DAVID HUMEAND

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CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Comparative Tables
PART ONEWORKS OF DAVID HUME········································ I

I.

COLLECTED EDITIONSII.

COLLECTIONS IN TRANSLATION

51

III.

TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE

55

IV.

ESSAYS, MORAL AND POLITICAL

61

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PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYSVI.

ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS

69

VII.

FOUR DISSERTATIONS

80

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HISTORY OF ENGLAND

82

IX.

POLITICAL DISCOURSES

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X.

DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGIONXI.

QUARRELL WITH ROUSSEAUXII.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, LETTERSXIII.

MISCELLANEOUS MINOR WORKS

76

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PART TWOAUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF DAVID HUME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "183PART THREE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BRITISH THOUGHT··· ••••.•...••.. '241

Cross Index
Title Index

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INTRODUCTION

In the autumn of 1982 Chuo University purchased a collection of books
and letters, drawn from the private library of Doctor John Valdimir Price.
The collection falls into three parts. The first consists chiefly of works ofDavid Hume. As Doctor Price's attention on Hume ranges from the wholeof Hume's works to the different texts of individual works, this part not
only contains virtually all Hume's writings, but it also exhibits with someconsiderable significance variations of particular editions as well as changes
made from one edition to another. It is perhaps the richest collection in
the world, of the editions of Hume's works that appeared in his lifetime.
The second part contains fifteen autograph letters of David Hume. Fourteenof these letters were, though the contents have been published from thenineteenth century transcripts, until recently thought to have been lost.
Thirteen letters addressed to his brother, John Home of Ninewells, between
23 April 1776 and 20 August 1776 - - five days before the death of thephilosopher - - , touch upon a number of points in connection with his lifeand his health. While the published transcripts of the letters are reasonably
accurate, there are a number of differences between them and the originals.
The third part contains 235 books mainly of the 18th century British writers.
This part is not large, but it forms a core of books whose importance inthe development of British philosophy, and continental philosophy as well,is paramount. The collection will be an invaluable tool for scholars whowish to examine such subjects as the conflict between theories of natural andrevealed religion, the 18th cenutry culmination of the skeptical concern withhistory, the development of philosophical ideas, and the rise of the SCIenceof man.
Significant additions to the collection has been made thereafter. These
include the first editions of Hume's Dialogues and Sister Peg, four autographletters, the 18th century translations of his works, and a number of booksxi

by Scottish authors of the r8th century. The catalogue of these books andletters is III preparation by the present compilers.
The purpose of this catalogue is to make possible a detailed statementof what is in the collection acquired in r982.
1. 1. The title-page of each copy of the books published by Hume in his
lifetime, and of the books posthumously appeared, is transcribed exactly
and in full. The upright strokes represent line-ends. The ornament is
mentioned in square brackets: [orn.]' The printer's line, or 'rule' or'double rule,' printed across the page, is mentioned similarly.
2. The format is stated in abbreviated forms:
Quarto = 4°Octavo = 8°
Duodecimo = r 2 °3. The analysis of the contents shows the pages occupied by every partof the book, preliminaries and blank leaves and pages included.
References to leaves and pages are made by the signatures. Such asequence as A-K8 L-Z4 2A2 state thus:
Quires A-K in eight, L-Z in fours, 2A, or AA, two leaves.
A totally unsigned quire is provided with a square-bracketed signature, e. g. [A4] B-P. A preliminary quire is signed IT. Recto andverso are differentiated as 'r' and 'v'. Thus the recto of the third
leaf in quire C is referred to as C3 r • (±E2) indicate that E2 is a corrected leaf, or 'cancel' or 'cancellans'.
4. The other books in Part I are described on the same principles as in
the description of the books contained in Part III.
II. The description of each books in Part III is executed as follows:
1. The title is transcribed exactly as to wording, order, spelling, andpunctuation, but not as to capitalization.
2. The professional title of the author, the long motto, and the place ina city are omitted. The excisions are indicated with' .. .'3. The edition statement and the date of publication are given in arabic
numerals. As for the abbreviations, ed. is for edition; p. is for page(s);front. for frontispiece; port. for portrait.
4. The annotations are not evaluative, but descriptive and indicative of
the content of the material they describe. In the abridged table ofxii

contents, roman numerals indicate mostly Book or Part, and arabic numerals Chapter or Section. A number of items have not been annotated,when the title of the entry is indicative enough of its content.
5. The imprint information consists of the date of the edition, precededby the number of the edition, if this is known, and separated from thedate by hyphen. The date is followed by the place of imprint. The
lack of a place of imprint means that the place is London. If there
should be more than one place of imprint, e. g. London and Paris, orvice versa, this has been written '& Paris' or 'Paris &.' If theampersand appears between two place names, then it refers to the word'and.' Thus 'Amsterdam & Paris' means 'Amsterdam and Paris.'
Abbreviations: B
BostonC
Cambridge
D
DublinE
EdinburghG
GlasgowNY
New York
0
OxfordPhilad. Philadelphia
2V
2 volumes
V2
volume 2[n.d.]no date
The chief sources of information are the British Museum Catalogue, National
Union Catalog, and Eighteenth-Century British Books - An Author Union Catalogue. As there are different levels of description in the library catalogues of early books, we could not always pick up reliable informationfrom them.
Part I and Part II are prepared by Sadao Ikeda. Michihiro Otonashi has
worked in close co-operation with Ikeda in preparation of Part III. We
have continued to receive every support from the librarians and staff of Chuo
University Library, especially from Mr. Shigeru Hiramatsu and Mr. Tetsuo
Okoshi. Finally, I wish to thank Mrs. Keiko Suzuki for her invaluable andgenerous assistance.

Sadao Ikeda
xiii

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DNB

JessopTodd

J. V. Price
Green &
Grose

BurtonHL

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Robert Chambers, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent
Scotsman, 4 vols. Glasgow 1840.
Dictionary of National Biography, 22 vols. Oxford 1967-68.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8 vols. New York & London
19 6 7.
Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 3, Aufl 7 vols.
Tiibingen 1957-65.
British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955,
Compact Edition, 27 vols. New York 1967.
The National Union Catalog pre-1956 Imprints, 754 vols. London
19 68 - 8 r.
Index Accessing Early English Books 1641-1700, 3 vols. Michigan 198r.
Eighteenth-Century British Books. A Subject Catalogue, 4 vols.
Folkstone 1979.
Eighteenth-Century British Books. An Author Union Catalogue,
5 vols. Folkstone 198 r.
Gesamtverzeichnis . des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums 1700-1900,
13 6 vols. Miinchen 1979-.
Catalogue General des Livres lmprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale, 23 I vols. Paris 1897-198r.
T. E. Jessop, A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish
Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour, NewYork 1966.
William. B. Todd, David Hume. A Preliminary Bibliography,
in: W. B. Todd (ed.), Hume and the Enlightenment, Edinburgh 1974.
[Books from the Collection of Dr. J. V. Price - A Trade Catalogue]
T. H. Green and T. H. Grose (ed.), David Hume, The Philosophical Works, 4 vols. London 1889-90.
P. H. Nidditch, Preface and Note to the Enquiries, Oxford 1975.
- - , Preface and Textual Note to the Treatise, Oxford 197 8.
John Hill Burton, Life and Correspondence of David Burne,
2 vols. Facsimile edition. New Yark.
]. Y. T. Greig (ed.), The Letters of David Hume, 2 vols. Oxford 1969.

Mossner

R. Klibansky and E. C. Mossner (ed.), New Letters of David
Hume, Oxford 19 6 9.
Ernest C. Mossner, The Life of David Hume, 2nd ed. Oxford

Hunt
McCoshJohn Valdimir Price, David Hume, New York 1968.
Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the EighteenthCentury, New York 1949.
John Hunt, Religious Thought in England, New York 1973.
McCosh, The Scottish Philosophy, New York 1875.

NHL

19 80 .

xv

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE EDITIONS OF

Of the delicacy of taste and ~assion.
Of the liberty of the press.
Of impudence and modesty.
That politic s may be reduc.ed to a science.
Of the first principles of government.
Of love and marriage.
Of the study of history.
I Of the ori~in of g-overnment.
Of the independency of parliament.
Whether the British government inclines more to absolutemonarchy, or to a republick.

Of parties in general.
Of the parties of Grea t Britain.
Of superstition and enthusiasm.
Of avarice.
Of the dignity of human nature. (title changed to 'Of the
dignity or meanness of human nature,' in 1770 ed.)Of liberty and despotism. (title changed to 'Of civil
liberty,' in 1758 ed.)Of essay-writing.

Of eloquence.
Of moral prejudices.
Of the middle station of life.
Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences.
The Epicurean.
The Stoic.
The Platonist.
The Sceptic.
Of polygamy and divorces.
Of simplicity and. refinement. (title changed to 'Of
simplicity and refinement in writing,' in 1748 ed.)A character of Sir Robert Walpole.
~ 1. Of national characters.

THREE ESSAYS, MORALAND POLITICAL. 1748.

~ 3. Of tragedy.
f. Of the standard of taste.
,------ 1 . Of commerce.
2. Of luxury. (title changed to 'Of refinement inI---the arts, '. in 1760 ed.)
I---- 3. Of money.
I---- 4. Of interest.
5. Of the balance of trade.
I Of the jealousy of trade.
f---' ' - ,------ 6. Of the balance of power.
I---- 7. Of taxes.
I---- 8. Of public credit.
I---- 9. Of some remarkable customs.
10. Of the populousness of ancient nations.
~ 2 . Of the original contract.
~
3. Of passive obedience.
10f the coalition of parties.
11. Of the Protestant succession.
12. Idea of a perfect commonwealth.

l-~

POLITICAL DISCOURSES.
1 st ed., 1752.
2nd ed., 1752.
3rd ed., 1753.

~

LJ
XVI

FOUR DISSERTATIONS.
1757.

"ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL AND LITERARY."
E5'5," MORAL,

4
5
6
7

1760
1758
I 1
2
3
4
5
6
7

8

8

8

5

S-

9

9

9

6

6

7

10
12
13

7
8
9
10

7
8
9

8
9
10

14

14

11

10

11

15

15

12

11

12

V

V

U

0

U

18
19
20
21
22

18
19
20
21
22

15
16

14

V

15

18
19

16
17
18

15
16
17
18
19

23

23

20

19

20

1741

1742

1742

4
5
~

7

1748

1753

11

14
15

1764

1
2

1770 .1 1772
I 1
2

1777
1
2

3

3

3

6

1 1767 1 1768

I

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

12

.

~

pr!ntedfootnote at end of essay 'That
politics may be reduced to a science.'·

24

24
25
26

I
2

3
4
5

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

7

8
9
10
11

12

I
I

22
23

2

6

25
26

2I

13
14

21
22

I 22

23

11

12
13
14
15
16

xvii

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE EDITIONS OF THE "HISTORY OF ENGLAND"
1778 ed.

vol.I ch·l

II

III

N

1754- 1762 1762
Dublin1762ed. ed.
od.

I 1
2 The Anglo·Saxons.
2
3
3
Appendix 1. The Anglo·Saxon.
Government and Manners.
4 William the Conqueror.
4
5 William Rufus.
5
6 Henry l.
6
7 Stephen.
78 Henry II.
899
1.0 Richard l.
10
11 John.
11
Appendix 11 The Feudal andAnglo·Norman Government.
and Manners.
12 Henry III.
II 12
13 Edward 1.
13
14
14 Edward II.
15
15 Edward III.
16
16
17
17 Richard II.
18 Henry N.
18
19 Henry V.
19
2.0
2.0 Henry VI.
21
21
22
22 Edward N.
23 Edward Vand Richard III.
23
24 Henry VIT.
I 1
2
25
26
3
27 Henry VlH.
1
28
2
3
29
3.0
4
5
31
32
6
33
7
34 Edward VI.
12
35
136 Mary.
2
37

XVlll

I

1
2
3

I

1
2
3

1763
ed.

1767
ed.

177.0
ed.

1773
ed.

1775
ed.

I

I

1
2
3

I

I

I

4
5
6
7
8
9
1.0
11

4
5
6
7
8
9
II 10
11

1
2
3

4
4
4
5
5
5
6 'lll
6
7
2
7
8
3
8
4
9
9
10
5 'lllO
11
6
11

1
2
3

II 12 III 12
12 ~
12
13
13
13
13
13
14
14
14
14
14
15
15
15
15
15
16
16
16
16
16
17 III 17
17 N 17 11117
18
18
18
18
18
19
19
19
19
19
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
2.0
21
21
21
21
21
22
22
22
22
22
23
23
23
23
23
III 1 I 1
24 'llil
24
2
2
25
2
25
3
26
3
3
26
1
1
27
1
27
2 N 28
2
2lV28
29
3
3
3
29
4
4
3.0
4
3.0
5
5
31
5
31
6
6
32
6
32
33
33
7II7
7
34
1
34
1
1
2
2
35
2
35
1
1
36
1
36
37
2
2
2
37

1
2
3

1
2
3

4
5
6
7
8
9
II 1.0
11

4
5
6
7
8
9
II 1.0
11

12
13
14
15
16
III 17
18
19
2.0
21
22
23

12
13
14
15
16
III 17
18
19
2.0
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
N 28
29
3.0
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

24
25
26
27
N 28
29
3.0
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

1778 ed.
voL V ch. 38 Elizabeth.
39
40
41
42
43
44
Appendix 1Il.
VI 45 James I.
46
47
48
49
Appendix to the Reign ofJames I.
50 Charles I
51
52
53
54
55
56
VII 5758
59
60 The Commonwealth.
61
62
63 Charles II.
64
65
Vlll 66
67
68
69
70 James II.
71
Index.

1762
1754- 1762 Dublin
1763 1767 1770
1762ed. ed.
ed.
ed.
ed.
ed.
II 1 IV 1
1 V 39 IV 1 V 39
2
2
40
2
40
2
3~
40
41
3
3
4
41
42
4
4
4
5
5
42
5
43
5
43
6
44
6
6
6
44
7
45
7
7
7
I 1 V 1 I 1
45 V 1 VI 46
2
2
46
2
47
2
3
3 Vi47
3
3
48
4
4
48
4
49
4
49
5
5
5
50
5
6
6

1
1
50
1
2
2
2
51
3
52
3
3
53
4
4
4
5
5
5
54
6II6
55
6
7
7
7
56
8
8 VII 57
8
9
9
9
58
10
10
10
59
II 1 VI 1 1II 1
60
2
2
2
61
3
3
3
62
1
1
63
1
2
2
2
64
3
3
3
65
4 IV 4 Vlll 66
4
5
5
5
67
6
68
6
6
7
7
7
69
1
1
70
1
2
2
2
71
Appen·- Appen·
dix.
dix.
-

Numerals in bold type indicate the error

1773
ed.
V 39
40
40
41
42
43
44
45
46

1775
ed.
V 39
40
41
42
43
44
45

r-vI4647
48
49
50

r-vr--tr
48
49

1
51
50
51
2
52
52
51
3
53
52
53
4
54
54
53
5
55
55
54
6
56
55
56
7
57
56
57
8 VII 58 VII 57 VII 58
9
59
58
59
10
60
59
60
61
60
61
2
62
62
61
3
63
62
63
64
64
1
63
2
65
65
64
3
66
65
66
4 Vlll 67 Vlll 66 Vlll 67
5
68
67
68
6
69
69
68
7
70
69
70
1
71
70
71
2
72
72
71
-

r-vr--Tin numbering.
XIX

PART ONEWORKS
OF
DAVID HUME

1. COLLECTED EDITIONSA.

ESSA YS AND TREATISESON
SEVERAL SUBJECTS
1. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 4 vols. 1753.
[Jessop, p. 5; Todd, pp. 194-96](1)Vol. 1.

Essays, Moral and Political. 4th ed. corrected, with Ad.
ditions.
Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I IN FOUR VOLUMES. I VOL. I. I CON·TAINING I ESSAYS, MORAL and POLITICAL. I The Fourth Edition
corrected, with Additions. I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, in
the Strand; I AND I A. KINCAID and A. DONALDSON, in Edinburgh. I
MDCCLIII.
Collation: 12°. A' B-012 PIO. (Todd's 'a' edition)
P.171, 243 incorrectly numbered IS i, 343 respectively.
Contents: Alr(p. [iD title as above; AI V blank; A2r(p. [iii]) CONTENTS; A2 v
(p. [iv]) CONTENTS & ERRATA; Blr_PIOr(pp. 1-331) text [PIOv blank].

26 essays as in 1748 ed.

(2)Vol. 2.

Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding.
2nd ed., with Additions and Corrections.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. II. I CONTAINING I Philosophical
ESSAYS concerning I HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. I The SECOND EDITION,
with Additions and I Corrections. I LONDON: I Printed for A. MIL·
LAR, in the Strand. I MDCCLIII.
Collation: 12°. 1!"'(±1!"I) A-K12 LIO. (Todd's 'a' edition)
Contents: 1!"l r (p. riD title as above, verso blank; 1!"2 r (p. iii) CONTENTS; 1!"2V
ERRATA; Alr_LIOr(pp. 1-259) text [AIOv, B3 v, DIO v, Elv, F4 v, GIO v, 18 v, K9 v
blank]; Llo v (p. [260]) A note to page 180.

3

ESSAYSAND

TREATISES
ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS.
By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
IN FOUR VOLUM·ES.

V a L. I.
CONTAININGESSA YS, MORAL

and POLITICAL.

The Fourth Edition correaed, with Additions.

LONDON:
Printed for A. MIL LA R., in the Strand;
AND

A. KUlCAID and A. DONALDSON, in EdiAburgh"
MDCCLIII.

Title-page of no. 1 (I), no. 2 (I), and the second title-page of no. 3 (I)4ESSAYSAND

TREATISES
ON

SEVERAL

SUBJECTS ..

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq.;
IN FOUR VOLUMES.

v 0 I.e' r..
CONTAININGE S SA YS, MORAL and POLITICAL·..
The Founh Edition correCled. with Additions.

LONDON:
Printed (or A. MIL L A R, in the Strand iAND

h. K I KCAIO and A. DONALDSON, in Edinburgh.

MDCCLlII.

The first title.page of no. 3 (1)5E S S AY S
AND

TREATISESONS EVE:RAL SUBJECT S.
By D A V I D HUM E, Efq,

v a L. II.
CON T A I N J N. G

l'hilofophical

ESSAYS.

concermng

HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.

The SEC 0 N D E 01 T ION, with Additions andCorrections.

LONDON:
Printed. f9f A. MILL A R, in the Strand.
MDCCLIH.

Title-page of no. I (2) and no. 3 (2)6ESS.AYSAND

TREATISESoS EVE R A L

1'1

SUB J E C T S.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
VOL. II.
CONTAINING

Philofophical E s SAY S concerning.
HOMAN UNDER.STANDING.

The T HI .. D E D I T ION. with Ac1ditionl anel
CorreClions.

LON DON:

Printed for A. MIL L A It, in the Strane!.
MD~LVr.

Title-page of no_ 2 (2)7

ESSAYSAND

TREATISES
ON

SEVERAL SUBJECTS.
By 0- A V I D HUM E, Efq;

VOL. III,CONTAINING/tJl EN~UIR.Y concerning the Principles of
MORALS.

LONDON:rrinted for A. MIL L A R, in the Strand.
MDCCLUI.

Title-page of no. I (3) and no. 3 (3)8s s A Y SEANDTREATISESONS EVE R A L

SUB J E C T S.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
VOL. III.
CONTAINING.A.A EN Q...U I R Y concerning the Principles of
MORALS.
',-The SEC 0 N D ED 1 T ION.

LONDON:
Printed for A. MIL LA R, in the Strand.
MDCCLUI.

Title-page of no. 2 (3)9ESSAySAND

TREATISESoN

SE VERAL SUBJECT S.
By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
Y 0 L.

IV.

CONTAINING

POLITICAL DISCOURSES.
The S, CON 0 E D 1 T ION.

EDINBURGH:
Printc:J for A. KINCAID, and A. DONALDSON.

M Dee urI.

Title·page of no. I (4) and no. 3 (4)10ESSAYSAND

TREATISESONS EVE R A L SUB JEe T S.
By DA VID HUME, Efq;
VOL.

IV.

CONTAININGPOL I TIC A LDIS C 0 U R S E S.

The THIRD EDITION, with Additions andCorrections.

LON DON:
Printed for A. Tv! ILL A R, in the Strand;ANDt.. KINCAID and A. DONALDSON, in -Edinburgh.
MDCCLIV.

Title-page of no. 2 (4)IIReissue of separate 2nd ed., 2nd issue of 1751 with cancel title as above.
See 1-40.

(3)Vol. 3.

An Enquiry cOfcerning the Principles of Morals.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. III. I CONTAINING I An ENQUIRY
concerning the Principles of I MORALS. I LONDON: I Printed for A.
MILLAR, in the Strand. I MDCCLill.
Collation: 12°. 11: [A'] B-L12 MS. (Todd's 'a' edition)p.64 incorrectly numbered 4.
Contents: 1I: r (p. [iD title as above, verso blank; Alr(p. [iii]) CONTENTS, verso
blank; A2r(p. [v]) ERRATA, verso blank; Blr-M7r(pP. 1-253) text [B5 V , C4v ,D7 v, Gll v , HSv, K2 v blank]; M7v-MSv(pp. [254-256]) Publisher's advert.
Reissue of separate 1st ed., 1st issue of 1751 with cancel title as above.

(4)

Vol. 4.

Political Discourses. 2nd ed.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES ION I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I

By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. IV. I CONTAINING I POLITICALDISCOURSES. I The SECOND EDITION. I EDINBURGH: I Printed for
A. KINCAID, and A. DONALDSON. I MDCCLill.
Collation: 12° in sixes. 11:' (±1n) A-2B' 2C'. (Todd's 'a' edition)
p. 20S incorrectly numbered lOS.
Contents: ITl r (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; 1I:2r(p. [iii]) CONTENTS, verso
blank; Al r-2C' (pp. 1-304) text [E6V , M5 v , 2A2 v blank].
Reissue of separate 2nd ed. of 1752 with cancel title as above.

2. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 4 vols. 1753-56.
[Jessop, p. 5; Todd, pp. 19496; Green-Grose's 'Edition K'](1)Vol. 1.

Essays, Moral and Political. 4th ed. corrected, with Additions. 1753.

Title: same as 1-1 (1)Collation: same as 1-1(1)
p. 171, 223, 227, 243 incorrectly numbered 151,22,22,343 respectively.
12

Contents: same as 1-1 (1)(2)

Vol. 2.

Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding.
3rd ed., with Additions and Corrections. 1756.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. II. I CONTAINING I Philosophical
ESSAYS concerning I HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. I The THIRD EDITION,
with Additions and I Corrections. I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR,
in the Strand. I MDCCLVI.
Collation: 12°. 11:2 A_K12 L'. (Todd's 'c' edition)
p. 239, 240 duplicated respectively.
Contents: 11:l r (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; 11:2 r (p. iii) CONTENTS, verso
blank; Alr_L6 v (pp. 1-240, 239-250) text [D9 V, D12 v, GI IV, 15 v, K6 v blank],
ERRATA on p. 250 ..

(3)Vol. 3.

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 2nd ed.,1753.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES ION I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. III. I CONTAINING I An ENQUIRY
concerning the Principles of I MORALS. I The SECOND EDITION. I LON·
DON: I Printed .for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I MDCCLIII.
Collation: 12°. [A2] B-L12 MIO. (Todd's 'c' edition)
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) CONTENTS, verso
blank; Blr-M9r (pp. 1-257) text; M9 v (p. [258]) ERRATA, MIOr-MIOv (pp. [259260]) Publisher's advert.

(4)Vol. 4.

Political Discourses. 3rd ed., with Additions and Corrections. 1754.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I

By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. IV. I CONTAINING I POLITICALDISCOURSES. I The THIRD EDITION, with Additions and I Corrections. I
LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand; I AND I A.
KINCAID and A. DONALDSON, in Edinburgh. I MDCCLIV.
Collation: 12°. 11: 2 A-U2 M'. (Todd's 'C2' edition)
p. 266 incorrectly numbered 166.
Contents: 11:l r (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; 11:2 r (p. [iii]) CONTENTS; 11:2 V(p.[iv]) ERRATA; Alr-M3v(pp.I-270) text; M'(pp.271-272) blank.

13

3.

Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 4 vols. 1753.
[Jessop, p. 5](1)Vol. 1. Essays, Moral and Political. 4th ed. corrected, with Additions. 1753.
Title: (I) same as 1-1 (1)(2) same as 1-1(1)Collation: 12°.

71

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2nd ed., with Additions and Corrections. 1753 [1751].
same as 1-1 (2)same as the title-page for the 2nd ed.
phical Essays. See 1-40.

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Vol. 3.

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 1753[1751].

Title: (I)(2)

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concerning the Principles of Morals. See 1-43.

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Vol. 4.
Title: (I)(2)

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same as 1-1(4)same as the title-page for the 2nd ed.
Discourses. See 1-72.

(1752) of the Political

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Publsher's advert.; lr4 r CONTENTS, verso blank; Alr ••. same as 1-1 (4)Bibliographically an interesting set. Volume I has two general title·pages,
which appear to be two different settings. Volume 2 has not only the general
title·page but the title·page for the second edition (1751) of the Philosophical
Essays concerning Human Understanding. Volume 3 has not only the general
title·page, but the half·title and title·page for the first edition of the Enquiry
concerning the Principles of Morals. Volume 4 has a general title·page and thetitle·page for the second edition (1752) of the Political Discourses. The retentionof the specific title·page for a particular edition of one of Hume's works
included in a set of his collected works is unusual, if not unique: these biblio·
graphical details and features are not known to occur in any other set of thefirst collected edition of Hume's Essays and Treatises on Several SUbjects.-John
V. Price.

4. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. A new edition.
1 vol. 1758.
[Jessop, pp. 5-6; Green-Grose's 'Edition M']
Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
BY I DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I A NEW EDITION. I [rule] I [orn.]1[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, in the STRAND;I
AND I A. KINCAID and A. DONALDSON, at EDINBURGH. I [rule] 1
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TISEMENT; A2V(p.[iv]) Publisher's advert. of Hume's History vols.1 & 2;
A3r-A4v (pp. v-viii) CONTENTS; Blr-3Ylr (pp. 1-529) text [BIV, U2v, 20 vI,
3E2v, 3Rlv, 3Ylv blank]; 3Y2'-3Z2r(pp.531-539) INDEX; 3Z2V(P. [540])
ERRATA.

Essays, moral, political, and literary (new title for Essays, moral and politi·
cal of 1748 ed.), Pt. I (pp. 1-149; essays 1-24 as 1748 ed., except, that 15 isre-entitled 'of civil liberty'; 25 'Of tragedy,' 26 'Of the standard of taste,'both from the Four dissertations); Pt. II (pp. 147-280; Political discourses withaddition of II 'Of the original contract' and 12 'Of passive obedience,' whichwere 25 & 26 in Essays of 1748 ed., 13-14 correspond to 11-12 of Political
discourses.)
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Enquiry concerning the principles of morals (pp. 395-489) .
Natural history of religion (pp. 490-529; from the Four dissertations).

5. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 4 vols. 1760.
[Jessop, p. 6; Green-Grose's 'Edition N'J(1)Vol. 1. Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Part I.

Title: ESSAYS 1 AND 1 TREATISES 1 ON 1 SEVERAL SUBJECTS. 1
By DAVID HUME, Esq; 1 IN FOUR VOLUMES. I VOL.I. I Containing
ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, and I LITERARY. PART I. 1 [rulell A NEW
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P2v, PI2v, Q9 v blank].

Essays 1-5, 7-13, 15-16 correspond to 1-5, 6-12, 13-14 of 1758 ed. (2 'Of
luxury' re-entitled 'Of refinement in the arts').
Adds two new essays: 6 'Of the jealousy of trade' and 14. 'Of the coalitionof parties.'(3)Vol. 3.

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Title: ... By DAVID HUME, Esq ;IVOL. III. IContaining an ENQUIRY
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'Enquiry concerning human understanding' (pp. I-z50) and 'A dissertation on
the passions' (pp. z5 I -z99) .

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Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.

Title: ... By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. N. I Containing an ENQUIRY concerning I the PRINCIPLES of MORALS. I [rule] I A NEW
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'Enquiry concerning the Principles of morals' (pp. I-Z5I)
history of religion' (pp. z53-35z).

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and 'The natural

2 vols.

1764.

[Jessop, p. 6; Green-Grose's 'Edition 0'](1)Vol. 1.

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES ION I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
IN TWO VOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. I. I CONTAINING I ESSAYS, MORAL, POLITICAL, and LITERARY. I [rule] I A
NEW EDITION. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR,
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2L7v blank].

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Natural History of Religion.
Title: ... By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. II. I CONTAINING I AnENQUIRY concerning HUMAN I UNDERSTANDING. I An ENQUIRY
concerning the PRINCIPLES of I MORALS. I AND I The NATURALHISTORY of RELIGION. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION I ...
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2K4 v blank.

Adds to Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals Appendix III, 'Of someverbal disputes,' which had hitherto been (though now revised) Pt. I of Sect.
4 of this Enquiry.

7. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 2 vols. 1767.
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Natural History of Religion.

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[Jessop, p. 6; Green-Grose's 'Edition P'](1)Vol. 1.

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Title: ... same as 1764 ed . ... I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, I
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Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.
Natural History of Religion.

Title: ... same as 1764 ed . ... I LONDON: I ... same as vol. I above ...
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The portrait on the first preliminary leaf of vol. I and the 1770 ed. of theHistory was engraved Ravenet after John Donaldson (1737-1801). Of the drawing
before it was engraved, Hume wrote to Andrew Millar, "in every body's
Opinion, as well as my own, is the likest that has been done for me, as wellas the best Likeness." (17th October, 1767, Greig, II, P.169)

9. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. 4 vols.

1770.

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Essay no. 13, 'Of avarice' and the note on Walpole (originally 12 in 1742 ed.)are omitted, and 14 is re·entitled 'Of the dignity or meanness of human nature,'
and the longer notes are collected at the end.

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Dissertation on the Passions.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
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UNDERSTANDING;A DISSE RT AT I ON on the PASSION S;
An ENQUIRY concerning the ·PR,INC"IPLES
of MORALS;ANDThe NATURAL HIS. TOR Y of RELIGION.

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10. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects.

2 vols.

1772.

[Jessop, pp. 7; Not in Green-Grose](1)Vol. 1.

Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Title: ESSA YS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I IN
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Natural History of Religion.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES ION I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. II. I CONTAINING I An ENQUIRY

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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Title: ESSAYS I AND I TREATISES I ON I SEVERAL SUBJECTS. I IN
TWO VOLUMES. IBy DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. 1. I CONTAINING IESSA YS, MORAL, POLITICAL, and LITERARY. IA NEW EDITION.
I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand: and I A.
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Enquiry concerning Human Understanding.
Disserta tion on the Passions.
Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.
Natural History of Religion.

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UNDERST ANDING;A DISSERTATION on the PASSIONS;An ENQUIRY concerning the PRINCIPLES
of MORALS;" ND

The NATURAL HISTOR Y of RELIGION.

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concerning HUMAN I UNDERSTANDING; I A DISSERTA TIONon
the PASSIONS; I An ENQUIRY concerning the PRINCIPLES I of
MORALS; I AND I The NATURAL HISTORY of RELIGION. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T.
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verso blank; 2DI'-2H3' (pp. 401-469) text; 2H3v blank; 2H4'-2K7' (pp. 471-509)
NOTES; 2K7v blank; 2KS'-2LS'(pp.SII-527) INDEX; 2LSV(p.[52S])Publisher's
advert.

*Hume· wrote this Advertisement c. Oct. 177S for inclusion in remaining
copies of 1772 ed.; see Greig, II, pp.301, 304n. I, and Niddicth's note to theEnquiries (Oxford, 1975).
The appendic;es to the Enquiry concerning morals are increased to four, 'Of
self-love' (transferred from pt. I of sect. 2 of this Enquiry) being added.
This, though posthumously published, is Hume's own definitive edition of his
essays. He sent off the last corrections to William Strahan a fortnight before
his death, with premonitory note, 'This, dear Sir, is the last Correction I shallprobably trouble you with: For Dr Black has promised me, that all shall beover with me in a very little time: This Promise he makes by his Power of
Prediction, not that of Prescription. And indeed I consider it as good News:For of l(Lte, within these few weeks, my Infirmities have so multiplyed, that
Life has become rather a Burthen to me.' (Greig, II, 331/332)

Posthumous Editions

12.

Essays and treatises on several subjects. In two volumes. By David
Hume, Esq .... A new edition. Dublin: Printed by ]. Williams ...
1779·

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2 vols.
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Containing Essays, moral, political, and literary.
[iv],57Ip.
p.lOI, 220, 466 incorrectly numbered IIO, 222, 464 respectively.

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P.58, 365 incorrectly numbered 85, 349 respectively.

13.

Essays and treatises on several subjects. In two volumes. By David
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2 vols.
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Containing Essays, moral, political, and literary.
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P.491 incorrectly numbered 419.

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Containing An enquiry concerning human understanding; A
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14.

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Essays and treatises on several subjects. By David Hume, Esq; ...
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List of Scotticisms.
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Account of the contoroversy between Hume and Rousseau.
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26.

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Essais philosophiques sur l'entendement humain, par Mr. Hume,avec les quatre philosophes du meme auteur. Traduit de l'anglois .. .
Amsterdam, chez J. H. Schneider, 1758.
[Jessop, p. 10]
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Essai s I -VIII.

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Contents.Essais IX- XII.
Les quatre philosophes .

Vols. I and 2 of 'CEuvres philosophiques de Mr. D. Hume' (5 vols.), buthave not general title. Volume number on the margin of the first leaf of each
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These two volumes were translated by J. B. Merian, and the preface was byJ. H. S . Formey.
'Les quatre philosophes (The four philosophers)' are essays 6-9 of Essays
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28.

Histoire naturelle de la religion. Traduit de l'anglois de Mr. D.
Hume. Avec un examen critique et philosophique de cet ouvrage.
Amsterdam: chez J. H. Schneider. 1759.
viii, 180p.
17cm.
[Jessop, p. 10]
Vol. 3 of 'CEuvres philosophiques de Mr. D . Hume' (5 vols.), but has not
general title. Volume number on the margin of the first leaf of each sheet only.
Translated by Merian .

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ESSAISPHILOSOPHIQUESSUR

L'ENTENDEMENT HUtvfAIN,
PAR MR. H U 1\1 E,
Avec les quatre PhiioCophes du m6me
Auteur.
Traduit de l'AIJglou.

TOME PREMIER.

It. AMSTERDAM.
CHEZ J. II. S C 11 1.1' E IDE [{.

M. D. CC. LVIII.

Title-page of no _27 (r)52HISTOIRE
NATURELLEDEL A

RELIGION
TRADUIT DE L'ANGLOIS
DE

MR.

D.

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llVEC UN):XAMEN CRITIQJ.TE ET lHILOSOPHIQJ'~
DE CET OV .Vl\AGE.

A A M S T E R D A ~1,

CHEZ J.
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SCHNEIDER.

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CEuvres philosophiques de M. D. Hume, Traduites de l'anglois ...
Nouvelle edition. Londres, 1788.
7 vols. in 3.
16cm.
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Tome I.
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3.

Les huit premiers Essais aur l'entendement humain.
Les quatre derniers Essais sur l'entendement humain& Les quatre philosophes.
L'histoire naturelle de la religion.

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7.

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Le Genie de ~I. Hume. ou analyse de ses ouvrages, dans laqueUe on
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See 111-102.

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A Treatise of Human Nature. 3 vols. 1739-40.
[Jessop, pp. 12-14; Todd, pp. 190-19r](1)

Title: A I TREATISE I OF I Human Nature: I BEING I An ATTEMPT
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pp . 190 /91.
Several sentences are revised as follows .
(References of the form 'm . n' are to line 'n' on page 'm' .)this copy
20 9.9- 10
all systems, upon whateverconvincing arguments they
may be founded , are apt to
20 9. 13- 14
belief, and our reasonings
from causes to effects; andtho' the proofs
209. 21 - 22
our reasonings with all our
actions and passions can be
210.1-4
treat of the passions and the

P . H. Nidditch's ed.

118.5
all systems are apt tollS.7-S
belief, and tho' the proofs

11S.13our reasonings, with all our
actions and passions, can bellS . 17
treat of the passions and the55

A

TREATISEo F

Human Nature·
BEl N GAn ATTEMPT to introduce the experimental Method of Reafoning
I

N

T

0

MORAL SUBJECTS.
RAm tnnporum felicitas, ubi fen tire, qu<e veli!; & qu<ejm/ias, dietre licel.
T A CIT.

VOL.

I.

OFT HEU N D E R S TAN DIN G.
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NOON, at the lPhile-Hart, ncar
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M DeC XXXIX.

Title -page of no_ 30(1)56A

TREATISEOF

Human Nature:
BEL N G

Ail ATTEMPT to introduce the ex~perimental Method of Reafoning
I

N T

0

MORAL SUBJECTS.
RAra temporum ftlicitas, ubi ]entire, qua: velis; & qUi&
fmtias, diceu licet.
TACIT.

VOL.

II.

OF TH EPASSIONSr
LON DON:
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M~r&trs-Chapel, in CheapJide.

MDCCXXXIX.

Title-page of no_ 30 (2)57A

TREATISE
OF

fIunnan~ature:BEl N GAn ATTEMPT to introduce the experimental Method of Reafoning
I N T 0MORAL·SUBJECTS.
- - Dura: fimper virtu tis amator,~ua:r{ 'Iuid eJl virtu!, et pofce exemplar homJli.
LUCAN.

WITH·ANAPPENDIX.
Wherein fome Pairages of the foregoing
Volumes are illuftrated and e~plain'd.

VOL.

III.

OF

MORALS.
LONDON,
Printed for TH 0 MAS Lo N G MAN, at the Ship in
Pattr·n~ltr.RQw) M Dec XL.

Title.page of no . 30(3)58sense of beauty

imagination. By the imagination I would be understoodto mean in this place thesense of beauty and deformity.
210. S-7
NATURE has implanted in
the human mind a perception of good or evil, or inother words, of pain andpleasure, as the chief spring
210.13-14
actual fee ling and experience,or only(2)

u8 . 18- 19
There IS implanted in thehuman mind a perception ofpain and pleasure, as the chief
spring118.23
actual feeling, or only

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(3)

Title: ... MORAL SUBJECTS. I [rule] I -Duree semper virtutis amator, I
Queere quid est virtus, et posce exemplar honesti. I LUCAN. I [rule] I WITH

AN I APPENDIX. I Wherein some Passages of the foregoing I
Volumes are illustrated and explain'd. I [rule] I VOL. III. I [rule] I
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'tions in a character ; and many wou'd' (properly initial line of p . 225) andsubstitutes 'pacity, but only suspends their exercise; and.'

Posthumous Edition

31.

60

A treatise of human nature : being an attempt to introduce theexperimental method of reasoning into moral subjects. By David
Hume, Esq. Two vols .. . A new edition. London: Printed forThomas and Joseph Allman, ... 1817.
2 vols.
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Understanding-Passions [Pt. 1]
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IV. ESSAYS, MORAL AND POLITICAL
32.

Essays, Moral and Political. 1st ed.

2 vols.

1741*-2.

[jessop, pp. 15-17; Todd, pp. 191-92;.Green and Grose's 'Edition A & C'](1)

Title: ESSAYS, I MORAL I AND I POLITICAL I [rule] I Tros Rutulusve
Juat, nullo discrimine habebo. I VIRG. I [rule] I [om.] I [rule] I EDINBURGH, I

Printed by R. FLEMING and A. ALISON, I for A. KINCAID Bookseller,
and Sold at I his Shop above the Cross. MoccxLl.
Collation: 8 0 in fours. IT' A- Z' 2A'.
p. 184 incorrectly numbered 284 .
Contents: ITI' (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; IT2'-IT3' (pp. iii-v) Advertisement;
IT3v blank; r.4'(P. [vii]) CONTENTS, verso blank; AI'-2A2' (pp. 1-187) text
[HIV, K3 v,N4v, P3 v, T4 v blank]; 2A2 V blank.

1. Of the delicacy of taste and passion.
2. Of the liberty of the press .
3. Of impudence and modesty.
4. That politicks may be reduc'd to a science.
5. Of the first principles of government.
6. Of love and marriage.
7. Of the study of history.
8. Of the independency of parliament.
9. Whether the British government inclines more to absolute monarchy, or
to a republick.
10.
Of parties in general.
11. Of the parties of Great Britain.
12. Of superstition and enthusiasm.
13. Of avarice.
14. Of the dignity of human nature.
15. Of liberty and despotism .
3, 6 & 7 were not reprinted by Hume after 1760.

* In the Autobiography Hume says the book was published in 1742. It wasannounced in the Daily Post 25 February 1742; also Daily Advertiser 1 March,
London Evening·Post 2- 4 March, Gentleman's Magazine, March 1742. So the1741 of the title·page is Old Style.-]essop, p. 15; Todd, p.191.

61

E S SAY S,
M 0 R A LAND

POL I TIC A L.
Tros Rutulufve /uat3 null, difcrimine habeb~.
VIRG.

ED IN BUR G H3l'tirttcdby R. FLEMtNG and A. ALl$(Ht 3[or A. KIN C A I D BookfclIe:r, and Sold
his Shop above the Crofs. MDC(;XLI.

Title-page of no_ 32 (I)62a,

ESSAYS,MORALANDPOLITICAL.
VOLUMEII.

ED IN BUR G H,

Printed for A. KIN C A I D, near the Crofs,
by R. FLEMING and A. ALISON.
M. Dec. X L I I.

Title-page of no _32 (2)13 was not reprinted by Hume after 1768.
14, title changed to 'Of dignity or meanness of human nature' in 1770 ed.
of Essays and treatises.
IS, title changed to ' Of civil liberty' in 1758 ed . of Essays and Treatises.

(2)

Title: ESSAYS, I MORAL I AND I POLITICAL. I [rule) I VOLUME 11·1
[rule] I [om.] I [rule] I EDINBURGH, I Printed for A. KINCAID, near the
Cross, I by R. FLEMING and A. ALISON. I M.DCC.XLII.
Collation: 8° in fours. 1r' (- 1r4) A- zC'(- zC4) .
Contents: 1rI'(p. [i D title as above, ver~o blank; 1rz (pp. iii-i v) Advertisement& Errata; 1r3' (p. [v]) CONTENTS, verso blank; AI'-zC3'(PP. I- ZOS) text [SI V ,ZCl v blan k]; zC3 v blank.
1.
Of essay·writing .
z . Of eloquence.
3. Of moral prejudi ces.
4. Of the middle station of life.
5. Of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences.
6 . The Epicurean.
7. The Stoic.
8. The Platonist.
9. The Sceptic.
ro . Of pol ygamy and divorces.
II . Of simplicity and refinement.
IZ. A character of Sir Robert Walpole.

I, 3 & 4 published by Hume in this edition only.
title changed to 'Of simplicity and refinement in writing' III 1748 ed.
IZ, not published by Hume after 1768; in editions 1748- 68 it is printed asa footnote at end of essay 'That politics may be reduced to a science .' Alreadyin the advert. to the 174Z ed . he apologi zes for it as out·of·date .
II,

33.

Essays, Moral and Political. 2nd ed., Corrected. 1742.
[Jessop, p. 16; Green and Grose's 'Edition B']
Title: ESSAYS, I MORAL I AND I POLITICAL. I [rule] I Tros Rutulusve
juat, nullo discrimine habebo. I VIRG. I [rule) I The SECOND EDITION,
Corrected. I [rule] I [om.] I [rule] I EDINBURGH, I Printed for A.
KINCAID, near the Cross. I M. DCC. XLII.
Collation : 8° in iours. 1r' A - zA'(- zA4).

E S SAY S,
M 0 R A LAND

POL I TIC A L.
Tros Rutulufve fuat~ null~ difcrimine habe§I.
VIRG.

The SECOND EDITION~ Correfred.

E D. I N BUR G H~

Printed for A. KIN C AI D> ne<lr the CrDIS.
M.DCC.Xl.lI.

Title·page of no. 33.

65

Contents: 1r1'(p. [i]) title as above , verso blank; 1r2'-1r3'(PP. iii-v) Advertisement,
verso blank; 1r4' (p. [vii]) CONTENTS, verso blank; AI'-2A3' (pp. 1-189) text
[HI V, K3 v, N4 v, P4V, Ul v, Y3 v blank]; 2A3v blank.

Three Essays, Moral and Political. 1748.
See 1- 38.

34. Essays, Moral and Political. 3rd ed., Corrected, with Additions. 1748.
[Jessop, p. 17; Green and Grose's 'Edition D']
Title: ESSAYS, I MORAL I AND I POLITICAL. I [rule] I By DAVID
HUME, Esq; I [rule] I The THIRD EDITION, Corrected, with Additions. I[rule] I [orn.] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, over against
Catharine Street I in the Strand.. and A. KINCAID in Edinburgh. I M.
DCC. XLVIII.
Collation: 12°. 1r' A-NI2.
p. 112,292,302,306 incorrectly numbered 104,262,202,206 respectively.
Contents: 1r1' title as above, verso blank ; 1r2 (pp . iii-iv) CONTENTS; AI'-NI2 v(PP.I-312) text.
I-IS same as in vol. I of 1741 ed.
16. Of eloquence.
17. Of the rise and progress of arts and sciences.
18. The Epicurean.
19. The Stoic.
20. The Platonist.
21. The Sceptic.
22. Of polygamy and divorces.
23. Of simplicity and refinement in writing .
24. Of national characters.
25. Of original contract.
26. Of passive obedience.
It is strictly the 3rd ed. of vol. I and the 2nd ed. of vol. II and 'Three
essays, moral and political.'
16-23 correspond to 2, 5-u of the vol. II of 1742, and 24-26 correspond to
1-3 of 'Three essays.'
For further editions see under Essays and Treatises .
66

E S SAY S,
Mo R A LAND

POL I TIC A .L.
By DA VID HUME, Efq;
The T H I R D E D I T ION, C.orreCtcd, with Additions.
IP

LON DON:
Printed for A. M J L L A R, over againil Catharine SIn"in the Slrana; and A. K J N C A: I D in Eajn~II"gh.
M.DCC.XLVIJl.

Title·page of no. 34.

Posthumous Editions, except In other Collections

35.

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557,3.16p. (Publisher's advert. on PP. I-3 and 16 pages at end)
20cm.
[Jessop, p. 8]
p. 263,484 incorrect ly numbered 26, 43, 84 respectively.
Contents: same as 1777 ed. of Essays and Treatises.
S ee I- I I.

36.

Essays moral, political , and literary[.] By David Hume[.] Edited,with preliminary dissertations and notes, by T . H. Green ... and T.
H. Grose .. .ln two volumes[.] New edition[.] London : Longmans,
Green .. .and New York .. . 1889.
2 vols.
32cm.
[Jessop, p. 9]
Vol. 1.

viii,503P.

Vol. 2. viii,470P.
Reprint of the vols.3 & 4 of The Philosophical works [1874/5]. S ee 1-26.

37.

Essays, literary, moral , and political. By David Hume .. . thehistoriar. London: \Vard, Lock & Bowden ... New York and Melbournn. [c. 1900]
580, [18]p. (Publisher' s advert. on pp. [1-18]) 20cm.
Reprint of pp. [1]-552 of 1- 35 and essays 'Of miracles .' 'Of a particular providence and of a future state ' and 'Of superstition and enthusiasm.'

