LONDON TRANSLATION.
PHILADELPHIA TRANSLATION.

LIFE OF VOLNEY.
CHAPTER I.
...
CHAPTER XXIV.

THE LAW OF NATURE
CHAPTER I.
...
CHAPTER XII.

VOLNEY'S ANSWER TO DR. PRIESTLY.

About the Author
"Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757 – 1820) was a French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician. He was at first surnamed Boisgirais after his father's estate, but afterwards assumed the name of Volney (which he had created as a contraction of Voltaire and Ferney)."--Wikipedia
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