LENGLET (Nicholas du Fresnoy, l'abbé), born at Beauvais in France, 1674, was a most fertile and useful French author on a variety of subjects, historical, geographical, political, and philosophical. The following deserve particular notice: 1. A Method of Studying History, with a Catalogue of the Principal Historians of every age and country, published in 1713; a work which established his reputation as an historical writer: it was translated into most of the modern languages, particularly our own, with considerable improvements, by Richard Rawlinson, LL.D. and F.R.S. and published at London in 1730, in 2 vols 8vo. 2. A Copious Abridgment of Universal History,