68

V. PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS(ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING)

38.

Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
[Jessop, pp. 19-20; Todd, p. 193;
Green-Grose's 'Edition E'J
Title: PHILOSOPHICAL IESSA YSICONCERNING I Human Understanding. I By the AUTHOR of the I ESSAYS MORAL and POLITICAL. I[orn.] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, opposite Katharine-Street, I in
the Strand. MDCCXLVIII.
Collation: IZ". IT' A- K12 LB.
Contents: ITI' (p. [iD title as above, ver so blank; ITZ (pp. iii- iv) CONTENTS;
AI'-L8 v (pp. I-z56) text [AIOV, B3 v, BlIv, DIOv, EIv, F4v, Grov, Hzv, I6 v, K7 v
blank].

1. Of the different spec ies of philosophy.
z. Of the origin of ideas.
3. Of the connexions of ideas.
4. Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding.
5. Sceptical solution of these doubts.
6. Of probability.
7. Of the idea of pqwer or necessary connexion.
8. Of liberty and necessity.
9. Of the reason of animals.
10. Of miracles.
11. Of the practical consequences of natural religion.
IZ. Of the academical or sceptical philosophy. (in the table of contents of
1748-1756 eds .: Of the sceptical or academical philosophy.)
The title of t~e work was changed to 'Enquiry concerning human understanding' in the 1758 ed. of the Essays and Treatises ; Hume' s advertisement did
not appear until the 1777 ed.
In the 1750 ed. 'connexions' in 3 becomes singular, and from the 1756 ed .
'association .'I I . title changed to 'Of a particular providence and a future state' in 1750 ed.

PHILOSOPHICALE

s s AY s
CONCERNING

Human Underftanding.
By the AUTH<l.R of the
ESSAYS MORAL and POLITICAl..

LONDON:
Printed for A. 'M I L LA R, op~fite Katbarint-Slutt,
in the Strand. MDCCXL VIII.

Title-page of no. 38.

THREEESSAYS,MORALANDPOLITICAL:
Never before publiihed.
Which compleats the former Edition, in two
Volumes, Octavo.

By DA VID HUME, Efq;

LONDON"::Printed for A. M J L L A. It, over againft Cathari1u
Strut in the Strand; and A. KIN C A 1-0 In

Edinburgb.

M.PCC.XLVIlI.

bound with 38.
71

BOUND WITH

Three Essays, Moral and Political. 1748.
[Jessop, p. 17; Todd, p. 193]
Title: THREE ESSAYS, I MORAL I AND I POLITICAL : I Never before
published. I Which compleats the former Edition, in two I Volumes,
Octavo. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I [orn.] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, over against Catharine I Street in the Strand ;and A. KINCAID in I Edinburgh. M. DCC. XLVIII.
Collation: 8°. [A') B-D' P.
P.30, 31 , 51 incorrectly numbered 31, 30, 5 respectively.
Cont ents : AI' (p. [i» title as above, verso blank; A2' (p. [iii» CONTENTS, verso
blank; BI'-E6 v (pp. 1- 60) text.
I.

2.
3.

Of national characters .
Of the original contract.
Of passive obedience.

This is the first of Hume's works to bear his name .

39.

Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. 2nd
ed. with Additions and Corrections. 1750.
[Jessop, p. 20]
Title: PHILOSOPHICAL I ESSAYS I CONCERNING I Human Understanding. I By DAVID HUME , Esq; I The SECOND EDITION. I With
Additions and Corrections. I [om.] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR,
opposite to Katharine- I Street, in the Strand. MDCCL.
Collation: 12°. 11:' A _K12 LlO.
Contents: 11:1' (p. [i» title as above, verso blank; 11:2' (p. iii) CONTENTS; 11:2 V(p. iv) ERRATA; AI'- LIO' (pp . 1- 259) text [AIO V, B3 v , DIOv , Elv , F4v , CIO v ,18v , K9 v blank); LIOV (p. [260)) A note to page 180.
II ,

72

title changed to 'Of a particular providence and a future state.'

PHILOSOPHICAL

s s A y sE

CONCERNING

Human Underftanding.
By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
The SEC 0 N D E'1) I T ION.
With Addiuons and Corrections.

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILL A R, oppofite to KatharilteStr(ct, in the Strand. MDCCL.

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73

40.

Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding. 2nd
ed. with Additions and Corrections. 1751.
[Jessop, p. 20; Green-Grose's 'Edition F']
Title: PHILOSOPHICAL I ESSAYS I CONCERNING I Human Under·
standing. I By Mr. HUME, I Author of the ESSAYS Moral and Political. I
The SECOND EDITION. I With ADDITIONS and CORRECTIONS. I [orn.) I
LONDON: I Printed for M. COOPER, at the Globe in I Pater-noster Row.
MDCCLI.
Reissue of 1750 ed . with cancel title as above.
The 2nd ed . of this work later constitutes vol. 2 of the Essays and Treatises.
For further editions see under Essays and Treatises.

Translations

41.

Eine Untersuchung tiber den menschlichen Verstand. Von D.
Hume. Deutsch von C. Nathansohn. Leipzig: P. Friesenhahn.
18 93 .
222, [rJp.
19cm.

42.

Eine Untersuchung tiber den menschlichen Verstard. 8. Auf!.
Herausgegeben von Raoul Richter. Der Philosophischen BibliothekBand 35. Leipzig: Felix Meiner. 1920.
Vlll, 223, [4], 32P· (Publisher's advert.
on [4] and 32 pages at
end)
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74

PHILOSOPHICAL

E s s A Y SCONCER.NINO

Human Underftanding.
By Mr. HUM E,
Author of the ESSAYS Moral and PoliticaL
The SEC 0 N D E D I T [ 0 N.

With ADDITtO"s and CORRECTION ..

LONDON:
Printed (or M. COOPElt,at the: Gl~be In
Pattr-1UJj1tr RWJ. MDCCLT.

The second t itle-page of no . 3 (2) and title-page of no . 40.

75

VI. ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE
PRINCIPLES OF MORALS
43.

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 1st ed.,
1 st issue, 1751.
[jessop, p.22 ; Todd, p. 1934; Green-Grose's 'Edition G']
Title: AN I ENQUIRY I CONCERNING THE I PRINCIPLES I OF I
MORALS. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I [om.] I [parallelrule] I LONDON: I Printed for A. MILLAR, over-against Catherine-street I
in the Strand. 1751.
Collation: IZo. 11:' [A' ] B-L12 Ma. (Todd's 'a' edition)p.64 incorrectly numbered 4.
Contents: 1rI r (p . [i]) half·title, verso blank; 1rZ r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank ; AIr, (p . [v]) CONTENTS, verso blank; Azr (p. [vii]) ERRATA, verso
blank; BIr- M7r (pp. I-z53) text [B5 V , C4 v, D7 v, GIlv, H8 v, Kzv blank]; M7"M8 v (pp. [z54- z56]) Publisher's advert.
1.
Of the genera l principles of morals.
z. Of benevolence.
3. Of justice.
4. Of poli tical society.
5. Why utility pleases .
6. Of qualities useful to ourselves.
7. Of qualities immediately agreeable to ourselves.
8. Of qualities immediately agreeable to others.
9. Conclusion of the whole.
Appendix I. Concerning moral sentiment.
Appendix II. Some farther considerations with regard to justice.
A dialogue.

Appendix on some verbal disputes was not added until the 1764 ed. of Essays
and Treatises, being tran sferred from Pt. I. of Sect. 6.; and appendix on selflove not until the 1777 ed., in all earl ier editions being Pt. I of Sect. z .).

AN

ENQUIRY
CONCER.NING THE

PRINCIPLES
OFM

0 R A L S.

By DA VIn HUME, Efq;

..•
•

: ..

" R-

.

-.- .

.

LONDON:
Printed for A. MILLAR, ovei-againft Catlm-intjJrul
in the Strand. J 751.

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44.

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. 1st ed.,
2nd issue. 1751.
Title: same as 1-43.
Collation: 12° . rr2 A' B-L12 ( ±L3) MS . (Todd's 'b' edition)
Contents: same as 1-43 .

L3 (pp . 221-222) is different from the leaf it replaces by adding at the end
a paragraph beginning "We may just observe" and ending "so iniquitous abehaviour" .
For further editions see under Essays and Treatises.

AN

ENQUIRY
CONCERNING TH"EP R INC I P L E S'
OF

M

0

R A L S.

By DAVID HUME, Efq;

L.GNDON:
P.inccu for A. MILLAR, ovcl'-ag:linil Catherinejlruf
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175 l.

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VII. FOUR DISSERTATIONS
45.

Four Dissertations.

1st ed. 1757.
[Jessop , pp. 33-35; Todd, pp. 200-201;
Green-Grose's 'Edition L']

Title : FOUR I DISSERTATIONS. I I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF
RELIGION. I II. OF THE PASSIONS. I III. OF TRAGEDY. I IV. OF
THE STANDARD OF TASTE. I BY I DAVID HUME, Esq. I [orn.] I
LONDON, I Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I MDCCLVII.
Collation: 12° . te' [A'] a 4 (=Al+a 4 +A2) B" C" (±CI2) D" ( ±DI ) E- I" K' (K5-8) L" (±) M'. (Todd's 'c' edition)
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above, verso blank; al'-a4' (pp. i-vii ) DEDICATION to John Hume [reeleHome]; a4 v blank; A2' half-title, verso blank ; BI'-FII' (pp. [lj-II7) text; FII v
blank; F12' half-title, verso blank; GI '- I7' (pp. rr2r j- 181) text; I7 v blank; I8 r
half-title, verso blank ; I9'- K4v (pp . rI85j-200) text; Lr' half -title, verso blank;
L2r-M8 v (pp. [203]- 240) text, ERRATA on p. 240.

Issue with 'Dedication' to John Home .
Leaves CI2 and Dr cancelled, earlier conveyed the readings given In Mossner( r980'), Appendix E (p. 618).
The latter part of the text has been cancelled twice. (see Todd, p . 201 andMossner, p. 32I.1f.)

46.

Four Dissertations. 1st ed. 1757.
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DISSERTATIONS.
I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION,
II. OF THE PASSIONS.
III. OF TRAGEDY.,
IV. OF THE STANDARD OF TASTE.

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VIII. HISTORY OF ENGLAND
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Accession of Henry VII. 2 vo)s. 1762.
The History of England, under the House of Tudor. 2 vols.
1759.
The History of Great-Britain, 2 vols. 1754/57.
[Jessop, pp. 27- 30; Todd, pp. 196- 99J(1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND , I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I T he ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.
l. I CONTAINING THE REIGNS OF I
[left side] The PRINCES before the CON· I QUEST. I WILLIAM the
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on p. 424 .

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.
II. I CONTAINING THE REIGNS OF I
[left side] HENRY III. I EDWARD I. I EDWARD II. I EDWARD III. I
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Ch.I2-23·(3)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I UNDER THE I HOUSE
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Henry VII (Ch.I-3), Henry VIII (Ch. 1-7). Edward VI (Ch.I-2), Mary (Ch.
1-2); i.e. Ch. 24-37 of the 1778 edition.

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of TUDOR. I Comprehending the REIGNS of I
[left side] K. HENRY VII. I K. HENRY VIII. I K. EDWARD VI. I[right side] Q. MARY, I and I Q. ELIZABETH. I
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CONTAININGTheCOM M 0 N W E A L T H,
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7he Reigns of CHAR LES 1I. AND JAMES II.

By D A V I D

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LON DON:
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James II. (Ch. 1-2); i.e.

48.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, corrected. 6 vols.
1762.

(1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. I. I [rule] I
A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed
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[A]-3H', ..1[iii]. 164, 203, 220, 247, 262, 331, 356.

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Blr-3H4v' (pp. 1-424) text fA 164 William the Conqueror, ..1203 William II, ..1220
Henry I, ..1247 Stephen, ..1262 Henry II, ..1331 Richard I, . 1 356 John].

Ch.I-3. Appendix I, Ch.4-II, Appendix II.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND. I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. II. I [rule] I
A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for

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IN S I X VOL U M E S.

By D A V I D HUM E. Eiq.

VOL.

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LON DON:

Printed for A. MIL L A R,. in the Strand.
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Title.page of no. 48 (I)91

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3L3v (pp. 1-446) text [A 60 Edward I, A 126 Edward II, A 156 Edward III, A 241
Richard II, A 282 Henry IV, A 299 Henry V, A 323 Henry VI, A 385 Edward
IV, A 419 Edward V, A 430 Richard III].

Ch.12-23·(3)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION of
JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. III. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
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[A'] B-3E' 3F', A [I], 68, 289.

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Henry VII (Ch.I-3), Henry VIII (Ch.I-7),(Ch. 1-2); i.e. Ch.24-37. of the 1778 edition.

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Edward VI (Ch.I-2),

Mary

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. IV. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXII.
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[A'(-A4)] B-2U' 2X" A [1], 215.

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blank; A3 (pp. v-vi]) CONTENTS; A [I] portrait of Elizabeth; BI r-2XI V (pp. 1-338)
text [A 215 Mary].

Elizabeth (Ch. 1-7); i.e. Ch.38-44 and Appendix III of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. V. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXII.

Collation: 4°.

[A]-3N',}. I, 134·

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James I (Ch. 1-5), Appendix, Charles I (Ch. 1-10); i.e. Ch. 45-59 and Appendix
of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. VI. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
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A-3L ' 3M' a-I'm', }. I, 129, 373.

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Commonwealth eCh.I-3), Charles II. (Ch.I-7),
Ch.60-71 of the 1778 edition.

James II. eCho 1-2); i.e.

No illustrated editions of Hume's History were planned, published, or autho·
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set takes advantage of the plates that were engraved towards the end of the
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49.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Accession of Henry VII. 4 vols. Dublin. 1762.
The History of England, under the House to Tudor. 3 vols.
Dublin. 1762.
The History of Great-Britain. 4 vols. Dublin. 1762.
[Not in Jessop.](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.I. I
Containing the REIGNS of I The PRINCES before the CONQUEST. I
WILLIAM the CONQUEROR, I and I WILLIAM RUFUS. I By DA VID
HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH COTTER, Bookseller,
under Dick's I Coffee-House in Skinner-Row. 1M DCC LXII.
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ENG LAN D,
FROMThe INVASION of JULIUS ClESARTO
The A C C E S S ION of HEN R Y VII.
VOL. I.
Containing the REIGNS of

The PRINCES before the CONQ..UEST.
·WI L L I AM the CONQ..UEROR,
andWI L L I AM R U F US.
By D A V I D

HUM E, Efq;

DUB LIN:
Printed for SARAH COTTER, BaoHeller, under Dick'.
Coffee-Haufe in Skinner-Row.
MDCC LXII.

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Ch.I-3, Appendix ·I, Ch.4-5.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.
II. I Containing the REIGNS of I
[left side] HENRY I. I STEPHEN. I HENRY II. I[right side] RICHARD I. I and I JOHN. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH COTTER,
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Blr-X6 v (pp. 1-316) text.

Henry I-John, and Appendix II; i.e. Ch.6-11 and Appendix II of the 177 g
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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.
III. I Containing the REIGNS of I
[left side] HENRY III. I EDWARD I. I
[right side] EDWARD II. I and I EDWARD III. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH COTTER,
Bookseller, under Dick's I Coffee-House in Skinner-Row. 1M DCC LXII.
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[A'] B-2A' 2B'.

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BI'-2B2 v (pp. 1-372) text.

Ch. 12-16.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The ACCESSION of HENRY VII. I VOL.
IV. I Containing the REIGNS of I
[left side] RICHARD II. I HENRY IV. I HENRY V. I HENRY VI. I[right side] EDWARD IV. I EDWARD V. I and I RICHARD III. I

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I UNDER THE I HOUSE
of TUDOR. I Comprehending the REIGNS of I
[left side] K. HENRY VII. I K. HENRY VIII. I K. EDWARD VI. I[right side] Q. MARY, I and I Q. ELIZABETH. I
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Henry VII (Ch. 1-3), Henry VIII (Ch. 1-6); i.e. Ch.24-32 of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I UNDER THE I HOUSE
of TUDOR. I Comprehending the REIGNS of I
[left side] K. HENRY VII. I K. HENRY VIII. I K. EDWARD VI. I[right side] Q. MARY, I and I Q. ELIZABETH. I
By DA VID HUME, Esq; I IN THREE VOLUMES. I VOL. II. I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH CoTTER, Bookseller, under Dick's I CoffeeHouse in Skinner-Row. 1M DCC LXII.
Collation: 8°.

[A'] B-2B' 2C'.

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Henry VIII (Ch. 7), Edward VI (Ch. 1-2), Mary (Ch. 1-2), Elizabeth (Ch. 1-2);
i.e. Ch.33-39 of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I UNDER THE I HOUSE
of TUDOR. I Comprehending the REIGNS of I
[left side] K. HENRY VII. I K. HENRY VIII. I K. EDWARD VI. I

THE

HISTORYOF

ENGLAND
UNDER THE

HOUSE of TUDOR.
Comprehending the REIGNS of

K. HENRY VII.

QMARY,

I{, HENRY VIII.

K. EDWARD VI.

andQELIZABETH.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq;
IN THREE VOLUMES:
VOL. I.

DUB L I N .
Printed for SAR.AH COTTER, Bookfeller,under Dick'.
Coffee-Houfe in Skinner-Row.

MDCCLXII.

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GREAT-BRITAIN.
VOL. I.
CONTAINING

The REI G N of JAM E S I.
ANDPart of C H A R L E Sr.

By D A V I D HUM E, ECq;

DUB

LIN:

Printed for SARAH COTTER, Bookfeller, under Dick',
Coffee-Houfe in Skinner-Row.
MDCC LXII.

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GREAT-BRITAIN.
VOL. II.
CONTAINING

The Continuation of the REI G N
OF

CHARLESBy D AI.

v: I D HUM E, Efq;

DUB LIN:
Prinled for SARAH COTTER, Bookfeller, under Did'.
Coffee-Haufe in Skinner-Row.
MDCCLXIL

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GREAT-BRITAIN.
VOL.

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CONTAININC

The COMMONWEALTH,
AND

PART

OF

The REIGN of CHARLES II.
By ·D A V I D HUM E, Etq;
DUB LIN:
Feinted for SARAH COTTER, BooHeller, under Dick's
Coffee-Houfe in Skinner-Row.

M DeC LXII.

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OF

GREAT-BRITAIN.
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CONTAINING

Part of C H A R L E S II.
ANDThe REI G N of JAM E S II.
By DAVID HUME, Erq;
DUB LIN:
Printed for SARAH COTTER, Bookfellet, under Dick'~
Coffee-Houfe in Skinner-Row.
MDCC LXIL

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[right side] Q. MARY, I and I Q. ELIZABETH. I
By DA VID HUME, Esq; I IN THREE VOLUMES. I VOL. Ill. I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH COTTER, Book~eller, under Dick's I CoffeeHouse in Skinner-Row. 1M DCC LXII.
Collation: 8°.

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p. 291 incorrectly numbered 221.

Contents: AI' (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; A2 (pp. [iiijiv]) CONTENTS;
BI'-2A4v (pp. 1-360) text.

Elizabeth (Ch. 3-7); i.e. Ch.4°-44 of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT-BRITAIN. I VOL. I. I CONTAINING I The REIGN of JAMES I. I AND I Part of CHARLES I. I
By DAVID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH CoTTER,
Bookseller, under Dick's I Coffee-House in Skinner-Row. I M DCC
LXII.
Collation: 8°.

n'A' B-2E' 2F'.

p. 260 incorrectly numbered 160.

Contents: nl' (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; AI'-A2' (pp. [iii-v]) CONTENTS;
A2 V blank; BI'-2FI' (pp. 1-433) text;, 2Fl v blank.

James I (Ch.I-6), Charles I (Ch. 1-5); i.e. Ch.45-54 of the 1778 edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT·BRITAIN. I VOL. II. I CONTAINING I The Continuation of the REIGN I OF I CHARLES I. I
By DA VID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH COTTER,
Bookseller, under Dick's I Coffee-House in Skinner· Row. I M DCC
LXII.
Collation: 8°.

[A'] B-S' T'.

Contents: AI' (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; A2 (pp. [iiijivJ) CONTENTS;
BI'-T2 V (pp. 1-276) text.

Charles I (Ch.6-ro); i.e. Ch.55-59 of the 1778 edition.

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102

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT-BRITAIN. I VOL. Ill. I
CONTAINING I The COMMONWEALTH, I AND PART OF I The
REIGN of CHARLES II. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I
Printed for SARAH COTTER, Bookseller, under Dick's I Coffee-House in
Skinner-Row. 1M DCC LXII.

Collation: 8°. [A'j B-zA'.
p. z46 incorrectly numbered 146.
Contents: Alr(p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Az (pp. [iiijiv]) CONTENTS;
Bl c zA8 v (pp. 1-368) text.

The Commonwealth (Ch. 1-3), Charles II (Ch. 1-3); i.e. Ch.60-65 of the 1778
edition.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT-BRITAIN. [ VOL. IV. [CONTAINING I Part of CHARLES II. I AND I The REIGN of JAMES
II. [ By DAVID HUME, Esq; I DUBLIN: I Printed for SARAH CoTTER, Bookseller, under Dick's I Coffee-House in Skinner-Row. 1M DCC
LXII.
Collation: 8°. A4(-A4) B-Z' ZA'.
p. 336 incorrectly numbered 334.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Azr-A3r (pp. [iii-v]) CON·TENTS; A3v blank; BI C zAl v (pp.I-354) text.

Charles II (Ch.4-7), James II (Ch. l-Z); i.e. Ch.66-71 of the 1778 edition.
This pirated Irish edition takes liberties not only with the title of Hume'sHistory, but with the text as well. It is virtually unstudied and has received
no bibliographical or textual attention.-J. V. Price.

50.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, corrected. 8 vols.
1763.
[Jessop, P.30}(1)

Title: THE I HISTORY [ OF I ENGLAND, [ FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CiESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] [ By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. I. [ [rule] I
A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] [ LONDON: I Printed
for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXIII.
Collation: 8°.

[A<] B-z!' 2K4.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; Azr (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Bl r-2K4 r (pp. 1-503) text; 2K4v blank.

Ch. 1-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-9.

103

THE

HISTORYo F

ENG LAN D,
FROMThe INVASION of J U L IUS C 1£ S A R
T0The REV 0 L UTI 0 N
IN E I G H T

In

1688~

VOL U M E S.
II

By D A V I D HUM E, ECqj

VOL. I.
A NEW ED I T ION, CorreC1:ed.

LON DON:

Printed for A. MIL L A R, in the Stra,nd_
MDCCLXIII.

Title-page of nO.50(1)

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. n. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLxm.
Collation: 8°. [A'] B-zKB zL'.
zK(pP.497-5Iz) missed.
Contents: AIr (p. [iD title as above, verso blank; Az (pp. [iii/iv]) CONTENTS;
BlCzLzr (pp. 1-515) text; zLzv blank.

Ch. Io-II, Appendix II, Ch. IZ-16.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVAsION of
JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. Ill. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXm.
Collation: 8°.

A' B-zGB zH'.

Contents: Alr(p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; AzcA4 r (pp. [iii-vii]) CON·TENTS; A4 v blank; Bl c zH4 v (pp. 1-47z) text.

Ch.17-z7·(4)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. N. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR. in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXm.
Collation: 8°. A' B-zHB.
p. 414,4Z3 incorrectly numbered 14,4z respectively.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; AzCA4v (pp. [iii-viii]) CON·TENTS; Bl r-zH8 v (pp. 1-480) text.

Ch. z8-37.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVAsION
of JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. V. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXnr.
105

0Collation: 8[N(-A4)] B-zO' ZP1.
p. 107 incorrectly numbered 106.
•

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Azr-A3v (pp. [iii-vi]) CON·TENTS; BI r-ZPI r (pp.I-577) text; ZPI V blank.
Ch. 39-46; i.e. Ch.38-46 of the 1778 edition. (Ch.38 incorrectly numbered39, numbering of Ch.40 duplicated.)(6)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in' 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VI. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXIII.
Collation: 80•[N] B-2H'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half-title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; BIr-zH8 v (pp. 1-480) text.
Ch.47-49, Appendix, Ch.50-56.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION of
JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXIII.
Collation: 80•[A'] B-zL'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half-title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; BIr-zL7v (pp. 1-526) text; zL8 (pp. [1/2]) Publisher's advert.
Ch. 57-65.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VIII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON; I
Printed for A. MILLAR, in the Strand. I [rule] I MDCCLXIII.
Collation: 80•[A'] B-2K'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Az (pp. [iii/iv]) CONTENTS;
BIr-Y4r(pp.I-327) text; Y4 v blank; Ysr-zK8v(pp.[I-I84]) INDEX.
Ch. 66-71 and Index.
10651. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, with corrections,and some additions. 6 vols. 1767.
[Jessop, p. 30](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I In SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I A NEW EDI·
TION, I With CORRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS. I [rule] I VOL.
l. I [parallel rule] I LONDON; I Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst I Catherine Street, in the Strand. I [rule] I
MDCCLXVII.
Collation: 4°.

[Aj-3H'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; Azr (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3 T -A4 v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Blr-3H4v (pp. 1-4z4) text.

Ch.I-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-I1, Appendix II.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND,I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I In SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION, I With CoRRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS. I [rule] I VOL.
II. I [parallel rule] I LONDON; I Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst I Catherine Street, in the Strand. I [rule] I
MDCCLXVII.
Collation: 4°. [Aj-3L' (-3L4).
p. 168 incorrectly numbered z68.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half·title, verso bl~nk; Azr (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3 r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; BI'-3L3v (pp. 1~446) text.

Ch.lz-z3.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I In SIXVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION, I With CoRRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS. I [rule] I VOL.
III. I [parallel rule] I LONDON; I Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst I Catherine Street, in the Strand. I [rule] I
MDCCLXVII.
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R

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OF

E N G L A N D,
FROM

The INVASION of JULIUS ClESARTO

The REV 0 L UTI 0 N

In

1688.

In S I X VOL U M E S.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq.
A NEW E D I T ION,
With CORRECTIONS, and fome ADDITIONS.

V OL.

I.

LON DON:
Printed for A.MILLAR; and fold by T. CADELL, averagainft
Catherine Street, in the Strand.
MDCCLXVII.

Title-page of no. 51 (I)108Collation: 4°.

[A]-3E' 3P .

Contents: Arr (p. [il) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Br'-3F2v (pp. r-404) text.

Henry VII (Ch. r-3)' Henry VIII (Ch. r-7), Edward VI (Ch. r-2), Mary (Ch.
r-2); i.l;. Ch.24-37 of the r778 edition.

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Title: THE, HISTORY, OF , ENGLAND, , FROM, The INVASION
of JULIUS C;ESAR, TO , The REVOLUTION in 1688. , In SIXVOLUMES. , [rule] , By DAVID HUME, Esq. , [rule] ,A NEW EDITION, 'With CORRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS, , [rule] , VOL.
IV. , [parallel rule] , LONDON: , Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst , Catherine Street, in the Strand. , [rule] ,MDCCLXVII.
Collation: 4°.

[A' (-A4)] B-2U' 2X'.

Contents: Arr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3(P. [v-vi]) CONTENTS; Br'-2Xrv(pp. r-338) text.

Elizabeth (Ch. r-7); i.e. Ch.38-44 of the r778 edition.

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Title: THE, HISTORY, OF , ENGLAND, , FROM, The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR, TO , The REVOLUTION in 1688. , In SIXVOLUMES. , [rule] , By DAVID HUME, Esq. , [rule] ,A NEW EDITION, 'With CORRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS. , [rule] , VOL.
V. , [parallel rule] , LONDON: , Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst , Catherine Street, in the Strand. , [rule] ,MDCCLXVII.
Collation: 4°.

[A]-3N'.

Contents: Arr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3'-A4 v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Br'-3N4v (pp. r-464) text [S3 V blank].

James I (Ch. r-5), Appendix, Charles I (Ch. r-ro); i.e. Ch. 45-59 and Appendix
of the r 778 edition.

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Title: THE, HISTORY, OF , ENGLAND, , FROM, The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR, TO , The REVOLUTION in 1688. 'In SIXVOLUMES. , [rule] , By DAVID HUME, Esq. , [rule] ,A NEW EDITION, ,With CORRECTIONS, and some ADDITIONS. , [rule] , VOL.
VI. , [parallel rule] , LONDON: , Printed for A. MILLAR; and sold by
T. CADELL, overagainst , Catherine Street, in the Strand. , [rule] ,MDCCLXVII.
Contents: ln r half·title, verso blank; AI' title as above, verso blank; A2r-A4'(pp. [i-v]) CONTENTS; A4v blank; Blr-3M2v (pp. 1-452) text; al r-m2 v (pp. [192]) INDEX.

The Commonwealth (Ch.I-3), Charles II (Ch.I-7), James II (Ch. 1-2); i.e.
Ch.60-71 of the 1778 edition.

52.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, corrected. 8 vols.
1770.
[Jessop, P.30](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The Invasion of
JULIUS CLESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. 1. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I[rule] I M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°. tr' A' B-3T4 3U', .iI.[front.]
p. 335 incorrectly numbered 35·
Contents: .iI. portrait of Hume (Donaldson pinxit, Ravenet scuIPsit): trl r half·title,
verso blank; tr2 r title as above, verso blank; AI'-A2 V (pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS;
BI'-3U2' (pp. 1-515); 3U2v blank.

Ch. 1-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-9.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The Invasion of
JULIUS CLESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. II. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] I M DCC LXX.

Contents: trl' half·title, verso blank; tr2' title as above, verso blank; AI'-A2 v(pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; BI'-3X4v (pp. 1-528) text; 3YI'- 3Y2" (pp. 529-532)
NOTES.

Ch.lo-lI, Appendix II, Ch.12-16.
lID

T H 'E

HISTORYo F

E N G LAN D,
FRO M

The Invafion of JULIU S C..tESARTO

The REVOLUTION in I688.
I N E I G H T VOL U M E S.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq.

VOL.
A NEW

I.

E DI T ION,

Corrected.

LONDON:
Printed for T. CADELL, (Succetror to A. MULAR) in the Strand~

MDCc:;.Lxx.

Title-page of no_ 52 (I)
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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The Invasion of
JULIUS C)£SAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. III. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] 1M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

IT' A' B-3P' 3Q'.

Contents: ITI' half·title, verso blank; ITZ' title as above, verso blank; AI'-Azv(pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; BI'_3P3 v (pp. 1-478) text; 3P4'-3Qz' (pp. 479-483) Note;
3Qzv blank.

Ch.17- Z 7.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The Invasion of
JULIUS C)£SAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. IV. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] 1M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

IT' A' B-3R' 3S'.

Contents: ITI' half·title, verso blank; ITZ' title as above, verso blank; AI'-AzV(pp. [i-ivD CONTENTS; BI'- 3SI' (pp. 1-497) text; 3Sl v-3Sz v (pp. 498-500)
NOTES.

Ch. z8-37.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The Invasion of
JULIUS C)£SAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. V. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] I M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

[A]-4B' [4C1].

Contents: AI' (p. [iD half-title, verso bla:nk; Az' (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3'-A4' (pp. [v-vii]) CONTENTS; A4v blank; BI'-3Xz' (pp. 1-5z3) text
[3P3v blank]; 3Xzv blank; 3X3c4CI' (pp. 5z5-561) NOTES; 4Cl v blank.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.39-45 (correctly 38-44), Appendix III.

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IIZ

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT BRITAIN. I FROM I The Accession of JAMES 1. I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By

THE

HISTORYo F

G REA T B R I T A I N.
FROM

The Ac-ceffion of JAM E S I.
T

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The REV 0 L ·U T ION in 1688.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efq.

.
VOL.

VI.
.>

A N;EW EDITIQN, Cor·rected •• LON DON:
Printed for T. CADELL, (Sl:lccefTor to A. MILLAR) in rhe Strand.

MDCCLXX.

Title-page of no. 52 (6)113

DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. VI. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] I M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

7r' A' B-4K' 4L'(-L4).

Contents: 7rI' half·title, verso blank; 7rZ' title as above, verso blank; AI'-AzV(pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; BI'-4G4v (pp. 1--600) text [Z4 V blank]; 4HI'-4L3v (pp.
601-630) NOTES.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.46-50 (correctly 45-49)' Appendix, Ch·51-57 (correctly 50-57)(7)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT BRITAIN. I FROM I The Accession of JAMES I. I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. VII. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] 1M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

7r' A' B-4B'.

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NOTES; 4B4v blank.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.58-66 (correctly 57-65)(8)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT BRITAIN, I FROM I The Accession of JAMES I. I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I [rule] I By
DAVID HUME, Esq. I [rule] I VOL. VIII. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION,
Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, (Successor to A. MILLAR) in the Strand. I [rule] 1M DCC LXX.
Collation: 4°.

7r' [A'] B-3Y' 3Z'.

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Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch. 67-7Z (correctly 66-71).

114

THE

HISTORYOF

E !~ G LAN D,
FROM THEINVASION OF JULIUS ClESARTO

The REV 0 L UTI 0 N in 1688.
I N E I G H T VOL U M E S.

By D A V I D HUM E, Efg,;
VOL. 1.
A

NEW ED I T ION, CorreCled.

LON DON:

PrUlted for T. CAD ELL, in the Strand.
MDCC LXXIII.

Title-page of no_ 53 (r)

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53.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, corrected, 8 vols.
1773.
[Jessop, P.30](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. I. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°. 7r' [A'] B-zK' zL'(-zL4), A[ITI].
p. Zl7 incorrectly numbered IZ7.
Contents: ITl r half·title, verso blank; A portrait of Hume (Donaldson pinxit,
Ravenet scuIPsit); 7rZ r title as above, verso blank; Alr-Azv (pp. [i-iv]) CON·TENTS; BI'-zK4r (pp. 1-503) text; zK4v blank; zLir-zL3r (pp. 505-509)
NOTES; zL3v blank.

Ch. 1-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-9·(2)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. II. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: go.

7r' [A'] B-zK' zL' zM'.

Contents: ITl r half·title, verso blank; Air (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Az(pp. [iii/iv]) CONTENTS; Blr-zLzr (pp. 1-515) text; zLzv blank; zM (pp. 517/
518) NOTES.
Ch. 10--11, Appendix II, Ch. IZ-16.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. III. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

IT' A' B-zG' zH' zIG.

Contents: 7rl r half·title, verso blank; Air (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Azr-A4r (pp. [iii-vii]) CONTEr:nS; A4v blank; Blr-zH4v (pp. 1-47z) text; zh r-zI6'

116

(PP.473-483) NOTES; 216 v blank.
Ch.17-27·(4)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS ClESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. IV. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

1rl A' B-2H8 21'.

Contents: 1rl r half·title, verso blank; AIr title as above, verso blank; A2r-A4v(pp. [iii-viii]) CONTENTS, Bl r-2H8 v (pp. 1-480) text; 2II r-2!zv (pp. 481-484)

NOTES.
Ch.28-37·(5)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS ClESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. V. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

1r' [A'] B-20 8 2Pl 2Q'.

Contents: 1rl r half·title, verso blank; 1r2 r title as above, verso blank, Alr-A2v(pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; B-2Pe (pp. 1-577) text; 2Pl V blank; 2QI'-2Q4r (pp. 579-585) NOTES; 2Q4v blank.

Ch.38, 39 incorrectly numbered 39, 40; numbering of ch.40 duplicated. Ch.
36 (correctly 38)-44, Appendix III, Ch.45.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS ClESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VI. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

1r' [A'] B-zH8 21'.

Contents: 1rl r half·title, verso blank; 1r2 r title as above, verso blank; Alr-Azv(pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; BI'-2H8 v (PP.I-480) text; 2II r-2!zr (pp. 481-483)
NOTES; 2!zV blank.

Ch.47-49, Appendix, Ch. 50-56.

II7

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS CfESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

;re'[A'l B-2L'(-2L8) 2M'.

Contents: ;relr half·title, verso blank; ;re2 r title as above, verso blank; AI'-A2 V(pp. [i-ivJ) CONTENTS; Blr-2L7v (pp. 1-526) text; 2MI (PP.527-528) NOTES:
2M2 (pp. [1/2]) Publisher's advert.
Ch.57-65·(8)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OFI ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.fESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VIII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I
Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I M DCC LXXIII.
Collation: 8°.

;rel [A'l B-2K'.

Contents: ;relr half·title, verso blank; AIr (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; A2(pp. [iii/ivJ) CONTENTS; Blr-Y4 r (pp. 1-327) text; Y4 v blank; Y5'-2K8 v (pp. [1184]) INDEX.
Ch.66-71.

54.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, corrected. 8 vols.
Dublin. 1775/6.
[Not in Jessop](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS C.fESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. I. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I [parallel rule] I DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK· I SELLERS. I [rule] I M DCC LXXV.
Collation: 8°.

[A'l B-2D'.

Contents: AIr (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; A2 (pp. [iii/iv]) CONTENTS;
Bl r-2D4 r (pp. 1-407) text; 2D4 v blank.
1I8

THE

HISTORYo F

ENG LAN D,
FRO M

The INVASION of JULIUS ClESAR
T

0

The REV 0 L UTI 0 N in 1688.
b

EIGHT VOL U MRS.

By DAVID HUME, Efq;
VOL.· I.
·A NEW E D I T ION, COlTCftcd.
To which i. add.d, a COM P LET E 1 N 0 E X.

DUB LIN:
PUNTED FOR. THE UNITED "COMPANY OF BOOKSI'.LLERS.

MDCCLXXV.

Title.page of no.54(1)1I9

Ch. 1-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-9.

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Title: THE 1 HISTORY 1 OF 1 ENGLAND, 1 FROM 1 The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR 1 TO 1 The REVOLUTION in 1688. 1 IN EIGHTVOLUMES. 1 [rule] 1 By DAVID HUME, Esq; 1 [rule] 1 VOL. II. 1[rule]A NEW EDITION, Corrected.
To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. 1 [parallel rule] 1 DUBLIN: 1 PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK- 1 SELLERS. 1 [rule] 1 MDCCLXXV.
1

1

Collation: 8°.

N(-A4) B-zD' zEl.

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Ch.I0-II, Appendix II, Ch.lz-16.

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Title: THE 1 HISTORY 1 OF 1 ENGLAND, 1 FROM 1 The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR 1 TO 1 The REVOLUTION in 1688. 1 IN EIGHTVOLUMES. 1 [rule] 1 By DAVID HUME, Esq; 1 [rule] 1 VOL. III. 1[rule]A NEW EDITION, Corrected.
To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. 1 [parallel rule] 1 DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK- 1 SELLERS. ! [rule] ! MDCCLXXV.
1

1

Collation: 8°. [A4(-A4)] B-zA' zB'.
p. 115, 376 incorrectly numbered I I, 76 respectively.
Contents: AI' (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; AzLA3v (pp. [iii-vi]) CONTENTS; Blr-zBzr (pp. 1-371) text; zBzv-zB4 v (pp. 37z-376) NOTE.

Ch.17-z7·(4)

Title: THE 1 H.ISTORY 1 OF 1 ENGLAND, ! FROM 1 The INVASION
of JULIUS C.tESAR 1 TO 1 The REVOLUTION in 1688. 1 IN EIGHTVOLUMES. 1 [rule] 1 By DAVID HUME, Esq; 1 [rule] 1 VOL. IV. 1[rule] 1 A NEW EDITION, Corrected. 1 To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I· [parallel rule] 1 DUBLIN: 1 PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK' 1 SELLERS. i [rule] 1 MDCCLXXV.
Collation: 8°.

11: 1 a' B-2B' 2Cl.

Contents: 11:l r title as above, verso blank; aILaz V (pp. [i-iv]) CONTENTS; BIL
2B7 v (pp. 1-382) text; 2B8 L 2Cl v (pp. 383-386) NOTES.

Ch. z8-37.

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120

Title: THE 1 HISTORY 1 OF 1 ENGLAND,

1

FROM

The INVASION"

of JULIUS CtESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. V. I
[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I [parallel rule] I DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK- I SELLERS. I [rule] I MDCCLXXV.
Collation: 8°. A' B-2E' 2P.
p. 263 incorrectly numbered 265.
Contents: AI' (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; A2 (pp. [iiijiv]) CONTENTS;
BI'-2C7' (pp. 1-397) text; 2C7v-2Flv (pp. 398-434) NOTES.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.39-45 (correctly 38-44), Appendix III.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT BRITAIN, I FROM I The INVASION of JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I
IN EIGHT VOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL.
VI. I [rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I [parallel rule] I DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK-I SELLERS. I [rule] I M DCC LXXVI.
Collation: 8°.

A' B-2H'.

Contents: AI' (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; A2'-A4' (p. [iii-vii]) CONTENTS; A4 v blank; BI'-2G2' (pp. 1-451) text; 2G2 v-2H8 v (pp. 452-480) NOTES.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.46-57 (correctly 45-56).

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM I The INVASION
of JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I [parallel rule] I DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK- I SELLERS. I [rule] I M DCC LXXV.
Collation: 8°. A' (-A4) B-2D' 2£6.
p. 286, 298, 299 iricorrectly numbered 8 6, 299, 298 respectively.
Contents: AI' (p. [iJ) title as above, verso blank; A2'-A3 v (pp. [iii-vi]) CONTENTS; BI'-2D7v(PP. 1-414) text; 2D8'-2E6'(pP.415-427) NOTES; 2E6 v blank.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch·58-66 (correctly 57-65).

121

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HISTORYo F

GREA T

BRITAIN,
FRO M·The IN V A sIO N of JULIUS CiESAR
T

0

The REV 0 L UTI 0 N m 1688.
hr E I G H T VOL U M E S.

By D A V I D H U M E, Efq;
VOL. VI.
A NEW ED.ITION, ConeCled.
To whi.h i. ad,I«I, a COM P LE T E INDEX.

DUB LIN:
rnlXTf.D FOR THE UNITED CO·MP"NY OF BooK.
S¥.!.!.ERS.

MDCCLXXVL

Title·page of no. 54(6)
122

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I GREAT BRITAIN, I FROM I The AcCESSION of JAMES I. I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I [rule] I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I [rule] I VOL. VIII. I[rule] I A NEW EDITION, Corrected. I To which is added, a
COMPLETE INDEX. I [parallel rule] I DUBLIN: I PRINTED FOR THE
UNITED COMPANY OF BOOK- I SELLERS. I [rule] I M DCC LXXV.
Collation: go.

A2 B-2GB 2H'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; A2 (pp. [iii/iv]) CONTENTS;
BI'-SgV(pp.I-268) text; TIr-2H4v(PP. [1-200]) INDEX.

Numbering of chapters incorrect.
Ch.67-72 (correctly 66-71).

55.

The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresarto the Revolution in 1688. A new edition, with the author's
last corrections and improvements. 8 voIs- 1778.
[Jessop, P.30](1)

Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. I. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written by himself. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: go. AB a' B-2HB [21'], A[lii].
p. xv incorrectly numbered xvi.
Contents: AIr (p. [il) half.title. verso blank; A portrait of Hume (Donaldson
pinxit, Ravenet sculpsit); A2r(p. [iii]) title as above, verso blank; A3 r (P. [v]) title(The life of David Hume, Esq. written by himself.), verso blank; A4r-A8 v (pp.
vii-xvi) text of My own life; aI'-a4 r (pp. xvii-xxiii) Letter from Adam Smith toWilliam Strahan; a4 v (p. [xxiv]) Publisher's advert.; aS r-a6 v (pp. xxv-xxviii)
CONTENTS; BIr-2H3v(PP. 1-470) text; 2H4'-[2IIr] (pp. 471-481) NOTES; [2IIV]
blank.

Ch. 1-3, Appendix I, Ch.4-9.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS CJESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHT
12 3

'.raEHISTORYOF

ENGL AND,FROM THEINV ASION OF JULIUS ClESARTO

The REV 0' L UTI 0 N in I688.
IN E I G H T VOL U ME S.

By D A V I D

HUM E~ Efq;

VOL. 1.
A NEW ED I T ION, with the AUTHOR.'S laft
COIlIlECTIONS

and IMPROVEMENTS.

To which il prefixed,

A lhort A C C 0 U NT of his L I F E, writtcn by himfcl&

LON DON:

Printed for T. CAD ELL, in the Strand.
MDCC LXXVIII.

Title-page of no. 55 (I)124

VOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. II. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written by himself. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°. [N] B-z!' 2K' (-zK8).
p. z56 incorrectly numbered 26.
Contents: AIr (p. [iD half.title, verso blank; Azr (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank, Ay-A4V(P. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; BIr-zKzV(pp.I-500) text [HzV blank];
zK3r-zK7v(Pp.50I-5IO) NOTES.
Ch. Io--II, Appendix II, Ch. 12-16.
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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS CJESAR I TO ! The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. III. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written byhim~elf. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°. A4 B--zG'.
p. z08 incorrectly numbered 176.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Azr-A4v (pp. [iii-viii]) CON.
TENTS; BI'-zF7r(Pp.I-445) text [P4 v blank]; zF7v blank; 2F8 r-zG8 v (PP.447464) NOTES.
Ch. I]-Z7.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF! ENGLAND, I FROM THE! INVASION
OF JULIUS CrESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. N. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CoRRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written by himself. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°.

A'· B-zG'.

Contents: AIr (p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; Az'-A4v (pp. [iii-viii]) CONTENTS; BI'-zGI r (PP.I-449) text; zGIv-zG8V(PP.450--464) NOTES.
Ch. 28-37.
Iz5

(5)

Title: THE i HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS CIESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. V. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written by himself. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. I
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°. [A'] B-2L' 2M'.
p. 234, 450, 505 incorrectly numbered 423, 540, 055 respectively.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3'-A4 v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Bl r-216 v (pp. 1-492) text; 217'-2M4v(PP.493-536) NOTES.

Ch. 38-44, Appendix III.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, \ FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. VI. I A NEW EDITION,
with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I To which
is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written by himself. I[parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. !
M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°. [A'] B-20' 2P'.
p. 305, 306 duplicated; p. 259, 495, 585 incorrectly numbered 256,
295, 558 respectively.
Contents: AIr (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4V(PP. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; BI'-2N2'(pp.I-547) text [L6 v blank];
2N2 v blank; 2N3'-2P6v (pp. 549-588) NOTES.

Ch. 45-49, Appendix, Ch. 50-56.

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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C.tESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. VII. I A NEW
EDITION, with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I
To which is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written byhimself. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, inthe Strand. I M DCC LXXVIII.
Collation: 8°. [A'] B-2L' 2M'.
p. 16,298, 318, 468, 526 incorrectly numbered 14, 98, 8, 268, 26 res·126

pectiveiy.
Contents: Air (p. [iD half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4V(PP. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Blr-2LIV(pp.I-514) text; 2L2 r-2M2 v(pp.515-532) NOTES.

Ch. 57-65.
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Title: THE I HISTORY I OF I ENGLAND, I FROM THE I INVASION
OF JULIUS C)ESAR I TO I The REVOLUTION in 1688. I IN EIGHTVOLUMES. I By DAVID HUME, Esq; I VOL. Vrn. I A NEW
EDITION, with the AUTHOR'S last I CORRECTIONS and IMPROVEMENTS. I
To which is prefixed, I A short ACCOUNT of his LIFE, written byhimself. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed for T. CADELL, inthe Strand. I M DCC LXXVrn.
Collation: 8°.

[A'] B-2N'.

