I bave faid tbat 'tis natural, from tbe Benefit and Happincfc arifing from good Government, to infer tbc we and Plea/ure of Hzftory. 'tis indeed nee/2 natural feeing tbc one was tbc very Caufiz and Parent of tbc otber. 'twas good Government wbicb gave Life and Being to Hz/lory; and re/cued Mankind from tbc Deluf on of Fable. Tbe politi cal Ir?itutions of Solon and Lycurgus, produc'd a long Series of more beautiful and glorious Scenes of real Attions, tban all tbc Poets injpir'd by tbeir Apollo, bad ever been able to figure to tbemfielves in Idea, and deliver in Fifiion.