Excerpt from A Critical Inquiry Into the Life of Alexander the Great, by the Ancient Historians Demy hath expreffed its unqualified approbation: of the Tranflation it becomes not me to fpeak. In juf tice however to the Baron de St. Croix, Iought to acknowledge that fome alterations have been made, and for thefe I am refponfible. Some redundancies I may have alfo pruned oli, but I flatter myfelf the full vigour of the leading Shoot hath been preferved. If I have deviated from the Original, in the introdue'tion of the quotations from the different Writers, that have been cited, I may not pollibly have occafion for much apology. The learned Reader will readily forgive a number of his old Acquaintances being again brought immediately before his eye, and when Authors are referred to, they are undoubtedly the befi Comment on themfelves. On turning indeed to the Greek Wri ters, I was not particularly fatisfied with the French Verfions of the paiiages in quefiion. Some of them were loofe; in others the fenfe appeared to have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.