Contents: Air (p. [i]) half·title, verso blank; A2 r (p. [iii]) title as above, verso
blank; A3r-A4v (pp. [v-viii]) CONTENTS; Blr_Zlv (pp. 1-338) text; Z2r-2N7v(pp. [1-220]) INDEX; 2N8(pp. [1-2]) Publisher's advert.

Ch. 66-71.

Posthumous Editions

56.

The history of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cresar to
the Revolution in 1688. In eight volumes. By David Hume, Esq;
A new edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements. To which is prefixed, a short account of his life, written
by himself. London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1782.
8 vols.
23cm.
[Jessop, p. 30]
Vol. 1.

xxviii, 481 p. front. (port.) [Donaldson pinxit, Ravenet sculpsit](Publisher's advert. on p. xxiv)
Contents.My own life.
Letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan.
History of England, Ch. 1-9.

Vol. 2.

viii, 511 p.
12 7

Contents.Ch. 10-16.

Vol. 3. viii, 464 p.
Contents.Ch. 17-27.

Vol. 4.

viii, 464 p.
p. 231. 235. 246 incorrectly numbered 131, 135. 446 respectively.
Contents.Ch. 28-37.

Vol. 5.

viii, 536 p.
Contents.Ch. 38-44, and Appendix III.

Vol. 6.

viii, 588 p.
p. 192 incorrectly numbered 162.
Contents.Ch. 45-56.

Vol. 7.

viii, 532 p.
Contents.Ch. 57-65.

Vol. 8.

viii, 338, [220], [Ilp. (Publisher's advert. on p. [Il at end.)
p. 156 incorrectly numbered 561.
Contents.Ch. 66-71.

57.

The history of England, from the Invasion of Julius Ccesar to
the Revolution in 1688. In eight volumes, illustrated with plates.
By David Hume, Esq. A new edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements. To which is prefixed, a short accountof his life, written by himself... London: Printed for T. Cadell,... and sold by T. Longman ... 1789.

8 vols.

Vol. 1.

23 em.

xxviii, 484p.

[Jessop, P.3 0 ]front. (port.) 5 plates.

Contents.My own life.
Letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan.
History of Engla,nd, Ch. 1-9.

Vol. 2.

vi, 5 IIp.

6 plates.

p. 297 incorrectly numbered 792.
Contents.Ch. 10-16.

Vol. 3.

vii, 464p.

9 plates.

Contents.Ch. 17-27.

Vol. 4.

vii, 464p.

2plates.

p. 436 incorrectly numbered 36.
Contents.Ch. 28-37.

Vol. 5. V,536p.

2 plates.

Contents.Ch. 38-44, Appendix III.

Vol. 6.

vi, 588p.

2

plates.

2

plates.

Contents.Ch. 45-56.

Vol. 7.

vi, 532P.
Contents.Ch. 57-65.

Vol. 8.

vi,338, [220], [1] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [1] at end) 1 plate.
Contents.Ch. 66-71.
12 9

58.

The history of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to
the Abdication of James the Second, by David Hume, Esq. With
the author's last corrections and improvements. To which are
added a continuation, from the Abdication to the death of George
II. By Dr. Smollett; and a farther continuation, from George
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Of commerce.
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Of the populousness of antient nations.
Of the protestant succession.
Idea of a perfect commonwealth.

In the 1758 ed. of Essays and Treatises 'Of the original contract' and'Of passive obedience' were added (these originally appeared in Three essaysof 1748); the 1760 ed. added 'Of the jealousy of trade' and 'Of the coationof parties,' and altered the title of no. z to 'Of refinement in the arts.' Intheir ultimate form, as part II of Essays moral, political and literary, theDiscourses thus numbered sixteen. See 1-4 & 5.
An issue without the list of Scotticisms and Advert. bound in.

71.

Poli tical Discourses.

1752.
[Todd, p. 194; Jessop, p. 23]

Title: same as 1-70.

POLITICALDIS C 0 U R S E S.

BY

D A V I D HUM E j,Q.:

EDINBURGH,
Printed by R. F L E M I If c~
For A. KINCAID and A. DOlfALJ)iOK.

l\1.DCC.LII,
Title-page of no_ 70 and no_ 71.
lSI

POLITICALDIS C OU R S E S.

BY

D A V I D H U .M E

ES~

"l' H ESE CON D E D I T ION.

EDINBURGH,
Printed by R. F L E MIN G,
for A. KINCAID and A. DONALDSON~

M.DCC.Lll..

The second title-page of no_ 3 (4) and title-page of no. 72_
152

Collation: 8° in fours.

1I"1[a']11"2 A-2P'.

Contents: 1I"1 r (1'. [i]) title as above, verso blank; a1 c a3 v (pp. [iii-viii]) list of
Scotticisms; a4(pp. [ix/x]) Advert. of the books by Hume; 1I"2 r (p.,[xi]) CON·TENTS; 1I"2V (p. [xii]) ERRATA; A1 c 2P4v (pp. 1-304) text [H2v, S3 v, 2K3v,
2M4v blank].

An issue with the list of Scotticisms and Advert. bound in.

72.

Political Discourses.

2nd ed.

1752.
[Todd, P.I94; Jessop, P·23]

Title: POLITICAL [ DISCOURSES. [ BY [ DAVID HUME ESQ. [ THE
SECOND EDITION. [ EDINBURGH, [ Printed by R. FLEMING, [ For
A. KINCAID and A. DONALDSON. [ [rule] [M. DCC. LIT.
Collation: 12° in sixes.
11"2+1 A-2B6 2C'.
p. 208 incorrectly numbered 108.
Contents: 1I"Ir(p. [i]) title as above, verso blank; 11"2 (pp. [iiifiv]) Publisher's advert.;
1I"3 r (p. [v]) CONTENTS, verso blank; A-2Czv (pp. 1-304) text [E6 V , MSv, zA2v
blank].

Though called a 'second edition,' this is actually a reimpression of the first,
revised and then reimposed in the new format.
For further editions see under Essays and Treatises.

Posthumous Edition
Three essays, I. On the balance of trade. II. On the jealousy of trade. III. On
the balance of power. In: A brief essay on the advantages & disadvantages which
respectively attend France and Great-Britain, with regard to trade, by Josiah Tucker.
See 111-214.

Translations
73.

[Redigee avec une introduction par] Leon Say. David Hume[.]153

ffiuvre economique [.] Traduction nouvelle par M. Formentin[.]
Paris: Guillaumin et Cie ... [1888]
lxiii, 207, [I] p. front. (port.)[Jessop, p. 26]
15 cm.
Contents.Introduction [par Leon Say]
Autobiographie de Hume.
Lettre d' Adam Smith a Strahan.
Du commerce.
De la circulation monetaire.
De I'interet.
De la balance du commerce.
De la jalousie du commerce.
Des taxes.
Du credit public.
Correspondance avec Turgot.
-avec I' Abbe Morellet.
-avec Montesquieu.
-avec Mesdames de Bouffiers, Geoffrin, Riccoboni.

74 (1). Discours politiques de Mr. David Hume, traduits de l' Anglois
par Mr. de M****. Amsterdam: Chez J. Schreuder, & Pierre
Mortier Ie Jeune. 1754.
[ii], 355 p.
17 cm.
[Jessop, P·24]
p. 98 incorrectly numbered 89.
The translator was Eleazar de Mauvillon, 'dont Ie metier et de faire deslivres Franc;ais pour l' Allemagne, et d'enseigner ce qu'il ne sait - c'est a
dire, votre langue et la notre.' (Abbe Le Blanc to Hume, Dec. 25 of 1754,
in Burton, I, p. 461)
Contents.Du commerce.
I.
Du luxe.
2.
3· Sur l' argent.
4· De I' in teret.
5· Sur la balance du commerce.
6. De la balance du pouvoir.
7· Sur les impots.
8. Sur Ie credit public.
9· Sur quelques coutumes remarquables.
154

10.
II.

12.

Sur Ie nombre d'habitans parmi quelques nations anciennes.
Sur la succession protestante.
Idee d'une republique parfaite.

74(2-5). Diseours politiques ... Amsterdam, Chez J. Sehreuder, & Pierre
Mortier ... I756 [vols. 2-3]1r757 lvoIs. 4-5]
4 vols.
17 em.
These 4 volumes were published as complements to Hume'swork, containing essays on political, economic and sociological matters by other writers.

Vol. 2.

[vi],324p.
p. 205 incorrectly numbered 245.
Contents.[I] Essai sur les interets du commerce mantlme.
[2] Considerations sur les finances d'Espagne.
[3) Refiexions sur la necessite de comprendre I'etude du commerce etdes finances dans celie de la politique.
[4] Refiexions politiques sur I'etat present de l'Angleterre, principale.
ment it I'egard de ses taxes et de ses dettes, et sur leurs causes
et leurs consequences, par Mylord Bolingbroke.
[5] Ouvrages sur Ie commerce, les finances, &c. Qui ont paru depuis
deux it trois ans.

Vol. 3.

[iv], 428 p.
p. 241, 410, 425 incorrectly numbered 421, 210, 245 respectively.
Contents.[I] Discours prononces au parlement d' Angleterre, dans la chambre
des pairs, pour et contre la liberte du commerce au levant, avec
Ie bill ou loi intervenue a ce sujet.
[2] Essai sur la nature du commerce en general.

Vol. 4.

[xviii], 462 p.
Contents.Les interets de la France mal entendus.
[I] Branche de I'agriculture.
f2J Branche de la population.
ISS

DISCOURSPOLITIQUESD EMR.DA YID HUME,
TRADUITS D"E L' ANGLOIS

P.4 R MR.. DE MfHf. •••A AM.s T E R D A }'f,Chez

J. S C H R E UD E R,

Ie PIERRE MORTIER Ie Jeune.
M DeC L I v~
Title-page of no_ 74(1)-[3JVol. 5.

Branche des finances.

[viii], 340 p.
p. I I 2 incorrectly numbered 12.
Contents.Les inten~ts de !a France mal entendus.
[4] Branche du commerce.
[5] Branche de la marine.
[6] Branche de !'industrie.

157

x.
75.

DIALOGUES CONCERNING
NATURAL RELIGION

Dialogues concerning Natural Religion. 2 nd ed. 1779.
[Todd, P·203; Jessop, P.4I]
Title: DIALOGUES I CONCERNING I NATURAL RELIGION. I BY I
DAVID HUME, EQs. I THE SECOND EDITION. I [rulell LONDON: I
M. DCC. LXXIX.
Collation: go.

IT' A-Q' R'.

Contents: ITIr(p. [I]) half·title; ITIV(p. [2]) "Entered in Stationers·Hall, according
to Act of Parliament"; IT2 r (p. [3]) title as above, verso blank; AIr-R2v (pp. 5264) text [A4V, C2v, H6 v, 16v blank].

Posthumous edition76.

Dialogues concerning natural religion. By David Hume, Esq. To
which is added, Divine benevolence asserted; and vindicated fromthe objections of ancient and modern sceptics. By Thomas Balguy... Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw ... 1782.
22 cm.
[Not in Jessop]
175,v, I2 5P·

DIALOGUESCONCERNING

NATURAL RELIGION.
BP AVIDY

HUM 'E,-

Es~

THE SECOND EDITION.

LON

DON:

M. DCC. LXXIX.

Title-page of no_ 75159

XI.
77.

QUARRELL WITH ROUSSEAU

Expose succinct de la contestation qui s'est elevee entre M.
Hume et M. Rousseau. London [ParisJ. 1766.
[Todd, p. 201 ; Jessop, pp. 37/38J
Title: EXPOSE SUCCINCT I DE LA CONTESTATION I QUI S'ESTELEVEE ENTRE I M. HUME. I ET I M. ROUSSEAU, I AVEC LESPIECES JUSTIFICATIVES. I [om.] I A LONDRES. I [rule] 1M. DCC.
LXVI.
Collation: 12°.

aBC-aS) AB B' C-P' G4.

Contents: al.' (p. lil) title as above, verso blank; a2'-a7 V (pp. iii-xiv) ADVERTISSEMENT des Editeurs; AI'-G2 v (pp. 1-124) text; G3'-G4' (pp. 125-127) DECLARATION .adressee par M. D' Alembert aux Editeurs; G4v blank.

The original edition, printed in Paris without press-figures.

78.

Expose succinct de la contestation qui s'est elevee entre M.
Hume et M. Rousseau. London. 1766.
[Todd, pp. 201/2; Jessop, p. 38J
Title: EXPOSE SUCCINCT I DE LA CONTESTATION I QUI S'ESTELEVEE ENTRE 1M. HUME. I ET I M. ROUSSEAU, ! AVEC LESPIECES JUSTIFICATIVES. I [om.] I A LONDRES. I [rule] 1M. DCC.
LXVI.
Collation: 12°.

aBC-aS) A-B12 D-F12 G4.

Contents: al'(p. lil) title as above, verso blank; a2'-a7 v (pp. iii-xiv) ADVERTISSEMENT des Editeurs; AI'-G2 v (pp. 1-124) text; G3'-G4' (pp. 125-127)
DECLARATION adressee par M. D' Alembert aux Editeurs; G4v blank.

The London edition, without press-figures.

79.

A Concise and Genuine Account of the Dispute between Mr.
Hume and Mr. Rousseau. 1766.
[Todd, p.202; Jessop, P.38J

160

EXPOSE SUCCINCTDE LA CONTESTATIONQUI S' EST E LEV "E E E N T R E

M. HUME.
E T

M. ROUSSEAU,AVEC LES PIECES JUSTlFICATIVES.

A LONDRES..

M. Dec. LXV~
Title-page of no. 77.
161

EXPOSE SUCCIN CT
DE LA CONTESTATION,,Q...UI S'EST ELEVEE ENTRE

M. HU M E.
E T

M. R 0 U SSE A U,
AVEC LES PIECES JUSTIFICATIVES.

A LONDRES.

M. Dec. LXVI.
Title-page of no. 78.
162

A
CONCISE AND GENUINEACCOUNTOFT HE

D

I

s

p

u T

E

BETWEEN

Mr. HUME and Mr. ROUS SEA U:
WITH THELET T E R S
That patred between them dllring their
CONTROVERSY.
A S: A L s. o.

The L E TTE RS of the Hon. Mr. WALPOLE,
a.nd· Mr. D' Al. EM BEB. T, relative to this extra.
ordinary Affair.
Tranfiated from the French.

LON DON:
Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT,near Surry-ftreet, in the Strand.

M·DCCLXVI.

Title-page of no. 79.

JUSTIFICATIONDE
J~

J. R 0 US SEA U ,DANS LA CONTESTATIONQUI LUI EST SURVENUEAVEC M. HUME.

A LONDRES.

Title-page of no. 80.

Title: A I CONCISE AND GENUINE I ACCOUNT I OF THE I DISPUTE I BETWEEN I Mr. HUME and Mr. RUOSSEAU: I WITH
THE I LETTERS I That passed between them during their I CONTROVERSY. I AS ALSO, I The LETTERS of the Hon. Mr. WALPOLE, I
and Mr. D' ALEMBERT, relative to this extra-Iordinary Affair. I [rule] I
Translated from the French. I [parallel rule] I LONDON: I Printed forT. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, I near Surry-street, in the Strand. I
MDCCLXVI.
Collation: 8°. A' B-G'.
Contents: AI'(p. [il) title as above, verso blank; A2'-A4v (pp. iii-viii) ADVERTISEMENT of the French Editors; BI'-G7'(PP. 1-93) text; G7v-G8' (pp. 94/95)
DECLARATION of Mr. D' Alembert, relating to Mr. Walpole's letter. Addressedto the French editors; G8 V (p. [961) ERRATUM.

80. Justification de J. J. Rousseau, dans la contestation qui lui est
survenue avec M. Hume. London: 1767.
22

p.

20cm.

[Jessop, P.48]

81. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Original letters of ]. ]. Rousseau, to M. de Malesherbes, M.
d'Alembert, Madame la M. de Luxembourg, &c. &c. With a facsimile of Rousseau's hand-writing, and an original military air of
his composition. Also, original letters of Butta Fuoco and David
Hume. Translated from the French. London: Printed by C. Whittingham ... for H. D. Symonds ... I799.
viii, 200 p. 5 sheets of music
I8 cm.
[Jessop, P.49]
Contents.[I] Original letters of J. ]. Rousseau, to M. de Malesherbes, M. d' Alembert,&c. &c.
[2] Original letters from J. J. Rousseau, to Madame la Mareschale de Luxem·
bourg.
[3] Original letters from]. J. Rousseau, to Madame d'Houdetot.
[4] Original letters of Butta-Fuoco, to ]. J. Rousseau.
[5] Original letters of David Hume, relative to J. J. Rousseau.
[6] An essay on military music, by ]. J. Rousseau.

16582. Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Lettre de Mons. de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume. 1766.
17 cm.
in Jessop (listing only an English translation, 1766.-p.

166

LETTRE
D E

Monf. DE J70LTAIRE
A

Monfieur

•

HUM

21152

M Dee LXVI.

. Title-page of no_ 82_=_

E.

XII. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY,LETTERS
83.

The Life of David Hume.

1st ed.

1st issue.

1777.

[Todd, pp.202/3; Jessop, P.39]
Title: THE! LIFE I OF I DAVID HUME, Esq. I WRITTEN BY
HIMSELF. I [rule] I LONDON: I PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN;AND I T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND. I MDCCLXXVII.
Collation: 8° . ..l 7r' [A'] B-E'(-E8),
Contents: ..l portrait of Hume (T. Cook sculpsit); 7rr' half·title, verso blank; 7r2'
title as above, verso blank; Ar' (p. [iJ) blank; Arv (p. [iiJ) publisher's advert.;
A2 (pp. [iii]/iv) [Preface]; Br'-D2' (pp. r-35) text; D2 v blank; D3' title: Letterfrom Adam Smith ... to ·William Strahan ... ; D3 v blank; D4'-E7 v (pp. 39-62) text.

Todd's "a" edition, with correct reading 'myself' in line 3, p. 29.
This autobiography is prefixed to I-55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 6r, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 73(French).

84.

The Life of David Hume.

1st ed.

2nd issue. 1777.

[Todd, pp.202!3; Jessop, P.39]
Title: same as 1-83.
Collation: 8°. 7r' ;. [A'] B-E' (-E8).
Contents: 7rr' blank, 7rr V Publisher's advert.; 7r2' half-title, verso blank; ..lportrait of Hume (T. Cook scuIPsit); Ar'(p. [iD title as above, verso blank; A2(pp. [iii]/iv) [Preface]; Br'-D2'(pp.1-35) text; ... same as 1-83 ...

Todd's 'b' edition, with misprinted reading 'himself' in line 3, p. 29.

BOUND WITH
[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
A letter to Adam Smith ... on the life, death, and philosophy of his
friend David Hume Esq. By one of the people called Christians. ... the
168

THE

L

F

I

E

o F

D ~L\. V I D HUM E, Efq.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

LON DON:
PRINTEDFORW.

STRAHAN;T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
MDCCLXXVII.

Title-page of no_ 83.

.ANDsecond edition, Oxford: at the Clarendon press. 1777. Sold by Daniel
Prince; and by
F. and C. Rivington, G. Robinson, and T. Payne
and Son, London.

.r.

iv, 47 p.

[Jessop, P.43]

Leaves E and F erroneously gathered, pagination runs as follows: 33-40, 25-32, 41.
See 1-88.

BOUND WITH

[Pratt, Samuel Jackson] 1749-r8r4.
An apology for the life and writings of David Hume, Esq. with aparallel between him and the late Lord Chesterfield: to which is added
an address to one of the people called Christians. By way of reply
to his letter to Adam Smith, ... London: Printed for Fielding andWalker ... D. Prince, Oxford, T. andMerrill, Cambridge, and W.
Creech, Edinburgh. r777.
xv, r67, [rJp.
[Jessop, p. 44].r.

New ed. 1789, also issued as 'Curious particulars and genuine anecdotes
respecting Lord Chesterfield and David Hume' (anon.), 1788.

BOUND WITH

Supplement to the life David Hume, Esq.

contammg genuine anecdotes, and a circumstantial account of his death and funeral. To
which is added, a certified copy of his last will and testament ...
London: Printed for
Bew ... 1777.
64p.

.r.

85. The Life of David Hume. Written by himself. London: Printed
for Hunt and Clarke ... 1826.
vi, 16 p.

18cm.

Vita di David Hume scritta da lui stesso[.][Jessop, p. 40]

Aggiunta una lettera di
Adamo Smith 9, November 1776. Circa la morte e it carattere del suo
amico[.] London: Ed. Cadell. 1792.

13 p.

30 cm.

See 111-7.

86.

[Short biographies of Scottish authors]*
27 cm.

* Contains in a quarto volume short biographies of Scottish
authors. There is usually no title-page, no place of publication or
specific date.
(I) [=(4)], (2) [=(5)], (6) [=(7)], (8) [=(10)], and the translationof (3) and (I I) are attributed to Dalrymple (Sir David, Lord Hailes,
1726-1792), according to DNB.
(9) is attributed to John Stuart (1751-1827).
(I)

Sketch of the life of John Hamilton, a secular priest.
14 p. (Erratum on p. 14)(2)

Sketch of the life of Mark Alexander Boyd.
26, [I]p. (Errata on p. 26)(3)

Adami Smithi, LL.D. ad Gulielmum Strahanum, Armigerum, derebus novissimis Davidis Humei, epistola, nunc primum Latine
reddita. 1788.
17 p.

(4)

Same as (I)(5)

Same as (2)(6)

Life of George Lesley.
24p·

(7)

Same as (6)(8)

Sketch of the life of John Barclay, author of Argenis.
22, [I]p. (Errata on p. [IJ)

(9) A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen ...
Aberdeen: Printed by J. Chalmers ... Sold by Mr. James Sibbald,
Edinburgh; and Mr. J. Evans ... London. 1790.
14p.
(10)

Same as (8)(ll)

Davidis Humei, Scoti, summi apud suos philosophi, de vita sua
17 1

acta, liber singularis; nunc primum Latine redditus. 1787.
12 p.
[Jessop, p. 40]
Date of edition(s) and place of publication.
(I) -1768; -[1785 E].

(2)
(3)
(6)
(8)
(9)

-1785; -[1787 E].
-1788.
-[1780?]; -[1787 E?]-1780; -[1783 E]; -[1786? E].
-1790 i\berdeen; -1790 ; 2-1794.
(II) -1787 E?

87.

The death of Burne.
7 p.
21 cm.

[Not in Jessop]

The pamphlet is anonymous, no place of publication and would seem to datefrom about 1850. 'Reflections on death' also in the same pamphlet.

88.

[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
A letter to Adam Smith LL.D. on the life, death, and philosophyof his friend David Burne Esq. By one of the people called
Christians... Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1777. Sold by Daniel
Prince; and by J. F. and C. Rivington, G. Robinson, and T.Payne
and Son, London.
16 cm.
IV,47 p.
-1777 0; -1777; 2-1777 0; 3-1777 0; 4-1784 0; -1784; -1799; -1800;-1804; -1813; -1820.

89.

[Horne, Georgel 1730-1792.
Letters on infidelity. By the author of a letter to Doctor Adam
Smith ... Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1784. Sold by D. Prince
and J. Cooke, Oxford: G. Robinson, J. F. and C. Rivington, andT. Cadell, London.
[vil>301 p. (Errata on p. [vi])17 cm.
-1784 0; 2-1786 0; -1806 O. i\merican ed.: -1831 NY.

90.

[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
Letters on infidelity. 2nd ed. To which is prefixed A letter to
Dr. Adam Smith... Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1786. Sold
by D. Prince and J. Cooke, Oxford: G. Robinson, J. F. and C.
Rivington, and T. Cadell, London.
[vi],iiid4,301 P·
17 cm.
[Jessop, PP.44-45]

91. Ritchie, Thomas Edward.
An account of the life and wntmgs of David Hume, Esq. By
Thomas Edward Ritchie. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W.
Davies ... 1807.
vi, 520 p.
23 cm.
[Jessop, P.46]
Contents.Account of the life and writings of David Hume.
Appendix.
I. Essays not inserted in Miscellaneous Works.
I.
Of impudence and modesty.
2.
Of love and marriage.
3. Of the study of history.
4. Of avarice.
s. Of essay writing.
6. Of moral prejudices.
7. Of the middle station of life.
8. A character of Sir Robert Walpole.
II. Letter from Mr. Hume to the author of the Critical Review, respecting
Mr. Wilkie's Epigoniad.
III. E:xpose succinct de la contestation, qui s'est eleve entre M. Hume et M.
Rousseau; avec les pieces justificatives.
Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in his autograph on the verso of
the half·title, "To M. D. Christie/From the author/Tho. Edwd. Ritchie."

92. Private correspondence of David Hume with several distinguishedpersons, between the years 1761 and 1776. Now first publishedfrom the originals. London: Printed for Henry Colburn ... 1820.
xix, 285 Ci. e. 277 )[2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1/2])
30 cm.
[Jessop, p. 46]
173p.215, 273-277 incorrectly numbered 315. 281-285 respectively.

93. Murray, Thomas (ed.)
Letters of David Hume, and extracts from letters referring tohim. Edited by Thomas Murray... Edinburgh: Published byAdam and Charles Black. 1841.
8op.
[Jessop, P.46]
24 cm.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper:'George Setton, Esq. Advocate./from the Editor.-/Colinton Bank, 29th. Nov.
1861.'

94.

[Burton, John Hi1l (ed.)]Letters of eminent persons addressed to David Hume[.] Fromthe papers bequeathed by his nephew to the Royal Society of
Edinburgh[.] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood andSons[.] 1849.
xxxi, 334, [16] p. (Publisher's advert. on last 16 pages)
24 cm.
Persentation copy inscribed by editor on half·title: 'William Tait, Esq./with
the Editors/best compliments.' William Tait was the well·known Edinburgh
publisher.

95.

McGilchrist, John.
David Hume. An essay, biographical and critical, with an analysis and estimate of his philosophy[.] By John McGilchrist.
London: E. Truelove ... [1885]
28 p.
18 cm.
pp. 7-10 and 19-22 missed.

96.

Mossner, Ernest Campbell, 1907The forgotten Hume[.] Le bon David[.] By Ernest Campbell
Mossner[.] New York: Columbia University Press. 1943·
xv, 251 p.
front. (port.) I plate.
24 cm.

174

Contents.Pt. I. Hume's Hume.
I.
My own life.
II. The Scottish poets.
2. Hume and the Scottish Pindar.
3. Hume and the Scottish Shakespeare.
4. Hume and the Scottish Homers.
III. The controversialists.
5· Hume and Wallace.
6. Hume and Rousseau.
IV. The Johnsonians.
7. Hume and Boswell.
·8. Hume and Johnson.
9. Afterword.

97.

Greig, J. Y. T. (ed.)
The letters of David Hume... Oxford: at the Clarendon Press.
[1969-lst ed., 1932]
2 vols.
23 cm.
Vol. 1.

xxxii, 532 p.

front. (port.) [of David Burne]

2plates.

1plate.

Contents.My own life, by David Hume.
Letters 1-296 (4 July 1727-Dec. 1765)

Vol. 2.

[iv], 498 p.

front. (port.) [of J. J. Rousseau]

Contents.~

Letters 297-544 (2 Jan. 1766-23 Aug. 1776)
Appendices.
Index.

175

XIII. MISCELLANEOUS MINOR WORKS
98.

A true account of the behaviour and conduct of Archibald
Stewart ... 1748.
[Todd, P.I92J
Title: A TRUE I ACCOUNT i OF THE I Behaviour and Conduct I OF IARCHIBALD STEWART, Esq; I LATE I Lord PROVOST of Edinburgh. I
In a LETTER to a FRIEND. I Non potu it mea mens, quin esset grata,
teneri. I Sit, precor, officio non gravis ira pio. I OVID. I [om.] I LONDON: I
Printed for M. COOPER, in Pater-noster- [Row. MDCC XLVIII. I [Price One
Shilling.]
Collation: 8° in fours.

AI B-G' [Hl}. [Todd's 'd' edition]

Contents: AIr (p. [I]) title as above, verso blank; BIr-GIv (pp. 3-44) text; G2rHIr(pP.4S-SI) POSTSCRIPT; HI V blank.
Text dated 'October 20, 1747'; postscript dated 'Novem.·4, 1747,' two days
after the acquittal of Stewart.
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100. Essays on suicide, and the immortality of the sou1. 1783.

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102. The mortality of the soul[.] By David Hume. Reprinted fromthe original edition of 1789[.] With an introduction by G. W.
Foote. Price twopence. London: Progressive Publishing Company ... 1890.
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the Immortality of the Soul,' but with the title here changed for shock effect.

179103. Manstein, Christoph Hermann von, 1711-1757.
Memoirs of Russia, historical, political, and military, from theyear MDCCXXVII to MDCCXLIV. A period comprehending
many remarkable events. In particular the wars of Russia with
Turky and Sweden. With a supplement, containing a summary
account of the state of the military, the marine, the commerce,&c. of that great empire. Translated from the original manuscriptof General Manstein... Never before published. Illustrated withmaps and plans. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De
Hondt... 1770.
viii, 424, [8] p. 9 plates.
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p. 103, 302 incorrectly numbered 203, 204 respectively.
The preliminary advertisement is signed by Hume. The work had been sent
to him from Berlin by the Earl Marshal of Scotland with tne request that hewould scrutinize the translation and secure its publication.
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104. [Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.]Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland,appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poemsof Ossian. Drawn up, according to the directions of the Committee,
by Henry Mackenzie, Esq .... With a copious appendix, containingsome of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
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1805.
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Two letters from Hume to Hugh Blair about the authenticity of the Ossian
poems are printed on pp. 4-11.

105. The Scotch haggis; consisting of anecdotes, jests, curious and rarearticles of literature: with a collection of epitaphs and inscriptions,original and selected ... Edinburgh: Printed and Published by D.
Webster and son ... 1822.
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One of the rarest of Hume's works is jeu d'esprit written in 1751, 'The
Petition of the Grave and venerable Bellmen (or Sextons) of the Church of
Scotland, to the Hon. House of Commons.' A broadside of 2 pages, it is
known to exist in only two copies, at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Cam·bridge University Library. It is reprinted in the above volume on pages 18791. The above volume is itself uncommon; only 7 copies have been recorded.

181

PART TWOAUTOGRAPH LETIERSOFDAVID HUME

Hume to his brother, John Home of Ninewells, from Morpeth, 23
April 1776, a short note saying that his journey has begun well.
2.
A letter of 2 pages from Hume to his brother, written at Barnaby,
27 April 1776, about the appearance of his cousin John Home and Adam
Smith.
3. A letter to his brother announcing his arrival in London, 2 May 177 6 .
(not signed)
4. A letter to his brother, from London, 3 May 1776, about his stay In
London, his new servant, and the prospect of being accompanied byArchibald Stewart for the rest of the journey.
5. A letter of one page to his brother, from London, 6 May 1776, about
his health and other domestic matters.
6. A letter of I ~ pages to his brother, from Bath, 13 May 1776, aboutarrangements for a new servant, and some financial matters.
7.
A short letter to his brother, from Bath, 15 June 1776, about hishealth and his prospective return to Edinburgh. (not signed)
8. A letter of 2 pages to his brother, from Edinburgh, 10 July 1776,
about his return from England, and the various diagnoses of his ailments.
9. A letter of one page to his brother, from Edinburgh, 18 July 1776,
about the health of his nephew, Josey, and his own health. (signed with
his initials only)
10. A letter of one page to his brother, 25 July 1776, about his health.
I I.
A letter of one page to his brother, from Edinburgh, 29 July 177 6 ,again about his declining health, suggesting that his brother need notcome to Edinburgh.
12. A letter forwarded by express to his brother, 13 August 1776, announcing that Dr. Black expects him to die in a few days. Appended to
the letter is a note in the autograph of one of Hume's nephews, John Home.
13. One of Hume's last letters, forwarded by express to his brother, Edinburgh, 20 August 1776, a short note about his declining strength, and anote of his nephew John. - - Hume died five days later.
14. A letter of 2~ pages from Hume to his nephew, Joseph Home ofHorndean - - the philosopher's "Josey" - - written from Edinburgh, at
Hume's new house on St. Andrew's Square, 12 May 1771. A note in the
autograph of Agnes Home, Josey's mother, is added at the end.
15. A letter of 3 pages from Hume to John Crawford of Auchenaimes,
written from Edinburgh, 5 November 1766.
I.

185

The first fourteen of these letters were until recently thought to havebeen lost. In 1955, Mr. Geoffrey Hunter discovered transcripts of the lettersmade in the 19th century by an Edinburgh lawyer, John Turnbull (182091). They were published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol.
II, no. 2 (Summer 1960), pp. 127-50. Mr. Hunter commented that "there
is some evidence to suggest that autograph letters·· .were burnt." (p. 129)
But, fortunately, they were not, and these original autograph letters ofDavid Hume were added to this collection. While the published transcriptsof the letters are reasonably accurate, there are a number of differences
between them and the originals.
Thirteen letters addressed to his brother touch upon a number of points
in connection with Hume's life and his health. Written to his closest
relative, they reveal the philosopher at his most relaxed and communicative.
The fourteenth letter covers a number of amusing areas of Josey's behaviour.
It conveys much more of the flavour and tenor of Hume's jocular correspondence with Josey.
No. 15 is the earlist of Hume's known letters to John Crawford. This
autogragh original was until recently in private hands, and was first published by Messrs. J. C. Hilson and J. V. Price in Yearbook for English
Studies, VII (1977), pp. 121-27. The published transcript is faithful exceptthat several capitals are lower-cased, cock-up letters are disregarded, and"woud" in a sentence is rectified.
The letters are here reproduced faithfully except that mlsslllg periods areinserted in square brackets [ ]. I have strictly followed Hume's spelling andpunctuation. Adhering to his usage, I have had to write Fur/owe; sometimes
Haemorrage, sometimes Haemorrhage; could, cou'd and coud, received, receiv'd,
and receivd, without any rule. His disregard of uniformity appears moreclearly in the spelling of proper names. We find Barnaby and Burnaby;
D'alembert and Dalembert; Madame du Deffand is called du Duffan.

Sadao Ikeda

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GENEALOGICAL TABLE
ID.1708

JosephKatherine
168 3-1745

1681-1713

I

ID.1751

John of Ninewells =:::::c=== Agnes
1709-1785

I

daughter ofRobert Carre of
CaversI

I

Katherine
1710?-179°
d. unmarried

1711-177 6
d. unmarried

I

Joseph

David

John

1752-1 832

1757-1 8 38

1758-1806d. unmarried

I

David
(The philosopher)

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1. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home of Ninewells Esqr
Butte~;; Land, New Town of
Edinburgh
Morpeth 23 of April 1776
Dear BrotherI have had excellent Weather, have performed every day's Journey!
without Fatigue, have had good Beds by Colin's2 Care and have slept well,
my Appetite not amiss, few pains in my Bowels, and not much moredemand to go to Stool than Health requires; but that there is any Appearance of material Alteration I can neither flatter myself nor you. I shallbe at Newcastle tonight; and probably go on at the Rate of two Posts aday. You may say to all my Friends that the Journey agrees with me. Tell
Dr Black 3 that I observe his Prescription of a low Diet. My Love toKaty [.]4Yours sincerelyDavid Hume
Hume left Edinburgh for London on the 21st of April. For fuller account of
Hume's journey, see Burton, II, 495-506, HL 519-529, and Mossner 590-596.
In the notes the following abbreviations are used:
Burton = John Hill Burton, Life and Correspondence of David Hume. Edinburgh,
1846. 2 vols.
Hilson and Price = J. C. Hilson and John Valdimir Price, Hu~e and Friends,
1756 and 1766: Two New Letters, Yearbook for English Studies, VII (1977),
pp.121- 127·
HL = The Letters of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig. Oxford, 1932, 2 vols.
[Letters are listed by number rather than by volume and page.]
Hunter = Geoffrey Hunter, David Hume: some unpublished Letters. Texas Studies
in Literature and Language, II (1960/61), PP.127-15o.
Mossner = E. C. Mossner, The Life of David Hume, 2nd ed. Oxford, 1980.
NHL = New Letters of David Hume, eds. R. Klibansky and E. C. Mossner. Oxford,
1954. [Letters listed by number.]
2. Colin Ross, previously the confidential servant of Hume's friend William Mure(see n. 14, below). After Mure died (25 March 1776), it was arranged that heshould undertake the functions of travelling servant and sick nurse to the dying
friend of his old master. See Hunter, 136 n.
3. Joseph Black (1728-99), professor of medicine, Glasgow, 1756-66; practised asphysician; made investigations into the question of 'latent heat,' which formed thebasis of modern thermal science, and gave the first impulse to Watt's improvement
1.

18 9

2. Letter addressed on back;To
John Home of Ninewells Esqr
in Butter's Land
New Town of
Edinburgh
Barnaby 27 of April I 776
Dear Brother
You have probably heard, what an agreeable Surprise I receiv'd atMorpeth (it was a few hours after I had written to you) by the Arrivalof John Homes, who had taken that Journey from London on purpose tojoin me, and if he had found me at Edinburgh, to rouze me to the
Journey. He immediately return'd with me: Adam Smith 6 , if he had notbeen bound to pay a Visit to his Mother, woud also have favourd us with
his Company7. We have proceeded in the most agreeable Manner in theWorld, and I am, as you' may believe, much the better for his Company.
We advance only at the rate of two Stages a day; and are still at present,
on Saturday Evening, one hundred and forty nine Miles from London. I
coud easily have proceeded faster; but we think, that the prolonging of the
Journey is the best Circumstance for my Health, and my Companion joyfully
submits to this slow Method of travelling [.J Never was seen better
Weather or a finer Season: Accordingly I am myself better; but my Friend
has written both to London and Edinburgh, that I am a great deal better andwill shortly be quite well: His Notion is founded on my good Spirits, aCircumstance somewhat fallacious. However, I Own, I am sensibly better,but the Root of the Distemper still remains and discovers itself by a heavy
dull Pain, about the Pit of my Stomach, which appears more evidently distinct
from a Colical Pain, since my Journey. My Friends tell me, that Sir John
Pringle B, from his present Notion of my Case, is resolved to send me toBath, which will not be disagreeable to me; and the Waters may be us'd/the steam engine, I 756-62 ; professor of medicine and chemistry, Edinburgh,
I766-97. He was a prominent member of the intellectual society by which Edin·burgh was then distinguished. Amongst his intimates were Hume, Adam Smith,Ferguson, Hutton, Alexander Carlyle, Dugald Stewart, and John Robison.
4. Katherine (I7IO?-90), the philosopher's sister.
5. John Home (I722-I808), the author of 'Douglas.' Hume described it III the'dedicatory preface' of his 'Four Dissertations' addressed to Home (I757) as 'oneIIIfor such Complaints at all Seasons. Colin takes good Care of me, andprovides me in an excellent Bed every Night. I shall probably stay but afew days in London; and you need not write me till you hear again fromme. Pray, tell Dr Black, that I delay writing to him, till nearer the Endof the Journey, when he will be able to form a better Notion from theSymptoms [.] It is certain at least, that this Journey has provd an Amusement, and is the best thing I coud have done in my Circumstances. My
Love to Katy and to Mrs Home 9 and all your Family. Be so good as towrite a few Lines to Adam Smith at Kirkaldy, giving him an Account of
my Proceedings, such as I have informed you of them. Tell him it was at
my Desire [.J I am
Dear BrotherYours most sincerelyDavid Humeof the most interesting and pathetic pieces that was ever exhibited in any
theatre,' and he credite.d Home with 'the true theatric genius of Shakespeare
and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and licentiousnessof the other' (Philosophical Works, ed. Green and Grose, III, 66-67). Home
recorded in a diary Hume's sayings and doings during this journey (printed in
the Appendix to Mackensie's Account of the Life of Home, prefixed to The
Works of John Home, I; reprinted in Burton. II, 495-504).
6. Adam Smith (1723-90), author of 'The Wealth of Nations,' which was published
9 March 1776; on I April Hume wrote Smith a letter of congratulation (HL,
5 1 7).
,. At Kirkcaldy, on 3 June, Smith wrote to William Strahan (see n. 12 below),'From this obscure and remote part of the country there is nothing to write you
about except, the worst of all subjects, ones self. And even upon that subject
I have nothing to say except that I am in perfect health and that I found mymother as much so as it is possible for anybody to be who is past eighty."(The Correspondence of Adam Smith, ed. by Mossner and Ross, letter 158).
8. Sir John Pringle (1707-82), joint-professor of pneumatics and moral philosophy
at Edinburgh, 1734-44 (Hume was an unsuccessful candidate for this chair in1745); Physician-General to the forces in Flanders 1744; elected President of
the Royal Society 1772. His great work in life was the reform of military
medicine and sanitation. It was at his urging that made the present journey(see Mossner, 590-591).
9. Agnes, wife of John Home of Ninewells, daughter of Robert Carre of
Cavers, Roxburghshire.
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3. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home of Ninewells Esqr
New Town
Edinburgh
2of May 1776

Dear BrotherI arrived yesterday in London, after a very agreeable Journey oftwelve days. I immediately sent a Message to Sir John Pringle, who was
so obliging as to prevent my calling on him, and to come to me. Afterlong Conversation, he told me that he saw nothing alarming in my Case,and doubted not of my speedy Recovery. He will not, however, tell me
any thing farther of his Intentions, till tomorrow, when I shall know towhat place he intends to send me: For to be sure I shall not live in the
midst of this Smoke and Noise of London. The Truth is, I improved on
my Journey, after the Letter I wrote you from Burnaby: And both John
Home and Colin affirmed, that were it not for my leanness, which was notsensible except to those who knew me before, anyone wou'd have taken
me for an old Gentleman in good Health. I do really feel myself somewhat
light and easy, and begin to fancy that this Complaint may possibly goover: But as it never lay either in want of Sleep, Appetite, or Spirits, but
in some secret unknown Cause, which wasted me, and about which I findthe Physicians are likely to differ, we can pronounce nothing till farther
Trial: Though at worst, the happy Effects of the Journey afford the Hintof a proper Remedy, whatever may be the Case. I have seen nobody but
Sir John and the Miss Elliot'slO next door to whom I lodge: But shall,
today, make a few and the only Visits I shall make while in London: For
I may still, without Hypocrisy, pretend to all the Privileges of a sick
Person. I intend to draw either today, or tomorrow for a hundred Pounds
on the Bank, and may perhaps draw for two, according to the present
State of my Cash account with Mr Coutts l l . I hope Sir John does notintend to send me out of the Island: For that is the only point in which I
am in danger of proving disobedien.t to him. I was vastly the better ofJohn Home's Company, and it is impossible for me to express my Obliga.

10.

Anne and Peggy Elliot, lodging·housekeepers for Scottish gentlemen in London.
Hume sometimes lodged with them on his visit to London. This time he stayed
at Mrs. Perkins's (Mossner, 594).
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tions to him. Please send all my Letters under cover to William
Strahan E sq d2 Member of Parliament; as also the Paper that Davy13/woudsend you. Take care that the Letters do not exceed two Ounces. My
Love to Katy and to all your Family.

Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), founder with his brother James of the banking
house of Coutts & Co. in the Strand.
12. William Strahan (1715-1785), printer and publisher; left Scotland and became
partner with Millar in London, with whom he produced Johnson's 'Dictionary,'and subsequently with Thomas Cadell the elder; publisher to Hume, Adam
Smith, Johnson, Gibbon, Robertson, Blackstone, and others; maintained friendly
relations with his clients; M. P., Malmesbury, 1774, Wootton-Bassett, 1780-84.
Postage was free on letters to and from M. P., but franked letters were restricted to two ounces in weight.
13. David (1757-1838), second surviving son of John Home of Ninewells, afterwards
professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh and the author of Commentaries on the
Law of Scotland (1797). The philosopher paid for David's education at Glasgow
University under Professor John Millar and proudly watched his progress in law.
Even during his last illness, Hume advised him about his course of summer
reading (see Letter 6, and extract from Hume's letter to his nephew, 20 May
1776, Mossner, 643). Hume in his will directed that David should be his prin.
cipal heir and executor if Hume's brother John died before Hume himself; andhe also made David responsible for publishing the Dialogues concerning Natural
Religion if they were still unpublished two and a half years after Hume's death(Mossne·r, 591-593). The Dialogues were published on David's responsibility in
1779. He also adopted Humes's spelling of the family name in preference tohis father's "Home."
II.

197

4. Letter with no address.
London 3 d of May 1776
Dear BrotherI leave Mrs Mure'sl4 Letter open that I may save myself the troubleof repeating the former part of it. The latter contains no Secret: You
may seal it, and send it to her. I believe all my Friends are the more sanguine on my case, upon finding me in such high Spirits, a good Circumstancesurely but which never left me. Send all my Letters still under Mr
Strahan's Cover. Sir John Pringle advises me to try Bath-Waters: If these
do not agree with me and heat me, to go to Bristol; if I reap no Benefit
from them, to write to him, who he says will probably advise me to somenew Journey. I have drawn today on the Bank for 200 pounds, so that, I
suppose, it will be proper to lodge in it one, if not both of Mansfield'sls
Notes. I gave Josey16 a Credit for 80 pounds upon his Arrival in England.
I forgot to ask Tommy Coutts l7 , whether he pay'd the Fees of the Commission18 , and what they were; but as I had asked him that Question in a
Letter, which he has answer'd, I shall, upon receiving his Letter, be able
to satisfy you in that particular.
My love to Katy, and tell her, that my new Man, whose Name is
Hugh Semple, must on his Arrival be sent off in a Leith Ship to London,
directed to Miss Elliot, Brewer-Street, Golden Square. She will send him
to me by the Bath Fly. Under Submission to your better Judgement and
my Sisters, I think, he had better be sent off in the old Livery Coat, andthat I take off new Cloaths for him at Bath, and keep his new Edinburgh
Liveries for some future Occasion. Colin continues very warm in recommending him [.J
When you mention to any of my Friends any particulars of myhealth drawn from my Letter to Mr. Mure, please to say only in genera!,that they were contained in/a Letter left unseal'd, without mentioning her

14.

Katherine Graham (1735-1820), married in 1752 Hume's oldest friend, William
Mtire of Caldwell (1718-25th March 1776). Mure's house at Abbey hill, near
Holyrood, was one of Hume's favourite resorts.
15. Mansfield, Ramsay and Co., banker, Edinburgh.
16. Joseph Home (1752-1832), eldest son of Hume's brother John. Hume bought
him a Cornetcy, 14 December 1770, in the Second Regiment of Dragoon Guards
for £ 1000 and a Lieutenancy, 28 March 1776, for £ 262 lOS. (Mossner, 574).
Hume appears to have taken over the responsibility for Joseph's education (HL,
199

200

Name.
Since I wrote the above, a most grievous and insufferable Calamity
has fallen upon me. That worthy old Gentleman, Archy Stuart 19 , hearingof my Intention to go to Bath, sets out with no other Intention than of
keeping me Company there. Our Sister can tell you, that this must be agreat Oppression to me. I am Dear Brother Yours sincerelyDavid Hume

223, to Adam Ferguson, 9 Nov., 1763, & n.). While Joseph was at school in
Edinburgh he lived with his uncle. who described him as "Clever, tho I am
afraid a little giddy," (HL, 427, to Hugh Blair, 28 March 1769) and wrote "myBrother. .. thinks his Son rather inclines to be dissipated and idle." (HL,433. toGilbert Elliot, 16 ·Oct., 1769)
For Hume's concern, generosity and advice over"Josey's" misfortune, see letter no. 14, below.
17. Thomas Coutts, banker.
18. The fee of his nephew Joseph's commission as Lieutenant (see n. 16, above).
19. Archibald Stewart of Allanbank. formerly a wine merchant, elected Lord Pro·
vost of Edinburgh. 1745. In 1747 he was tried for neglect of duty and Humewrote a pamphlet in his defence. He was honourably acquitted.
201

202

5. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home of Ninewells Esqr
Butter's Land, New Town
Edinburgh
London 6 of May 1776
Dear Brother
During the Hurry, in which I have liv'd these few days at London,
I do not know, at least cannot fully recollect whether I have been sufficiently explicite with regard to your sending my new Servant. Let him besent by Sea, directed to Miss Elliots in Brewers Street, Golden Square. They
will find him a Conveyance to Bath. He must be provided with Money for
the Journey: Somebody will tell you the Expence of a Voyage to London.
A Guinea will suffice for the Journey to Bath, Let him have something over,in case of Accidents; and he will account to me for the Surplus.
A Son of the President' s20 is in London, who says that he pass'd byMetz lately, but miss'd Josey, he having left the Place a few days before.
I suppose he had gone on a Jaunt.
S;r John Pringle says that the Origin of my Distemper proceeds froma Contraction in the Colon, which he has render'd more probable to me
than a Haemorrage. I seem to be much better; and I believe am reallysomewhat better. I am Dear Brother Yours sincerelyDavid HumeI set in half an hour for Bath & all my franks are packt up [.J20.

