1738 in literature
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See also: 1737 in literature, other events of 1738, 1739 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Robert Blair marries Isabella Law.
- Beginning of the mental decline of Jonathan Swift.
- Laurence Sterne is ordained.
- Richard Dawes becomes master of the grammar school at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
[edit] New books
- Voltaire
- De la gloire, ou entretien avec un Chinois
- Conseils a M. Helvetius
[edit] New drama
- António José da Silva - Precipicio de Faetonte
[edit] Non-fiction
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - De ordine in audiendis philosophicis per triennium academicum quaedam praefatus acroases proximae aestati destinatas indicit Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Louis de Beaufort - Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis - Sur la figure de la terre
[edit] Births
- May 12 - Jonathan Boucher, philologist (died 1804)
- June 21 - Gottlieb Christoph Harless, bibliographer (died 1815)
- July 24 - Betje Wolff, novelist (died 1804)
- date unknown
- Richard Chandler, antiquary
- Manuel Lassala, dramatist and philosopher
[edit] Deaths
- April 25 - James Laderchi, ecclesiastical historian
- June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, theologian
- July 8 - Jean-Pierre Nicéron, lexicographer
- September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, humanist writer
- date unknown
- John Asgill, pamphleteer
- Jean-Baptiste Labat, polymath
