BY _JOHN ROBERT SCOTT, D. D._ LONDON: _Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court_, AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON, 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; AND MESS. C. & R. BALDWIN, NEW BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRIARS. 1804. CONTENTS. PAGE. A Dissertation on the Influence of Religion on Civil Society 1 A Dissertation on the Expulsion of the Moors from Spain, and the Protestants from France and the Low Countries 33 A Dissertation on the first Peopling of America 75 A Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts 125 A Dissertation on National Population 181 An Essay on Writing History 219 An Essay on the Question, Was Eloquence beneficial to Athens? 245 An Essay on the Influence of Taste on Morals 269 Comparison between William III, of England and Henry IV, of France 303 Comparison of Cardinal Ximenes and Cardinal Richelieu 323 Comparison between Augustus Cæsar and Lewis XIV 343 Comparison of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 361 PREFACE.