Robert Dundas of Arniston (1713-87), Lord President of the Court of Session
from 1760.
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6_ Letter with no address.
Bath 13 of 11ay 1776
Dear BrotherI received both your Letters and all the Inclosures; but am afraid,
in my present Hurry, not to answer with the same Exactness as you write
all the particulars contain'd in Yours. But I shall try: 11iss Keith's21
Letter oblig'd me to write in a greater Hurry than I shou'd have inclin'dor had propos'd. Please send my Note to her with the enclos'd Petition.
I send you my Letter to Dr Blair22 unseald that you may read it, and thensend it to him seal'd, after communicating it to Katy and my own Family.
I fancy you have sent off my 11an by sea, according to my Directions. I believe you are in the Right with regard to the Livery; but if
you followd my Directions rather than your own Judgement, there is no
Remedy. He must come to 11iss Elliot's Brewer Street, near Golden
Square. I have got a Job Servant, a very honest, careful, intelligent 11an,
whom I shall send back to London, with some Regret; but I shall keep
him some-time to instruct the new one, who, I fancy, is but raw.
I am sorry for poor Annie Carre23 whom I shall certainly visit at
Bristol [.] I am afraid, by the Place, they think her threatend with a
Consumption.
I have drawn on the Bank for zoo pounds, which is more 110ney /Presumably Jenny or Anne Murray, daughters of Robert Keith (died 1774), who
was generally known as Ambassador Keith.
22. Hugh Blair (1718-1800), minister of the Canongate Kirk, then of Lady Yester's
Kirk, and finally of the High Kirk, in Edinburgh; popular preacher, popular
lecturer, and arbiter elegantiarum of his day; author of Dissertation on Ossianand Lectures On Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. He was a member, with Hume, A.
Carlyle, Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, Robertson, and others, of the famous
Poker Club. He was on very friendly terms with Hume. Their friendship was
not disturbed by Blair's sympathy with Hume's theological opponents, as Humejudiciously avoided discussions of such matters (Burton, i. 427, ii. 1I6). The letter
mentioned here is HL 524.
z3. Annie Carre, Presumably a near neighbour of the Home of Ninewells.
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than I shall probably need while in England: But it is here more at
Command and the Loss is but -small. I gave Colin also a Note on' theBank for IS pounds; as I reckond five or six for his Expences in going
down [.JMy Love to Katie and to Mrs Home. I am glad to hear such good
Accounts of Davie, who will not, I am sure, altogether neglect his Studies
du;ing the Summer Season, tho he will intermingle more Exercise withthem [.J I have now in reality a Prospect of returning next Autumn inbetter Health than I left you. Tell Katie that I shall be much displeasdwith her, if she starve my Family in my Absence. Yours sincerelyDavid Hume

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7. Letter with 1W address.
Bath 15 of June 1776
Dear BrotherTo save the Trouble of transcribing the Contents of this Letter, I
send it open to you. Please seal it and send it to Dr Black. At the sametime, tell our Sister, that she may expect to see me about the 2 or 3 ofJuly; But I shall write her with greater Certainty when I shall set out andalso on the Road. I continue as you saw me, very well in my Spirits, andreally suffering very little in my Body; and my Journey will not be altogether fruitless; though the Bath Waters have fail'd of their Effect; andindeed Medicine appears to very little Purpose. Exercise, however, is something; and it will not be long, after my Arrival in Scotland, till I shall see
you at Ninewells: For I intend to employ the good Season very much on theRoad. I found M" Home here, and we have kept House together, which
has made my Stay much more easy and agreeable: They set out along withme, she for Buxton which lies on the Road, he for Scotland: So that weshall not be separate all/along; a Circumstance very much to my Satisfac-

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my Account.

III

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8. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home Esqr
Ninewells

Edinburgh 10 of July 1776
Dear BrotherI arrived here safely, but very much distressed from the horrible
Roads between Greenlaw and Blackshiels, which hurt me so, that I havenot been able to endure a Chaise ever since. However, I shall make a new
Trial tomorrow; as the Miss Ord's24 have urgd me to use their Father's
Chaise, which, they naturally suppos'd woud be easier than any ofRamsay's25. If I can bear a Chaise (which I am hopeful I may) I shallsoon see you at Ninewells; and near Prospect of this, as well as theUncertainty of my Letter's reaching you, was the Reason why I did notdesire you to meet me at Greenlaw. Both my Sister and Peggy26, and indeed
all my Friends here, were struck with my Appearance, which, it seems, isworse than when I left you, though I do not think my Health any worse.
Two days ago, I had a grand Jury of Physicians to sit on my Case, viz
the Drs Cullen 27 , Black, and Home 28. They all agree in condemning theSentiments of the English Physicians, that the Seat of my Distemper isthe Liver. They own there is a Tumour there but a very small one, andsuch as I might carry about me twenty Years, without either feeling it orcomplaining of it: And they affirm it utterly impossible, that the Blood I
daily void coud come from that Source: They return therefore to theformer Supposition of a Haemorhage, but whether I gain or lose by thisChange, I cannot determine. However Exercise, they all say, is good forme; and is the only thing they have/prescribed.

24.

Anne Ord (d. 1825). the third daughter of Robert Ord, Lord Chief Baron of
the Court of the Scottish Exchequer (d. 1778). "Nancy" was a lovely and charm·
ing young woman and a favourite of David's. She had a keen sense of
humour and one day roguishly chalked on the outside of her friend's house "St.
David Street." Peggy Irvine (see n.26, below) discovered the sign and excitedly
protested to her master. Upon inspection David forbade her to touch it; "Nevermind, lassie, many a better man has been made a saint of before." The jest
took hold and Hume's Street, thereafter, was commonly called St. David Street,later acquiring official sanction as St. David Street (Burton, II. 436, Mossner,566.) According to Henry Mackenzie (Anecdotes and Egotisms, 170, 176) Hume
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I saw Mains29 today who is wonderfully recover'd. Our Sister has
been ill today and yesterday, I believe chiefly from Vexation at seeing myState of Health.
I wish Josey's Journey to Spain and his longer Stay abroad, do notstraiten him for money. I shoud have sent him a small Supply more, but
I apprehend my Letter coud not now reach him before he leave that
Place. However, he has a Credit, though unknown to himself, on Coutts;
and I hope he will employ it rather than be in any Difficulties.
Never, since Joseph's seven Years of Plenty, was the Earth loadedwith such a Quantity of Grain as we saw in England during a Journey of
400 Miles. If the Harvest be good, Corn will be cheaper than it has been
any time these twenty Years.

"certainly at one time meant to pay his addresses to Miss Nancy Ord," but the"disparity of age" prevented his proposing. Hume left Anne ten guineas "to buy
a Ring, as a Memorial of my Friendship and Attachment to so amiable andaccomplished a Person." (Royal Society of Edinburgh, ms. ix, 24. quoted in:
Mossner, 600)
25. Probably Peter Ramsay, stabler in the Cowgate·Port. (Hunter, 146 n.)
26. Peggy Irvine, Hume's housekeeper.
27. William Cullen (1710-90), professor of medicine, Glasgow, 1751-55; professorof chemistry, Edinburgh, 1756; professor of theory of physic, 1766; president of
the Edinburgh College of Physicians, 1773-5; author of An Essay on the Coldproduced by Evaporating Fluids (1755) and First Lines of the Practise of Physic(1776-84). When he was professor of medicine at Glasgow he supported Hume's
unsuccessful attempt to get the chair of logic there (HL 76, 21 Jan. 1752).
28. Francis Home (1719-1813), son or nephew of Hume's cousin Alexander Home ofEcdes, an old friend of Hume (HL 56, to John Clephane, 18 June 1747 & n.)
and afterwards first professor of materia medica at Edinburgh; published PrinciPia
Medicinae (1758) and other works.
29. Possibly John ( ?) Molle of Mains House. (Hunter, 146 n.)
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9. Letter addressed on Back:
To
John Horne of Ninewells Esqr
at Ninewells
Edinburgh 18 of July 1776
Dear BrotherI am very glad, that Josey, before he leaves Spa, will know of theCredit lodged for him at London: This will put the poor Boy at Ease inpoint of Money; and I hope that you have not been too strict in exhorting
him to spare it, except in case of Necessity. I think, that he has allalong been tolerably discreet in money matters, and may now be safely
trusted with Credit. If his Health be not restord this Autumn, thecommanding Officer, who will see his Condition, may probably be prevailed
on to grant him a Furlowe; in which Case I woud have corne down andlive in my House next winter. More Care coud there be taken of him,than will probably be in country Quarters.
At present, I find it almost impracticable for me to bear a Chaise,and my Physicians are not in the least suprised at it. It is the natural
Effect of the Progress of my Distemper, I shoud have said Distempers:
For I have certainly both a Disorder in my Bowels and in my Liver;though all my Physicians here agree in treating the latter as a very slight
Malady in comparison of the former. The one, however, prevents any
effectual Trial of a Remedy for the other: Mercurial Preparations woudbe the proper Remedy for the Shirrus, but dare not be given, while
my Bowels are in such Disorder: And while my Liver is in a diseased
State [,J - it prevents any hopes of a Cure to my Bowels. Between both,I am in a bad way, though the Decline is gradual, and may draw out to agreater Length than I coud wish it.
I sympathize very heartily with Mrs
Horne; and give Davy thanks for his Letter. Our Sister is tolerably well.
Yours
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10. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home Esqr
at Ninewells
July 2$ 1776
Dear BrotherI continue much in the same State of Health as before: Frequent
Colics, which weaken me much in the Intervals, when I am tolerably
easy: The worst Circumstance is my not being able to bear the Motion ofa Chaise. This both proves a great Progress in my Distemper, and deprives
me of my chief Remedy. It cuts me out of all hopes of seeing you at
Ninewells, but I shoud be sorry you took the trouble of coming to town,
which woud carry you from your Business, to no purpose. For as Matters
are likely to go on, I shall probably drag out sometime next Winter.
Besides, Mr Smith is in my house, and will be going and coming most of
the Autumun; so that I coud not lodge you at present. Our Sister has
become very infirm: She keeps her bed this day, from a slight Fever. I am
anxious about News from Josey. My Compliments to Mrs Home and all
your Family [.JYours sincerely

D. H

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11. Letter addressed on back:To
John Home Esqr
at Ninewells near
Dunse

Edinburgh 29 of July 1776
Dear BrotherI wrote you last week, that our Sister had been ill of a slight
Fever, but was, I hoped, recovering. You know that the smallest Feverof cold always affected her head extremely, though it also went off
presently. But the Truth is, that she had and has no Fever, yet her
Deliriousness continues and encreaseS upon her, so that at present she has
clearly lost her Judgement. It seems there were some Symptoms of thesame kind about ten days before, which your Son and Peggy agreed toconceal from me, for fear of giving me Vexation: But the Case became
too dangerous to admit of any farther delay; and I have been obliged to
put a keeper upon her. I cannot say but this new and very melancholy
Incident makes me desire to see you. Mr Smith will probably leave thehouse, the End of the week; but even, if he shoud not, Jocky coud beat your house, and you coud have his bed. Do not however come inbefore Thursday Evening: For as your Presence can do no real Service,farther than relieving my anxious Mind, it is needless to hurry yourself;and even if you delay'd some days longer, there woud no sensible Inconvinience follow either to her or to me. I am myself tolerably well,notwithstanding the Shock of this unexpected Incident [.] For what canbe more unexpected, than that a Person shoud keep her Judgement till
past sixty, and then lose it without any Disease, and without any new
Subject of Vexation or Affliction? But I hope the Matter is not passt all
hopes. I am Dear BrotherYours sincerelyDavid Hume

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12. Letter addressed on back in Hume's nephew John's30 hand:[To]
John Home Esqr ofNinewells at Ninewells
To the Care of the
Postmaster at
Dunse
to be forwarded
by express

Edinburgh 13 of Aug 177631
Dear Brother
Dr Black tells me plainly, like a man of Sense, that I shall dye
soon, which was no disagreeable News to me: He says, I shall dye of
Weakness and Inanition; and per haps give little or no warning. But
though I be growing sensibly weaker every day, this Period se~ms not tobe approaching; and I shall have time enough to inform you, and todesire your Company, which will be very agreeable to me: But at thistime, your Presence is necessary at Ninewells to settle Josey and comfort
his Mother. Davy also will be very useful with you; I am much pleas'dwith his Tenderness and Friendship. I beg therefore that neither you nor
he may set out; and as the Communication between us, is open and frequent, I promise to give you timely Information.
If Carter's horses had been set out before the Arrival of my letter,they had been here on Friday or at farthest on Saturday [.] I entertain
therefore no Apprehensions on that head; and it woud have been but asmall Inconvenience even had it happend [.]/

30.

John Home (1758-1806), the third son of Hume's brother John. He wasafterwards a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh.
31. The first paragraph of this letter has already been published by Greig fromJohn Home's copy (HL 535).
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[on the same paper verso in Hume's nephew John's hand]
I was enquiring whether Mr Halls 32 Estate was sold & the waiter at
the Coffee house told me he was pretty sure no part was sold. I could notsee Mr Cockburn33 or any of his clerks otherwise would have asked them.

Possibly Sir John Hall, 3rd Baronet of Dunglass, who died in July 1776.
was married to Sir John Pringle's sister Magdalen (Hunter, 149 n.)
33. Tom Cockburn [ ? 1 See HL 301.
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13. Letter addressed on back in Hume's nephew JOhn's hand:John Home Esqr
Ninewells
To the Care of the Post
masterDunse
to be forwarded
by express
Edinburgh 20 Aug 1776
My Dear BrotherI own that it woud be a great Consolation to me at the time of my
Death to have you in the house and I lose Strength so fast, that, if I do
not bring you hither soon I am in danger of losing that consolation.
Nothing but the State of your Family has hitherto prevented me; but I
hope it will now allow you to set out as soon as you can [.] Your best
way will be to come to Dunbar on Horseback; and thence by the Post.
I wish also to see Davy very earnestly; but if he comes along withyou, it must only be for a few days; to return to me after Jock y 30 leaves
me: It is not necessary, nor fitting that Josey be left altogether alone [.]Yours affectionatelyDavid Hume[on same paper]
Dr Father
I would have wrote you on Friday last if there had been any materialchange in my uncle [,] but he is much in the same way, as formerly only
weaker. I Hope David will be sufficiently recovered to come along withyou. None of Us thought his fever had been so severe as it really was [.]You may if you think proper send in the trunk you spoke of by
the carier next week, as Mr Anderson says I may go out then; if you
think I wou'd not be necessary to my Uncle.
We rec~ Davids letter after my Uncle had wrote & were muchpleased to hear Joseph was doing so well [.]227

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14. Letter addressed on back:To
Cornet Humeof Lord Waldegrave's Regiment of Dragoon
Guards. Lewes
SussexSt Andrews Square 12 of May 1771
Dear Josey, alias Joe
I give you thanks and at the same time ask your pardon: I give you
thanks for your Letter, and ask your pardon for being so late in answering
it. But if you knew the Occupation that proceeds from flitting, or as you
Englishmen call it, removing, you woud excuse my delay in writing;especially as I have as great a reluctance to writing Letters as you have;though it is less excusable in me, as I write better; I mean, as to themechanical part: For as to the rest, I am willing to yield you the Superiority. We are now almost settled fully in our new House in St Andrew's
Square; and your Aunt and I are very happy in our Situation. Your
Friend, Peggy, alone seems to agree ill with it in point of Health; I
suppose because of the sudden change from a close suffocating Air to afree and open one. Your Family removes the End of this week; and your
Pappa seems to be as happy in the prospect of his Situation. His new
House is indeed very agreeable and agreeably situated. There is only one
Disappointment we have met with, which vexes us not a little: We had
both trusted to you for remittances to bear at least part of our Expenceson this Occasion; but we find that we must now provide other Funds tothat purpose. I do not even see, that your daily pay can afford a Supperin your present Establishment; and I do not think it will be possible foryou to retrench a dinner too, in order to pay for our building andfurniture. But take Comfort: Sir Robert Murray34 tells me, that, when
you are separated in Country Quarters, you will be able to add a Supper
to your other Meals; and in the meanwhile, he thinks that the Pleasureof your Sword, and Cockade, and fine Horse, will, while these Objects arenew, be able to supply you with so many agreeable Reflections, that you
will not tire, even though you shoud lie awake, on account of your going
to bed supperless. I hope your Horse is well, and well instructed in all
his Steps, no less than Yourself in all your Motions; so that the Kingmay have no reason to repent his Choice of his young Officer, and may
consider you as one/of the surest Props of his Crown against the infamous
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Mob of London: For these are the only Enemies His Mejesty seems tohave at present in the World; and I shoud have a very bad Opinion ofyour Regiment, if they alone, with their Collonel at their head, were notable to dissipate a hundred thousand of such Rascals.
I believe all the Officers of your Regiment consist of Englishmen or
Scotchmen thoroughly naturaliz'd; so that you have a good Opportunity oflearning the pronunciation exactly; and I beseech you not to neglect it.
It is an agreeable Quality, and easily carry'd about with you: I was too
negligent in this particular, when I was of your Age. But you have scarce
any bad Accent to correct; and your Companions, if you encourage them,and seem desirous to learn, will admonish you, when you transgress on
any occasion. I am happy to find that your Relish for reading has not leftyou. You will find it a great Ressource in country Quarters. A soldiers
Library cannot be very bulky; but the reading frequently the same good
Authors will be more entertaining and contribute more towards forming
your Taste, than the most voluminous Library.
Thus, you see that I exercise my Function of an Uncle in giving
you Advice. You know that among the Romans a Father's Brother had
great privileges even above a mother's; and had the Authority of reprimanding very severely upon occasion [.J Ne sis mihi patruus was even a proverb,
when one woud deprecate a very severe reproof. If I have not us'd mypowers at present, you must not imagine, that I renounce them, but only
reserve them for a better Occasion.
Your Friend, Alleck Renton35 (for you must not call him Sandy or
Sawney) has now got his Commission; and though it be posterior to yours,
he is, I believe, your commanding Officer: For, if I be not mistaken, theCornets of the Blues have the Rank of Lieutenants. I therefore desire
you to treat him with respect, if you meet with him.
If you have leizure, and have pen, ink, and paper ready and in goodorder,/pray write to the Miss Carres 36 , to whom you are oblig'd for their34.

Sir Robert Murray of Clermont, 6th Baronet of Dunerne, Receiver General of
the Customs in Scotland. His first wife was a sister of Hume's friend Lord
Elibank. Murray died 21 Sept. 1771. (Hunter 131 n.)
35. Alexander Renton, whose home was at Mordington Hall, not far from Nine·
wells, was commissioned Cornet in the Royal Regiment of House Guards 22
April 1771. (Hunter. 132 n.)
36. Probably relations of Hume's brother's wife, Agnes, daughter of Robert Carreof Cavers.
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friendship, and who will take it well. Poor Mrs Drummond is very ill atpresent; tho' I hope she may recover. I hope you have writt to Lady
Haddington37 or at least to Lord Binny 38. I am
Dear Cornet
Your affectionate Uncle and humble Servant
David HumePS.
Davie and Jock, alias Jack, did me the favour to dine with me today;
and desire their Compliments to you. Davie says cedant arma togae, andwill prove his Position ei ther by Logic or Geometry: for [he has be_]39
come a great Geometer, as well as Logician; and defies you at either
weapon. As to your Sword and Pistol he despises them and desires you
to keep them for the Enemy.
Dear Josie
Your Uncle was so Obliging as to Send his Letter Open, that any
of us might Add a few Lines, tho' it may Seem a Bold Attempt in So
Witty a Letter--whoever your Father Wish'd that I Shou'd let you knowthat he had Wrote a Postscript to a Letter of mine about two Weeks
Since w C•h I hope Came to hand. We long to hear that all went to yourWishes at the Review, and that you enjoy perfect good Health. I am
Dear Josie always
Affecte_ly Yours

A: H:40

Lady Haddington (d. 1785), wife of Thomas, 7th Earl of Haddington (?172o94); succeeded to title, 1735. Hume was related to Lord Haddington and in
1739 had offered to be his tutor (HL 14).
38 . Charles Binning (1753-1828). son of 7th Earl of Haddington; succeeded as 8thEarl 1794. Admitted a member of the Speculative Society 5 Feb. I n l ; read anessay on "Defects of the Laws of Great Britain" ; resigned IO Dec. I n ! . (Hunter,
132 n.)
39· MS. torn. Square bracket [ 1 denotes editorial conjecture.
40. Agnes Home.
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15.
Dear Jack,41
I was told by Davie Ross42 t' other day a Measure of your Fatherswith regard to you, which, I own, I wou'd blame in the strongest Terms
if Decency did not forbid me. Surely, your Faults are very slight in com·
parison of your good Qualities; and your Behaviour towards him has evenbeen laudable. Among your Faults (for I own you have some) I place a
Degree of Spleen and Peevishness; which I regret the most of any,because it renders you unhappy: I dread the Effects which may result
from such a Disposition, after the Treatment you have met with. But, my
Dear Jack, recollect your Good sense; and never from Despair take
Revenge on Yourself for the Injuries which others may do you. Your
Father, as Mr Ross tells me, is willing to allow you 500 a year, which
indeed is too little for a young Man who has such Prospects; and considering your way of living, and the Company you frequent, it is impossible
you can limit yourself to it. Yet you thought (and the World will think)that if he had allowd you 800, he woud not have been altogether unreasonable; and that you coud with a very little Oeconomy have subsisted on it.
I entreat you; form & persist in that plan of Life: When I left you,
Fortune had favour'd you; and· you were considerably in Cash. Add, fromyour present Stock, 300 a year to your Allowance :/Even, if it were 500 a

41.

John Crawford (d. 1814), son.of Patrick Crawford of Auchenaines, William
Mure's friend (see n.14 above; nicknamed "Fish" on account of his restlessenquisitiveness; "one of the gayest young gentlemen and the greatest gambler
that ever belonged to Scotland" (John Macdonald, Memoires of an EighteenthCentury Footman, 1745-1779, ed. John Beresford, London, 1927, p. 82; cited
in NHL 74n.); had become Hume's friend in Paris between 1763 and 1776.
Though this letter is addressed only to "Dear Jack," the identity of the recip.
ient is clear from the first line. Hume followed it ten days later with anotherletter on the same subject. (NHL 74)
An inveterate gambler, Crawford was on
bad terms with his father, who was taking drastic measure to curb his extra.
vagances. Hume seems to have been of some assistance in effecting a reconcilia·tion between the young rake and his father, and perhaps in attenuating his
gambling prodigalities. (NHL 75)
It is, however, possible that the moderate toneof this letter was still too strong for Hume's taste, and that he never sent it.
The earliest of his other letters to Crawford is dated 15 November 1766, andbegins in much the same manner as this one: "I was told, Dear lack, by Davie
Ross, that your Father had taken out an Inhibition against you ... " (NHL 74)
That letter is unsigned, however, and Hume could have been responding to a
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Year, it woud not much hurt you: And time will certainly bring you
relief, if you remain quiet. Above all things, (I entreat you) but need I
finish what I have to say: You conjecture my Meaning; and all Entreaties
are vain, if you do not, within yourself, form a determin'd Resolution.
But be assur'd, that that Weakness is the only Pretence your Father has for
his Conduct, and the only thing that can justify him even in the Eyes of his
most partial Friends. Deprive him of that Pretence; and give all your
Friends the Satisfaction of being able to justify you in that particular.
But so much for sage Council; which indeed was superfluous. For
you knew beforehand the Truth of all I have said. We shall therefore.
talk of another Subject. It has happened as you forsaw; that I shoud atlast, whether I wou'd or not, be oblig'd to give to the Public an Accountof this ridiculous Affair between Rousseau and me. 43 D'alembert has madeuse of the discretionary Power I gave him, and has printed the Narrative
you saw, with a Preface, giving an Account of the Necessity which he lay
under to do SO.44 The only thing, that displeases me is a Declaration annex'd, which is very disobliging to Horace Walpole 45 : There is also a little
Squib thrown at Md e du Duffan 46 if I understand it right. Besides, someobliging things which I said, from my sincere Sentiments, of Mr Walpole,are expung'd which is a little/unaccountable. Is it possible, that a Man ofletter of Crawford's written before he had Hume's of 5 November. (see Hilson
and Price, 125)
42. David Ross (1727-1805), Edinburgh lawyer; raised to the Bench as Lord
Ankerville, 1776.
43 The famous quarrel between Hume and Rousseau. The work to which Humealludes is the Expose succinct de la contestation qui s' est elevee entre M. Hume et
M. Rousseau, avec les pieces justificatives, which appeared at Paris in October 1766.
The English translation appeared in November as A Concise and Genuine Accountof the Dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau. See Mossner 507-532.
44. Jean Ie Rond d' Alembert (1717-83), one of the French philosophes most admiredby Hume. D'Alembert had added some strictures on Walpole's part in theaffaire. Walpole was much annoyed with d' Alembert.
45· Horace Walpole (1717-97), 4th Earl of Orford, 1791; prince of English letter·
writers; author of Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 1758, The Castle of
Otranto, 1765, Memoires Of the Last Ten Years Of George II, first published 1822,
Memoires of the Reign Of George III, first published 1845. &c.
46. Marie de Vichy Chamrond (1697-1780), m. (1718) Jean·Baptiste de la Lande(d. 1750), marquis du Deffand; French salonniere, and friend and correspondentof Horace Walpole.
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such Parts & Virtues as Dalembert can bear an TIl will to Mr Walpole merely
because the latter has a Friendship for a Person whom the former hates?
And does Philosophy serve us to so little Purpose? Voltaire says you area Philosopher: And all the World knows Rousseau to be one: Voltairehimself is also one: I say nothing; but the Devil himself will not hinderme from thinking.
I have wrote to Mr Walpole about this Affair of Dalemberts Declaration 47 ; and as he makes Profession of being no Philosopher, I doubt not
but I shall find him a reasonable Man. I only forgot to mention one
thing to Mr Walpole, which I desire you to mention to him, when you
see him. It is this: The Duke of Richmond48 may think it odd, that in a
Letter of mine to Rousseau 49 I shou'd have promis'd him the Duke's good
Offices, tho' I had never spoke to his Grace on the Subject. But my
Reason for trusting to the Duke was, that I knew his great Esteem forRousseau, and Mr Walpole besides, promisd me, if it was necessary, his
good Offices with the Duke, as he had already done with General Conway. 50
I desire no Politics from you, except an Account of your hopes tosucceed in obtaining a Seat next Parliament. 51 I am Dear JackYours sincerelyDavid Hume
Edinburgh 5 of Nov r
17 66

47.
48.

HL 357.
Charles Lennox (1735-1806), 3rd Duke of Richmond and, in France, ducd' Aubigny. Hume would probably have made his acquaintance in November
1765, when the Duke and his brother arrived in Paris to take over Lord
Hertford's Embassy. Hume had become Embassy Secretary to Lord Hertford in
September 1763.
49. HL 328.
50. Henry Seymour Conway (1719-95), younger brother of Lord Hertford; firstcousin to Horace Walpole. Secretary of State, Southern Department, 1765-6,
and Northern Department, 1766-8, when Hume was his Under.Secretary. He
and Lord Hertford both urged publication of the Concise Account, and received
one of the ten copies of the French edition which Hume requested of William
Strahan. See HL 353.
5I. Crawford was not elected to Parliament until 1774, when he became member
for Renfrewshire. Crawford had asked Baron Mure of Cauldwell to make Humea voter in Renfrew, but Hume did not vote for him. See HL 494.
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PART THREE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURYBRITISH THOUGHT

1.

Abercrombie, John, 1780-1 844.
The philosophy of the moral feelings. By John Abercrombie ...
2nd ed. London: John Murray... 1834.
[Jessop, p.81]
22cm.
XV, 262p.
Contents.Preliminary observations.
I. Nature and importance of the science of the moral feelings.
2. First truths in the science of the moral feelings.
Analysis of man as a moral being.
Pt.!. The desires-the affections-and self-love.
I. The desires.
2. The affections-(i) justice, (ii) compassion and benevolence, (iii)veracity, (iv) friendship, love, and gratitude, (v) patriotism.
3. Self-love.
II. Of the will.
III. Of the moral principle, or conscience.
Appendix.
I. Of the origin and immutability ofmoral distinctions;and theories of morals.
2. Of the harmony of the moral feelings.
IV. Of the moral relation of man towards the Deity.
-1833; 2-1834; 3-1835; 4-1836; 5-1839; 6-1841; 7-1846; 8- 1849;
12-1859; 14-1869.
American ed.: -1833 NY; -1835 NY; -1836 NY; -1836 B; -1837
NY; -1838 B; -1838 NY; -1839 B; -1842 B; -1843 NY; -1843
B; -1845 B; -1846 B; -1848 NY; -1850 NY; -1851 NY; -1852
NY; -1853 NY; -1854 NY: -1856 NY; -1859 NY; -1.860 NY;-1866 NY; -1867; NY -1868 NY; -[c_ 1883] NY.

2.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
The duties of industry, frugality and sobriety. A sermon
preached before a Society of Tradesmen and Artificers, in the
Parish-Church of St. Chad, in Shrewsbury, on Easter-Monday,
1766. By William Adams... Published at the request of the Society, 3rd ed. Shrewsbury: Printed by J. Eddowes; and sold by B.
White, and T_ Cadell, in London; J. and J. Fletcher, and D_
Prince, in Oxford; and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge. 1777. Printed
first in the year 1766.
32 p.
21 cm.
243

-1766 Shrewsbury; 2-1766 Shrewsbury; 3-1770 Shrewsbury; 3-1777
Shrewsbury; 3-1777 Shrewsbury.

3.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
An essay on Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By William Adams ...
London: Printed by E. Say ... and sold by R. Dodsley... M.
Cooper. .. and]. Cotton in Shrewsbury. 1752.
134P·
21cm.
[Jessop, P.54]
This is said to have been one of the first answers to Hume. Adams
says that the divine power supplies an adequate cause for the productionof the alleged effects, which are therefore credible upon sufficient evidence.

4.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
An essay on Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By William Adams ...
London: . Printed by E. Say... and sold by R. Dodsley... M.
Cooper... and ]. Cotton in Shrewsbury. 1752.
21 cm.
[Jessop, P·54]
134 p.
See III-3.

5.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By Wil·
liam Adams... 2nd ed., with additions. London: Printed by E.
Say... and sold by A. Millar... ]. Whiston and B. White ...
and R. Dodsley ... 1754.
!O3, [1]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])19 cm.
[Jessop, p. 54]
See 111-3.

6.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By 'ViI·
liam Adams... 4th ed., with additions... Shrewsbury: Printedfor]' Eddowes; and sold by B. White, and T. Cadell, in London;]. and ]. Fletcher, and D. Prince, in Oxford; and ]. Woodyer,244

m Cambridge. 1776. Printed first in the year 1751.
128 p. (Publisher's advert. on the verso of title-page)
21 cm.
[Jessop, P.54]
See 111-3.

7.

[Adams, William] 1706-1789.
Saggio in risposta a Mr. Hume circa i Miracoli[.] Di Gulielmo
Adams[.j [Venezia] 1751.
56 p.
30 cm.
[Jessop, p. 54]
BOUND WITH

[Hume, David] 1711-1776.
Vita di David Hume scritta da lui stesso[.] Aggiunta una lettera
di Adamo Smith[.] 9, November 1776. Circa la morte e il caratteredel suo amico[.] L6ndra: Ed. Cadell. 1792.
[Not in Jessop]
13 p.
30cm.
See 1-83 and 111-3.

8.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
False zeal reproved. A sermon preached at St. Chad's Church, in
Shrewsbury, November the 5th, 1740. By William Adams ...
Published at the request of the Mayor and Corporation. 2nded. Shrewsbury: Printed by ]. Eddowes; and sold by B. White,
and T. Cadell, in London; ]. and J. Fletcher, and D. Prince, mOxford; and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge. 1777. Printed first in
the year I 740.
[iv], 5-23 p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [iv])21 cm.

9.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
The nature and obligation of virtue. A sermon preached in the
Parish-Church of St. Chad, Salop, at the primary visitation of
the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and published at his Lordship's
request. With an Appendix, containing notes on the same subject.
By William Adams... 3rd ed. Shrewsbury: Printed by ]. Ed245

dowes; and sold by B. White, and T. Cadell, in London; J andJ Fletcher, and D. Prince, in Oxford; and J Woodyer, mCambridge. 1776. Printed first in the year 1754.
21 cm.
vi, 7-67 p. (Publisher's advert. on p. ii)-1754; 3-1756 Shrewsbury; 2-1768; 3-1776 Shrewsbury.

10.

[Adams, William] 1706-1789.
Pastoral advice to young persons before confirmation. 11th ed.
Shrewsbury: Printed by J Eddowes; and sold by B. White ... T.
Cadell ... and J. Rivington ... London, 1775. [Price six-pence.]
30, [IJp. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])21 cm.
2-1772; 9-1773 Shrewsbury; 10-1774 Shrewsbury; II-I775 Shrewsbury; 13-1778 Shrewsbury; 18-1787; 19-1789; 20-1791; -1794.
French: -1773. Welsh: -1774.

11.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
Perseverance in well-doing. A sermon preached at the ParishChurch of St. Chad, in Shrewsbury, before the Trustees of the
Salop infirmary, on Thursday, September 14, 1749. By William
Adams... Published at the request of the Trustees. 2nd ed.
Shrewsbury: Printed by J Eddowes; and sold by B. White, andT. Cadell, in London; J and J Fletcher, and D. Prince, mOxford; and J Woodyer, in Cambridge. 1777. Printed first m
the year 1749.
[vi],7-36p. (Publisher's advert. on p.[vi])21cm.
-[1749]; -[1749] & Shrewsbury & 0; 2-1777 Shrewsbury.

12.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
A sermon preached at St. Chad's Church, in Shrewsbury, November the 10th, 1742. Being the day appointed for a generalfast, on occasion of the war with Spain. By William Adams ...
Published at the request of the Mayor and Corporation. 2nd ed.
Shrewsbury: Printed by J Eddowes; and sold by B. White, andT. Cadell, in London; J and J Fletcher, and D. Prince, in Ox-

ford; and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge. 1777. Printed first m theyear 1743.
21 cm.
23 p. (Publisher's advert. on p.2)
-1743; -1743 Shrewsbury.

13.

Adams, William, 1706-1789.
A test of true and false doctrines. A sermon preached in the
Parish Church of St. Chad, Salop; on September 24, 1769. By
William Adams... 2nd ed. London: Printed for B. White... and
T. Cadell ... 1770.
viii, 9-41, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I))21 cm.
-1770; 2-1770.

14.

Admonitions from the dead, in epistles to the living; addressedby certain spirits of both sexes, to their friends or enemies on
earth, with a view either to condemn or justify their conduct
while alive; and to promote the cause of religion and moral
virtue. 2nd ed. London: Printed for R. Baldwin ... 1754.
17 c~.
xii, 316 p.
P.295 incorrectly numbered 195.
The first two letters purport to be from Henry St. John, Viscount
Bolingbroke, to David Hume.

-1754; 2-1754; 2-1757.

German: -1757 Berlin.

Alembert, [Jean Ie Rond d'] 1717-1783.
Reflexions on the use and abuse of philosophy
properly relative to taste.

Inmatters that are

See 111-104.

15.

Alison, Archibald, 1757-1839.
Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by ... Archibald
Alison... Edinburgh: Printed for J. J. G. and G. Robinson, Lon247

don; and Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh. 1790.
xiii, 415 p.
29 cm.

[Jessop, p.81 f.J

Contents.Essay I. Of the nature of the emotions of sublimity and beauty.
Y. Of the effect produced upon the imagination, by objects ofsublimity and beauty.
2. Analysis of this exercise of imagination.
II. Of the sublimity and beauty of the material world.
Y. Introductory.
2. Of the sublimity and beauty of sound.
3. Of the sublimity and beauty of the objects of sight.
4. Of forms.
5. Of the sublimity and beauty of motion.
These essays follow the teaching of the Scottish school. Ali·
son's main purpose is to prove that beauty is not a quality ofthings considered as existing apart from the mind, but a productof trains of agreeable ideas, set up in the imagination by
objects associated with, or directly suggestive of, the simple
emotions. - d. DNB.
-179o&E; -1790D; -1790;2-1811 (2v)E&; 3-1812 (2v)E;4-1815(2V) E; 5-1817 (2V) E; 6-1825 (2V) E; -1853; -1871 ; -[1879].
American ed.; -1812 B; 1821 Hartford; -1827 Hartford; -1830 NY;-1844 NY; -1846 NY; -1852 NY; -[c. 18541 NY; -1856 NY; -1860
NY; 1870 NY.
German: -1792 Leipzig.

16.

[Allen, JohnJ 1771-1843.
Illustrations of Mr. Hume's Essay concerning liberty and necessity; in answer to Dr. Gregory of Edinburgh. Bya necessitarian.
London: Printed for J. Johnson ... 1795.
[iJ, 44 p. (Errata on p. [iJ)
22 cm.
[Jessop, p. 55J-1795·

17.

[Allestree, RichardJ 1619-1681.
The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as well aspractice of a Christian: made easy for the practice of present
age, as the old whole duty of man was design'd for those unhappytimes in which it was written; and supplying the articles of theChristian faith, which are wanting in that book, tho' essentiallynecessary to salvation. Necessary for all families, and authorisedby the King's most Excellent Majesty. With devotions properfor several occasions. Also a help to reading the Scriptures[.][26th ed.] London: Printed only for W. Bent ... [1798]
x, 526, [16]p. front.
23 cm.
P.397 incorrectly numbered 367.
Contents.Pt. I. Our duty to God (1-7).
II. Our duty to our neighbour (8-12).
III. Our duty to ourselves (13-17).
Devotions for the use of families and particular persons.
'It being now near one hundred years since the publication of the oldWhole Duty of Man, it need not be matter of surprise to any, if thegenerality of readers begin to be but a little affected by that work.
'The cause of which dislike is to be ascribed in a great measure, I
presume, to the distance of those times in which that treatise was wrote;
for not only the words, but the manner of expression, and the ways andmethods of treating such subjects are, and ought to be, very different
now from what they were formerly. And though I am far from denyingthat a vein of sound learning and morality is visible throughout thatbook, or that it was well adapted for those unhappy times of strife andconfusion in which it was written; yet all this lying under the foremen·tioned disadvantages, it is apprehended the people of the present age
are never likely to be better reconciled to it .. .' -Preface, p. i.
The old Whole Duty of Man was published anonymously, London, 1658,
under title: 'The Practice of Christian Graces. Or, the Whole Duty of
Man laid down in a Plaine and Familiar Way for the Use of All. .. ' Often
republished and variously ascribed to Archbishop Sterne, Bishop Fell,
Lady Pakington and others. Now generally ascribed to Richard Allestree.
- d. DNB.
Young David Hume was attracted to the task of soul·searching. He
went to the extent of abstracting a list of the vices catalogued at the endof the 'Whole Duty of Man,' and of testing his character against them,'leaving out Murder and Theft and such vices as he had no chance ofcommitting, having no inclination to commit them' (Macky, Journey
through Scotland, pp. 3-4). Hume later observed to Frances Hutcheson, 'I
desire to take my Catalogue of Virtues from Cicero's Offices, not from249

the Whole Duty of Man.' -Mossner, pp. 34, 64·-1741; 13-1743; -1744; 5-1746; -1747; 8-1750; 10-[1751]; 12-1752
D; 12-1754; 14-[1756]; 15-1758; 20-[1766?]; 22-[1773?]; 23-1777;
25-1780; [25-1795]; [26-1798]; 29-[1799?]; -[1805].
American ed.: -1809 Trenton; -[1810] ; -1813 Gainsborough; -[1822] ;-[1824].

18.

An Answer to David Hume, and others, on the subject of liberty
and necessity, providence, and a future state. London: Printed
for T. Hookham. 1785.
21 cm.
[Jessop, p. 55]
66 p.

19.

The Antidote: or, Memoirs of a modern freethinker: including
letters and conversations on scepticism, and the evidences ofChristianity. In two volumes... London: Published by B. J Holdsworth ... 1827.
2 vols.
20cm.
Vol. 1.

iv, 258p.

Contents.-Ch.I-9·
Vol. 2.

268 p. (Erratum on p. 268)

Contents.Ch.1O-18.
PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed, 'Bristol Education Society/from
the Author/June 26th, 1828.' in each volume, but without any note as
to the identity of the author.

20.

250

Aristoteles.
Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, comprising his practical philosophy,translated from the Greek. Illustrated by introductions and notes;
the critical history of his life; and a new analysis of his speculative works; by John Gillies... In two volumes.
London:Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies ... 1797.
2 vols.
29 cm .

Vol. 1.

[xvi], 416 p. (Errata on p. [xvi])

Contents.I. Life of Aristotle.
2. A new analysis of Aristotle's speculative works.
Ethics, Bk. I-X.

Vol. 2.

vi,434,[I]p. (Errata on p.[iii].

Publisher's

advert.

on

p. [I])
p.137, 377 incorrectly numbered 141, 737 respectively.
Contents.Politics, Bk.I-VIII.
-1797; 2-1804.

21.

Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Miscellanies; by John Armstrong ... In two volumes.
Printed for T. Cadell, (Successor to Mr. Millar) ... 1770.
2 vols.
IS cm.

Vol. 1.

London:vii, 216 p.

Contents.The art of preserving health. In four books [1744]
Of benevolence: an epistle [1751]
Of taste: an epistle to a young critic [1753]
Imitations of Shakespear and Spenser.
The universal almanac [1748J

Vol. 2.

iv, 279 p.

Contents.The forced marriage, a tragedy [written in 1754]
Sketches: or essays on various subjects. By Launcelot Temple ...
[vol. 2, never before published]'On a occasion, according to Boswell (Papers, xi,40), Mr. Hume said
that Armstrong's "Art of Preserving Health" was the most classIcal poemin the English language, that Thomson's "Seasons" had more luxurianceor splendour, but that it had not order and the transitions were rude.'251

-Mossner, P.109.
-1770 (2 v); -1770 (2 V) [really Scotland] & 0; -1770 & [Glasgow?] (AScottish piracy?); 2-1770 (2 V) D.

22.

Atterbury, Francis, Bp. of Rochester, 1662-1732.
Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions. By
Francis Atterbury ... 9th ed. London: Printed for C. and R
Ware, T. Longman, and J. Johnson. 1774.
16 cm.
3 vols.

Vol. 1.

xix, 239 p.

Contents.Sermons 1-10

Vol. 2.

lxxx, 247 p.
p.230 incorrectly numbered 130.

Contents.A large preface in defence of a sermon preached at the funeral of
Mr. Thomas Bennet. .
Sermons 1-9.

Vol. 3.

xxxi,197p.

Contents.Sermons 1-7·
-1723 (2 v); -1723 (2 v); -1726 (v 2); -1726 (2 v); 3-1730 (2 v); -1734(v 3, v4); -1735/37 (4 v) (vI,2,4th ed. of 1723, v3,4,2nd ed. of 1734);-1740/37 (4 v) (v I, 2, 5th ed. of 1723, v 3, 4, 2nd ed. of 1734); 5-1740
145 (4 v) (VI, 2, 5th ed., v 3, 4, 3rd ed.); 6-1741 D; -1761(4 v) (v I, 2,
7th ed., v3,4, 5th ed.); 8-1766 (4v); 9-1774 (4v); -1820 (2 v).

23.

252

[Balfour, James] 1705-1795.
A delineation of the nature and obligation of morality. With
refiexions upon Mr. Hume's book, intitled, An inquiry concerning
the principles of morals.
Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton,

Balfour, and Neill. 1753.
[i], 175 p. (Errata on p. [iJ)

18 cm.

[Jessop, P.94]

Contents.I. General observations concerning morality.
2. Of justice.
3. Of chastity.
4. Reflexions upon Mr. Hume's scheme In general.
5. Of religion.
6. Conclusion.
Hume is said to have left a letter to the unknown author with the
publisher (HL, pp. 172 ff.). Balfour replied in kind, though still preserving
his anonymity. But he never entertained Hume's proffer of friendship,
and in 1768 continued the attack upon him in anonymous 'Philosophical
Essays.' - d. Mossner, P.295f.

-1753 E; -1753 E; 2-1763 E; -1768; -1782 E.

24.

Balfour, James, 1705-1795.
Philosophical dissertations. By James Balfour... Edinburgh:
Printed for T. Cadell, London; and J. and E. Balfour, Edinburgh.
178 2.

vi,[ii], 232 p. (Errata on p. [iiJ)

17 cm.

[Jessop, p. 95]

Contents.I. Of matter and motion.
2. Of liberty and necessity.
3. Of the foundation of moral obligation.
4. Of the immateriality and immortality of the soul.
5. The evidence of the truth of revealed religion, from its con·nection with providence.

25.

[Balfour, James] 1705-1795.
Philosophical essays. I. Of the Academical philosophy. II. Of
active power. III. Of liberty and necessity ... Edinburgh: Printed
by Balfour, Auld, and Smellie. For John Balfour. 1768.
18 cm.
[Jessop, P.94]
18 7 p. (Errata on p. 187)
253

'In his "Philosophical Essays" Balfour wrote against Hume and Lord
Kames, and in defence of active power and liberty. Like all active
opponents of the new scepticism, he felt it necessary to oppose thefavourite theory of Locke, that all our ideas are derived from sensation
and reflexion.' - DNB.
Formerly the copy of John Brown of Haddington.
-1768 E.

Balguy, Thomas, 1716-1795.
Divine benevolence asserted; and vindicated from the objections of ancientand modern sceptics.
See 1-76.

26.

