This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

* Paradoxe sur le comédien ( written between 1770 and 1778 ; first published posthumously in 1830 )

In his Systema Naturae, published in 1767, Carl von Linné ( 1707 – 1778 ) catalogued all the living creatures into a single system that defined their morphological relations to one another: the Linnean classification system.

The English version and his own translation into German ( published 1778 – 1780 ) earned the young author real fame.

After his studies, in 1778, he published some of his observations and results in a three-volume work, entitled Flore françoise.

His major geological work, Lettres physiques et morales sur les montagnes et sur l ' histoire de la terre et de l ' homme, first published in 1778, and in a more complete form in 1779, was dedicated to Queen Charlotte.

In 1778, he published an anti-slavery poem entitled " The Prospect of Peace ".

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

These works ( particularly the one published in 1778 ), and most specifically the accurate copies of the cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis, were to prove to be extremely important to the decipherment of cuneiform writing.

He also published a periodical Der Naturforscher ( 1774 – 1778 ), and during the years 1749-1756 took an active part in editing the Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen.

After a preparation of thirty-five years, Toup's edition of Longinus, in Greek and Latin, was published in 1778.

He produced translations of the Iliad ( 1778 ), of Plato ( 1796-1797 ), Aeschylus ( 1802 ), and Ossian ( 1806 ); he published in 1815 a Leben Alfreds des Grossen, and a voluminous Geschichte der Religion Jesu Christi ( 17 vols., 1806-1818 ).

In 1778 – 1779 Müller delivered a set of lectures on universal history ( revised between 1782 and 1784 ), which were published as Vierundzwanzig Bücher allgemeiner Geschichte in 1811, and often republished.

In 1778 appeared a published correspondence between these two liberal theologians on the subjects of materialism and necessity, wherein Price maintains, in opposition to Priestley, the free agency of man and the unity and immateriality of the human soul.

Copies of cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis had been published by Carsten Niebuhr many years earlier in 1778 and some preliminary inferences had already been made by other scholars about these Persian inscriptions.

These boys were apprenticed to the sweep, and from 1778 until 1875 a series of laws attempted to regulate their working conditions, and many first hand accounts were documented and published in parliamentary reports.

A fifth edition with an appendix about ' Medical Electricity ' by John Birch, a surgeon and author of Della Forza dell ' Electricita ( Naples, 1778 ), was published in 1799 with corrections and additions by William Jones, mathematical instrument maker.

In 1778 he published his first book Designs in Architecture.

François-Marie Arouet, the French writer, historian and philosopher known as Voltaire ( 1694 – 1778 ) published his " Treatise on Toleration " in 1763.

In 1778 his edition of Longus's Daphnis and Chloë was published.

On his return Forster published Observations Made during a Voyage round the World ( 1778 ).

Valentin Jautard and Fleury Mesplet published the first journal of Quebec, the Gazette du commerce et littéraire, in 1778 – 79.

Some of the rare and important works in this collection are: A Grammar of the Bengal Language ( 1778 ) by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, which is the earliest printed book in Bengali, Henry Forster ’ s A Vocabulary in Two parts, English and Bangalee ( 1799 ), William Carrey ’ s Dialogues, Intended to Facilitate the Acquiring of the Bengali Language ( 1801 ), Ram Ram Basu ’ s Raja Pratapaditya Charitra ( 1801 ), Mrityunjay Vidyalankar ’ s Batris Simhansan ( 1802 ), Ramayana translated by Krittibas and published in five volumes, Mahabharat translated by Kashi Ram Das ( 1802 ), Chandicharan Munshi ’ s Tota Itihas ( 1805 ), Jayanarayan Ghosal ’ s Sri Karunanidhanavilasa ( 1814 ), William Carey ’ s Dictionary of the Bengali Language, 2 volumes ( 1815-1825 ).

It was first published by The Vocal Magazine ( London, 1778 ).

Between 1778 and 1783, Lagrange further developed the method both in a series of memoirs on variations in the motions of the planets and in another series of memoirs on determining the orbit of a comet from three observations.

In 1778, Thomas Jefferson wrote a bill in Virginia reducing the punishment for rape, polygamy or sodomy from death to castration.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron ( 1778 ), set out to take Walpole's plot and adapt it to the demands of the time by balancing fantastic elements with 18th-century realism.

Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.

A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.

Butler and Ponsonby eloped in 1778, to the relief of Ponsonby's family ( concerned about their reputation had she run away with a man ) to live together in Wales for 51 years and be thought of as eccentrics.

Webster lacked firm career plans after graduating from Yale in 1778, later writing that a liberal education " disqualifies a man for business ".

The word naturism was used for the first time in 1778 by a French-speaking Belgian, Jean Baptiste Luc Planchon ( 1734 – 1781 ), and was advocated as a means of improving the ' l ’ hygiène de vie ' ( natural style of life ) and health.

Portsmouth was the site of the first African American military unit, the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, to fight for the U. S. in the Battle of Rhode Island of August 29, 1778.

To make up for sugar losses in Nevis, the island opened its first hotel in 1778.

In 1778 Scott returned to Edinburgh for private education to prepare him for school, and in October 1779 he began at the Royal High School of Edinburgh.

In 1778, Jefferson's " Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge " and subsequent efforts to reduce control by clergy led to some small changes at William and Mary College, but free public education was not established until the late nineteenth century.

* Carl von Linné ( Carl Linnaeus ) ( 1707 – 1778 ) Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

As for the composition date of Mozart's Variations, for a time the variations were thought to have been composed in 1778, while Mozart stayed in Paris from April to September in that year, the assumption being that the melody of a French song could only have been picked up by Mozart while residing in France.

In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788.

The building was demolished in 1778 to make place for a new library, but this was never built and the area next to the cathedral where it stood is today a lawn.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.