Barton, Richard, 1722-?
The analogy of divine wisdom, in the material, sensitive, moral,
civil and spiritual system of things, in eight parts. By Richard
Barton ... Dublin: Printed for the author, and sold by George andAlexander Ewing ... 1750.
234 p.
22 cm.
Contents.Pt. I. The analogy of divine wisdom, between the difficulties andmysteries of the sciences: in the form of an address mosthumbly offered to the teachers and students in all seminaries
of learning, for one of whom especially, the following dis·courses were written, and in the hearing of whom three ofthem were delivered.
II. The analogy of divine wisdom, between matter and sense,
sense and morality, temporal and spiritual conduct; andbetween the material and spiritual world.
III. The analogy of divine wisdom, between material light, andspiritual knowledge. Between the general law of spiritual
beings, and the general law of material things. Between
the divine influence upon spirit by grace, and the divine
influence upon matter by attraction. Between the universal
aether, and the infinite divine spirit.
IV. The analogy of divine wisdom, between the different states254

of human nature, in the womb, and in the world; as influenced by civil prudence, moral, and spiritual motives_
V_ The analogy of divine wisdom, between men, angels and God_
VL The analogy of divine wisdom, between the disposition inmen to believe in the Saviours of nations, and the Saviourof mankind_VII. The analogy of divine wisdom, between the private andpublic friendship of a gentile. And the private and publiccharity of a Christian.
VIII-I. Christianity in a state of growth; or the analogy between stature and holiness; that is, bodily and spiritual
growth. Between the worldly and Christian race; between asoldier and a Christian, the temporal and spiritual militia.
2. One important, practical consequence from the analogy
between the highest degree of animal strength, and the highest degree of attainable holiness, in a probationary state.
Recapitulation[; ] or, a summary of the matter, contained in theforegoing discourses.

-1737; -1750; -1750 D; -1750 (8pt).

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792_
Sketch of the life of John Barclay, author of Argenis_
See 1-86.

27.

[Baxter, Andrew] 1686-1750_
Matho: or, The cosmotheoria puerilis: in ten dialogues. Wherein,from the phrenomena of the material world briefly explained,
the principles of natural religion are deduced and demonstrated.
The whole accommodated to the capacities, and intended for the
information of young students. By the late learned and ingenious
author of the Essay on the human soul... 3rd ed.; corrected
and enlarged ... London: Printed for A. Millar. .. 1765.
18 cm.
[Jessop, p. 95 f.]
2 vols.

Vol. 1.

[xiv], 339., [I]p. (Errata on p.[xiv].
on p. [IJ)

Publisher's advert.

Vol. 2.

[iv], 346, [42]p. (Errata on p.[iv])2 tables.
255

, "Matho, sive Cosmotheoria Puerilis," an exposition in Latin of the firstprinciples of astronomy drawn up for the use of his pupils, which wasafterwards translated by the author; the first English edition, in twovolumes, appearing in 1740, the second in 1745, and a third, in which a
new dialogue was substituted for an erroneous one, in 1765. In this work
Baxter gives the argument which forms the subject of his chief work, the"Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul. ", -DNB.
Latin: -1738; 2-1746. English: -1740 (2V); -1742 D; 2-1745 (2V);-1754 (2 v) D; 3-1765 (2 v).

28.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
Dissertations moral and critical. On memory and imagination.
On dreaming. The theory of language. On fable and romance.
On the attachments of kindred. Illustrations on sublimity. By
James Beattie... London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T.
Cadell. .. and W. Creech ... 1783.
28cm.
xvi, 655 p. (Errata on p. xvi)
[Jessop, P.99]
Contents.Of memory and imagination.
Of memory.
Of imagination.
On dreaming.
The theory of language.
1. Of the origin and general nature of speech.
2. Of universal grammer.
On fable and romance.
On the attachments of kindred.
Illustrations on sublimity.
This book met with the most enthusiastic praise from William Cowper(poet, 1731-1800), who declared, in a letter to William Hayley (poet, 1745
-1820), that Beattie was the only author he had seen 'whose critical andphilosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poeticalimagination that makes even the driest subject and the leanest a feast
for epicures.' -DNB
-1783; -1783 (2 v) D; -1783 & E. American ed.: -1809 (3 v) Philad.
German: -1789/90 (3 v) Gottingen.

29.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
Elements of moral science. By James Beattie... Edinburgh:
Printed for T. Cadell, London; and William Creech, Edinburgh.
1790 /93.
2

vols.

Vol. 1.

22cm.

[Jessop, P.99J

xv, 438, [IJp. (Errata on p. [IJ)Contents.Pt.!. Psychology.
I. Perceptive faculties.
2. Active powers.
II. Natural theology.
I. The divine existence and attributes.
2. The incorporeal nature and immortality of soul.

Vol. 2.

vii, [IJ, 688 p. (Errata on p. [IJ)Contents.Pt.!. Ethicks.
I. The general nature of virtue.
2. The nature and foundation of particular virtues.
II. Economicks.
I. The relation of husband and wife, parent and child, and masterand servant.
2. Slavery.
III. Politicks.
I. The general nature of law.
2. The origin and nature of civil government.
IV. Logick.
I. Rhetorick.
2. Remarks on evidence.
These books are the syllabus of his college course. Since he did not
believe that professors should be innovators in their lectures, his arelargely expositions of Locke, Clarke, and Butler. - cf. Advertisement,
p. iii ff.
PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by the author on the leaf pro·ceeding title·page in volume I, 'To the Right Honourable/The Earl of
Kintore/from the author.' On the title·page of volume 2, the Earl
Kintore has written, 'Doctor Beatie mihi/donarit May: 28 1793/Kin·
tore.'

257

-179 0 /93 (2 V) E; 2-1807 (2 V) E; 3-1817 (2 V) E. American ed.: -179 2/94 (2 V) Philad; -1809 Philad; -1813 (2 V in I) Baltimore: -1818(2 V in I) Baltimore. French: -:1840 (2 V) Paris.

30.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition
to sophistry and scepticism. By James Beattie ... 3rd ed. London:
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly... A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Bell, Edinburgh. 1772.
vi, 9-514 p.
22 cm.
[Jessop, p. 97 f.]
Contents.Introduction.
Pt.1. Of the standard of truth.
I. Of the perception of truth in general.
2. All reasoning terminates in first principles.
All evidence ulti·
mately intuitive. Common sense the standard of truth to man.
II. Illustrations of the preceding doctrine, with inferences.
I. Confirmation of this doctrine from the practice.
2. This doctrine rejected by sceptical philosophers.
3. Recapitulation and inference. Criterion of truth.
III. Objections answered.
I. The principles of this essay consistent with the interests ofscience, and the rights of mankind. Imperfection of the
School· logic.
2. The subject continued.
Estimate of metaphysic and meta·
physical writers. Causes of the present degeneracy of moral
science.
3. Consequences of metaphysical scepticism.
Postscript.
Following Reid, Beattie argues that mankind is possessed of a faculty
called common sense, which perceives truth by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse. It is natural, and it acts indepen·dently of our will. By attending to this faculty, we may provide
ourselves with a set of incontrovertible first principles, safe fromskeptical philosophers and expose the lack of truth in their sophistical
doctorines. It is this latter enterprise that was Beattie's chief interest.
He fired away at Descartes, Malebranche, and, occasionally Locke.
But his principal targets were Berkeley and Hume.
The loose, commonplace charactor of Beattie's reasoning made theEssay popular among such readers as wish to be thought acquainted

with the philosophy of the day, while they have neither the ability nor
inclination to grapple with metaphysical problems. Attacks on Humein singularly bad taste abound throughout the book. Hume is reported
to have said about the Essay, 'Truth! there is no truth in it; it is ahorrible large lie in octavo.' He never replied to the Essay, perhaps
because much of it was directed against A Treatise of Human Nature.
But in October 1775 he took the extraordinary step of drawing up a
short 'Advertisement' to be prefixed to the second volume of all future
editions of Essays and Treatises. This 'Advertisement,' commented
Hume to Strahan, 'is a compleat Answer to Dr Reid and to that
bigotted silly Fellow, Beattie.' - HL, II. no. 509
Kant noted that Beattie has missed the whole point of Hume's argu·
ment, and was, moreover, mischievously over·zealous and even impudent.
'I should think,' wrote Kant, 'that Hume might fairly have laid asmuch claim to common sense as Beattie and, in addition, to a criticalreason (such as Beattie did not possess), which keeps common sense incheck and prevents it from speculating, or if speculations are underdiscussion, restrains the desire to decide because it cannot satisfy its
own arguments.' (Prolegomena, Introd.) - Mossner, p. 577 ff.; d. Ency·
clopedia of philosophy.
-177 0 E; -1770 E; 2-1771 E; 3-1772; 3-1773 D; 4-1773; 5-1774(corr.) & E; 6-1776; 6-1777 E &; 6-1778 & E; 6-1778; 6..,1805 E;
7-1807 (with a sketch of the origin and progress of the work); 81807 E; 8-1812; 9-1810; -1811; 8-1812; -1815; -1818; -1823;-1824; -1827; -[1853].
American ed.: 1-1809 Philad; -1825 NY.
German: -1772 (by H. W. von Gerstenberg) Copenhagen; -1790(2 v, by K. P. Moritz) Berlin.

31.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition
to sophistry and scepticism. By James Beattie... 5th ed. corrected. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ... andWilliam Creech, Edinburgh. 1774.
vi, 9-518 p.
22 cm.
[Jessop, P.98]
p.56, 237, 293, 499 incorrectly numbered 57, 273, 393. 49 respectively.
See III-3~.

259

32.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
Essays. On the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition tosophistry and scepticism. On poetry and music, as they affectthe mind. On laughter, and ludicrous composition. On theutility of classical learning. By James Beattie... Edinburgh:
Printed for William Creech. 1776.
27 cm[xJ, xiv, 3-757, [IJp. (Errata on p. [I])[Jessop, p. 98J
ASSOCIATION COPY.

This copy belonged to John Scott of Anwell
In March 1778,
Scott wrote a series of letters to the 'Gentleman's Magazine' defending
Beattie. Scott's autography appears in the upper right·hand corner ofthe recto of the blank leaf before the title·page.

(1730-1783), the quaker poet and friend of Beattie.

-1776 E &; -1777 (rev.); -1777 E; -1778 (2 v) &E; -1778 D; 3-1779 E.
American ed. : -1809 Philad.
French: -[1798] Paris.
German: -1779 (2 v) Leipzig.

33.

Beattie, James, 1735-1803.
Evidences of the Christian religion: briefly and plainly stated.
By James Beattie... Edinburgh: Printed for A. Strahan and T.
Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh. 1786.
2 vols.
17 cm.

Vol. 1.

vii, [iJ, 180 p. (Errata on p. [i])Contents.Introduction. The design.
I.
Revelation is useful and necessary.
2.
The Gospel history is true.

Vol. 2.

155 p.

Contents.2.
(conti nued)
3. Objections answered.

-1786 (2 v) E; -1786 D; 2-1786; 3-1788 (2 v); -1789 (2 v) E; 4-1795(2 v); 6-1814 E.
260

American ed.: -1787 Philad; -1809 Philad; -1812 Annapolis.

34.

[Beattie, James] 1735-1803.
Scoticisms, arranged in alphabetical order, designed to correct
improprieties of speech and writing. Edinburgh: Printed forWilliam Creech, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, London. 1787.
18 cm.
121 p. (Erratum on p. 121)
-1787 E; -1797 E.

35.

The Essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism, by James Beattie ... Shewn tobe sophistical, and promotive of scepticism and infidelity. With
some remarks on priestcraft, subscriptions, and establishments.
In a letter to a friend. By a professor of moral philosophy inthe college of common-sense ... London: Printed by Baker andGalabin ... 1773.
74 p. (Erratum on the last leaf recto)
21 cm.
This attack on Beattie is not in the British Library.

36.

Forbes, Sir William, 1739-1806.
An account of the life and writings of James Beattie ... Including
many of his original letters. By Sir William Forbes ... Edinburgh:
Printed for Archibald Constable... and William Creech, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W.
Davies, and John Murray, London. 1806.
2 vols.
28 cm.
[Jessop, p. 99]
Vol. 1.

ix, 409 p.

Vol. 2.

431,[4]P. (Errata on pp. [2],[4])front. (port.)

The painting on the first preliminary leaf of vo!' 1 was drawn by Sir
Joshua Reynolds. It symbolises Beattie's popular victory over Hume.
'Standing to one side in the painting and clad in a doctor·of·law's
gown and bands, the Essay on truth under his arm, James Beattie iscomplacement over the symbolism: Truth, in the garb of an angel, is261

depicted as pushing down into the bottomless pit three cringing demons,the first of which is recognizable as David Hume, the second is a caricature of Voltaire, and the third is unidentificable.' - Mosssner, P.579.

I,

PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by Forbes on the half title to vol.
'His Grace / The Lord Archbishop of York / From the Author.'-1806 (2 v) E; 2-1807 (3 v) E; -1824 (I v); -1824 (2 v).
American cd.: -1806 NY; -1807 NY.

37.

Forbes, Sir William, 1739-1806.
An account of the life and writings of James Beattie ... Including
many of his original letters. In three volumes. By Sir William
Forbes... 2nd ed... Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable ...
Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and
W. Davies, and John Murray, London. 1807.
3 vols. 22 cm.

Vol. 1.

vii, xi, [12]-388 p.

Vol. 2.

398 p.

Vol. 3.

342, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])

front. (port.)

See 111-36.

[Bentley, Richard] 1662-1742.
Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking: in a letter to F. H. D.
D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis ...
See 1II-74.

[Bentley, Richard] 1662-1742.
Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking: in a letter to F. H. D.
D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. Part IT.
See III-74.

38.

[Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne] 1685-1753.
Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. In seven dialogues.
Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those
who are called free-thinkers... London: Printed for J. Tonson ...
173 2 •
2vols.

21 cm.

Vol. 1.

[ix], 350 p. (Errata on p. [ii])Vol. 2.

[vii], 209 p. (Errata on p. [vii])
p.60 incorrectly numbered 06.

Alciphron is the largest, and probably the most popular, of. Berkeley'swork. The 'minute philosophers' represent English free·thinkers in theearly part of the eighteenth century. The name is derived from Dia·
logue I, section 10, where Euphranor quotes Cicero, who bestowed thename on the free·thinkers of his time, 'a sort of sect which diminish
al1 the most valuable things, the thoughts, views, and hopes of men; al1
the knowledge, notions, and theories of the mind they reduce to sense;human nature they contract and degrade to narrow low standard ofanimal life, and assign us only a smal1 pittance of time instead of im·mortality.' Berkeley criticizes the views of deist from the time of Hob·bes, with more particular reference to what was said or written by
Collins, Mandevil1e, and Shaftesbury, as well as to the explanation anddefense of theological knowledge by Peter Browne.
The first of the seven dialogues is introductory; the two next are
ethical; the fourth is a defense of the presense and providence of God,as the foundation of practical morals; and in the three last, the spiritualand civilizing advantages of Christianity, with other proofs of its being
Divine, as well as objections to its evidence and mysteries, are discussed.
-1732 (2 v); -1732 (2 v) D; 2-1732 (2 v); 3-1752; 2-1755 D; -1755 D;
3-1757 D; 4-1767; -1777.
American ed.: -1803 New Heaven.
Dutch: -1733 Leyden.
French: -1734 (2 v, by B. de Joncourt) The Hague.
German: -1737 (by W. Kahler) Lemgo.

BOUND WITH
[Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne] 1685-1753.
An essay towards a new theory of VlSlOn. [3rd ed.] First
published in the year 1709. London: Printed in the year 1732.
[210-223], 224-358 p.
21 cm.
'My design is to shew the manner, wherein we perceive by sight the
distance, magnitude, and situation of objects. Also to consider the dif·ference there is betwixt the ideas of sight and touch, and whether there
be any idea common to both senses.' -p.223
This work throws important light upon Berkeley's quarrel with themathematicians and his rejection of the rationalist point of view. From
what Berkeley said about the objects of vision, we can see how he cameto the view that sensible qualities cannot exist 'without the mind.'
Among the main contentions of the book is the claim that distance or'outness' is not immediately perceived by sight; it is 'suggested' inpart by the sensations we get in moving our eyes but mainly by
association with the ideas of touch.
-1709 D; 2-1709 D; -1732 (in Alciphron V2). Italian: -1732 Venice.

39.

[Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne] 1685-1753.
Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. In seven dialogues.
Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those
who are called free·thinkers ... 2nd ed. London: Printed for J.
Tonson ... 1732.
20cm.
2 vols.

Vol. 1.

[xiii], 356 p. (Errata on p. [v])Vol. 2.

[vi], 218 p. (Errata on p. [vi])BOUND WITH
[Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne] 1685-1753.
An essay towards a new theory of vision. [3rd ed.] First published in the year 1709. London: Printed in the year 1732.
[x], 215-351 p.
20 cm.

See 111-38.

40.

[Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne] 168 5-1753.
Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. In seven dialogues.
Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those
who are called free·thinkers ... 3rd ed. London: Printed for J.
and R.Tonson and S.Draper. .. 1752.
20cm.
[xiii], 391, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])41.

[Berkeley, George Bp. of Cloyne] 1685-1753.
A letter to T -- -- P---- [i.e. Thomas Prior], Esq; from the authorof Siris. Containing some farther remarks on the virtues of tarwater, and the methods for preparing and using of it ... To whichis added, an answer to a supposed physician's letter to the Right
Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasioned by his Lordship's
Treatise on the virtues of tar-water. Dublin printed, London
re-printed, for M. Cooper. .. 1744. [Price six-pence.]
28 p.
21 cm.
-1744 D; -1744; 2-1744 (with 'Answer'); 2-1744 D; 3-1744 D.
See 111-42.

42.

Berkeley, George, Bp. of Cloyne, 1685-1753.
Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning
the virtues of tar water, and divers other subjects connected
together and arising one from another. By the Right Rev. Dr.
George Berkeley... 2nd ed., improved and corrected by theauthor. Dublin printed, London re-printed, For W.Innys, and
C. Hitch ... and C. Davis. 1744. [Price two shillings.]
21 cm.
174 p.
'The winter of 1739-40 was of terrible severity; and the following years
were marked by famine, distress, and disease. Berkeley did his best to
carry out the maxims of the "Querist" ... He tried medical experiments
upon the sick. In America he had learnt the use of tar·water. and he
now used it in cases of dysentery. His success appeared to him decisive ...
He set up an apparatus for manufacturing it; he used it in his own family:and made an ardent proselyte of his friend, Thomas Prior. The enthu·
siasm lasted through his life. A "Letter to Thomas Prior" was publishedanonymously in May 1744; a second letter to the same "concerning theusefulness of tar·water in the plague," followed in 1747 a "Letter to the
Reverend Dr. Hales on the benefit of tar-water in fevers, for cattle aswell as the human species," which had appeared earlier in the same year;
the last of his writings, "Further Thoughts on Tar-water," published inBerkeley's "Miscellany" of 1752, contains medical observations, and instructions for its use. It is good, as he says here, not only in fevers, diseasesof the lungs, cancers, scrofula, throat diseases, apoplexies. chronic disordersof all kinds, but also as a general drink for infants. It strengthens theirbodies and sharpens their intellects. It is good for cattle; every market
town and every shop should have a supply ready. It is good for all
climates, land and sea, for rich and poor, high and low livers, and he had
himself drunk a gallon of it in a few hours.' -DNB.
-1744 (title begins 'A chain of'); -1744 (title begins 'Philosophical');-1744 D; 2-1744 D; 2-1744; -1744 (new ed.); -1747.
French: -1745 (with letters) Amsterdam; -1748 Geneva; 4-1748
Amsterdam.
Spanish: -1786 (pt. 1 only) Madrid.

43.

Berkeley, George, Bishop of eloyne, 1685-1753.
Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. The design ofwhich is plainly to demonstrate the reality and perfection ofhumane knowlege, the incorporeal nature of the soul, and theimmediate providence of a Deity: in opposition to sceptics andatheists. Also, to open a method for rendering the sciences moreeasy, useful, and compendious. By George Berkeley ... London:
Printed by G. James, for Henry Clements ... 1713.
[xl, 166 p.
20 cm.
'Clarke, whilst condeming Berkeley'S first principles, declined to argue
the point, though urged by Whiston (Memoirs of Clarke) to give an answer.
Berkeley, moved by this neglect, and desiring to meet the ordinaryobjections, wrote the "Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous."oo. Berkeley's
opinions made some noise, though few or no converts, and occasioned noserious discussion.' -DNB.
-1713; 2-1725; -1734; 2- 177 6 .
French: -1750 (by J. P. de Gua de Malves) Amsterdam.

266

German: -1756 (by J. C. Eschenbach) Rostock; -1781 Leipzig.

Birch, Thomas, 1705-1766.
An account of the life and writings of Ralph Cudworth ...
See 111-76.

44.

Hales, Stephen, 16 77-17 6 1.
An account of some experiments and observations on tar-water:wherein is shown the quantity of tar that is therein. And also
a method proposed, both to abate that quantity considerably, andto ascertain the strength of the tar-water. Which was read
before the Royal Society. By Stephen Hales ... London: Printed
for R. Manby and H. S. Cox ... 1745. (Price six-pence.)
29, [1]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])21 cm.
-1745; 2-1747 (2 pt., with letter from Mr. Reid).

45.

[Blair, Hugh] 1718-1800.
A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal.
London: Printed for T.Becket and P.A.De Hondt... 1763.
[iJ, 75, [I] p. (Publisher's advert, on p. [I])25 cm.
The substance of this dissertation was delivered by the author in thecourse of his lectures on rhetoric and belles·lettres, in the University of
Edinburgh. 'In this dissertation, it is proposed, to make some observations on the ancient poetry of nations, particularly the Runic and the
Celtic; to point out those characters of antiquity, which the works ofOssian bear; to give an idea of the spirit and strain of his poetry; andafter applying the rules of criticism to Fingal, as an epic poem, toexamine the merit of Ossian's compositions in general, with regard todescription, imagery, and sentiment.' -Advertisement, p. [i]-17 63; -17 64; 2- 1765; 3-1765 D; -1783; -1792; -1795; -1797; -1807.
American ed.: -:1790 Phil ad ; -1813 Morristown; -1822 Morristown.
German: -1768 [?]; -1785 Hanover.

46.

Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. By Hugh Blair. .. In twovolumes. London: printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell... and W.
Creech, in Edinburgh. 1783.
2 vols.
29 cm.
[Jessop, p. 101 fl.]Vol. 1.

xiii, 496p.

front.(port.)

p. 199, 399 incorrectly numbered 196, 396 respectively.
Contents.I. Introduction.
2. Taste.
3. Criticism-genius-pleasures of taste-sublimity in objects.
4. The sublime in writing.
5. Beauty, and other pleasures of taste.
6. Rise and progress of language.
7. Rise and progress of language, and of writing.
8. Structure of language.
9. Structure of language-English tongue.
10. Style-perspicuity and precision.
I I. Structure of sentences.
12. Structure of sentences.
13. Structure of sentences-harmony.
14. Origin and nature of figurative language.
IS. Metaphor.
16. Hyperbole-personification-apostrophe.
17. Comparison, antithesis, interrogation, exclamation, and otherfigures of speech.
18. Figurative language-general characters of style-diffuse, con·cise-feeble, nervous-dry, plain, neat, elegant, flowery.
19. General characters of style-simple, affected, vehement-direc·
tions for forming a proper style.
20. Critical examination of the style of Mr. Addison, in no. 4IIof the Spectator.
2I. Critical examination of the style in no. 412 of the Spectator.
22. Critical examination of the style m no. 413 of the Spectator.
23· Critical examination of the style m no. 414 of the Spectator.
24· Critical examination of the style in a passage of Dean Swift's
writings.

Vol. 2.

[iv], 550, [17] p.
p.

268

501

incorrectly numbered 510.

Contents.25. Eloquence, or public speaking-history of eloquence-Grecian
eloquence-Demosthenes.
26. History of eloquence continued-Roman eloquence- Cicero modern eloquence.
27. Different kinds of public speaking-eloquence of popular
assemblies-extracts from Demosthenes.
28. Eloquence of the bar-analysis of Cicero's Oration for Cluen·
tius.
29. Eloquence of the pulpit.
30. Critical examination of a sermon of Bishop Atterbury's.
31. Conduct of a discourse in all its parts-introduction-division-narration and explication.
32. Conduct of a discourse-the argumentative part-the pathetic
part-the peroration.
33. Pronunciation, or delivery.
34. Means of improving in eloquence.
35. Comparative merit of the ancients and the moderns-historical
writing.
36. Historical wrltmg.
37. Philosophical writing-dialogue-epistolary writing-fictitious
history.
38. Nature of poetry-its origin and progress-versification.
39. Pastoral poetry-lyric poetry.
40. Didactic poetry-descriptive poetry.
41. The poetry of the Hebrews.
42. Epic poetry.
43. Homer's II iad and Odyssey-Virgil's JEneid.
44. Lucan's Pharsalia-Tasso's Jerusalem-Camoen's Lusiad-Fene·
lon's Telemachus-Voltaire's Henriade-Milton's Paradise Lost.
45. Dramatic poetry-tragedy.
46. Tragedy-Greek-French-English tragedy.
47. Comedy-Greek and Roman-French-English comedy.
'The following lectures were read in the University of Edinburgh, fortwenty· four years. The publication of them, at present, was not altogether
a matter of choice. Imperfect copies of them, in manuscript, from notes
taken by students who heard them read, were first privately handed
about; and afterwards frequently exposed to public sale. When the author
saw them circulate so currently, as even to be quoted in print, and foundhimself often threatened with surreptItious publications of them, hejudged it to be high time that they should proceed from his own hand,rather than come into public vIew under some very defective and erroneousform.
'They were originally designed for the initiation of youth into the studyof belles lettres, and of composition. With the same intention they are
now published; and, therefore, the form of lectures, in which they wereat first composed, is still retained.'-Preface, vol. I, pp. iii-iv.
-1783 (2 v); -1783 (3 v) D; 2-1785 (3 v); "3-1787 (3 v); -1788 (3 v)
Basel; -1789 (2 v) D; 4-1790 (3 v); -1793 (2 v) D; 5-1793 (3 v);
6-1796 (3 v); 7-1798 (3 v); -1801 (3 v) Basel; 8-1801 (3 v); 9-1803(3 v); 10-1806 (3 v); 11-1809 (3 v); -181 I (3 v) E; 12-1812 (3 v);-1813 (3 v) E; 13-1814 (4 v) & E; -1817 (3 v); -1818 (3 v); -1819 (3 v)
E; 13-1819; -1820 (3 v); -1823; -1823 (3 v); -1824; -1834 Glasgow;-1836; -1838; -1841; -1845; -1853.
American ed.: -1784 Philad; -1788 (3 v) Philad; 2-1793 NY; 21793 (2 v) Philad; 3-1802 (2 v) B; -1804 Phil ad ; 4-1807 (2 v) Brooklin; 5-1812 (2 v) Brooklin; 6-1814 Morristown; 6-1815 NY; 7-1817
NY; 7-1819 NY; 8-1819 NY; 8-1819 NY; 8-1819 NY: 8-1819 NY;-1820 Hartford; 2-1822 Hartford; 13-1824 NY; 14-"1826 NY; -1826
NY; -1829 NY; -1829 Philad; -1830 NY; -1826 NY; -1829 NY;-1829 Phil ad ; -1830 NY; 3-1831 NY; -1832 NY; -1833 NY; -1833
Phil ad ; 3-1838 NY; 1839 Phil ad ; -1842 NY; -1844 Phil ad ; -1846
Philad; -1850 Philad; -1850 Halifax; ...
French: -1797 (4 v) Paris; 2-1821 (2 v) Paris; -1821 (3 v) Paris;
2-1830 (3 v) Paris; 3-1845 (2 v) Paris.
German: -1785/89 (4 v) Leipzig; -1820 (2 v) Donauoschingen.
Italian: -1801/2 (3 v) Parma; -1808 Vigevano; 2-1809 Vigevano;-18lI (3 v) Genoa; 3-1813 (3 v) Prato; -1815 (3 v) Naples; 4-1819(3 v) Venice; -1835 (2 v) Parma; 2-1839 (2 v) Florence; -1842 Naples; -1846 Florence & Turin; -1849 (2 v) Naples; -1855 Turin; -1862(2 v) Naples.
Russian: -1837 (4 v) Moscow.
Spanish: -1798/1801 (4 v) Madrid; 2-1804 (2 v) Madrid; 3-1816/17(4 v) Madrid; 4-1834 (3 v) Mexico.

47.

Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. By Hugh Blair... Inthree volumes. 5th ed. London: Printed for A. Strahan; T.
Cadell ... ; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh. 1793·
22CID.
3 vols.

27 0

Vol. Lviii, 456 p. front.(port.)p.

96 incorrectly numbered 66.

Contents.Lectures 1-17.

Vol. 2.

iv, 480 p.

Contents.Lectures 18-34.

Vol. 3.

iv, 384, [26]p. (Publisher's advert. on last leaf recto)
p. 320 incorrectly numbered 319.

Contents.Lectures 35-47.

See 111-46.

48.

Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800.
Sermons, by Hugh Blair ... In five volumes ... London: Printed by
A.Strahan ... for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies ... ; and W. Creech,
Edinburgh. 1802[/03]
5 vols.
24 cm.
Vol. L

24th ed., 1802.
vii, 429, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [IJ)Contents.Sermons 1-15.

Vol. 2.

21st ed., 1802.
viii, 426, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [IJ)Contents.Sermons 1-15.

Vol. 3.

13th ed., 1802.
xii, 402, [I] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [IJ)
271

Contents.Dedication to the Queen.
Sermons I-ZO.

Vol. 4.

9th ed. To which is added,

A sermon, preached be-fore the Society for the Benefit of the Sons of the
Clergy, &c. on the 20th May 1796.

180z.

viii, 435, [4]P. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-4])
p. ZI9 incorrectly numbered IZ9.
Contents.Sermons I-ZI.

Vol. 5.

5th ed., 18°3.
xii, 475, [8] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-8])

Contents.Sermons I-ZO.
To which is annexed, A short account of the life and characterof the author, by James Finlayson, D. D.
'Being now, by the infirmity of very advanced age, laid aside from all
the labours of the pulpit, and possessing, of course, more retirement andleisure than formerly, it occurred to me, sometimes, to look back into
sermons most of which had been composed a great many years ago,
with a view to observe how far they agreed in the strain of thought withthose which I had written at a later period. In reviewing them. passages
sometimes appeared which I imagined might be serviceable, either foradmonition or consolation to various classes of persons; and the thoughtbegan to arise in my mind, that by employing my present leisure, as longas health allowed, in preparing some of those discourses for the press,
it might be in my power to be still of some use in the world. Encouragedby this idea, I went on to revise and correct one sermon after another,often making alterations and additions, till the present Volume arose.'-To the reader, vol. 5, pp. iii-iv.
-1777/1801 (5 v) E; 7-1779 (v I) D; 7-1779 (v I) E; -1781/94 (4 v);-1781/1801 (5 v); -1781/1801 (5 v); -1784 (v I, z); -1784 (3 v); 9-1784(5 v) & E; IZ-1784 (5 v) & E; -1784/1801 (5 v) D; -1785 (v I, z);-1785/1801 (s v); 14-1786 (v I) D; -1786 (v 1, z); lZ-1789 (v z) D;
3-1790 (v 3) D; 15-1790 (v z) D; 16-1790 (3 v); 15-1790/94 (v 3,4)
D; 15-1790/1801 (5 v) D; -1791 (3 v); -1791/94 (4 v); -179z (3 v) D;

Z7Z

16-1792 (VI); -1792/93 (VI,2); 19-1792/94 (4v); 1792/96 (VI,2);
2-1794 (v 4) D; -1795/99 (4 v); -1796 (4 v); -1796/98 (4 v); -1796/1801 (5 v) D; 16-1798 (v 3) D; -1798 (4 v); 21-1798/1801 (5 v); 1799
!I802 (5 v) E &; -[18--} (2 V); -1801 (2 V); -1801 (5 V); -1802 (5 v)
24-1802/03 (5 V); 5-1805 (v 5); -1805 (5 v); -1807/08 (5 v); -1809(5 v); -18II/14 (5 v) E &; -1814/15 (5 v); -1815 (4 v); -1815 (5 v);-1817 (5 v) -1818 (5 v) E; -1818 (5 v); -1819 (5 v); -1820 (4 v); -1821(5 v); -1822 (5 v); -1822 (3 v); -1823; -1824 (5 v); -1824; - 1824;-1825 (3 v); -1826; -1827; -1828 (3 v); -1828; -1 833 (3 v); - 18 34;-1837; -1838; -1840; -1847; -1865.
American ed.: -1791 (2 v) Philad; -1792 (2 v) Baltimore; 2-1792 (2 v)
NY; -1792/93 (2 v) Baltimore; -1794 Philad; 3-1795 (v 3) Philad;-1796/97 (2 v) Albany; -1802 (3 v) NY; -1805 B; -1805 (2 v) Gettys·
burg; -1814 (2 v) Baltimore; -1822 (2 v) Philad; -1826 NY; -1844
NY; -1845 NY; -1846 NY; -1855 NY; -1859 NY.
French: -1785 (v 1,2) Lausanne; -1786 (v 3) Lyon.

49.

Blakey, Robert, 1795-1878.
History of moral science. By Robert Blakey... London: James
Duncan ... ; Bell & Bradfute ... Edinburgh; and M. Ogle, Glasgow.
1 8 33.
2

vols.

Vol. 1.

24cm.

x, 374 p.
p-43, 238 incorrectly numbered 34, 328 respectively.

Contents.I. Preliminary observations.
2. A brief sketch of the ancient systems of moral philosophy,
down to the end of the fifth century of the Christian era.
3. The same subject continued: from the fifth century to thetimes of Hobbes.
4. Mr. Hobbes of Malmesbury.
5. Dr. Ralph Cudworth. A treatise concerning eternal and immu·
table morality.
6. Bishop Cumberland. The laws of nature.
7. Mr. John Locke. Essay on the human understaning.
8. Archbishop King. Origin of evil.
9. Mr. William Wollaston. Religion of nature delineated.
10. Dr. Samuel Clarke. Moral works.
I I. Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristics.
273

Fable of the bees.
Moral works.
14. Mr. Soames Jenyns. Origin of evil.
IS. Dr. Hutcheson. On the moral sense.
12.

Dr. Mandeville.

13. Bolingbroke and Pope.

Vol. 2.

v, 357, [4]P. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [I], [3], [4])Contents.16. Dr. Hutcheson. On the passions.
17. Mr. Thomas Rutherford. An essay on virtue.
18. Mr. Hume. The system of utility.
19. Drs. Hartley and Priestley. Vibrations and association ofideas.
20. Lord Kames. Essay on the principles of morality and natural
religion.
21. Bishop Butler. Analogy of natural and revealed religion.
22. Dr. Ferguson. Institutes of moral philosophy.
23. Dr. Price. Review of the principal questions in morals.
24. Dr. Adam Smith. Theory of moral sentiments.
25. Dr. Paley. Moral and political philosophy.
26. Rev. Thomas Gisborne. Principles of morals and politicalphilosophy.
27. Mr. Jeremy Bentham. Introduction to the principles of morals
and legislation.
28. Mr. William Godwin. An enquiry concerning political justice,and its influence on morals and happiness.
29. Professor Dugald Stewart. Outlines of moral philosophy, &c.
30. Dr. Cogan. Philosophical treatise on the passions, &c.
31. Dr. Thomas Brown. Lectures on the philosophy of the humanmind.
32. Dr. Dewar. Elements of moral philosophy and Christian ethics.
33. A few brief remarks upon several moral writers of foreign
nations, from the revival of letters in Europe down to thepresent time.
34. General remarks upon the preceding chapters, with observations
on the moral theory which seems to square best with a divine
revelation.
35. A brief notice of the morality of the Scriptures.
This is one of the first works which discuss comprehensively the worksof the British moralists.
-1833 & E & Glasgow.
274

50.

Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John, 1st Viscount, 1678-175I.
The philosophical works of the late Right Honorable Henry St.
John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. In five volumes. Publishedby David Mallet, Esq ... London: Printed in the year 1754.
5 vols.
21 cm.
Vol. 1.

[ii], 358 (i.e. 36o)P'
pp. 351, 352 duplicated. Pagination runs as follows: 1-352, 351-35 8 .

Contents.Letters or essays addressed to Mr. Pope.
Essay I. Concerning the nature, extent, and reality of humanknowledge.
II. Containing some reflections on the folly and presumptionof philosophers especially in matters of the first philosophy; on the rise and progress of their boasted science;on the propagation of error and superstition; and on
the partial attempts that have been made to reform theabuses of human reason_

Vol. 2.

[ii],412P.
pp_ 157-160 duplicated, pp_ 173-176 omitted_ Pagination runs
as follows: 1-160, 157-172, 177-412-

Contents_Essay II. (continued)
III. Containing some further reflections on the rise and progress of monotheism, that first and great principle ofnatural theology, or the first philosophy.
IV_ Concerning authority in matters of religion_

Vol. 3.

425 p_

Contents.Essay IV. (continued)
Fragments or minutes of essays_

Vol. 4.

398 p.

Contents.275

Fragments or minutes of essays (continued).

Vol. 5.

379 p.
p. 245 incorrectly numbered 254.

Contents.Fragments or minutes of essays (continued).
The substance of some letters written originally in French, about
the year 1720, to M. de Pouilly.
A letter occasioned by one of Archbishop Tillotson's sermons.
'This edition was "the gun charged against Christianity" of Dr.
Johnson's famous comment.' -DNB.
-1754 (5 v); -1754(v 1,2,4.5); -1754/57 (5 v); -1776 (5 v); -1777 (5 v).

Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John, 1st Viscount, 1678-1751.
Reflexions politiques sur l' etat present de l' Angleterre, principalement iz
l'egard de ses taxes et de ses dettes, et sur leurs causes et leurs consequences.
See 1-74(2)51.

[Bonar, John] 1722-06r.
An analysis of the moral and religious sentiments contained in
the writings of Sopho [pseud.] and David Hume, Esq; addressedto the consideration of the Reverend and Honourable Members of
the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh:
Printed in the year 1755. [Price six pence.]
49 p.
21 cm.
'Sopho' is the pseudonym under which Lord Kames is attacked. This
pamphlet sometimes attributed to George Anderson. Bonar brings up forthe consideratIOn of the Assembly, 'the public attack which in thiscountry has of late been made on the great principles and duties ofnatural and revealed religion, in the works of David Hume, Esq; and in
the essays of an author who has been distinguished by the name ofSopho. It is true, one of these gentlemen has some how got the characterof a fine writer, and subtle disputant; and the latter, it is said, holds a

place of great importance in this country, and even bears an office in yourchurch. But as I am well assured, that neither the art of the one, nor
the power of the other. will avail to overthrow those principles they soboldly attack; so I am persuaded, that by neither will ye be diverted fromdoing your duty; and your duty unquestionably it is, to give warning of
the poison contained in these volumes, and to testify to the whole Christianworld your abhorrence of such principles.' ~ p.2.
The stated method of the book is 'to analyse the works of thesecelebrated authors. giving their own expressions under the different heads
to which they seem to belong.' ~ P.4.
Kames is disposed of in eleven propositions and Hume in six. Humeis alleged to have maintained:(I) All distinction betwixt virtue and vice is merely imaginary. (2)Justice has no foundation further than it contributes to public advantage.
(3) Adultery is very lawful, but sometimes not expedient. (4) Religion
and its ministers are prejudicial to mankind, and will always be foundeither to run into the heights of superstition or enthusiasm. (5) Chris·tianity has no evidence of its being a divine revelation. (6) Of all themodes of Christianity popery is the best, and the reformation from thence
was only the work of madmen and enthusiasts. ~ Mossner, p. 342.

-1755; -1755 E.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord HailesJ 1726-1792.
Sketch of the life of Mark Alexander Boyd.
See 1-86.

52.

[Brown, JohnJ 1715-1766.
An estimate of the manners and principles of the times. By theauthor of Essays on the characteristics, &c... London: Printed
for L. Davis, and C. Reymers ... 1757[j58J
2 vols.
21 em.

Vol. 1.

221, [2J p.

(Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])

1757.

p. 145 incorrectly numbered 154.
Contents.~

Pt. I. A delineation of the ruling manners and principles.
277

The design.
Of the spirit of liberty.
3. Of the spirit of humanity.
4. Of the civil administration of justice.
5. Of the ruling manners of the times.
6. Of the principles of religIOn, honour, and public spirit.
II. Of the public effects of these manners and principles.
I. What constitutes the strength of a nation.
2. Of the national capacity.
3. Of the national spirit of defence.
4. Of the national spirit of unIOn.
5. Of the consequences of national disunion.
6. An objection, drawn from the manners of the French nation, considered.
7. Of the most probable tendency of these effects.
III. Of the sources of these manners and principles.
I. Of a general mistake on this subject.
2. Of the effects of exorbitant trade and wealth, on manners.
3. Of the effects of exorbitant trade and wealth on the religious principle.
4. Of their effects on the principle of honour.
5. Of their effects on public spirit.
6. Farther remarks on this subject.
7. A review of the argument.
8. An objection considered.
9. Another objection considered.
10. Conclusion.
I.

2.

Vol. 2.

265, [2]p.
[1-2 ])(Errataon p. 8.

Publisher's advert. on pp.

175 8 .

Contents.Pt. I. Additional remarks on the ruling manners and principles.
I. The design of this volume.
2. Remarks on the introductory section of the first volume.
3· Farther remarks on the spirit of liberty.
4· Remarks on the spirit of humanity.
5· A remark on the inhumanity of the Italians.
6. Remarks on the ruling manners of the times.
7· On the present ruling motives to marriage, and their effects
on manners and principles.
8. Of another source of the improper education of youth.
9· Farther remarks on the universities.
27 8

An additional remark on modern travelling.
Farther observations on the manners of the times.
12. Of the ruling principles of the times.
II. Additional remarks on the public effects of these manners andprinciples.
I. Farther remarks on the national capacity.
2. The writer's apology for himself.
3. Farther remarks on the national spirit of defence.
4. Of the different genius and permanency of popery and protes·
tantism.
5. How far the spirit of duelling is connected with the manly
spirit of defence.
6. A remarkable consequence arising from this difference ofprinciple.
7. Of a national militia.
8. Farther remarks on the state of our armies.
10.

II.

9. The same subject continued.
Additional thoughts on the navy.
I I. Of the marine society.
12. Farther considerations on the national spirit of union.
13. The same subject continued.
14. Remarks on the conduct of a famous minister.
IS. A reflection on the future effects of parliamentary influenceon the balance of power.
16. Of the immediate consequences of national selfishness anddisunion.
10.

17. Of the most practicable remedy for this capital evil.
18. By what means this remedy can be effected.
19. Of the characteristics of a great minister.
20. Conclusion.

In 1757 appeared Brown's most popular work, 'An Estimate of theManners and Principles of the Times.' An edition appeared in 1758,
a 'very large impression' of a second volume, and an 'explanatory defence'in the same year. From the identity of the first and these editions of
the 'Estimate' Hill Burton seems to doubt whether the success was genuine(Life of Hume, ii. 23). There is no doubt, however, of the impression
made at the time. 'The inestimable estimate of Brown,' says Cowper(Table· Talk), 'rose like a paper kite and charmed the town.' It is awell·written version of the ordinary complaints of luxury and effeminacy
which gained popularity from the contemporary fit of national depression.
Macaulay refers to it in this respect in his essay on 'Chatham.' In his
first volume Brown describes Warburton as a Colossus who 'bestrides the279

world.' -DNB.
-1757; -1757 D; 2-1757; 3-1757; 4-1757 (2 v); 5-1757; -1757/58 (2 v);
6-1757/58 (2V); -1758 D; -1758 (V2); -1758 (2 V) D; 7-1758; 7-1758
Belfast.
American ed.: 7-1758 Boston. French: -1758 (by C. Chais) The Hague.

53.

Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
An examination of some remarks in the reply of Dr. John Inglis
to professor Playfair. By Thomas Brown... Edinburgh: Printed
for Mundell, Doig, & Steveson; and John Murray, London. 1806.
66, [2] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1 -2])
21 cm.
[Jessop, p. 105]
'The remarks, which I have to offer, are divided into two sections; thefirst of which contains an examination of the reasons assigned by Dr.
Inglis, for declining the general argument advanced in my "View of thenature and tendency of the doctrine of Mr. Hume, concerning the relationof cause and effect": the second contains a vindication of that part of theparticular argument of my "Short criticism," which he has ventured to
examine.' -po 7.

54.

Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820.
Observations on the nature and tendency of the doctrine of Mr.
Hume, concerning the relation of cause and effect. By Thomas
Brown ... 2nd ed., enlarged. Edinburgh: Printed for Mundell andSon; and sold in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme ...
J. Murray ... and T. Ostell ... 1806.
[v], 6-220, [4]P. (Errata on p. [III]. Publisher's advert. on pp.
[1-4])
22 cm.
[Jessop, p. lOS]
p. 188 incorrectly numbered 138.
In 1804, Brown took part in a famous controversy. The claim ofLeslie to the mathematical chair at Edinburgh had been opposed on the
ground that he had spoken favourably of Hume's theory of causation.
Brown undertook to prove that Hume's theory did not lead to the scepticalconsequences ascribed to it. He published 'Observations .. .' in 1805
anonymously. The first edition had only 46 pp. The second and enlarged
edition adds a new preface of 28 pp. The third edition appeared in 1818

under title 'An inquiry into the relation of cause and effect.''Like D. Hume and the Mills, Brown reduces causation to invariablesequence, and especially labours the point that "power" is a word expressiveof nothing else. He denies the distinction between "physical" and "eflicient" causes. He differs, however, from Hume in inferring that we havean intuitive conception, underlying all experience, that the same antece·dents will produce the same consequences. This takes the place ofHume's "custom" and enables Brown to avoid Hume's theological scepti.
cism. He infers God as the cause of an orderly universe.' -DNB.
-1805 E; 2-1806 (enlarged, also in Tracts, hist. and philos ... resp.
the election of Mr. Leslie to the professorship of mathematics, 1806,
Edinburgh, 2 vols); 3-1818 (under title 'Inquiry into the relation of
cause and effect,' Edinburgh, xvi,S69 P.); -1822 Andover; 4-1835.

55.

[Browne, Peter, Bp. of Cork and Ross] d. 1735.
The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding ...
London: Printed for William Innys... 1728.
iv, 477 p. (Errata on p. iv)
20 cm.
Contents.Introduction to the whole design.
Bk.I. I. Introduction to this treatise.
2. Of sense, and the ide.as of sensation.
3. Of our idea of spirit, and of God in particular.
4. The several properties of ideas of sensation.
5. A second property of ideas of sensation, that they are slm·
pIe.
6. A third property that they are immediate.
7. That they are direct.
8. A fifth property, that they are clear and distinct.
9. The difference between divine metaphor, and divine analogy.
II. I. Of the pure intellect.
2. Of instinct in brutes.
3. The second operation of the pure intellect, that of judg·
ment.
4. Of abstraction.
5. Of relation.
6. Of the different kinds of knowledge, and evidence.
7. Of the farther improvement of knowledge by relation
revealed.
281

8. Of revealed relations entirely new.
9. Of the improvement of morality by revelation.
10. Of spirit, and soul, and body; and the great usefulness of
this distinction in religion.
III. A summary of the natural order, and whole procedure of theintellect.
I. The mind at first a tabula rasa.
2. Ideas of sensation.
3. The simple apprehension of the intellect, or its view of thoseideas.
4. Compound ideas of sensation.
5. The intellect's consciousness of its own operations. Its complex notions and conceptions.
6. Illation or inference, or reason strictly so call'd.
7. We have knowledge of things, whereof we have no ideas.
8. From the existence of things material and human, is infer'dthe necessary existence of God.
9. From the existence of God and the several relations he bears
to mankind, the speculative knowledge of natural religion isinfer'd.
10. The practical duties of natural religion, infer'd from that
speculative knowledge.
11. The necessity, and manner of revelation.
The argument in this book and in 'Things Supernatural and Divineconceived by Analogy with things Natural 'and Human' [see I-56] resembles
one afterwards put forward by Dean Mansel. 'It is adopted from Archbishop King's sermon on predestination (1709, and republished with notes
by Archbishop Whately, 1821). According to Browne we can have no
direct knowledge at all of the real nature of the Divine attributes, though
we may have an "analogical" knowledge through revelation. The doctrine
was intended at first to upset Toland's argument against mystery as being
equivalent to nonsense. Berkeley, in his "Alciphron" (third dialogue,1732), urged that it really led to atheism.
Browne replies to Berkeley atgreat length in the "Analogy." Berkeley says (4 April 1734) that he did
not answer the last attack, as the book had excited little notice in
Ireland.' -DNB.

-1727; -17 28 ; 2- 1729; 3-1737.

56.

[Browne, Peter, Bp. of Cork and Ross] d. 1735.
Things divine and supernatural conceived by analogy with things282

natural and human... By the author of The procedure, extent
and limits of human understanding. London: Printed for William Innys and Richard Manby ... 1733.
[iv], 554, [16]p. (Errata on p. [iv]. Publisher's advert. on pp.
[I-16J)
2lcm.
p. 195 incorrectly numbered 125.
Contents.I. The difference between metaphor and analogy in general; andof divine analogy in particular.
2. The various methods of men's accounting for the manner ofour knowledge of things divine and immaterial.
3. That there is a true and sure foundation for this divine analogy
in the nature of things.
4. Authorities for divine analogy. And the mistaken notions ofit.
5. Another great mistake concerning divine analogy considered:and the true notion of a Christian mystery stated.
6. A positive proof of divine analogy.
7. A positive proof of divine analogy, with respect to the moral
attributes of God. And the divine attributes rightly distinguished.
8. A collection of loose and general reflections upon the doctrineof divine analogy, considered.
The signature 'J. Burgoyne' appears on the title-page. This would
seem to be the autograph of John Burgoyne (1722-1792), author of The
Heiress, but better·known as the general defeated in the American War
of Independence by General Bates at the battle of Behmus Heights on
the Hudson River.

-1733·

57.

Buffier, [Claude] 1661-1737.
First truths, and the origin of our OpInIOnS, explained: with an
enquiry into the sentiments of modern philosophers, relative to
our primary ideas of things. Translated from the French of Pere
Buffier. To which is prefixed a detection of the plagiarism,
concealment, and ingratitude of the Doctors Reid, Beattie, andOswald ... London: Printed for J. Johnson ... 1780.

lix, 438, [lxv-Ixxi] p.

24cm.

[Jessop, p. 100]p.lxxi incorrectly numbered Ixx.
Contents.Plan and division of the work.
Pt. I. Of the different kinds of first truths; whence they are de·duced, and the essential relation they mutually have.
II. In which first truths are examined with respect to beings
generall y cons ide red .
III. First truths relative to spiritual beings.
IV. First truths that relate to corporeal beings.
Appendix. First truths in the sciences of natural philosophy.
physic, jurisprudence, and divinity.
Remarks on the philosophical writings of Descartes, Locke, Malbranche,
Le Clerc, Crouzas and Regis. Translation of 'Traite des premieres
veritez, et de la source de nos jugements, OU I'on examine Ie sentimentdes philosophes de ce temps, sur les premieres notions des choses,' Paris,
17 2 4.

[Bulkeley, John]
Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity; from a gentlemanof the University of Cambridge [John Bulkeley]; with the doctor's
answers to them.
See 111-146.

58.

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime
and beautiful. With an introductory discourse concerning taste,
and several other additions. By Edmund Burke ... Tegg's miniature edition.
London: Printed for T. Tegg... and sold byMessrs. Duncans, Glasgow; Mr. Sutherland, Edinburgh; andMr. M' cleary, Dublin. 1810.
viii, 172 p. I plate.
17 cm.
p. 153 incorrectly numbered 253.

-1757; 2-1759; 3-1761 ; 4-1764; 4-1766 (added 'A vindication of na·tural society .. .') D; 4-1766 D; 5-1767; 6-1770; 5-1772 Berwick;
7-1773; 8-1776; 6-[1779?] D; 9-1782; -1787; -1793; -1798; -1801;-1807; -1810; -1812; -1812; -1812 Glasgow; -1818; -1820 Chiswick;-1821; -1823; -1824 E; -1824; -1825 Chiswick; 5-1867; -1889.
American ed: -1803 Montrose; -1805 Philad; -1806 Philad; -1829
NY; -1833 Baltimore; -1835 NY; -1844 NY; -1846 NY; -1854
NY; -1856 NY; -1863 NY; -1871 NY; -[1877?] NY.
French: -1765 (2 v); -1803 Paris.
German: -1773 Riga.

59.

Prior, Sir James, I790?-1869.
Memoir of the life and character of the Right Hon. Edmund
Burke; with specimens of his poetry and letters, and an estimateof his genius and talents, compared with those of his great
contemporaries.
By James Prior... 2nd ed., enlarged to twovolumes, by a variety of original letters, anecdotes, papers, andother additional matter. .. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock,
and Joy. 1826.

Vol. 1.

xxxii, 519 p. (Errata on p. viii)

front. (port.)

Ch.I-9·Vol. 2.

iv, 548 p.

Ch.I-8.
'This book showed industry and good sense, and is still considered thebest summary of Burke's career.' -DNB.
-1824; 2-1826 (2 v); 3-1839; 5-1854; 5-1867; 5-1872; 5-1878; 5-1882;
5-1884; -1889; 5-1889.
American ed.: -1825 Phil ad ; -1854 (2 v) B.

60.

Burnet, Thomas, 163S?-1715.
The sacred theory of the earth: containing an account of theoriginal of the earth, and of all the general changes which it
hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummationof all things. In two volumes. The two first books concerning
the Deluge, and concerning paradise. The two last books concern·
ing the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens
285and new earth. With a review of the theory, and of its proofs;
especially in reference to Scripture. 6th ed. To which is added,
the author's defence of the work, from the exceptions of Mr.
Warren, and the examination of Mr. Keil. And an ode to theauthor by Mr. Addison. London: Printed for J Hooke... 1726.
2 vols.
20cm.

Vol. 1.

xxxii, 456 p.

front. (port.)

10 plates.

Contents.Ad insignissimum virum D. Tho. Burnetum, sacne theori;e tell uris
autorem. An ode to the learned Dr. Thomas Burnet, author of
the sacred theory of the earth. [by Addison]
Ep. ded. to the King.
Bk. I. Concerning the Deluge, and the dissolution of the earth.
II. Concerning the prim;eval earth, and concerning paradise.

Vol. 2.

title varied:

The sacred theory of the earth. Containing the twolast books, concerning the burning of the world, andconcerning the new heavens, and new earth. London:
Printed for J Hooke ... 1726.
[xvi], 568 p. (Publisher's advert. on P.524) I plate.
p. 291, 300, 357 incorrectly numbered 292, 230, 351 respectively.
Contents.Ep. ded. to the Queen.
Bk. III. Concerning the conflagration.
IV. Concerning the new heavens, and new earth, and concerning the consummation of all things.
[Specific title·page]
A review of the sacred theory of the earth, and of its proofs:
especially in reference to Scripture.
London: Printed for J.
Hooke ...
[Specific title-page]
An answer to the exceptions made by Mr. Erasmus Warren, against
the sacred theory of the earth. 4th ed. London: Printed for
J. Hooke ... 1726.
A short consideration of :Mr. Erasmus Warren's defence of his
exceptions against the theory of the earth. In a letter' to a286

friend.
[Specific title·page]
Reflections upon the theory of the earth, occasion'd by a lateexamination of it. In a letter to a friend. London: Printed
for J. Hooke ... 1726.
In 1681 Burnet published the first part of this work, 'Tell uris Theoria
Sacra, orbis nostri originem et mutationes generales quas aut jam subiit
aut olim subiturus est complectens,' in two books. It was admired by
Charles II. An English version, enlarged and modified, appeared in
1684, dedicated to the King. The last part, in two books, dedicated to theDuke of Ormonde, appeared in 1689 (together with a second edition of
the first two books), and an English translation of the whole, dedicatedto Queen Mary, in the same year. Addison addressed a Latin ode toBurnet in 1689, and Steele wrote an enthusiastic 'Spectator' (no. 146)
upon the 'Theory.' Burnet maintained that the earth resembled agigantic egg; the shell was crushed at the deluge, the internal waters
burst out, while the fragments of the sheil formed the mountains, andat the same catastrophe the equator was diverted from its original coinci·
dence with the ecliptic. Erasmus Warren attacked his theory in 1690 ina pamphlet called 'Geologia, or a Discourse concerning the Earth before
the Deluge.' John Keill, of Balliol, published an 'Examination of Dr.
Burnet's Theory' in 1698, in which he also ridicules the scientific ignoranceof Warren, and argues against Whiston's explanation of the deluge by acomet in his 'New Theory of the Earth' (1696). Burnet's replies to Warren
and KeilJ are appended to the sixth edition of the 'Theory' (1726).
-DNB.
Latin: -1681; -1681 [1689?]; -1681/89 (2 v); 1681/90 (2 v); 2-1689;-1689/88 (2 v); 2-1689; 2-1689 (2 v) -1691 Frankfurt; -1694 Amster·dam; -1699 Amsterdam; -1702; 3-1702.
English: -1684; -1684/90 (2 v); -1690; 2-1690/91 (2 v); 2-1691 (v 1);
2-1691/97 (2 v); 3-1697 (2 v); -1699 (2 v); 4-1719 (2 v); 5-1722 (2 v);
6-1726 (2 v); -[1734] (2 v); 7-1749 (2 v); -1751 (2 v) G; -1753 (2 v)
G; 7-1759 (2 v).
German: -1703 (4 v) Hamburg.

61.

Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752.
The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution
and course of nature. To which are added two brief dissertations: I. Of personal identity. II. Of the nature of virtue. By
Joseph Butler... London: Printed for James, John and Paul

Knapton ... 1736.
[v], x, 11-320 p.

27 em.

Contents.Introdution.
Pt. I.
I. Of a future life.
2. Of the government of God by rewards and punishments; andparticularly of the latter.
3. Of the moral government of God.
4. Of a state of probation, as implying trial difficulties and danger.
5. Of a state of probation, as intended for moral discipline andimprovement.
6. Of the opinion of necessity, considered as influencing practice.
7· Of the government of God, considered as a scheme or consti·
tution, imperfectly comprehended.
Conclusion.

II.
Of the importance of Christianity.
Of the supposed presumption against a revelation, considered
as miraculous.
3. Of our incapacity of judging, what were to be expected in arevela tion; and the credibility, from analogy, that it must
contain things appearing liable to objections.
4. Of Christianity, considered as a scheme or constitution, imperfectly comprehended.
5. Of the particular system of Christianity; the appointment of
a mediator and the redemption of the world by him.
6 Of the want of universality in revelation; and of supposed
deficiency in the proof of it.
7. Of the particular evidence for Christianity.
8. Of the objections which may be made against arguing, fromthe analogy of nature, to religion.
Conclusion.
Additional dissertations. I. Of personal identity.
2. Of the nature of virtue.
I.

2.

The 'Analogy' is 'an endeavour to show that, as the particular frameof man reveals a supreme conscience, so the frame of nature shows a
mmal governor revealed through conscience. Assuming the validity of
the a priori arguments for theism and the immortality of the soul, he[Butler] maintains that the facts of observation fall in with tl;1e belief
that this life is a probationary state where men are, as a matter of fact,288

under a system of government which encourages virtue as such anddiscourages vice, and therefore imply the probability that in a future life
there will be a complete satisfaction of the cla ims of justice. This leads
to a consideration of the problem of free will and necessity, while thesecond part argues for the conformity between the doctrine thus taught
by fact and the nature of the Christian revelation.' -DNB.
-1736; -1736 D; 2-1736: 3-1740; -1740; -1746; 4-1750; -1754 G;
5-1754 [no p.1; -1764 (2 v) G; 5-1765; 6-1771; -1775 Aberdeen;
7-1775 Aberdeen; -[1786?]; -1788; -1791; -1793; -1796; -1797;-1798; -1802; -1809; -1817 E; -1817 G; -1817; -1824; -1824 E;-1829; -1829 G: -fI834?]; -1834 (in his work): -1834; -1834 E;-1836; -1838; -1838 E; -1839; -[1840?]; -1841 ; -1844 0; 7-[1846]
G; -1849 D; -1850? E ...
American ed. : -[1736?1 NY; -1793 B; -[18-] NY; -1809 B; -1819
Hartford; -1820 Deerfield: -1822 New Heaven; -1827 Cambridge[Mass.] ; -1830 Cambridge [Mass.]; -[1832?] NY; -1833 NY; -1835
NY; -1837 NY; -1838 NY; -f1838J NY; -1839 NY; -1840 Cam·bridge [Mass.1; -1841 NY; -1842 NY; -1843 NY; [-1844?1 NY:-1846 NY; -1847 Cincinnati; -1847 NY; -1848 Cincinnati; -1848
NY; -1849 Cincinnati; -1850 NY ...
French: -1821 Paris.
Greek: -1844 Athens.

62. Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752.
Fifteen sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel upon the following
subjects. Upon humane nature.
Upon the government of the
tongue. Upon compassion. Upon the character of Balaam. Upon
resentment Upon forgiveness of injuries. Upon self-deceit. Uponthe love of our neighbour.
Upon the love of God.
Upon theignorance of man.
By Joseph Butler... 2nd ed., corrected: towhich is added a preface. London: Printed by W. Botham, forJames and John Knapton ... I729.
xxxiv, [ii], 318, [2]p.
(Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
21 cm.
Contents.Sermons 1-3. Upon human nature - I. Upon the social nature ofman. -2,3. ·Upon the natural supremacy of consience.
4. Upon the government of the tongue.
5,6. Upon compassion.
28 9

7. Upon the character of Balaam.
8,9. Upon resentment, and forgiveness of injuries.
10. Upon self·deceit.
II,12. Upon the love of our neighbour.
13,14., Upon piety, or the love of God.
15. Upon the ignorance of man.
The deist controversy, which culminated about 1730, IS throughout inhis mind, though he designedly abstains from special references. The
method of abstract metaphysical reasoning applied by his early friend
Clarke both to ethical and theological speculations had led to a system
which tended to reduce the historical element of belief to a secondary
position or to eliminate it entirely. Butler, while admitting the validityof Clarke's reasoning adopts the different method of appealing to obser·
vation of facts (Preface to Sermons, p. vii). His ethical system is therefore psychological, or appeais to the constitution of human nature, as the'Analogy' to the constitution of the world at large. In the sermons andthe dissertation on 'The Nature of Virtue' he assails especially the egoistic
utilitarianism of which Hobbes had been the great teacher in the previous
age, and which was maintained both on a priori and empirical grounds.
In this he follows Shaftesbury (the only writer to whom he explicitly
refers), who had endeavoured to show the general harmony between virtue
and happiness; but he tries to fill a gap in Shaftesbury's argument byshowing the natural supremacy of conscience, and therefore the existenceof moral obligation, even where self ·interest is opposed to conscience.
The main result of the sermons is therefore the psychological system, inwhich the conscience is represented as holding a supreme position by its
own self-evidencing authority among the various faculties which constitutehuman nature; while other passions, and in particular self-love and benevolence, are independent but subordinate. Butler greatly influenced thecommon·sense school of Hutcheson and his followers, who are also allied
to Shaftesbury; and his influence upon Hume is perceptible, especially in
Hume's admission of independent benevolent impulses, in connection
with a utilitarian principle which had generally been interpreted as leading
to pure egoism. Hume (it may be noticed) desired in 1737 to be introduced to Butler, and sent him a copy of the 'Treatise on Human Nature'
on its publication in 1739. He expressed his pleasure in 1742 uponhearing that his first set of essays (which did not include those offensive
to the orthodox) had been 'everywhere 'recommended' by Butler (Burton's
Hume, i. 64, 106, 143.) -DNB.
-1726; 2-1729; 5-[1729]; 3-1736; 4-1749; -1759 G; 5-1765; -17 6 9
G; -1774, 6-1792; -[1835]; -1836; -1839; -1849; -1 8 56.

63. Campbell, Archibald, 1691-1756.
The necessity of revelation: or An enquiry into the extent of
human powers with respect to matters of religion; especially t'hose
two fundamental articles, the being of God, and the immortalityof the soul.
By Archibald Campbell... London: Printed byWilliam Bowyer. .. al)d sold by A. Millar ... ]. Nourse... and ].
Gray ... 1739. [Price four shillings and three-pence in sheets.]
417 (i. e. 427) p.
23cm.
[Jessop, P·113]
pp. 327-336 duplicated:

Pagination runs as follows: 1-336, 327-

4 1 7.
Contents.Prefatory introduction. The importance of the augument, andthe particular points debated, are taken notice of. A free andimpartial enquiry is propos'd and recommended; wherein specu·
lation must not be regarded, but common fact, or universal
experience.
I. Natural religion is so called, because it is founded in thenature of things.
It is briefly explain'd.
And declar'd to
be eternal and immutable, and the great foundation of allsocial peace and happiness in both worlds.
2. The meaning of reason and the light ofnature, as here
understood, explain'd and determined. The question stated.
Of necessity the rational powers of the mass of mankind must
be taken as the standard.
3. It being only needful to enquire, whether mankind of themselves, are able to find out the being and perfections of God,and a future state of rewards and punishments; it is shewn,that mankind, left to themselves, are not able to discover theimmortality of the soul. This is supported from Socrates's (orPlato'S) inconclusive proofs, and his absurd notions in relation
to this article.
4. The opinions of all ancient philosophers, who, before, andafter Socrates, held the immortality of the soul, are of such anature, that those philosophers could not of themselves havediscovered this fundamental article of natural religion. And
far less are the bulk of mankind able make the discovery.
5. So far are the bulk of

mankind frombeing capable,ofthemselves, to discern the being and perfections of God, thatfrom their notions of things they are directly led to attributedivinity to the heavenly bodies, and to acknowledge thoseluminaries to be the proper objects of religious worship.
This confirmed from the case of all ancient philosophers,
excepting Anaxagoras, who are not atheists.
6. None of the ancient philosophers, in searching out andexplaining the first cause and origin of things, ever were led
to apprehend the being and perfections of the deity. And thebulk of mankind never entering into such speculations, they
are out of the way of coming to such a conclusion.
7. Those ancient philosophers, who confessed the existence of an
infinite mind, had such notions about the origin and formationof the universe, and of particular beings; that it is demon·strably plain, they were not let to the knowledge of the firstsovereign cause from the effects he has produced.
And asthey were of themselves incapable of acquiring this degreeof knowledge, so in no instance do they ever seem to undertake to prove the existence of the deity. Far less can it
be thought that the bulk of mankind are able to find out thisother fundamental article of natural religion, by their own
sagacious reasoning.
8. Mankind not being able of themselves to discover the being
and perfections of God, and the immortality of the soul, ora future state of rewards and punishments; the unavoidableconsequence is, in order to introduce natural religion among
mankind, supernatural revelation is indispensably necessary.
And the world being possessed of the knowledge of these two
fundamental articles of natural religion, this is an undeniable
proof, from the effect to the cause, that God has actually
favoured mankind with the blessing of revelation: nor canthat revelation any where be found but in the Christian in·stitution.

-1739·

64.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of theprinciples advanced by David Hume, Esq; in An essay on miracles.
By George Campbell... Edi~burgh: Printed for A. Kincaid & J.
Bell. Sold by A. Millar, R. & J. Dodsley, W. Johnston, R.Baldwin,
and J. Richardson, London. 17 6 2.
xii, 288 p. (Errata on the preliminary leaf verso)
21 cm.
[Jessop, p. II3J

Contents.Introduction
Pt. 1. Miracles are capable of proof from testimony, and religious
miracles are not less capable of this evidence than others.
I. Mr. Hume's favourite argument is founded on a false hypothesis.
2. Mr. Hume charged with some fallacies in his way of managing
the argument.
3. Mr. Hume himself gives up his favourite argument.
4. There is no peculiar presumption against such miracles as
are said to have been wrought in support of religion.
S. There is a peculiar presumption in favour of such miracles as
are said to have been wrought in support of religion.
6. Inquiry into the meaning and propriety of one of Mr. Hume'sfavourite maxims.
II. The miracles on which the belief of Christianity is founded,
are sufficiently attested.
I. There is no presumption arising from human nature. against
the miracles said to have heen wrought in proof of Christianity.
2. There is no presumption arising from the history of mankind,against the miracles said to have been wrought in proof of
Christiani ty.
3. No miracles recorded by historians of other religions are subversive of the evidence arising from the miracles wroughtin proof of Christianity, or can be consider'd as contrary
testimony.
4. Examination of the pagan miracles mentioned by Mr. Hume.
S. Examination of the popish miracles mentioned by Mr. Hume.
6. Abstracting from the evidence for particular facts, we haveirrefragable evidence, that there have been miracles in former
times; or such events as, when compar'd with the present
constitution of the world. would by Mr. Hume be denominated.
,
mlraCIlIOUS.
7. Revisal of Mr. Hume's examination of the Pentateuch.
Conclusion.
This dissertation, expanded from a sermon preached before the provincial synod on 9 Oct. 1760, was one of the chief answers to Hume's
essay (published in 1748). Campbell's friend, Hugh Blair showed thedissertation to Hume. Some correspondence passed between Campbell
and Hume, who stated that he must adhere to a resolution formed inearly life never to reply to an adversary, though he had never felt so293

'violent an inclination to defend himself.'
The courtesy shown byCampbell to Hume in the letters and in his book gave some offence tozealots (Burton, i, 283, ii, II5-20). The 'Dissertation' was generally
admired. The most original part is the argument that the highest anterior improbability of an alleged event is counterbalanced by slight direct
evidence. -d. Hunt, iii, pp. 2IIf, 219f., Mossner, p.2I1f. and DNB.
-1762 E; 2-1766 E; 3-1796; 3-1796 E; 3-1797 (2V, with correspondence of Hume, Campbell and Blair. Also sermons.) E; 4-1807 E;-[1812?] E; -1823 E; -1824; -1834; -1834 Paisley.
American ed.: 3-1790 Philad.
French: -1765 Utrecht; -1767 Amsterdam & Paris.

65.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of theprinciples advanced by David Burne, Esq; in An essay on miracles.
By George Campbell... 2nd ed., with additions and corrections.
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid & J. Bell. Sold by R.Baldwin,
W. Johnston, and J. Caddel... London. 1766.
xii, 226, [2Jp. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
18 cm.
See 111-64.

66.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
A dissertation on miracles; containing an examination of theprinciples advanced by David Burne, Esq. in An essay on miracles.
By George Campbell... 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Printed for W. H.
Lunn, Cambridge; ]. Mundell... Edinburgh; and ]. Mundell,College, Glasgow. 1796.
19 cm.
xii, 236, 2 p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. 1-2 at end)
p. 220 incorrectly numbered 202.

See 111-64.

67.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of theprinciples advanced by David Burne, Esq. in An essay on miracles:294with a correspondence on the subject by Mr. Hume, Dr. Campbell,
and Dr. Blair. To which are added sermons and tracts. By
George Campbell ... London: Printed for Thomas Tegg ... 1824.
22cm.
vi, 362 p.
The following sermons and tracts were added in this edition.I.
The spirit of the Gospel, a spirit neither of superstition nor ofenthusiasm: a sermon, preached before the synod of Aberdeen, April
9th, 1771.
2. The success of the first publishers of the Gospel, a proof of its truth:a sermon, preached before the Society in Scotland for Propagating
Christian Knowledge, at their annual meeting, Edinburgh, Friday,
June 6th, 1777·
3. The happy influence of religion on civil society: a sermon, preachedat the assizes at Aberdeen, Sunday, May 23rd, 1779.
4. The nature, extent, and importance, of the duty of allegiance: asermon, preached at Aberdeen, December 12th, 1776, being the Fast
Day appointed by the King, on account of the rebellion in America.
An address to the people of Scotland upon the alarms that have beenraised in regard to popery, 1779.
See 111-64.

68.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
Lectures on ecclesiastical history. To which is added, an essayon Christian temperance and self-denial: by the late George
Campbell... With some account of the life and writings of theauthor. By the Rev. George Skene Keith... In two volumes.
London: Printed for ].Johnson ... and A.Brown ... 1800.
2 vols.
22 cm.

Vol. 1.

lxxx, 420 p. (Errata on p. 420)

front. (port.)

Contents.Some account of the life and writings of Dr. George Campbell.
Lectures 1-13.

Vol. 2.

429, [13] p. (Errata on p. [I])p. 89 incorrectly numbered 68.

295

Contents.Lectures 14-28.
Essay on Christian temperence and self·denial.
These lectures contain a defence of presbyterianism, and were attacked
by Bishop Skinner of the Scotch Episcopal Church in 'Primitive Truth
and Order vindicates' and by Archdeacon Daubeny in 'Eight Discourses.'-DNB.
-1800 & Aberdeen; -1800; -1800 (2 v); 2-1815 (2 v) Aberdeen; 3-1824:-1834; -1840 G.
American ed.: -1804 Chicago; -1807 Philad.

69.

Campbell, George, 1719-1796.
The philosophy of rhetoric. By George Campbell... In twovolumes. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... ;and W. Creech at Edinburgh. 1776.
2 vols.
22 cm.
[Jessop, p. 114]
Vol. 1.

xv, 511, [I]p. (Errata on p.[I])Contents.Introduction.
Bk. 1. The nature and foundations of eloquence.
I. Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined, its more generalforms exhibited, with their different objects, ends, andcharacters.
2. Of wit, humour, and ridicule.
3· The doctrine of the preceding chapter defended.
4· Of the relation which eloquence bears to logic and to grammar.

5· Of the different sources of evidence, and the different subjects to which they are respectively adapted.
6. Of the nature and use of the scholastic art of syllogizing.
7· Of the consideration which the speaker ought to have of
the hearers, as men in general.
8. Of the consideration which the speaker ought to have of
the hearers, as such men in particular.
9. Of the consideration which the speaker ought to have ofhimself.
)0. The different kinds of public speaking In use among themoderns, compared, with a view to their different advantages

in respect of eloquence.
Of the cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects
or representa tions that excite pity and other painful feelings.
II. The foundations and essential properties of elocution.
I. The nature and characters of the use which gives law tolanguage.
2. The nature and use of verbal criticism, with its principal
canons.
3. Of grammatical purity.
4. Some grammatical doubts In regard to English construction
stated and examined.
II.

Vol. 2.

vi, [iJ, 445, [2J p. (Errata on p. [iJ. Publisher's advert. on
pp. [1-2])

Contents.Bk. II. 5. Of the qualities of style strictly rhetorical.
6. Of perspicuity.
7. What is the cause that nonsense so often escapes being
detected, both by the writer and by the reader?
8. The extensive usefulness of perspicuity.
9. May there not be an excess of perspicuity?
III. The discriminating properties of elocution.
I. Of vivacity as depending on the choice of words.
2. Of vivacity as depending on the number of the words.
3. Of vivacity as depending on the arrangement of the words.
4. Of the connectives employed in combining the parts of asentence.
5. Of the connectives employed in combining the sentences in a
discourse.
-1776 (2 v) E; -1776 (2 v); 2-1801 (2 v); -1808 (2 v) E; -1816 (2 v)
E; -1819 E; -1823.
American ed: -[18oo?] Baltimore; -[181I?] B; -1818 Philad; -1823 B;-1834 NY.
German: -1791 Berlin.

70.

Cheyne, George, 167r-r743.
Philosophical principles of religion. Natural and revealed: In
two parts. Part 1. Containing the elements of natural philosophy,
and the proofs of natural religion arising from them. Part297

II. Containing the nature and kinds of infinites, their arithmetickand uses; together with the philosophick principles of revealed
religion. By George Cheyne ... London: Printed for George Strahan ... 1725/[16][2 parts bound in one]
[xxxii], 360, [xxiv], 190, [2Jp. (Publisher's advert. on p. [2])20cm.
p. 210, 323, 348, 349, 352 incorrectly numbered 201, 123, 350, 351, 354
respecti very.

Pt. I.

Containing the elements of natural philosophy, and theproofs for natural religion, arising from them. 3rd ed.,corrected and enlarged. 1725.
Contents.I. Of the physical laws of nature.
2. Of attraction or gravitation in bodies. and an account of someof the appearances of nature from this principle, and theselaws now established.
3. Of the origin, and of the present state of things, and of the
Epicuriean and mechanical hypothesis.
4. Of the eternal production and duration of the present state ofthings.
5. Of the existence of a Deity.
6. The proofs for the being of a God arising from the contemplation of the human structure.

II.

Containing the nature and kinds of infinites; their arithmetik and uses, and the philosophick principles of reveal'dreligion, now first published. 1716.
Contents.I. Of the nature and kinds of infinites, of some of their respec·tive qualities, and of a new arithmetick of infinites.
2. Of the philosophical principles of reveal'd religion.
3· Of the use of arithmetick of infinites.

The physical part of this book is taken from Newton and otherstandard authorities. The mathematical will-o' -the-wisp misled Cheyne
into mingling theology and mathematics in a manner too fantastic to bear
exposition. -d. DNB.

29 8

-1715 Cpt I, 2nd ed., pt 2, 1st ed.); -1715/[16];-1716; -1724; -1725
Cpt I, 3rd ed., pt 2, 1716); -1734/33 Cpt I, 4th ed.); 5-1736; -1753
133 Cpt I, 6th ed.)Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729.
A collection of papers, which passed between the late learned Mr. Leibnits, and Dr. Clarke, in the years 1715 and 1716. Relating to theprinciPles of natural PhilosoPhy and religion. With an appendix. To
which are added, Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity:from a gentleman of the University of Cambrige: with the doctor's
answers to them. Also Remarks upon a book, entituled, A Philosophicalenquiry concerning human liberty.
See 111-146.

71. Clarke, Samuel, 16 75-1729.
A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, theobligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of
the Christian revelation. In answer to Mr Hobbs, Spinoza, theauthor of the Oracles of reason [C. Blount], and other deniers ofnatural and revealed religion. Being sixteen sermons, preach'din the Cathedral-Church of St Paul, in the years 1704, and1705, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle,
Esq; in which is inserted A discourse concerning the connexionof the prophecies in the Old Testament, and the application ofthem to Christ. There is also, An answer to a seventh letter,concerning, the argument a priori, in proof of the being of God.
By Samuel Clarke... 8th ed. London: Printed by W. Botham,for James and John Knapton ... 1732.
[xxv], 504 p. (Errata on p. [ixJ)
20 cm.
[Specific title·pages][I] A demonstration of the being and attributes of God. More particu·
larly in answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, and their followers. Wherein
the notion of liberty is stated, and the possibility and certainty of it
proved, in opposition to necessity and fate. Being the substance of eight
sermons, preached in the Cathedral-Church of St Paul, in the year 1704,
at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; By
Samuel Clarke ... 8th ed .... London: Printed by W. Botham, for James299

and John Knapton ... 1732.
[2] A discourse concerning the unchangeable obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the Christian revelation. Beingeight sermons preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St Paul, in the year
1705, at the lecture founded by the Honourabale Robert Boyle, Esq;
by Samuel Clarke ... 8th ed., corrected. London: Printed by 'IV.
Botham, for James and John Knapton ... 1732.
[3] Several letters to the Reverend Dr Clarke, from a gentleman in
Gloucestershire, relating to the first volume of the foregoing sermons;with the Dr's answers thereunto. 5th ed. London: Printed for Jamesand John Knapton ... 1731.
Locke died in 1704, and for the next quarter of a century Clarke was
generally regarded as the first of English metaphysicians. His a priori
philosophy was entirely opposed to the spir.it of Locke's teaching.
Clarke's fame rests on these two series of Boyle lectures. The first setof lectures is entitled 'A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes ofGod.' While acknowledging that many arguments to prove God's existence have been offered instead what he referred to as 'one argument
in a chain of proposition.' There are eight propositions in the chain.
The first three are the most important. I. ,It is absolutely and undeniably certain that something has existed from all eternity.' 2. 'There
has existed from eternity some one, unchangeable and independent
being.' 3. 'That unchangeable and independent being, which has existedfrom eternity without any external cause of its existence, must be selfexistent, that is necessarily existent.' In succeeding propositions heendeavored to establish that the self-existent being is infinite, omnipresent, intelligent, free, omnipotent, wise, good, and just.
The lectures for 1705 are an exposition of 15 propositions. Propositions
5-15 are devoted to his defense of 'the truth and certainty of theChristian revelation.' In these propositions he claimed that simple anduncor~upted Christian doctrines must be agreeable to· reason. The first
four propositions devoted to 'the unchangeable obligation of natural
religion' are the statement of Clarke's moral philosophy.
Clarke was the founder of the so-called 'rationalist school,' of which
Wollaston and Price were the chief followers, which sought to deduce
moral laws from logical neccessity.
His theological doctrine gave
offence on both sides. Orthodox divines condemned him for preachinga disguised deism, while the deists condemned him for retaining ortho:
dox phraseology and an historical element of belief. He thus became
involved in controversies with many thinkers of opposite schools.
hi 1713 the student Joseph Butler upheld the empirical or Lockian
position against Clarke's a priori in a series of letters. In 1717 another300

student, Frances Hucheson, did likewise. And in 1723, after having
puzzled over Clarke's metaphysics for seven years, so did Henry Homeof Kames. At the close of his life Hume revealed to Boswell that "henever had entertained any belief in religion since he began to read
Lock and Clarke." Hume had heard both Locke and Clarke 'prelected'
upon at college; but he may have read their works somewhat later.
-cf. Mossner, pp. 51, 58, 64, 597.
-1705; 2-1706; 3-1711; -1716 (3pt: with letters to Clarke from
Joseph Butler); 5-1719; 6-1725; 1O-[1725?]; 7-1728; 8-[1731]/32;
8-1732 ; ~)-I738; -1739; 10-1749; 10-[1750?]; 10-1766; 10-1767;-1785; -1791; -1823 G.
French: -1717 (2 v, by M. Ricotier) Amsterdam.

Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729.
Remarks upon a book [by Anthony Collins], entitled, A philosophicalenquiry concerning human liberty.
See 111-146.

72.

Clarke, [Thomas Brooke]
A survey of the strength and opulence of Great Britain; wherein
is shewn, the progress of its commerce, agriculture, population,&c. Before and since the accession of the House of Hanover:by the Rev. Dr. Clarke... With observations by Dean Tucker,
and David Hume, Esq. in a correspondence with Lord Kaimes;
now first published. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and
W. Davies ... 1801.
viii, 240 p. (Errata on p. vi)
22cm.
[Jessop, p.52]
Contents.I. History, progress, and effects of commerce.
Letter from David Hume, Esq. to. Lord Kaims.
Dean Tucker's reply.
2 History and progress of revenues.
3· Financial state of Great Britain--Foreign trade.
Domestic trade.
4· History, progress, and state of the public funds.
5· Agriculture, regulations, and waste lands.
6. Progress and state of population in Great Britain and Europe.
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7. Progress and state of the naval power of Great Britain.
8. Progress of the military state of Great Britain.
Statement from a French paper, which is deemed official, July1800.
A comparative view of the principal states of Europe.
Documents of the Nation's prosperity since the accession of
the House of Hanover.
Increase of commerce since the accession of Geo.1. with an
abstract of coinage.
Appendix.-Considerations on the high price of provisions; pointing
out the cause and remedy.
With several important official documents.
-1801.

73.

French: -1802 Paris.

Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726.
Essays upon several moral subjects. Part III. Of pain, revenge,
authors, power, infancy and youth.
Of riches and poverty,
whoredom, drunkenness, usury, an apostle, solitude. By Jeremy
Collier... London: Printed by W. B. for H. Rhodes... and T.
Newborough... 1705.
20cm.
v, 279 p.
In 1697, Collier published 'Essays' in two parts; part I includes fiveessays, originally published in 1694 under the title 'Miscellanies: in fiveessays', and a sixth essay; part II has seventeen short essays. Part III
was appeared 1705.
Miscellanies; in five essays: -1694.
Miscellanies upon moral subjects: -1695.
Essays upon moral subjects: 2-1697 (2pt); 3-1698 (2pt); 5-1703 (2pt);-1705 (pt3); -1720/32 (ptl, 2,7th ed.; pt3, 3rd ed.; pt4,2nd ed.);6-1722 (2pt); -1732 (2pt) (title page of pt2 dated 1731).

74.

[Collins, Anthony] 1676-1729.
A discourse of free-thinking, occasion'd by the rise and growthof a sect call'd free-thinkers...
1713·

vi, 3-178 p.

302

20cm.

London: Printed in the year

Contents.Introduction.
I. Free-thinking defin'd ...
2. That it is our duty to think freely on those points of which
men are deny'd the right to think freely; such as, of thenature and attributes of God, the truth and authority of Scriptures, and of the meaning of Scriptures ...
3. Objections to free-thinking answer' d ...

BOUND WITH
[Bentley, Richard] 1662-1742.
Remarks upon a late Discourse of free-thinking: in a letter toF. H. [Fransis Hare] D. D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis... 3rd ed.
London: Printed for John Morphew ... and E. Curl1 ... 1713.
85 (i. e. 83) p.
Pagination runs as follows: 1-64, 67-85.

BOUND WITH
[Bentley, Richard] 1662 - 1742.
Remarks upon a late Discourse of free-thinking: in a letter toF. H. D. D. by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis.
Part II.
London:Printed for John Morphew ... and E. Curl... 1713.
[ii], 82, [I]p. (Errata on p.82. Publisher's advert. on p. [I])'Collins's book urges that all belief should be based upon free inquiry,
and insinuates that such inquiry will be destructive of orthodox views.
The book produced a vigorous reply from Bentley, "Remarks ... by Phileleutherus Lipsiensis." Bentley destroyed any pretensions of Collins tothorough scholarship, exposed many gross blunders, and claimed Collins's
principle of free inquiry as his own and that of all the orthodox
belevers.' -DNB.
ASSOCIATION COPY. The autograph and date of Sir Leslie Stephen appear on the recto of the front free end-paper, with a note inhis hand. Sir Leslie published his 'History of English thought in the
Eighteenth Century' in 1876, and the date given with his autograph isthis year as well.
30 3

Discourse: -1713; -1713; -1713; -1713; -1713 & [The Hague].
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Consideration sur ies finances d' Espagne.
See 1-74 (2)75.

Critical observations concerning the Scottish historians Hume,
Stuart, and Robertson: including an idea of the reign of Mary
Queen of Scots, as a portion of history; specimens of thehistories of this Princess, by Dr. Stuart and Dr. Robertson; anda comparative view of the merits of these rival historians: witha literary picture of Dr. Robertson, in a contrasted opposition
with the celebrated Mr. Hume. London: Printed for T. Evans
17 8 z.
zzcm.
[Jessop, p. 50]
53 p.

76.

Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.
The true intellectual system of the universe: wherein all thereason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility
demonstrated, with a treatise concerning eternal and immutable
morality. By Ralph Cudworth ... To which are added, the notes
and dissertations of Dr. 1. L. Mosheim, translated by John
Harrison ... With a copious general index to the whole work. In
three volumes ... London: Printed for Thomas Tegg ... 1845.
3 vols.
z 3 cm.

Vol. 1.

xlviii, 638 p.

Contents.An account of the life and writings of Ralph Cudworth, by Thomas
Birch.
Bk.1.
30 4

[Containing. an account of the atomic physiology, as madethe foundation of atheistic fate, or the material nescessityof all things.] ...
2. In this chapter are contained, all the grounds of reason,
for the atheistic hypothesis ...
3. An introduction to the confutation of the atheistic grounds;
in which is contained a particular account of all several
forms of atheism ...
4. The idea of God declared, in way of answer to the firstatheistic argument. The grand prejudice against the natu·
rality of this idea, as essentially including unity or onelinessin it, from the pagan polytheism, removed. Proved thatthe intelligent pagans generally acknowledged on supreme
Deity. What their polytheism and idolatry was; with someaccount of Christianity...
I.

Vol. 2.

662p.
p. 286 incorrectly numbered 296.

Contents.Bk. I.
4. (continued)
5. [A particular confutation of all the atheistic grounds]
Sect. I. The first atheistic argument, that there is no idea ofGod. That in answer to this, the idea of God hathbeen already declared ...

Vol. 3.

700P.

Contents.5. (continued)
Sect. I. (continued)
2. A confutation of the second atheistic argument, against om·
nipotence and divine creation; that nothing can: by any
power whatsoever, be made out of nothing. In answer
to which three things to be insisted on ...
Le Clerc's observations on the preceding section, against those who
deny that anything can be made out of nothing.
A dissertation by John Laurence Mosheim, showing whether any
heathen philosopher ever taught that the world was created by
God out of nothing.
5. (continued)

3· The SIX following atheistic argumentations, driving atthese two things, (the disproving, first of an incorporeal,
and then of a corporeal Deity) next taken all together.
In way of answer to which three things ...
4· The Epicurean atheists further endeavour to disprove a God,
from the phenomena of motion and cogitation ...
5, There now remaining only the atheistic objections against
Providence, their queries and arguments from interests ...
A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality. By Ralph
Cudworth, with a preface by Edward [DuresmeJ, Lord Bishop of
Durham.
'Among the English divines who flourished during the seventeenth
century, the name of Cudworth stands pre·eminently distinguished, as thepowerful opponent of Hobbes, and the worst forms of philosophical infi·
delity which at that period disgraced the literature of our country. As
connected with the important subject of all religion-the existence of a
Di vine Being, the creator a nd mora I governor of the world-The TrueIntellectual System of the Universe will always be considered a treasuryof erudition and research; as containing the greatest mass of learning andargument that ever was brought to bear upon atheism and pantheism.
The opinions of the ancient philosophers upon the existence of a God,
and. the consequent necessity of a Providence, together with numerous
references to all heathen and sacred antiqUity, demonstrate the fertility
and laborious diligence of the Author. He has not only combated all theleading features of the atheistic creed, such as the casual and eternal
formation of the world; the materiality of a thinking substance; themortality of the soul; the fortuitous organization of the body; and the
motions and gravitation of matt~r; but he has wisely kept perpetually
before the view of the reader the true nature and design of the Christianreligion, pointing out those deviations from its divine revelations whichhave been too frequent among philosophers in all ages.
And if any
theological student w~shes to obtain a knowledge of all that can be said
respecting liberty and necessity, fate and free·will, eternal reason andjustice,-of the existence of the soul after death in a state of separa teconsciousness-and of the doctrine of a fut~re state of retribution, he
has only patiently to digest the Intellectual System of Dr. Cudworth.
Few writers, indeed, will bring within his reach such an inexhaustible
fund of classical and patristic learning to bear upon the most fundamental
article of the Christian faith. ,'Le Clerc expressed a wish that some m,an of learning would translate
the Intellectual System into Latin; but this design, though resolved upon
and attempted by several persons in Germany, was never executed till theyear 1733, when the learned Dr. Mosheim published his translation of it,
accompanied with such copious and elaborate notes and illustrations, as
made it a valuable accession to the sacred literature of Europe.' -Advertisement to the present edition, vol. I, pp. iii-iv.
'The Tiue Intellectual System .. .' appeared in 1678.
It is said to havebeen so incorrectly printed tha t 'no three lines of Greek can be foundwithout an error.' An edition in 2 vols., 1743, contains the life by T.
Birch. It was reprinted in 1820 in 4 vols. A later edition, with a translation by lohn Harrison of Mosheim's notes, appeared in 1845. Mosheim's
Latin translation with notes and dissertations appeared at lena 1733, andat Leyden 1773. An abridgment by Thomas Wise was published in 1760.
'A Treatise ... ,' with a preface by Edward [Chandler], Bishop of Durham,
published in 1731 from a manuscript belonging to Cudworth's grandson,
Francis Cudworth Masham, is an argument for the independence of theintellect upon sense, partly developed from Plato's 'Theretetus.'
The True Intellectual System of the Universe in its present form is,for all its massiveness, only the first segment of the work he meant topublish. It was to have contained three parts, the first directed against
atheistic determinism, the second against Calvinism, the third expounding a theory of free will. Only the first part was ever published, andalthough Thomas Birch was able fully to describe them, neither Part II
nor Part III now exists in manuscript. -DNB.
True intellectual system: -1678; -1706 (2 v, enlargement and abridgment; title begins: Confutation); -1732 (title begins: Abridgment ...
True); 2-1743 (2V); -1820 (4v); -1845 (3v). American ed.: -1837/38(2 v) NY.
Treatise: -1731, -1838 Andover.
Systema intellectuale... Ioannes Laurentius Moshemius: -1733 (2 v)
lena; 2-1773 (2 v) Leyden.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Adami Smithi, LL. D. ad Gulie{mum Strahanum, Armigerum, de rebus
novissimis Davidis Humei, epistola, nunc primitm Latine reddita.
See 1-86.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Davidis Humei, Scoti, summi apud suos philosoPhi, de vita sua acta,
tiber singularis; nunc primum Latine redditus.

See 1-86.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Life of George Lesley.
See 1-86.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Sketch of the life of john Barclay, author of Argenis.
See 1-86.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Sketch of the life of john Hamilton, a secular priest.
See 1-86.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Sketch of the life of Mark Alexander Boyd.
See 1-86.

77.

The Deists creed and confession, in a dialogue between the gal·lows and a freethinker... London: Printed for J Wilford ... 1733.
[Price six-pence.]
22cm.
viii, 9-40 p.
' .. .'Tis indubitable the system of deism and freethinking, as under·stood by our modern infidels. tends to the destruction of the noblest partof the universe; as is evidently shewn in this little tract ... 'Tis evident
at the same time, that deism or freethinking ... tends of itself to destroy
the eternal boundaries of good and evil; puts the justest men, and thegreatest villains on the same footing; gives a loose to all manner ofcrimes and impieties; teaches people to commit the greatest enormities
without scruple ...
' ... Whose·ever hands this little tract shall fall into, the author would308

have them believe that it was design'd out of meer kindness for his
own species; that if our modern infidels are harden'd, or, as theyexpress it, easy in their impieties, and blind to the consequences of asystem so destructive to human nature; others would open their eyes,and see wha t misfortunes such free thoughts tend to bring upon us,
both in church and state.' -Preface, pp. v-viii.
-1733

78.

Derham, William, 1657-1735.
Astro-theology: or, A demonstration of the being and attributesof God, from a survey of the heavens. Illustrated with copper
plates. By W. Derham... 6th ed. London: Printed for W.
Innys ... 1731.
[xvi], lvi, [8], 246, [10]p.
3 plates.
21 cm.
Contents.Preliminary discourse: The system of the hea vens, the habitabilityof the planets, and a, plurality of worlds, useful for the readingof the following book.
Introduction. The opinion of all nations about a Deity. The
division of the work.
Bk. I The magnitude of the universe.
1. The antient and modern reckonings.
2. The magnitude of the heavenly bodies.
3. The immensity of the heavens.
4. Practical reflexions.
II. Number of the heavenly bodies.
1. The numbers of the heavenly bodies in general.
2. The fixt stars are suns, &c.
3· Of new stars.
III. The due situation of the heavenly bodies.
1. The due as well as great distance of them.
2. None of the globes interfere.
3. Nice proportions of the distances of the heavenly bodies.
IV. The motions of the heavens.
1. This is a demonstration of God.
2. Regularity of the motions of every globe.
3. The diurnal motions.
4. Periods of the primary planets.
5. Periods of the secondary planets.
6. Constancy and regularity of the celestial motions.

V. Of the figure of the heavenly bodies.
I. Consonancy of all the heavenly bodies in a spherical figure.
2. The hills and vallies in the earth and moon.
3· Uniformity of the globes argue them the work of God,not chance.
4. Parts of the globes are well disposed.
5. Spherical figure an argument of God's work.
VI. Of attraction or gravity.
I. Its usefulness in preserving the figure of all the globes.
2. The guard gravity against the whirling round of the globes.
3. Gravity retains the planets in their orbits.
VII. Of light and heat.
I. The light and heat of the sun and fixt stars.
2. The due position and distance of the sun and its planets.
3. Of the necessity of light, and of the atmosphere.
4. Of the moon, and the returns one planet makes another.
5· Of the secondary planets in general.
6. Of Jupiter's moons, days and seasons.
7. Of Saturn's moons, &c.
8. The conclusion in behalf of the Creator and Contriver ofall.
VIII. Practical inferences from the foregoing survey.
I. God's existence collected from the heavens by the heathens.
2. God's perfections demonstrated by his works.
3. God's relations to us, and our duty resulting thence.
4. Lactantius's argument against the divinity of the heathengods.
5. That we must not overvalue the world.
6. That we should aspire after the heavenly state.
A continuation of the same argument as in <Physico· Theology.'(III-79)-[1714]; -1715; 2-1715; 3-1719; 4-1721 ; 5-1726 ; 6-1731; 7-1738;
8-1741; 6-1743; 9-1750; 7-1755 G; [7J-1757 G; 9-1758; 13-1763 E;
10-1767; 11-1768 G; 13-1769 E; -1777 E; -1786 (2 v).
Dutch: -1728 Leyden.
French: -1729 Paris.
German: -1728 Hamburg; -1732 Hamburg; -1739 Hamburg.
Italian: -1728 Naples.

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79.

Derham, William, 1657-1735.
Physico-theology: or, A demonstration of the being and attributesof God, from His works of Creation. Being the substance of
sixteen sermons preached in St. Mary Ie Bow-Church, London,at the Honourable Mr. Boyle's Lectures, in the year 17II and
1712. With large notes, and many curious observations. By W.
Derham... 4th ed., corrected.
London: Printed for W.lnnys ...
1716.
[xv], 16,444, [I2]p. (Corrigenda on p.[xv]. Publisher's advert.
on the last leaf verso)
1 plate.
21 cm.
p. 16 incorrectly numbered 61.
Contents.A survey of the terraqueous globe.
Bk. I. Of the out·works of the terraqueou~ globe; the atmosphere,
light, and gravity.
1. Of the atmosphere in general.
2. Of the winds.
3. Of the clouds and rain.
4· Of light.
5. Of gravity.
II. Of the terraqueous globe it self, in general.
I. Of the figure of the terraqueous globe.
2. Of the bulk of the terraqueous globe.
3. The motions of the terraqueous globe.
4. Of the place and situation of the terraqueous globe, inrespect of the heavenly bodies.
5. The distribution of the earth and waters.
6. The great variety and quantity of all things upon, and in
the terraqueous globe, provided for the uses of the world.
III. Of the terraqueous globe in particular, more especially theearth.
I. Of the soils and moulds in the earth.
2. Of the various strata or beds observable in the earth.
3· Of the subterraneous caverns, and the vulcano's.
4· Of the mountains and valleys.
IV. Of animals in general.
1. Of the five senses in general.
2. Of the eye.
3. Of the sense of hearing.
4· Of the sense of smelling.
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5. Of the taste.
6. Of the sense of feeling.
7. Of respiration.
8. Of the motion of animals.
9. Of the place allotted to the several tribes of animals.
10. Of the balance of animals, or the due proportion in which
the world is stocked with them.
I I. Of the food of animals.
12. Of the cloathing of animals.
13. Of the houses and habitation of animals.
14. Of animals self·preservatlon.
15. Of the generation of animals.
16. The conclusion.
A survey of the particular tribes of animals.
Bk. V. A survey of man.
I. Of the soul of man.
2. Of man's body, particularly its posture.
3. Of the figure and shape of man's body.
4. Of the stature and size of man's body.
5. Of the structure of the parts of man's body.
6. Of the placing the parts of man's body.
7. Of the provision in man's body against evils.
8. Of the consent between the parts of man's body.
9. Of the variety of mens faces, voices, and hand.writing.
10. The conclusion of the survey of man.
VI. A survey of quadrupeds.
I. Of their prone posture.
2. Of the heads of quadrupeds.
3. Of the necks of quadrupeds.
4. Of the stomachs of quadrupeds.
5. Of the heart of quadrupeds.
6. Of the difference between man and quadrupeds in the
nervous kind.
7. The conclusion.
VII. A survey of birds.
I. Of the motion of birds, and the parts mmlstring thereto.
2. Of the head, stomack, and other parts of birds.
3. Of the migration of birds.
4. Of the incubation of birds.
5. The conclusion.
VIII. Of insects and reptiles.
I. Of insects in general.
2. Of the shape and structure of insects.
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3. Of the eyes and antennre of insects.
4. Of the parts and motion of insects.
5. The sagacity of insects to secure themselves against winter.
6. Of the care of insects about their young.
IX. Of reptiles and the inhabitants of the waters.
I. Of reptiles.
2. Of the inhabitants of the waters.
X. Of vegetables.
XI. Practical inferences from the foregoing survey.
I. That God's works are great and excellent.
2. That God's works ought to be enquir'd into, and that suchenquiries are commendable.
3. That God's works are manifest to all: whence the unreasonableness of infidelity.
4. That God's works ought to excite uS to fear and obedience
to God.
5. That God's works ought to excite us to thankfulness.
6. That we ought to pay God all due homage and worship,particularly that of the Lord's day.

,It shows much reading as well as ingenious observation, and is a statement of the argument from final causes, of which Paley's 'Natural
Theology' is the most popular exposition. Paley used it (see, e. g., hisreferences to the vision of birds, the drum of the ear, the eye-socket.
and the digestive apparatus) and occasionally refers to it.' -DNB.
-1713; 2-1713; 2-1714; 3-1714; 2-1716; 4-1716; 5-1720; 6-1723;
7-1727; 8-1727; 10-1730 D; 8-1732; 9-1737; -1739; .10-1742; 111745 G; 11-1749 (2 v); 12-1752 G; 12-1754; 15-1754 D; -1758 G;
13-1768; -[1733?] E; -1774 E; -1779 E; -1786 (2V); -1798 (2V,with life) & E.
Dutch: -1728 Leyden.
French: -1726 Rotterdam; 3-1732 Paris.
German: -1730 Hamburg; -1732 Hamburg; -1750 Hamburg; -1764
Hamburg.
Italian; -1760 Brescia.
Swedish: -1736 Stockholm.

Discours prononces au Parlement d' Angleterre,dans lachambre des pairs, pour et contre la liberte du commerce au levant
avec Ie bill ou loi intervenue a ce sujet.

See 1-74 (3)80.

[Dodd, William] 1729- 1777Synopsis compendiaria librorum Hugonis Grotii de jure belli etpacis, Samuel is Clarkii de dei existentia et attributis, et Joannis
Lockii de intellectu humano.
Cantabrigire: typis academicis
excudit ]. Bentham. Sumptibus Gul. Thurlbourn et Tho. Merrill, ibidem bibliopolarum. Prostant venales apud B. Dod, Londini; J. Fletcher,Oxonii; J. Barry, Glasgure; et A. Kincaid, Edinburgi. 1751.
22 cm.
4,192, [2] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [I -2])
Contents.I.
Institutiones juris naturalis et gentium, ex Hugonis Grotii dejure belli et pacis. Bk. I-III.
2.
Clarkiame demonstrationis dei existentire et attributorumcompendium.
3. An 'abstract of Mr. Locke's Essay on human understanding,drawn up by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert.

-1751 C.

81.

Drummond, Sir William, 1770 ?-I 828.
Academical questions; by the Right Honourable William Drummond ... vol. 1. London: Printed by W. Bulmer ... and sold by ...
Cadell and Davies ... 1805.
xv, [i], 412 p. (Errata on p. [i])27 cm.
'We hear it often asserted, that the study of the first philosophy is
altogether without utility. Some of those persons, who repeat this idle
assertion, would perhaps be inclined to retract it, if they should ever takethe pains to examine the basis of any system, either of morals, or oflaws". All the general rules, which are established for the guidance ofhuman conduct, ought to be founded on the nature of man, and on thecharacter and qualities, which distinguish him as a rational being. There
are principles, consequently, which may be assumed as the proper sources,from which all laws ought to be derived. and to which it is frequently
necessary to recur even in practice. The knowledge of these, principles
is of the greatest importance to the politician and the moralist, since
experience proves, that more errors proceed from the admission of wrong

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principles than from any other cause whatever. Now it does not often
happen, that men are so gifted with intuition, as to be able to distinguishwith much exactness between true and false principles, or justly to apply
general axioms, without some acquaintance with the philosophy of mind,
without some skill in logic and dialectics, and without some aid fromthose studies, with which the metaphysician is peculiarly conversant.
'Many persons there are, who have conceived a prejudice against thescience of which I speak, because they erroneously imagine, that it indis·
poses the mind towards other pursuits, which are more agreeable topopular taste. The examples of several celebrated men may be adducedin contradiction to this opinion from the time, when
Omnis Aristippum decuit color et status, et res.
to the last century, when the taste and knowledge of Berkeley surprised
the artists of Italy; the accomplishments of the young Helvetius wereadmired in the circles of Paris; and the grave and the gay, the sage andthe youth, could take delight in the conversation of the amiable Hume .. .'-Preface, pp. iv-v.

-1805 (v 1 only, no more published)82.

[Duff, William] 1732-1815.
Letters, on the intellectual and moral character of women. On
the station for which they are destined: on the characters they
are qualified to sustain: and on the duties they are required todischarge, both in private and social life. Addressed to theladies of Great Britain. By the author of "An essay on original
genius;" and of "The history of Rhedi, the hermit of Mount
Ararat." ... Aberdeen: Printed by J. Chalmers... for the authorand sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London; and A.
Brown, Aberdeen. 1807.
22cm.
xii, 17-251, [10], 252-306,10 p.
Contents.Letters I-53.
'I confess, Madam, I have not been very solicitous, in the following
letters, to ascertain with precision, the comparative merits of the twosexes, with regard to intellectual endowments; from a conviction of the
difficulty, if not the impossibility of making a fair estimate of the talentsof your sex, cramped as they certainly are by a defective system of
education; but as I have always been of opinion, that you have in general315

a real superiority over us, in moral virtue, I have endeavoured by various
facts and observations, to establish that superiority, and to account forit.- Highly, however, as I respect the talents and the virtues of myfair countrywomen, your Grace will not expect, that I should be blindto their foibles and their faults. While I have touched the latter, there·
fore, with as gentle a hand as a regard to truth would permit, I havestudied to do justice to the former; regretting as I do, the inadequatenessof my abilities, to the just exhibition of the female character.
'Should we ever have the happiness to see female educa tion conducted
on a proper plan, and sanctioned by the recommendations and exampleof the great, the wise, and the good, the reformation of the other sex
would be the immediate consequence. We should then behold virtue inher most alluring form, arrayed by the Graces, the object of our venera·tion, and of our love; we should see the manners of both sexes improvedby their mutual intercourse, and the female character raised to its juststandard of genuine excellence.' -Dedication to Her Grace the Duchessof Gordon, pp. iii-iv.
-1807 Aberdeen.

83.

Duncan, Alexander, 1745-1800.
A preservative against the principles of infidelity: or, The natureand design of the Christian religion, and the evidences of its
truth and divine origin, stated in a plain familiar manner...

By

Alexander Duncan ... Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech. 1774.
viii, 231 p. (Errata on p. 231)

19 cm.

Contents.Introduction.
I.
Of the great principles of natural religion.
2.
Of the nature and design of the Christian religion.
3. Of the proofs of the truth of the Christian religion.
4. Continuation of the proofs.
5. Consequences of these proofs.
The conclusion.
-1774 E.

84.

Dutens, [Louis] 1730-1812.
An inquiry into the origin of the discoveries attributed to the

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moderns: wherein it is demonstrated, that our most celebrated
philosophers have, for most part, taken what they advance fromthe works of the ancients; and that many important truths inreligion were known to the pagan sages. Translated from the
French of... Dutens ... With considerable additions communicatedby the author. London: Printed for W. Griffin... 1769.
xl, 459 p.
22 cm.
p. 153, 352, 351, 435 incorrectly numbered 15, 251, 252, 433 respec·tively.
Contents.Pt. I. Containing the introduction, and the sentiments of Des·cartes, Mallebranche, Locke, &c. respecting ideas, ratiocination,and sensible qualities.
I. Of the method and logic of Descartes and Locke, &c.
2. The innate ideas of Descartes and Leibnits drawn from
Plato, Heraclitus, Pythagoras. and the Chaldeans; as IS
the system of Mallebranche, from the same source, and
St. Augustin.
3. Of sensible qualities.
II. Containing the systems of Leibnits, of Buffon, and Need·
ham; and the truths respecting natural philosophy and astronomy.
I. The system of Leibnits.
2. Of animated nature; a comparison between Mr. de Buffon's
system, and that of Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and someother ancients.
3· Nature active and animated. Mr. Needham's system.
4. Of the corpuscular philosophy, and infinite divisibility ofmatter.
5· Of motion, and its acceleration; of weight, or the fallof heavy bodies.
6. Of universal gravity, and centripetal and centrifugal
force. Laws of the movement of the planets, according
to their distance from the common centre.
7· The milky way; solary systems, a plurality of worlds;
satellites, and votrices.
8. Newton's theory of colours, indicated by Pythagoras and
Plato.
9· Of the Copernican system; the motion of the earth about
the sun; and the antipodes.
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Of the revolution of the planets about their own aXIS.
Of comets.
12. Of the moon.
10.

II.

III. Relating to natural philosophy, medicine, anatomy, botany,
mathematics, optics, and mechanics.
1. Of ether, and of the weight and elasticity of the air.
2. Of thunder, and earthquakes; of the virtue of the magnet;of the ebbing and flowing of the sea, and of the sourceof rivers.
3. Of the circulation of the blood, and the fallopian tubes.
4. Of the chirurgery of the ancients.
5. Of the chymistry of the ancients.
6. Of generation as it proceeds from eggs, or from animal.
cula.
7. Of the sexual system of plants.
8. Of the equal vibration of the pendulum, the refractionof light, and astronomical refraction; and of perspective.
9. Attempts to quadrate the circle.
10. Of burning glasses.
II. Of the many discoveries of the ancients. in mathematics,
astronomy, &c.
12. Of Archmedes, and of the mechanics and architecture of
the ancients.
13. On sculpture, painting, and origin of music.

IV. Of God and the soul; of time and space; of the formationof the world; of the creation of matter; and the conclusion.
I. Of God.
2. Of the soul.
3. Of time and space.
4. Of the creation of the world and matter.
5. Of Leibnits's system as it respects the perfection of theuniverse, and the origin of evil.
6. Original sin known to the ancient philosophers.
Conclusion
Translation of 'Recherches sur I'origine des decouvertes attribuees aux
modernes,' 2 vols., 1766.

85.

England, George, fl., 1740-17 88 .
An enquiry into the morals of the ancients.

By George England ...

London: Printed by W. Wilkins ... 1735.
[vii], 369, [I] p. (Errata on p. [I])25 cm.
p. 240 incorrectly numbered 204.
Contents.I.
Of the justice of the ancient heathens; compar'd with thatin the Christian world.
2.
Of the love of their country, which is observ'd amongst theancients; compar'd with that in the Christian world.
3. Of the magnanimity of the ancients. in their actions andsentiments.
4. Of the contempt of money, and of the simplicity of life of
the ancients.
5. Of the sentiments of friendship amongst the ancients.
6. Of the regard to religion, and to the several duties and rela·tions of life, and to some other parts of morality (not men·tioned in the former chapters) which is to be found amongst
the ancients.
7. An enquiry into the causes of the virtues of the heathens,
related in the foregoing chapters; and into the reasons of thedegeneracy of the Christians.
-1735; -1737·

Essai sur les interets du commerce maritime.
See 1-74(2)Essai sur la nature du commerce en general.
See 1-74 (3)86.

Farmer, Hugh, 1714-1787.
A dissertation on miracles, designed to shew, that they arearguments of a divine interposition, and absolute proofs of themission and doctrine of a prophet ... By Hugh Farmer. London:
Printed for T. Cadell ... and]. Buckland ... 177!.
xxiii, [I], 555 p. (Errata on p. [I]. Publisher's advert. on the319

last preliminary leaf recto)

21 cm.

Contents.I. Preliminary considerations.
2. Argumentsfrom reason, to prove that miracles are neverperformed without a divine interposition.
3. Arguments from revelation, to prove that miracles are, inthemselves, certain evidences of a divine interpositions.
4. Shewing, that the Scriptures have not recorded any instancesof real miracles performed by the devil...
5. Shewing, that miracles, considered as divine interpositions, area certain proof of the divinity of the mission and doctrine ofa prophet. The advantages and necessity of this proof, inconfirming and propagating a new revelation. Miracles usefulin reviving and confirming the principles of natural religion.
-1771; -1798 E; 2-1804; 3-1810.

87.

German: -1777 Berlin.

Fearn, John, 1768-1837.
An essay on consciousness; or, A series of evidences of a distinct
mind.
By John Fearn. 2nd ed., corrected and enlarged ...
London: Printed by D. Cock... and published by Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Grme, and Brown ... and by ... Black, Parry, andKingsbury ... 1812.
[i], xvi, 380 p.
30 cm.
Contents.The discussion. [Of the existence, properties, and processes, ofthe mind.]
I. Of the conceivable existence,. and nature, of the mind.
2. Of consciousness or universal percipience; -of opinions now
held on this subject, opposed to that of Locke; -and, ofthe sources of our knowledge; -and of the tenable prin.
ciples of Locke, Berkeley, and Burne, contrasted with doctrine of later philosophers.
3. Of the evidences and grounds of human knowledge; - and, ofthe tenable principles of Locke, Berkeley, and Burne, contrasted with doctrine of later philosophers.
4. A summary of elementary propositions which depend upon
the foregoing arguments.
5. An examination of the nature of the most general affections

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of mind.
The first regular view [of the mind].
I. Of the susceptibility of the mind.
2. Of the motivity of the mind ..
3. Of the co·operation of the mind with the external world.
4. Of the capacity of the mind for synchronous perceptions.
5. Of the physical structure of the mind.
6. Of the general nature of the flexure, and repulsion, of themind.
7. Of the conscious division of affections, into pleasant andpainful.
8. Of various cases, explained by the hypothesis of a spherule.
9. Of the external senses, in general.
10. Of the senses touch, taste, and smell.
II. Of the sense of hear.
12. Of the sense of sight.
13. A retrospect of the subject advanced.
14. Of the conscious and physical processes of sensual pleasureand pain.
The second view [of the mind].
I. Of memory.
2. Of the relative vividness, precision, and durability, of ideas.
3. Of the origin, and nature, of the passions.
4 Of dream and reverie.
5. Of perception by motion, contrasted with other theories.
Examination of the doctrine of a cerebral mind.
I. A view of Doctor Hartley's theory of vibartions.
2. Of the opposition of the spherule and the vibratory hypothesis.
3. Conjectures regarding the instrumentality of the brain.
4. Final retrospect and conclusion .
•In the following attempt to produce evidence of a distinct mind, I
neither intentionally confound fact with hypothesis, .nor conscious fact with
Physical fact; but as the correspendence is certain, though the manner is
unknown, I have thought it expedient to consider both in correspondence;
and when collective evidences indicate an hypothesis it must be morewarrantable to adopt it, than to as;ume one without any evidence at all,as is surely done by the assumption of a mind operating without phyiscal
connexion with the body.' -Preface, p. v.
1st ed., 1810; •... the present is rather a new work, than a second
edition of the old.' -Advertisement.

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-18IO[?]; 2-1812.

88.

Fenelon, Fran~ois de Salignac de la Mothe-, 16S1-17IS.
A demonstration of the existence of God; deduced from theknowlege of nature, and of man in particular. Suited to themost simple capacities. By Francis de Salignac de la MotheFenelon ... Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie, 17S4.
xx, 182 p.
18 cm.
Translation of 'Demonstration de l'existence de Dieu, tin!e de la connoissance de la nature, & proportionee a la foible intelligence des plus
simples,' Paris, 1713.

89.

[Fenelon, Fran~ois de Salignac de la Mothe-] 16S1-171S.
Dialogues concerning eloquence in general; and particularly, thatkind which is fit for the pulpit: by the late Archbishop of
Cam bray. With his letter to the French Academy, concerning
rhetoric, poetry, history, and a comparison betwixt the antientsand moderns. Translated from the French, and illustrated with
notes and quotations; by William Stevenson ... London: Printed
by T. Wood, for J. Walthoe ... 1722.
xvi, 326, [10] p. (Errata on p. [10])21 cm.
Translation of 'Dialogues sur I'eloquence en general, et sur celie dela chaire en particulier,' 1718, and 'Lettre a I'academie,' 1716.

90.

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.
Institutes of moral philosophy. For the use of students in thecollege of Edinburgh. By Adam Ferguson ... Edinburgh: Printed
for A. Kincaid & J Bell. 1769.
18 cm.
xvi, 319 p.
See III-91.

91.

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.
Institutes of moral philosoP0y.

322

By Adam Ferguson ... 3rd ed.,enlarged. Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell & William Creech.
Sold in London by T. Cadell and G. Robinson. 1785.
18 cm.
xvi, 317 p.
Contents.Introduction.
Pt. I. The natural history of man.
I. History of the species.
2. History of the individual.
II. Theory of mind.
I. General observations.
2. Enumeration of physical laws. (1)3· The foregoing laws applied, &c.
4. Of the nature and future prospects of the human soul.
III. Of the knowledge of God.
I. Of the being of God.
2. Of the attributes of God.
3. Of the belief of the immortality of the soul, &C.(2)IV. Of moral laws, and their most general applications.
I
Definitions.
2. Of good and evil in general.
3. Of the objects of desire or aversion. c')
4. Of the degrees of happiness, and the means of improve·ment. c')5. Of the fundamental law of morality, &C.(4)V. Of jurisprudence.
I. The foundations of compulsory law.
2. The rights of men in general.
3. Laws of defence in general.
4· Difference of rights.
5. Laws of i1cquisition in general.
6. Law of citcupancy.
7. Law of acquisition by labour.
8. Law of acquisition by contract.
9. Law of acquisition by forfeiture.
10. Of the law of acquisition as applicable to particular rights.
1 I. Of the law of defence.
VI. Of casuistry.
I. Of the fanction of duty in general.
2. Of the fanction of religion.
3. Of the fanctions of public repute.
4. Of the fanction of conscience.
5. Of the tendency of virtue in external actions.

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VII. Of politics.
I. Introduction.
2. Of public ceconomy.
3. Of political law.
Note:

3rd ed.: Examples of physical law collected from the history of
mind.
(2)
2nd and 3rd ed.: Of a future state.
(3,
2nd and 3rd ed.: ch.3 and 4 omitted.
(4)
2nd ed. : ch.3. Of the fundamental law of morality, &c.
3rd ed.: ch.3. Of the first principle of law of morality, &c.
Introduction, ch.2 of pt. II, ch.3 of pt. III, and ch.2 and ch.5 (i. e.
ch.3 of 2nd and 3rd ed.) of pt. IV ""ere largely revised in 2nd ed.;Introduction, ch.2 of pt. II, ch.2 and ch.5 of pt. IV were revised
further in 3rd ed.; ch. 3 of pt. VII was revised in 3rd ed.
(1)

In 1761 Ferguson issued a syllabus of his lectures, entitled 'Analysis
of pneumatics and moral philosophy for the use of students in the collegeof Edinburgh.' The notes from which he delivered his lectures weremore amply reproduced in his 'Institutes of moral philosophy,' issued
in 1769, of which a second edition 'revised and corrected' appeared in
1773, a third edition 'enlarged' in 1785.
-1769 E; 2-1773 E; 3-1785 E; -1800 Basel; 2-1872.
French: -1755 Geneva.
German: -1772 Leipzig.
Italian: -1790 Venice.

92.

[Ferguson, Adam] 1723-1816.
Istituzioni di filosofia morale del Sig. Fergusson[.] Tradotte dall'
inglese opera classiea[.] Per l'esattezza nel metodo, per la profondita e sieurezza ne'prineipj, e per la ehiarezza nella esposizione
ad uso delle seuole pubbliehe e private d'Italia. Venezia: Nella
Stamperia Graziosi a S. Apollinare ... 1790.
xvi, 240 p.
20 em.
p. 182, 183, 186, 187 incorrectly numbered 172, 173, 176, 177 respec·tively.
This Italian translation is not listed by Jessop in his 'Bibliography ofDavid Hume and Scottish Philosophy,' nor is it listed in the 'New Cam-324

bridge Bibliography of English Llterature.' It derives in part from the
French translation of 1775 by E.S.P. Reverdil. whose introduction is alsotranslated here.

93.

Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.
Principles of moral and political science; being chiefly a retrospectof lectures delivered in the College of Edinburgh. By Adam
Ferguson... In two volumes... Edinburgh: Printed for A.
Strahan and T. Cadell, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh.
1792.
2

vols.

Vol. 1.

27 cm.

xi, 339 p. (Errata on p. xi)

Contents.Introduction.
Pt. I. Of the fact. or the most general appearances in the natureand state of man.
I. Of man's description and place in the scale of being.
2. Of mind or the characteristics of intelligence.
3. Of man's progressive nature.

Vol. 2.

vii, 512 p. (Errata on p. vii)

Contents.Pt. II. Of moral law. or the distinction of good and evil, and its
systematic applications.
I. Of the specific good incident to human nature.
2. Of the fundamental law of morality. its immediate applications and sanctions.
3. Of jurisprudence, or compulsory law. Part 1.
4. Of jurisprudence. Part II. Respecting the defences of man.
5. Of moral action and the characteristics of a virtuous andhappy life.
6. Of politics.
This work is an expansion of a sketchy earlier version that Ferguson
had published as 'Institutes of moral philosophy.'
ASSOCIATION COPY. This copy formerly belonged to Dr. John
Brown of Edinburgh (not to be confused with John Brown of Haddington).

who was born in 1784 and died in 1858. It was presented to him in 1842,
with the inscription on both title·pages, 'The Rev. Dr. Brown / vVith Dr.
Balmer's kind regards / Edinr. Sept. 22rd. 1842.' Brown and Balmer (17871844) were held by some parties in the Church of Scotland to be hetero·dex in their views on atonement, and Dr. Brown was ultimately tried (andacquitted) for heresy before the Synod of the Church of Scotland in
1845. Brown was a prolific author, and is still regarded as an important
contributor to theological speculations in the 19th century. On a blankleaf at the end of volume I appear some of his comments about Ferguson's book, among them this one: 'Ferguson, I hold to be a muchprofounder genius than Hume, or indeed, than any other writer thiscountry has produced.'-1792 (2V) E.

94.

Fiddes, Richard, 1671-1725.
A general treatise of morality, form'd upon the principles ofnatural reason only. With a preface in answer to two essays
lately published in the Fable of the bees. And some incidental
remarks upon an Inquiry concerning virtue, by the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury. By Richard Fiddes ...
London: Printed for S. Billingsley ... 1724.
[viii], cxliv, [4],462 p.
20 cm.
Contents.Preface.
-The author's design in the following treatise. - The motives toit.-The defects in Tully's Book of offices, and in certain
Christian writers; with a character of M. Malebranch [sic] andhis works.-How far metaphysical arguments employed by the author.-His method, and particular .design in the preface.-Twotreatises which the author proposes to examine: An Inquiry
into the Ongin of Moral Virtue,. and A Search into the Natureof Society.-Answer to the former.-:-Vindication of the principles
asserted by the author of the Characteristicks, in his Inquiry
concerning Virtue, wi~h a confutation of the arguments proposedby the author of the Search against him, and against the real
distinction of moral good and evil.-Concerning polygamy and incest.-A recapitulation.-Concerning publick affection, and pub lick
good, as opposed to private interest.-A difficulty proposed andobviated.-An attempt towards a vindication of Dr. Radcliffe, fromthe aspersions cast upon him in the Fable.-Reinarks on two
presentments by the Grand jury of Middlesex.-The conclusion.
1. That there is a real distinction between moral good and evil.
2. What the proper end of man is?
3. Of the end of man considered more particularly in respect
to his perfection.
4. What the rule of perfection to man is?
5. Whence an obligation of conforming to this rule ariseth.
6. Whether the foregoing rule is of suffici~nt extent to regulate
our moral conduct.
7. Concerning the end of man in respect to his happiness.
8. The present and future rewards of moral virtue, consideredmore distinctly.
9. The grounds of error concerning moral truth, with the meansof removing them.
10. Concerning the use and regulation of the senses, the imagination, and passions, particularly in this chapter of the senses.
II. Of the imagination.
12. Of the passions.
13. Of desire and inclination in general.
14. Whether moral virtue is really practicable?
15. Of common, or sufficient; and special grace.
16. Concerning the nature and force of moral habits in general.
17. How good habits may be preserved. or augmented, and ill
habits destroyed.
18. Whether a principles of honour, in contradistinction to thatof moral virtue, is to be admitted?
19. Some historical observations, upon the progress of moral
philosophy, among the ancients; and concerning their authority.
20. An argument of Carneades, relating to the subject of moral
virtue, particularly, considered.
The conclusion.
Fiddes defines moral truth as consisting in th.e contemplation of themoral perfections of the divine nature, the rule and model of perfection
to all other intelligent beings.

95.

[Forbes, Duncan] 1685-1747.
Some thoughts concerning religion, natural and revealed.

WithA letter to a bishop, concerning some important discoveries inphilosophy and theology. Carefully corrected. Edinburgh: Printed by ]. Cochran ... for Yair and Beveridge ... 1743.
145,51, [I] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])18 cm.
Contents.Some thought concerning religion, natural and revealed, and themanner of understanding revelation: tending to shew that
Christianity is, indeed very near, as old as creation. First
printed in the year 1735.
A letter to a bishop, concerning some important discoveries inphilosophy and theology. First printed in the year 1732.
See 111-96.

96.

[Forbes, Duncan] 1685-1747.
The whole works of the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes ...
Now first collected. Containing, L A letter to a bishop, concerning some important discoveries in philosophy and theology.
II. Reflexions on the sources of incredulity with regard to religion.
ITL Thoughts on religion, natural and revealed. Dublin: Printed
for Thomas Watson ... 1755.
308, [2] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
18 cm.
'A letter to a Bishop, concerning Some Important Discoveries in Philo·sophy and Theology' is an exposition of Hutchinson's 'Moses's Principia.''Some Thoughts concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed, and the Man·ner of Understanding Revelation: tending to shew that Christianity is, in··deed, very near as Old as the Creation' was written as an answer to Tin·
dal's 'Christianity as Old as the Creation.' ... Forbes was a follower ofthe fancIful school founded by John Hutchinson (1674-1737), and afterwards
represented by Bishop Horne, Jones of Nayland, Parkhurst, and others.
Warburton in 1750 (Letters, 2nd ed., P.40) recommends the posthumouswork on incredulity as 'a little jewel. I knew and venerated the man,'he adds, 'one of the greatest that ever Scotland bred, both as a judge,
a patriot, and a Christian.' Though Warburton is not a safe critic, heseems to have expressed a general opinion. -d. DNB.
Letter: -1732; 3-1735; 4-1735; -1736 E; 2-1743; -1743 E; 3-1747.
Reflexions: -1750 E; -1750 E; -1750 D; 2-1750 E; 3-1750; -1750
E; -1752 E; -1853 E &. French: -1768 Paris.

Some thoughts: -1735; 2-1736; 4-1736; -1743 E; 3-1743; 4-1747;-1750 E.
Wholeworks:-17S5D;-[1755?] E;-1757 D; -1762 (2v)E; -1788 G;-1809 (with a biographical sketch); -1810; -1816. French: -1769
Lyons.

97.

[Fordyce, David] I7II-I75r.
Dialogues concerning education... London: PrintedIn

the year

1745·

iv, 435, [I]p. (Errata on p. [I])22 cm.

Contents.Introduction. Journey to the academy. A description of it, andthe country about it.
I. The character of the master and his principal assistant. The
genius and institutions of the academy. The studies andexercises of the pupils. The ceremony of admission.
2. Simplicity and refinement of manners. Decorum in conver·sation and behaviour-A necessary and important branch offemale education.
3. The characters of the club. Their method of reasoning andlaws.
4. A conversation between Eugenio and a coquet. Remarks ofthe club upon it. The affair of gallantry considered.
5. Character of a learned book·worm. Strictures concerning thedifferent genius of ancient and modern education.
6. A question concerning education and non·education, or therespective influence of nature and art. Expedients proposed
to give a freedom and largeness of compass to education.
The Socratic method recommended.
7. Characters of Atticus and Cleora. Female excellencies pointed
out. Ancient and modern manners. The true genius ofphilosophy.
8. Faults in education, illustrated in the character and conductof a private family. The sources of folly and vice in the
conduct of life, traced. The plan or principal out·lines of
education in the first period of life, especially with respect
to the intellectual or rational part.
9. A philosophical rhapsody concerning the being and providence
of God. Observations of the club on it. The use and advantage of the study of nature in education.
10. Sequel of the plan of the 8th, concerning the moral andreligious part of education. The question examined, 'How
moral associations are made, and how they are to be directed,
so as to form the most virtuous habits?' Ancient education
political.
II. Fables and allegories, their origin, use and end in education.
The causes enquired into, why they were more used in ancientthan in modern times. A story in private life, showing theeffects of education.
ASSOCIATION COPY. This copy belonged to James Dunbar (d. 1798),
Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen, and author of'Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages' (1780).
His autograph appears on the leaf preceding the title·page and also on
the first page of Contents.
-1745; -1745/48 (2V); 2-1745; 3-1753 (2V); 4-1755 (2V) &1757 (2V); -1768 (2V) G.

98.

Cork; 3-Fordyce, David, 17Il-175J.
Theodorus: A dialogue concerning the art of preaching. By
Mr. David Fordyce ... 3rd ed. To which is added, A sermon on
the eloquence, and An essay on the action, of the pulpit. By ...
James Fordyce. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ... 1755.
xii, 298, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
18 cm.
-1752; -1752 (2pt) D; 2-1753; 3-1755.

German: -1754 Hanover.

Fordyce, James, 1720-1796.
A sermon on the eloquence, and an essay on the action, oj the pulpit.
See 111-98.

99.

Foster, James, 1697-1753.
Sermons on the following subjects ... By James Foster ... London:
Printed for J. Noon ... and A. Millar ... 1745 [/43/44]
21 cm.
4 vols.

Vol. 1.
330

4th ed., 1745.
[iv], 426 p.

p. 209. 210, 273, 274. 358, 361 incorrectly numbered 109. IIO.
173. 174,385. 161 respectively.
Contents.I. Of the universal sense of good and evil.
2. The characters of the righteous and good man compared; or
benevolence the noblest improvement of social virtue.
3. The perfection of the Christian scheme of benevolence; inanswer to the objection from its not having particularly reocommended private friendship. and the love of our country.
4. Of the image of God in man; or the excellency of humannature.
5. God not an arbitrary being.
6. Of the abuses of free·thinking.
7. Of mysteries.
8. Agur's prayer, or the middle condition of life. generally, themost eligible.
9. The mischiefs of slavish complaisance. and cowardice.
10. Rules for the profitable reading the Holy Scriptures.
1 I. Of heresy.
12. Of schism.
13. Of the pleasures of a religious life.
14. Religion founded on reason, and the right of private judgment.
15. The evidence of a future state. on the principles of reason andrevelation. distinctly considered.
16. The nature, folly, and danger of scoffing at religion.

Vol. 2.

2nd ed., 1743.
[vi], 394, [6]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-6])
p. 215 incorrectly numbered 251.

Contents.I. Of moral and natural evil.
2. Of the true principle of virtue.
3. Of the nature, divine original, and authority of conscience.
4. The plea of an erroneous conscience distinctly considered, andargued.
5. The influences of the Spirit entirely persuasive and moral;
and its fruits of the same kind with the dictate5 of natural
conscience.
6. Of anger.
7. The time when Christianity was made known proved to be the331fittest, from the state and circumstances of the world.
8. The wisdom of God in the various ranks, and subordinationsof human life.
9. The glory of God, best promoted by the moral rectitude andhappiness of his creatures.
10. The folly of imitating popular and fashionable Vices.
I I. The sublimity and extent of Christian morals.
12. Of sincerity, as opposed to prejudice.
13. Of the true idea and improvement of human life.
14. The kingdom of God, under the dispensation of the Gospel,
not an external and ritual, but a moral constitution.
15. Universal charity the essence and life of religion.
16. The peculiar guilt and infamy of prevailing wickedness in an
enlightened and polite age.

Vol. 3.

Lacks the edition statement. 1744.

[v], 409 p.
Contents.I. God no respecter of persons.
2. The Scripture doctrine of justification explained.
3. Moral reflections on the history of Joseph.
4. Of the natural relation of men to God, and their common
tie to each other.
5. Of murder, and the customs and vices leading to it.
6. Of duels, and self· murder.
7,8. On the example, and moral character of Christ.
9. Of incredulity, and the morality of faith.
10. The nature of a heavenly conversation explained.
I I. The different characters of true religion, and enthusiasm.
12. Of theft, fraud, and extortion.
13, 14. The doctrine of a particular providence considered.
15. Of the unity of God, and the Jewish theocracy.
16. On the seventh commandment.

Vol. 4.

Lacks the edition statement. 1744.
[vi], 412, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])

Contents.I. The love of God a rational principle, and a moral virtue.
2. Of the true happiness of man.
3. The mischiefs of vanity, and an affected wisdom.
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4. The distinct offices and uses of reason, and revelation.
5. Of blasphemy, and prophane swearing.
6. Of exemplary and shining characters of virtue.
7. Of slander and defamation.
8. Of covetousness. envy. and discontent.
9. The : true ground of the argument, from reason. for a futurestate.
10. The advantages of consideration.
II. Of the Sabbath, and the moral ground of public worship.
12. Religion a consistent and uniform character.
13. A general discourse on the nature and use of prayer.
14. The reasonableness of that branch of prayer, which is stiled
intercession.
15. Of idolatry; and visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon
the children.
16. On the mediation of Christ.
'Foster published four volumes of sermons. besides separate sermons.
The first volume produced "A Vindication of some Truths of Natural andRevealed Religion, in answer to the false teaching of James Foster." byJ. Brine (1746) His great reputation is indicated by Pope's familiar' lines(Epilogue to the Satires, i. 132-3):
Let modest Foster. if he will. excel
Ten Metropolitans in preaching well;though Johnson explained the remark to Beauclerk by saying. "Sir, he[Pope] hoped that it would vex somebody." Hawkins. in his "History ofMusic," said that it had become a proverbial phrase that "those who had
not heard Farinelli sing and Foster preach were not qualified to appear
in genteel company." An contemporary eulogist gives the less conclusive
proof that the sermons were attended by numbers of the fair sex.' -DNB.
This copy belonged to Sir Robert Laurie. the famous Scottish entertai·ner
2-1733 (VI); -1734/44 (4v, VI, 2nd ed.); 3-1736/44 (4v); -1738 (IV);-1743/45 (4v, VI, 4th ed., V2, 2nd ed .• v3. 4. 1st ed.) 0; -1744/55(4v, VI, 5th ed .• V2, 3rd ed.).
German: -1739 (IV) Giittingen & Jena.

100.

Foster, James, 1697-1753.
. The usefulness, truth, and excellency of the Christian revelation
defended against the objections contain'd in a late book, intitled333Christianity as old as the creation, &c. By James Foster. 2nd
ed. with the addition of a postscript... London: Printed for J.
Noon ... I73!.
viii, [viii], 369 (i.e.37I), [I) p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [IJ)
21 cm.
p. 351, 352 duplicated.
Contents.[Introduction]
The reasonableness and advantages of free debates about religion.
and the unreasonableness and ill consequences of depriving menof that liberty.
The true state of the controversy between the author, and theauthor of Christianity as old as the creation.
1. Of the advantages of a revelation. and particularly of theChristian; and of the use and evidence of miracles.
2. Vindicating the conduct of providence
in not making theChristian revelation universally known; and proving that thisis consistent with the perfections of God. and consequently
with the notion of its being a divine revelation.
3. Shewing that we have a sufficient probability. even at thisdistance. of the authenticness. credibility. and purity of thebooks of the New Testament; and that the common people
are able to judge of the truth and uncorruptedness of a traditional religion ...
4. A general defence of positive commands.
5. A particular vindication of the peculiar positive institutionsof Christianity.
This work was one of the best-known replies to Tindal's 'Christianity
as Old as the Creation.'-1731; 2-1731 E; 3-1734.

101.

Foster, John, 1770-1843.
An essay of the evils of popular ignorance: and a discourse on
the communication of Christianity to the people of Hindoostan.
By John Foster. 3rd ed. London: Holdsworth and Ball. .. 1834.
8, xxviii, 510, [2) p. (Publisher's advert. on pp.I-8, and pp.
[I -2 J)
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Contents.I. Defectof sensibility in the view of the unhappiness of
mankind ...
2. Brief review of
the ignorance prevailing through the ages
subsequent to those of ancient history ...
3. Great ignorance and debasement still manifest in various
features of the popular character ...
4. Objection, that a material increase of knowledge and intelli·gence among the people would render them unfit for theirstation, and discontented with it; would excite them toinsubordination and arrogance toward their superiors; and makethem the more liable to be seduced by the wild notions andpernicious machinations of declaimers, schemers, and inno·
vators ...
5. Extreme poverty of religious knowledge among the uneducatedpeople: their notions respecting God, providence, Jesus Christ,
the invisible world ...
6. Supposed method of verifying the preceding representation of
the ignorance of the people ...
A discourse on the propagation of Christianity· in India; ·thesubstance of which was delivered at the annual meeting of a
missionary society, in 1818.
-1820[?j; 3-1834; -1876.

102.

American ed.: 2-1821 NY.

Le Genie de M. Hume, ou analyse de ses ouvrages, dans laquelleon pourra prendre une idee exacte des mreurs, des usages, descoutumes,des loix, & du gouvernement du peuple Anglois.
Londres ... Paris: chez Vincent ... 1770.
viii, 472 p.
I7cm.
[Not in Jessop]
Contents.De la nature humaine.-De I'esprit humain.-De la duree dumonde, & de la population des hommes.-De I'homme.-Des fern·
mes.-De la societe.-De Ia religion.-Des papes.-De la tolerance.
-De I'amour de la patrie.-Des passions.-De I'education.-Des
loix.-De la justice.-Du peuple.-Du commerce.-Des professions,ordres & etats.-Du luxe.-De I'argent.-Des interets de l'argent.
-Du credit public.-Des taxes.-Des arts.-De la liberte.-Des
rois & des grands.-De la loi feodale.-Des differens gouvernemens.
-Du gouvernement de differens peuples.-Du gouvernement de
I' Angleterre dans differens tems.-Des factions & des partis.-De
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l'inquietude naturelle des Anglois.-Des sciences.-De l'histoire.Des philosophes.-Des poetes.-De la comedie & de la tragedie.Du gout.-De l'eloquence.-De I'amour.-De la galanterie.-De lapoJitesse:-Du bonheur.-Du point d'honneur.-De la bienfaisance& de la bienveillance.--De la modestie.-De I'impudence.-De
I'ambition.-De l'avarice.-Tableaux de la Germanie, de l'Italie,lors de la conquete des Fran\ois; de l'Europe. de la France & de
I' Angleterre, dans differens tems.-Portraits & caracteres de que·Iques papes.-Portraits & caraccteres des rois d' Angleterre.Portraits & caracteres de differens ministres ou hommes celebres
de l'Europe.-Moeurs. usages & coutumes.-Anecdotes.-Remarques
politiques & morales.-Pensees diverses.

103.

Gerard, Alexander, 1728-1795.
Dissertations on subjects relating to the genius and the evidencesof Christianity. By Alexander Gerard ... Edinburgh: Printed for
A. Millar... London; and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edinburgh.
17 66 .

xli, 499 p.

21 em.

Contents.Introduction.
Pt. 1. The evidences of Christianity proposed at first in theproperest manner.
1. The design.
2. The manner in which the evidences of Christianity wereoriginally proposed.
3. The propriety of the manner in which the evidences ofChristianity were originally proposed.
4. The manner in which the evidences of Christianity were
proposed by Christ and his apostles, in consequence ofobjections raised against them.
5. The advantages of their having used this manner in consequence of opposition.
6. The perfection of the manner in which the evidences ofChristianity were proposed.
II. Christianity confirmed by the opposition of infidels.
I. The subject proposed.
2. The advantages which Christianity has derived from the
opposition of early infidels.
3. The advantages which Christianity has derived from opposi-tion in general.
4. The advantages which Christianity has derived from opposi·tion, afford a separate argument for its truth.
Gerard was a member of a well known literary and philosophicalsociety in Aberdeen with which Drs. George Campbell, Thomas Reid.
James Beattie, Blackwell, Gregory, and other distinguished men wereconnected.
-1766 E.

104.

Gerard, Alexander, 1728-1795.
An essay on taste. By Alexander Gerard ... With three dissertations on the same subject. By Mr. de Voltaire. Mr. d' Alembert,
F. R. S. Mr. de Montesquieu ... London, Printed for A. Millar ...
A. Kincaid and J. Bell, in Edinburgh. 1759.
iii (i.e. v), 314 (i.e. 312) p.
21 cm.
[Jessop, p. 131 f.]
p. ii, iii duplicated, pp. 254, 255 omitted.
Contents.Introduction.
Pt.1. Taste resolved into it's simple principles.
II. The formation of taste by the union and improvement of
it's simple principles.
III. The province and importance of taste.
Three dissertations on taste.
By Mr. de Voltaire, Mr. ded' Alembert, and Mr. Montesquieu.
The fundamental definition of this essay is that taste consists chiefly'in the improvement of those principles which are commonly called thepowers of imagination,' including the sense of novelty, sublimity, beauty,
imitation, harmony, ridicule, and virtue. The work has thus. a muchwider scope than that which, according to modern ideas, belongs to thesubject of taste. Under the sense of beauty Gerard gave a prominentplace to the principle of association, in which he has been followed by
Alison. -cf. DNB.
-1759; -1759 E; 2-1764 E; 3-1780 E; 3-1785 E.
American ed.: -1805 Philad.
French: -1766 Paris & Dijon. German: -1766 Bleslau & Leipzig.

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105.

Gerard, Alexander, 1728-1795.
The influence of the pastoral office on the character examined;with a view, especially, to Mr. Hume's representation of thespirit of that office. A sermon preached before the synod ofAberdeen, at Aberdeen, April 8. 1760. By Alexander Gerard ...
Aberdeen: Printed by ]. Chalmers; and sold by And. Millar. ..
London; A. Kincaid and]. Bell in Edinburgh; and A. Thomson
III Aberdeen. 1760. (Price one shilling.)
75p. (Errata on P.75)
20cm.
[Jessop, P.132]-1760 i\berdeen; -1760 i\berdeen; -1761; 2-1762.

106.

Gildon, C[harles] 1665-1724.
The deist's manual: or, A rational enquiry into the Christianreligion. With some considerations on Mr. Hobbs, Spinosa, theOracles of reason, Second thoughts, &c. By C. Gildon ... To
which is prefix'd a letter, from the author of The method withthe deists [i.e. Charles Leslie] ... London, Printed for A. Roper ...
Fran. Coggan ... and Geo. Strahan ... 1705.
[xxx], 36, xvi, 301, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])20cm.
Contents.The introduction.
I. That there is a God.
2. Of the attributes of God.
3. Of providence. and the concurrence of God in the administra·tion of humane affairs. &c.
4. Of the nature of the humane soul. and its immortality. &c.
5. Of the law of nature against Mr. Hobbs [sic]. &c.
6. Of the Christian religion.
This copy lacks Leslie's letter.

107.

Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
Dialogues on various subjects. By the late William Gilpin ...
Published by his trustees, for the benefit of his school at Boldre.

London: Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies ... 1807.
6,537, [I] p. (Errata on p. [I])22 cm.
p. 317, 495 incorrectly numbered 217, 485 respectively.
Contents.[ I ] On dialogue writing.
[ 2] A dialogue on education, between Archbishop Tenison andLord Somers.
[3] A dialogue on the divinity and atonement of Christ.
[4] On the evidences of Christianity, from prophecy and miracles.
[ 5] A dialogue on the mischief of propagating disputed tenets inreligion.
[6] The advantages of a town life, and a country life, compared.
[ 7] A dialogue on duelling.
[8] Instructions to a young man intended for holy orders.
[9] On the various difficulties incident to a clerical life; or, thecharacter of a clergyman, who made a conscience of every
thing.
[10] The character of a c1ergYlI\an, who made a conscience ofnothing.
[II] A defence of the polite arts; in a dialogue between the Lord
Treasurer Burleigh and Sir Philip Sidney.
[12] On the infliction of divine punishment, for the purposes ofnational correction.
[13] On equality of stations, a dialogue.
r14] On the moral uses that may be drawn from husbandry; shewn
in a dialogue, between doctor Lucas and farmer Hardcastle.
[IS] On indiscriminate alms·giving.
-1807; 2-1812.

108.

Gisborne, Thomas, 1758-1846.
A familiar survey of the Christian religion, and of history
as connected with the introduction of Christianity, and with its
progress to the present time. Intended primarily for the use ofyoung persons of either sex, during the course of public or ofprivate education. By Thomas Gisborne... 2nd ed. London:
Printed by A. Strahan... for T. Cadell[,] Jun. and W. Davies ...
1799·

xv, 571 p. (Errata on last preliminary leaf verso)

22cm.
339

Contents.I. Summary VIew of the state of mankind from the creationof the world to the calling of Abraham.
2. Summary view of the origin of the Jewish race, and of thehistory of that people to the death of Moses.
3. Summary view of the history of the Jews from the death ofMoses to the present time.
4. On the books of the Old Testament
5. On the books of the New Testament.
6. Summary of the evidences of the Christian religion.
7. On the leading doctrines of the Christian religion.
8. On the character of Jesus Christ.
9. The history of Christianity to the subversion of the Western
Empire.
10. On the history of Christianity from the subversion of theWestern Empire to the end of the thirteenth century.
II. Continuation of Christian history to the present time.
12. On forms of church·government and ecclesiastical establish·
ments.
13. Conclusion.
-1799; 2-1799; -1800 D; -1801; 6-1816; -1830 D.
American ed.: -1807 NY.

109.

[Gregory, John] 1724-1773.
A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with thoseof the animal world. 3rd ed. London: Printed for J. Dcdsley ...
17 66 .

xvi, 239, [5] p. (Errata on p. [I])16cm.

[Jessop, p. I 33 ff.]

p. 149 incorrectly numbered 941.
Contents.I.
Different view of human nature ...
2.
Superiority of man to other animals, whence derived ...
3. Advantages derived to mankind from taste ...
4. Pleasures arising from works addressed to the imagination andthe heart...
5. The sense of religion ...
Gregory was an intimate friend of David Hume, Lord Monboddo, Lord
Kaimes, Dr. Blair, the elder Tytier, and James Beattie, whose affection340

for him is testified in the closing stanzas of 'the Minstrel.'-DNB.

-1765; -1765; 2-1766; 3-1766; 4-1767; 4-1768 D; 5-1772; 6-1774(2V); 7-1777; 7-1777; 8-1778 D; -1785; -1788 E; -1798.

110.

Gregory, Olinthus [GilbertJ 1774-1 84I.
Letters to a friend, on the evidences, doctrines, and duties of theChristian religion. By Olin thus Gregory... 3rd ed., with corrections and additions. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock,
and Joy ... and John Hatchard ... 1815.
2 vols.
21 cm.

Vol. 1.

xiv, [2J, 314 p.
P.275 incorrectly numbered 75.

Contents.I. On the folly and absurdity of deism.
2. On the necessity of a revelation of the will of God.
3. On the opinions of the heathens, their poets and philosophers,
relative to God, to moral duty, and a future state.
4. On the probability that there should be mysteries in a revealed
religion.
5 On the genuineness and authenticity of the Scriptures.
6. On the evidence deducible from the prophecies.
7. On the evidence deduced from miracles; and on the credibilityof human testimony.
8. On the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
9. Evidence drawn from the rapid diffusion of Christianity, an.dits triumph over persecution; also from the purity and excel·
lency of the Scripture morality and theology.
10. On the inspiration of Scripture.
II. On some of the most plausible objections urged against thetruth and divine authority of the Scriptures.

Vol. 2.

[ivJ,327,[IJ p. (Errata on p.[ivJ. Publisher's advert. on

p. [I])
Contents.12. General view of Christian doctrines.
13. On the depravity of human nature.
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14· On the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
15· On the divinity of Jesus Christ.
16. On conversion.
17. On the influences of the Spirit.
18. On justification by faith.
19. On providence.
20. On the resurrection of the body.
21. On eternal existence after death.
22. Summary of Christian duties.
-1811 (2V)(?J; 2-1812 (2V); 3-1815 (2V); 4-1822 (2V); 5-1829 (2V);
8-1846; 8_1848; 9-1851; 9-1853; -1857; 10-1876; 10-1893.
American ed.: -[1822] NY; -1826 NY.
French: -(I8Is?]; -[1831 Paris.]111.

Grove, Henry, 1684-1738.
A system of moral philosophy, by ... Henry Grove, of Taunton.
Published from the author's manuscript, with his latest improvements and corrections. By Thomas Amory ... In two volumes.
London: Printed and sold by J. Waugh ... 1749.
22 cm.
2 vols.
Vol. 1.

[xxxxviii],42o,[4]p. (Errata on p.[xxxxvii]. Publisher's
advert. on pp. [1-4])

Contents.Pt. I. Of happiness.
Introduction. Of the importance and certainty of morality.
I. Of ethicks or morality in general, and of the nature ofhappiness.
2. Of the necessity of fixing right our chief end-Man not his
own chief good-nor any creature-but God alone.
3. Of the chief good which reason can prove to be designed
for man, and the characteristicks of it.
4. Of the highest happiness attainable in the present life.
The opinions of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Peripatetics
examined; and the favour of God, and an intercourse withhim, proved to constitute the highest happiness of this life.
Il[I]. Of the obj ects of virtue.
In traduction.
I. Of the obj ects of virtue, and particularly of inclination and342

of habit.
Of reason, and particularly as it is a principle of humanactions.
3. Of the will.
4. Of the external principles of human actions, God, angels,and men.
5. Of the ends of human actions.
6. Of the several kinds of human actions, and particularly ofgood, evil, and indifferent actions.
7. Of the passions in general, their nature, objects, innocence,
usefulness, and seat, and the regulation of them.
8. Of the primitive passions, admiration, love, and hatred.
9. Of the mixed passions, those that have admiration blended
with them, and those which are compounded only of thepassions which fall under love and hatred.
10. Of the mixed passions which regard others, and of the
improper passions.
2.

Vol. 2.

[xx], 616, [24] p. (Errata on p. [I].
on pp. [22-24])

Publisher's advert.

p. 549 incorrectly numbered 545.
Contents.Pt. II[2J. Of the rules and measures of virtue.
I. Of the rules and measures of virtue; and particularly of
conscience, its nature and rules.
2. Of the principal distinctions of conscience.
3. Of the external rule of human actions, of law in general-Of moral obligation, and the true foundation of authorityWith an examination of Hobbs's and of Cumberland's
sentiments on this subj ect.
4. Of law in particular, and the principal distinctions of it.
5. Of the law of nature, the explication and proof of it.
6. Of the several properties of the law of nature, as eternal,
universal and immutable-An answer to the obj ection
from national authorized immoralities, and a brief schemeof the prime laws of nature.
II[3J. Of virtue itself, and its several kinds and distinctions.
I. Of virtue in general, and of vice.
2. Of prudence, its nature, objects, importance, rules; its vari·
ous distinctions and the methods of acquiring 'it.
3. Of sincerity, the nature and objects of it; the extremes of343

it, and motives to cultivate it.
4. Of fortitude, its objects, rules; the several distinctions ofit; of magnanimity, equanimity, patience, meekness, con·stancy, and presence of mind; of self-murther, and duelling.
5. Of sobriety, as it regards our self-esteem, or humility; andas it regards the enjoyments of the body, and the present
life in general.
6. Of temperance in regard to riches and pleasures; of sobriety, chastity, and the regulation of our diversions, and sleep.
7. Of justice in general, its distinctions, and the principles
on which it is founded.
8. Of negative justice; and of injuries committed against thesoul, the body, the reputation, the relations and possessions of our neighbour; and of self-defence.
9. Of positive justice; and of dominion, with the distinctionsof it, and the methods of acquiring it.
10. Of commutative justice, and of usury.
II. Of truth; how far its obligations extend, and whether wholly
founded in justice.
12. Of faithfulness, and the several distinctions of promises.
13. Of restitution, the obligations to it, the cases wherein it is
to be made, and the persons obliged to make it.
14. Of distributive justice, its nature, principal instances andrules.
15. Of marriage; of the duties of husbands and wives; of polygamy and divorce.
16. Of parental authority; and of the duties of parents andchildren, brethren and sisters, masters and servants.
17. Of the original and extent of government, and the powerof the magistrate; of the measures of submission; and of
the love of our country.
18. Of universal benevolence, charity: and mercy; and of theforgiveness and love of enemies.
19. Of piety, or the duties owing to God.
20. Of the advantages derived from revelation in the study andpractice of morality.

,It was composed by Mr. Grove, for the direction and assistance ofyouth in the study of morality; and during more than thirty years that
he used it for this purpose, he was continually correcting and improving
it. A little before his death he had begun to transcribe it for the press,
and.~ insert in their proper places the additional observations andrefl"'~1)ns, which were, as they had occurred, written in the margin of344

his original copy. On his death bed he recommended the work to mycare, and I have endeavoured to answer the trust, by making the bestuse I could of his additional observations and corrections; inserting thesein their proper places, and making such alterations in conformity to theother, as were necessary to render the whole consistent with his latest
and most exact sentiments.' -Preface by Th. Amory, p. [x]-1749(2V); 2-1749(Vl); 3-1755 (2V).

112.

Halyburton, Thomas, 1674-1712.
Natural religion insufficient; and reveal'd necessary to man's happiness in his present state: or, A rational enquiry into theprinciples of the modern deists: wherein is largely discovered
their utter insufficiency to answer the great ends of religion, andthe weakness of their pleadings for the sufficiency of nature's
light to eternal happiness; and particularly the writings of thelearn'd Lord Herbert, the great patron of deism, to wit, hisbooks De veritate, de religione gentilium, and his Religio laici,
in so far as they assert nature's light able to conduct us to
future blessedness, are consider'd, and fully answer'd: to which
treatise are annex'd several essays upon other subjects.
By the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Halyburton... Edinburgh:
Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1714.
[viii], 32, 232,163 (i.e. 164),3Ip.
(Errata on last preliminary
leaf)
2lcm.
P.48 incorrectly numbered 47.

p.151 duplicated.

Contents.[Specific title·page]
Oratia inauguralis, habita Andreapoli, in Scholis Collegii Mariani
Borealibus, quinto calendas Maii 1710. in qua, post exhibitam
Rationem suscepti muneris, examinatur schedula nupera, cuititulus, Epistola Archimedis ad Regem Gelonem Albre Grrecrereperta, anno rerre Christianre 1688.
A. Pitcarnio, M. D. ut
vulgo creditur; auctore. Edinburg: excudebant Andrere An·
derson hreredes & successores typographi, anno Dom. 1714.
Introduction. Wherein its prov'd a matter of the highest importand necessity to make a right choice of religion, and wherein
it is further evinc'd that no man without the most manifest
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violence to reason, can turn heathen, Mahometan, or acquiesce
in atheism or scepticism, and that consequently every man must
acquiesce in the Scriptures, or turn deist. This latter undertaken
to be demonstrate false and ruining. The author's inducements
to this undertaking.
I. Giving a short account of the rise, occasion, and progressof deism, especially in England, the opinions of the deists,
the different sorts of deists, mortal and immortal.
2. Mortal deists "'ho, and what judgment to be made of themand their sentiments.
3· Wherein the controversy betwixt us and the immortal deists
is stated and cleared.
4· Wherein the insufficiency of natural religion is prov'd fromthe insufficiency of its discoveries of a Deity.
5· Natural religion not sufficient to direct us as to the solemn
worship of God. Its insufficiency thence demonstrate.
6. Natural light leaves us in the dark as to that wherein man's
happiness lies. Its insufficiency thence demonstrate.
7. Nature's light affords not a sufficient discovery of the means
leading to future happiness, or a sufficient rule of duty.
8. It affords not sufficient motives to duty and enforce obedience, its weakness argued hence.
9. The knowledge of the origin of sin necessarily to be known
in order to religion. Nature's light insufficient to discoverit.
Nature's light cannot discover the means of obtaining pardon.
Proving that we have innate inclinations to sin, and thatnatural religion is insufficient to eradicate or subdue them.
12. Wherein the proof of the insuffiCiency of natural religion is
concluded from a sixfold view of the experience of the world.
13. Transition to the deists opinions and pleas for them. Herbertconsidered, some account of him and his books, the articles
to which he reduc'd natural religion, that he was methodizer
of deism, and glories in it. That he design'd to maintain it inopposition to Christianity. His Book De Religione Gentilium
consider'd, and of what importance it is to the deists cause.
14. Wherein it's demonstrate, that Herbert has not proven inthat book what he undertook, viz. that his five Catholick
articles did universally obtain.
10.

II.

15. Wherein it's proven, that what he undertakes is false, and that
his five articles did not universally obtain.
16. Wherein its proven by some general considerations, thatmany of the best things met with in the writings of heathens,are not to be admitted as discoveries of natural light.
17. Wherein it's proven, that Herbert's articles, tho' they had
obtain'd, yet do not constitute a sufficient religion. His opinion
as to their sufficiency considered and exposed.
18. The deists two grand arguments for the sufficiency of natural
religion examin'd.
19. Herbert's advantages of deism considered and answered.
20. Herbert and Blount's queries for proving the validity of theirreligion.
[Specific title·page]An essay concerning the nature of faith, or The ground uponwhich faith assents to the Scriptures; wherein the opinion of
the rationalists about it, is propos'd and examin'd especially as
it is stated by the learn'd Mr. Lock in his book of humane
understanding. By the same author. Edinburgh: Printed by theHeirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1714.
I. Containing some general remarks concerning knowledge, faith,and particularly divine faith, and that both as to the faculty
and actings 'thereof.
2. Wherein the nature of that faith, which in duty we are
obliged to give to the word of God our obligation fo, andour ability for answering our duty, are enquir'd into.
3. The ground, or the formal reason, whereon faith assents to
the Scriptures is enquired after, the rationalists opinion about
it, and particularly as stated by Mr. Lock in his book ofhumane understanding is proposed and considered.
A modest enquiry whether regeneration or justification has theprecedency in order of nature. (see Note to III-1I7)-1714 E; -1798 Montrose.

113.

American ed.: Philad; -1812 Albany.

Hamilton, Hugh, 1729-1805.
An attempt to prove the existence and absolute perfection of thesupreme unoriginated being, in a demonstrative manner. .. By
Hugh Hamilton ... London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson ...
17 8 5.
202p.
21cm.
[N ot in Jessop]
Contents.The introduction. Containing a view of the arguments that havebeen used for proving the existence and attributes of God, and347

the reasons for proposing a new one.
There must be some one Being, at least, who is unoriginated andhas existed without, a cause, without a beginning and cannot
cease to exist.-There is nothing in the nature of this Beingthat could possibly have been otherwise than it is.-He is impas.
sive.-Truths relating to his nature are as capable of strict
demonstration as any other truths.-All the attributes hepossesses are unlimited or perfect.-He exists every where in
the same manner he does any where.-He is an individual
substance, without parts, every where identically the same.-He
is possessed of power and knowledge unlimited and all othernatural attributes that can be called absolute perfections.-He
is a maximum of existence.-But one unoriginated Being in theuniverse.-All things owe their existence to his power operating
according to his will.-The unoriginated being is the God andfather of all.-And is possessed of goodness, mercy, justice
and all other moral perfections, such as become the supreme
author and governor of the universe.
One of the few early answers to Hume's 'Dialogues.'[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Sketch of the life of John Hamilton, a secular priest.
See 1-86.

114.

A Selection from the Harleian miscellany of tracts, whichprincipally regard the English history; of which many are referred to by Hume. London: Printed for C. & G. Kearsley ... 1793.
vii, 571, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [ID
29 cm.
[Not in Jessop]
Contents.The life of King William the first,. surnamed the Conqueror.
The life of King Edward the second.
The life and death of Edward, surnamed the Black Prince.
The history of Perkin Warbeck.
The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey.
An epistle of Henry VIII. on being cited by the pope and theemperor, to appear before a general council.
Love-letters from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn: and two lettersfrom Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolsey; with her last to HenryVIII_
The Beggars' petition against popery.
The life and death of Robert Earl of Essex.
Fragmenta regalia; or, Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth,
her times and favourites.
Gowrie's conspiracy.
England's mourning garment; to the memory of Queen Elizabeth.
To which is added, the true manner of her imperial funeral.
The Shepherd's spring song, in gratulation of King James I.
Demeanour and carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh.
A brief relation of Sir Walter Raleigh's troubles.
The prerogative of Parliaments in England, proved in a dialogue
between a counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace.
The history of the Gunpowder Treason.
Discouse of the most illustrious Prince Henry, son of King James
I.
Letter from Sir Charles Cornwallis to Lord Digby, on the marriage that should have been made between the Prince of Englandand the Infanta of Spain.
The forerunner of revenge.
A short view of the life and death of George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham.
The five years of King James; or the condition of the state ofEngland, and the relation it had to other provinces.
A brief relation of passages and speeches in the Star-Chamber, atthe censure of Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne.
Two speeches spoken by the Earl of Manchester and John Pym,
Esq; as a reply to His Majesty's answer to the City of London'sPetition.
A view of the reign of King Charles I.
The King's cabinet opened; or certain pacquets of secret lettersand papers, taken in the King's cabinet at Naseby Field.
History of the life and death of Oliver Cromwell.
A true narrative of the occasions and causes of the late Lord
General Cromwell's answer and indignation against Lieut.
Colonel George Joyce.
The Lord General Cromwell's speech, delivered in the CouncilChamber, July 4, 1653.
A narrative and relation of King Charles lId's. Escape from thebattle of Worcester.

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News from Pembroke and Montgomery.
A relation of Major General Sir Thomas Morgan's progress inFrance and Flanders.
An account of the burial of King Charles I. and of Oliver
Cromwell.
The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell.
A narrative of the late Parliament, &c.
A second narrative of the late Parliament.
England's joy: or a relation of the most remarkable passages fromCharles lId's. Arrival at Dover, to his entrance at Whitehall.
The trial and condemnation of the regicides.
Two letters by the Earl of Clarendon.
The humble petition and address of the Earl of Clarendon.
An account of the reasons which induced Charles II. to declare
war against the Dutch.
Observations on the burning of London.
The papists' bloody oath of secrecy, &c.
A brief account or many memorable passages of the life anddeath of the Earl of Shaftsbury [sic.].
A letter to a person of honour, on the King's disavowing thehaving been married to the Duke of Monmouth's mother.
Lord Churchill's letter to the King.
The expedition of the Prince of Orange for England.
A relation of the proceedings of the forces of King William andQueen Mary, against the French in the West·Indies.
A letter, concerning a French invasion to restore King James tothe throne.
.
Political remarks on the life and reign of King William III.
Bishop Atterbury's relation of the wicked contrivance of Stephen
Blackhe ad and Robert Young, against the lives of several
persons.
A view of the court of St. Germain, from 1690 to 1695.
A letter to a new member of the House of Commons, on theembezzlement and mismanagement of the kingdom's treasure.
-1793·

115.

Harris, James, 1709-1780.
The works of James Harris, Esq. with an account of his lifeand character, by his son the Earl of Malmesbury. In five
volumes. A new edition. London: Printed by Luke Hansard,

350

for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse ... 1803 [106/1799/ 1802 ]5 vols.
22cm.
[Three treatises] ... A new edition ... 180 3.
xxxvi, [iv], 377, [22] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [i],[iii])
front. (port.) I plate.

Vol. 1.

Contents.Memoirs of the life and character of the author, by his son the
Earl of Malmesbury.
Treatise. I. A dialogve concerning art-To the Right Honovrable
the Earl of Shaftesbvry.
II. A discourse on music, painting, and poetry.
III. Concerning happiness, a dialogue.

Vol. 2.

Hermes[:] or A philosophical inqviry concerning vniversal grammar ... 6th ed.... 1806.
xix, [i], 442, [26] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [iJ)
front.
p. 261, 336 incorrectly numbered 26, 136 respectively.

Contents.-

Bk.I.
Introduction Design of the whole.
Concerning the analyzing of speech into its smallest parts.
3. Concerning the several species of those smallest parts.
4. Concerning substantives, properly so called.
5. Concerning substantives of the secondary order.
6. Concerning attributives, and first concerning verbs.
7. Concerning time and tenses.
8. Concerning modes.
9. Concerning verbs, as to their species and other remaining
properties.
10. Concerning participles and adjectives.
I I. Concerning attributives of the secondary order.
II.
I. Concerning definiti ves.
2. Concerning connectives, and first those called conjunctions.
3. Concerning those other connectives, called prepositions.
4. Concerning cases.
5. Concerning interjections-recapitulation-conclusion.
I.

2.

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III.
Introduction-Division of the subject into its principal parts.
Upon the matter or common subject of language.
3. Upon the form, or peculiar character of language.
4. Concerning general or universal ideas.
5. Subordination of intelligence ...
I.

2.

Vol. 3.

Philosophical arrangements ... A new edition ... 1799.
xii, 485, [30]P. front.

Contents.I. Introduction ...
2. A method of arrangement...
3. Concerning substance natural...
4. Concerning matter. ..
5. Concerning form ...
6. Concerning form, considered as an efficient animating prin.
ciple ...
7. Concerning the properties of substance ...
8. Concerning qualities .. .
9. Concerning quantity .. .
10. Concerning relatives .. .
II. Concerning action and passion ...
12. Concerning when and where ...
13. Concerning position or situation ...
14. Concerning habit, or rather the being habited ...
15. Concerning the appendages to the universal genera or arrange·ments ...
16. Concerning motion physical. ..
17. Concerning motion not·physical...
18. Conclusion ...

Vol. 4.

Philological inquiries 1ll three parts... Part 1. and II. A
new edition ... 1802.
xxiv,240P. front.

Contents.Pt. I. Addrest to Edward Hooper, Esq. of Hurn Court, in theCounty of Hants.
I. Concerning
the rise of criticism in its first species, thephilosophical. ..
2. Concerning the progress of criticism in its second species,352

the historical...
3. Moderns, eminent in the two species of criticism before
mentioned, the philosophical and the historical...
4. Modern critics of the explanatory kind, commenting modern
writers ...
5. Rise of the third species of criticism, the corrective ...
6. Criticism may have been abused ...
7. Conclusion ...
II.
Introduction.
I. That the epic writers came first, and that nothing excellent
in literary performances happens merely from chance ...
2. Numerous composition ...
3. Quantity verbal in English ...
4. Other decorations of prose besides prosaIc feet ...
5. Concerning whole and parts, as essential to the constitutingof a legitimate work .. .
6. Dramatic speculations ... .
7. In the constitutive parts of a drama, the fable considered
first. ..
8. Concerning dramatic manners .. .
9. Concerning dramatic sentiment .. .
10. Concerning diction ...
I I. Rank and precedence of the constitutive parts of the drama ...
12. Rules defended ...

Philological inquiries m three parts... Part m.
edition ... 1802.
front.
241-577, [35]P.

Vol. 5.

A new

Contents.-

Pt. III.
Design of the whole ...
Concerning the first class, the Byzantine Greeks ...
3. Digression to a short historical account of Athens ...
4. Account of Byzantine scholars continued ...
5. Nicetas, the Choniate ...
6. Concerning the second class of geniuses during the middle
age, the Arabians, or Saracens ...
7· Arabian poetry, and works of invention-facts relative to theirmanners and characters.
8. Arabians favoured medicine and astrology-... they valued know·
ledge, but had no ideas of civil liberty...
I.

2.

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9. Concerning the Latins or Franks ...
10. School men ...
II. Concerning the poetry of the latter Latins, or Western Europeans ...
12. Paul the Venetian, and Sir John Mandeville, great travellers-Sir John Fortescue, a great lawyer. ..
13. Concerning natural beauty ...
14· Superior literature and knowledge both of the Greek and
Latin clergy ...
15. Opinions on past ages, and the present. ..
llhree treatises: -1744; 2-1765; 3-1772; 4-1783; 5-1792; 5-1794.
Hermes: -1751; 2-1765; 3-1771; 4-1773 D; -1786; 5-1794; 6-1806;-1816; 7-1825.
French: -[1796] Paris. German: -1788 Halle.
Philosophical arrangements: -1775; -1799.
Philosophical inquiries: -1781 (2V); 1802 (2V).
Works: -1771/83 (5v in 4); -1801 (2V); -.-1803 (5v); -1841 (IV) O.

116.

Hayter,T[homas] Bp. of London.
Remarks on Mr. Hume's dialogues, concerning natural religion.
By T. Hayter ... Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon ... for T.
Cadel... London. 1780.
65P. (Errata on the last leaf)
2lcm.
[Jessop, p. 55]-1780 C.

117.

Herbert, Edward, Baron, 1583-1648.
A dialogue between a tutor and his pupil. By Edward Lord
Herbert, of Chirbury. London: Printed for W. Bathoe ... 1768.
[viii],272P.
25cm.
llhis book chiefly deals with the need of reforming religious instructionin accordance with his own religious theories which are best stated in his'De Religione Gentilium' and 'De Causis Errorum.' Herbert's religious
doctrine starts with the assumption that religion, which is common to
the human race, consists of the five innate ideas or axioms, that (I) there
is one sublime God, (2) He ought to be worshipped. (3) virtue and piety
are essential to worship, (4) man ought to repent of his sins, and (5)there are rewards and punishments in a future life. Herbert shows that354

all religions, Christian and pagan, are resolvable into these elements,and his method undoubtedly pointed the way to'the science of comparative
religion. He rejects all revelation, and describes so·called revelation as
the artifice of Priests. for whom he has little respect. All known
revelations lack the universal assent which could alone demonstrates theirtruth. None the less, he admits that a special revelation may be madedirectly to a particular person, and asserts that the sign vouchsafed tohim when in doubt as to the publication of his 'De veri tate' was a genuine
revelation from heaven. Finally, he regards Christianity as on the whole
the best religion, because its dogmas are least inconsistent with his five
primary articles.
Herbert was before his time. His views on religion excited nearly
universal hostility and he left no direct successors. But more than ageneration after his death Charles Blount (1654-1693) avowed himself
his follower and in his own works borrowed extensively from Herbert's
writings. Nathaniel Culverwell, in 165Z, in his 'Discourse of the Lightof Nature,' accepts in part Herbert's theory of a priori knowledge, but
vehemently denounces his theory of religion. Richard Baxter, in 'More
Reason for the Christian Religion' (167z), seeks to refute his objections
to revelation. Thomas Halyburton, in 'Natural Religion Insufficient' (1714,
see III-lIz), was scandalised by Herbert's comparisons of Christianity withpaganism.
Locke, in his 'Essay on Human Understanding' (III-15z),
examines in detail Herbert's theory of innate ideas for the purpose of
rejecting it, but adopts parts of his religious theory, and in his 'Reason·
ableness of Christianity' admits the justice of his strictures on sacerdotal
theology. John Leland discusses from a hostile point of view Herbert's
views in the opening chapter of his 'View of the Principal Deistical
Writers' (1754, see III-149), i. 1-34. In 1783 appeared 'An Enquiry into theInfidelity of the Times. with Observations on Lord Herbert of Cherbury,'by J. Ogilvie (see 1II-169). Meanwhile, Herbert had received higher com·mendation abroad. He sent a copy of his 'De veritate' to Gassendi thephilosopher, through Milton'," friend Diodati, and Gassendi refers, in themain approvingly, to his theory of perception (Opera, iii. 411). Descartes
also studied Herbert, and while complaining of his metaphysical subtlety,
recognised his eminence as a thinker. Direct attacks on Herbert appeared
abroad in J. Musreus's 'Examen Cherburianismi, sive de Luminis naturre
insuflicientia ad salutem, contra E. Herbertum de Cherbury,' Jena, 1675
(znd ed.), and Wittenberg, 1708, and in C. Kortholt's 'De Tribus impos·
toribus,' i.e. Herbert, Hobbes, and Spinoza, Keil, 1680, and Hamburg,
1700.
Halyburton, in his 'Natural Religion Insufficient,' 1714, declared that
Herbert was 'the first who lick'd deism and brought it to something ofa form,' and Leland, in 1754, first described him as the father of English
355

deism. These claims have been popularly admitted. But Herbert has,
as a matter of fact, little in common with the eighteenth-century schoolof deists. Only Blount acknowledged any indebtedness to him, and it isdoubtful if the true leaders of the movement were acquainted with his
writings. Herbert's true affinity is with the Cambridge Platonists. -cf.

DNB.

[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
A letter to Adam Smith ... on the life, death, and philosophy of his
friend David Hume... By one of the people called Christians.
See 1-84 & 88.

[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
Letters on i~fidelity. By the author of a letter to Doctor Adam Smith ...
See 1-89.

[Horne, George] 1730-1792.
Letters on infidelity. 2nd ed. To which is prefixed A letter to Dr. Adam
Smith ...
See 1-90.

118.

[Huber, Marie] 1695-1753.
The world unmask'd: or, The philosopher the greatest cheat; intwenty-four dialogues between Crito a philosopher, Philo a lawyer,
and Erastus a merchant. In which true virtue is distinguishedfrom what usually bears the name or resemblance of it: themany prejudices and mistakes in judgment and practice, in regard
to conscience and religion, are examined and rectified: and thevalue of truth is shewn; with the reasons why it is not moregenerally known. To which is added, The state of souls
separated from their bodies: being an epistolary treatise, wherein
is proved, by a variety of arguments, deduced from Holy Scripture, that the punishments of the wicked will not be eternal;
and all objections against it solved. In answer to a treatise,356

entitled, An enquiry into origenism. Together with a large introduction, evincing the same truth from the principles ofnatural religion. Translated from the French. London: Printed
for A. Millar. .. 1736.
viii, 446, [2J p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [I -2])

2lcm.

Translation of 'Le monde fou pre£ert~ au monde sage, en vingt·quatre
promenades,' published anonymously, Amsterdam, 1731, 1733, and 1744·'The State of Souls separated from their Bodies' has half·title: 'Thesystems of the antient and moderns, reconciled; by an exposition of thedifferent sentiments of some divines, concerning the state of souls, whenseparated from their bodies. In fourteen letters. With notes, and some
additional pieces relating to the same subject' . (translation of 'Systeme
des anciens et des modernes... en quatorze lettres'), and is followed by'The Sequel of the Fourteen Letters. Concerning the state of souls
separated from their bodies. Being an answer to a book. entitled, An
enquiry into Origenism. By Mr. Professor R-.' (translation of 'Suitede livre des XIV lettres... servant de reponse au livre du professeurR[uchat],), two treatises, publihsed anonymously by the author. Londres,
1731, and Londres(?). 1733.
The authorship of the original treatises, by contemporary writers
ascribed to B. L. de Muralt, was revealed in the third edition of theauthor's 'Lettres sur la religion essentielle a l'homme,' published after
her death by her parents (Londres, 1756). It was, however, believed in
Geneva, that Muralt had some share in her books.
ASSOCIATION COPY. From the Library of William Lord Forbes,
father of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo (Beattie's biographer), with his
bookplate, and autograph on the title·page.
-1736; 2-1743(2V); -1786.

119.

American ed.: -1806 Philad.

Huet, [Pierre DanielJ 1630-1721.
Traite philosophique de la foiblesse de l'esprit humain,feu Mr. Huet ... Amsterdam: Chez Henri du Sauzet. 1723.
xl,29 6 p.
front. (port.)
I7cm.

par

Contents.Eloge historique de Mr. Huet [par M. I' Abbe d'Olivet]
Preface: Exorde & argument de i'ouvrage.-Sa division.
357

I.
II.
III.

120.

La verite ne peut etre connue de I'entendement humain, parIe secours de la raison, avec une parfaite & entiere certitude.
On explique exactement quelle est la plus sure, & la plus
legitime voye de philosopher.
On propose les objections de nos adversaires, & on les refute.

Huet, [Pierre Daniel] 1630-172I.
A philosophical treatise concerning the weakness of humanunderstanding. By Peter Buet... London: Printed for Gysbert
Dommer; and sold by 1. Maceuen ... 1. Clark ... and S. Chandler ...
1725.
front. (port.)
20cm.
xxxi,[viii] ,224p.
Contents.Historical encomium on the Author, written by Abbot Olivet.
Preface: I. Exordium and argument. 2. The division of the work.
Bk.I. A philosophical treatise, concerning the weakness of humanunderstanding: shewing, that truth cannot by the helpof reason be perfectly and with certainty known by humanunderstanding.
II. Wherein is shewed which is the exactest. safest, andjustest method of reasoning and philosophy.
III. Wherein all the objections of our adversaries are fairly
stated, and fully answer'd.
Translation of 'Traite philosophique de I'esprit humain.' (111-119)

121.

[Hurd, Richard, Ep. of Worcester] 1720-1808.
Dialogues on the uses of foreign travel; considered as a part ofan English gentleman's education: between Lord Shaftesbury
and Mr. Locke. By the editor of Moral and political dialogues.
2nd ed .... London: Printed by W. B. for A. MiHar... and W.
Thurlbourn and 1. Woodyer, in Cambridge. 1764.
20cm.
[iv],203p.
pp. 194-203 incorrectly folded.

Pagination runs as follows: 194, 197,

198, 195, 196, 201, 202, 199, 200, 203.

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-1764; -1764 D; 2-17640; 2-1774. French: -1765 Yverdon.

BOUND WITH
[Hurd, Richard, Bp. of Worcester] 1720-1808.
Letters on chivalry and romance ... 2nd ed. London: Printed for
A. Millar. .. and W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer ... 1762.
120p.
'Letters on Chivalry and Romance' was published by way of sequel tothe dialogue 'On the Age of Elizabeth,' in which he discussed theorigin of knight·errantry, and vindicated Gothic literature and art fromthe imputation of barbarism. Two dialogues 'On the Uses of Foreign
Travel,' in which Shaftesbury and Locke were the speakers, followed in
1763, and a complete edition of the 'Dialogues' and 'Letters' was pub·lished in 1765, 3 vols. -cf. DNB.

122.

[Hurd, Richard, Bp. of Worcester] 1720-1808.
Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several
conversations between divers eminent persons of the past andpresent age; digested by the parties themselves, and now firstpublished from the original MSS with critical and explanatory
notes by the editor.... London: Printed for A. Millar. .. and W.
Thurlborne and J. Woodyer at Cambridge 1759.
xii, 289 (i.e.3II)p.
2lcm.
PP.283-289 duplicated. Pagination runs as follows: 1-304, 283-289.
Contents.Dialogue I. On sincerity in the commerce of the world: between
Dr. Henry More and Edmund Waller, Esq.
2.
On retirement: between Mr. Abraham Cowley, and the Rev.
Mr. Thomas Sprat; related in a letter to the Right Honour·able the Earl of St. Albans.
3, 4· On the golden age of Queen Elizabeth: between the Hon.
Robert Digby, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Addison ...
5,6. On the constitution of the English government. Sir John

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Maynard, Mr. Somers, [and] Bishop Burnet.
year 1689.

123.

Written in the[Hurd, Richard, Bp. of Worcester) 1720-1808.
Moral and political dialogues between divers eminent persons of
the past and present age; with critical and explanatory notes by
the editor .... 2nd ed. London: Printed for A. Millar ... and W.
Thurlborne and J. Woodyer, at Cambridge. 1760.
20cm.
p. 86, 148, incorrectly numbered 68, 149 respectively.
Contents.same as 1st ed. (see 111-122)

124.

Hurd, Richard, Bp. of Worcester, 1720-1808.
Moral and political dialogues; with Letters on chivahy andromance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd... In three volumes. 6th
ed. London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1788.
3 vols.
20cm.
Vol. 1.

lxvi, 204p.

Contents.Preface, on the manner of writing dialogue (written in 1764).
Dialogues 1-3 (same as 1st ed., but the title of 3 changed to 'On
the age of Q. Elizabeth.')Vol. 2.

[i), 331P.

Contents.Dialogues 4-6 (same as 1st ed.)Vol. 3.

[i),338, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I))p. 156, 299, 318, 334 incorrectly numbered 56, 295, 18, 34
respectively.

Contents.Dialogue '].

On the uses of foreign travel, Lord Shaftesbury-8.

Mr. Locke.
Letters on chivalry and romance: serving to illustrate somepassages in the third dialogue.

-1759; 2-1760; -1760 D; 3-1765 (3v); 4-1771 (3v); 5-1776(3v); 6-1788(3 v ).

125.

Hurd, Richard, Bp. of Worcester, 1720-1808.
Sermons preached at Lincoln's-Inn, between the years 1765 and1776 ... By Richard Hurd ... London: Printed for T. Cadell ... 1785.
3 vols.
2zcm .
.,
Vol. 1. With a larger discourse on Christ's driving the merchantsout of the temple.·; in which the nature and end of thatfamous transaction is explained. 3rd ed.
xi, 307, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])p. 223 incorrectly numbered 22.
Contents.Sermons 1-13.
A larger discourse, by way of commentary, on that remarkable partof the Gospel·history, in which Jesus is represented, as driving
the buyers and sellers out of the temple.

Vol. 2. A new edition.
x,349P·
Contents.Sermons 1-20.

Vol. 3. A new edition.
ix, 372P.
pp. [iJ-ix incorrectly folded. Pagination runs as follows: IX.
blank, iii-viii (i and ii blank).
Contents.Sermons 1-20.
-1776/8o(3V); 2-1777 (VI); 3-1777 (VI) D; 3-1785 (3v, VI, 3rd ed., V2,

3, newed.)126.

[Hutcheson, Francis] 1694-1746.
An essay on the nature and conduct of the passions and affections.
With illustrations on the moral sense. By the author of theInquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue ...
London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, for John Smith andWilliam Bruce, Booksellers in Dublin; and sold by J. Osborn and
T. Longman ... and S. Chandler ... 1728.
22cm.
[JessoP, p. 144 f.]xxii, [2], 333P.
Contents.Treatise 1. An essay on the nature and conduct of the passions.
I. A general account of our several senses' and desires, selfish
or publick.
2. Of the affections and passions: the natural laws of pureaffection: the confused sensations of the passions, with their
final causes.
3. Particular divisions of the affections and passions.
4. How far our several affections and passions are under our
power, either to govern them when raised, or to prevent
their arising: with some general observations about theirobjects.
5. A comparison of the pleasures and pains of the several senses,
as to intenseness and duration.
6. Some general conclusions concerning the best managementof our desires. With some principles necessary to happiness.
II. Illustrations upon the moral sense.
I. Concerning the character of virtue, agreeable to truth orreason.
2. Concerning that character of virtue and vice; the fitness
or unfitness of actions.
3· Mr. Woolaston's significancy of truth, as the idea of virtue
consider'd.
4. Shewing the use of reason concering virtue and vice, upon
supposition that we receive these ideas by a moral sense.
5. Shewing that virtue may have whatever is meant by merit;and be rewardable upon the supposition that it is perceived
by a sense, and elected from affection or instinct.
6. How far a regard to the deity is necessary to make anaction virtuous.

-1728 D; -1728; -1730; 3-1742; -1751 D; 4-1756; 3-1769 G.
German: -1760 Leipzig.

127.

[Hutcheson, Francis] 1694-1746.
An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue.
In two treatises. I. Concerning beauty, order, harmony, design.
II. Concerning moral good and evil. 5th ed. corrected ... London:
Printed for R. Ware, J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C.
Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, J. and J. Rivington, and J. Ward.
1753·
xxii, [ii], 310, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
2lcm.
[Jessop, p. 143 f.]
Contents.Treatise 1. Of beauty, order, harmony, design.
r. Concerning some powers of perception distinct from what is
generally understood by sensation.
2. Of ,original or absolute beauty.
3. Of the beauty of theorems.
4. Of relative or comparative beauty.
5. Concerning our reasonings about design and wisdom in thecause, from the beauty or regularity of effects.
6. Concerning the universality of our sense of beauty.
7. Concerning the power of custom. education and example, as
to our internal senses.
8. Of the importance of the internal s'enses in life, and thefinal causes of them.
II. An inquiry concerning moral good and evil.
Introduction.
I. Of the moral sense, by which we perceive virtue and vice,
and approve, or disapprove them in others.
2. Concerning the immediate motive to virtuous actions.
3· The sense of virtue, and the various opinions about it,
reducible to one general foundation. The manner of com·puteing the morality of actions.
4· All mankind agree in this general foundation of theirapprobation of moral actions. The grounds of different
opinions about morals.
5· A farther confirmation that we have practical dispositions tovirtue implanted in our nature: with a farther explicationof our instinct to benevolence in its various degrees; withthe additional motives of interest, V1Z. honour, shame, pity
6. Concerning the importance of this moral sense to the present
happiness of mankind, and its influence on human affairs.
7· A deduction of some complex moral ideas, viz. of obligation,and right, perfect, imperfect, and external; alienable andunalienable from this moral sense.
Title of the first edition: 'An inquiry into the original of our ideas ofbea uty and virtue; in two treatises. In which the principles of the late
Earl of Shaftesbury are explain'd and defended, against the author of
the Fable of the bees: and the ideas of moral good and evil are estab·lished, according to the sentiment of the antient moralist. With an attempt
to introduce a mathematical calculation in subjects of morality.'
From the second edition (,corrected and enlarged') onwards Hutcheson_omitted words after 'two treatises.'
The Utilitarian formula occurs in Treatise II, sec. 3, §8--'That action
1S best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.'-1725; 2-1726; 3-1729; 4-1738; 5-1753; -1772 G.
French; -1749 Amsterdam. German: -1762 Frankfort & Leipzig.
ASSOCIATION COPY. The above copy belonged to John Hamilton(1761-1814), Scottish song·writer and music·seller; his autograph appearson the title·page.

128.

Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.
A short introduction to moral philosophy, in three books;
containing the elements of ethicks and the law of nature. By
Francis Hutcheson ... Translated from the Latin. 3rd ed. Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis... 1764.
2 vols. in 1
ix, [xiv], 373, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp.[I-2J)

I7cm.

p. 356 incorrectly nurribered 256.
pp. 180-191 incorrectly gathered. Pagination runs as follows: 180, 185,
186, blank, title page of vol. 2, blank, blank, [189], 190, 181, 182,
183, 184, 19I.
Contents.In the preface. The division of philosophy into 3 parts. The
several branches of moral philosophy. The author's intention inthis compend. The design of Cicero's books de officiis. An accountof the 2nd edition. And an exhortation to philosophy.
Bk. 1. The elements of ethics.
I. Of human nature and its various parts or powers.
2. Of the supreme good.
3. Of the divisions of virtue.
4. Our duties toward God.
5. Our duties toward mankind.
6. Duties toward ourselves.
7. Practical cbnsiderations, &c.
II. Elements of the law of nature.
I. Of the law of nature.
2. Of rights and their divisions.
3. Degrees of virtue and vice and the circumstances on which
they depend.
4. Of the nature of rights of individuals.
5. Real adventitious rights and property.
6. Methods of acquiring property.
7. Of derived property.
8. The transferring of property, succession, testaments, &c.
9. Of contracts in general.
10. Our obi igations in speech.
II. Of oaths and vows.
12. Of the value of goods and of coin.
13. Of the several sorts of contracts.
14. Obligations like those from contracts.
15. Rights arising from damage done, and the laws of war.
16. Extraordinary rights in cases of necessity. The common
rights of mankind.
17. How rights and obligations cease. How controversies are
decided in natural liberty, &c.
III. The principles of oeconomics and politics.
I. Concerning marriage.
2. The duties of parents and children.
3. Of masters and servants.
4. The origin of civil government.
5. The internal structure of states; and the parts of supreme
power.
6. Of the various plans of polity.
7. The rights of supreme power, and the ways of acquiring it.
8. Of civil laws and their execution.
9. The laws of war.
10. Of treaties, ambassadors, and the dissolution of civil soci-eties.
English translation of 'Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria,
ethices & jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continens. Lib. III.' Jessop
states that this translation is "apparently the author's own version" (p.
145). It appears to be based on the 'editio altera et emendatior,' Glas.
gow, 1745.
Philosophiae moralis institutio ... : -1742; G; -1745 Rotterdam; -1745(altera auctior et emendatior) G; 3-1755 G; -1772 Strasbourg; -1787(ed. altra) D.
Short introduction ... : -1747 G; -1747 G; -1750 G; 2-1753 G; 3-1764(2V) G; 4-1772 (2V) G; -1787 D. American ed.: 5-1788 Philad.

129.

Hutcheson, Francis, 1694-1746.
A system of moral philosophy, in three books; written by
the late Francis Hutcheson ... Published from the original manuscript, by his son Francis Hutcheson ... To which is prefixed someaccount of the life, writings, and character of the author, by
the Reverend William Leechman... Glasgow: Printed and soldby R. and A. Foulis ... London: Sold by A. Millar... and by T.
Longman ... 1755.
28cm.
2 vols.
[Jessop, p. 145 f.]Vol. 1.

[v], xlviii, 358p.
p. 105 incorrectly numbered 104.

Contents.The preface, giving some account of the life, writings, and chao
racter of the author. [By W. Leechman]
Bk. I. Concerning the constitution of human nature, and thesupreme good.
[Pt.!]
I. Of the constitution of human nature and its powers; andfirst, the understanding, will, and passions.
2. Concerning the finer powers of perception.
3. Concerning the ultimate determinations of the will, andbenevolent affections.
4. Concerning the moral sense, or faculty of perceiving moral

excellence, and its supreme objects.
5. The sense of honour and shame explain'd. The universal
influence of the moral sense, and that of honour; and theiruniformity.
Pt. II. An enquiry into the supreme happiness of mankind.
6. How far the several sensations, appetites, passions and affec·
tions, are in our power.
7. A comparison of the several sorts of enjoyment, and the
opposite sorts of uneasiness, to find their importance tohappiness.
8. A comparison of the several tempers and characters in pointof happiness or misery.
9. The duties toward God; and first, of just sentiments concerning his nature.
10. The affections, duty, and worship, to be excercised toward
the Deity.
II. The conclusion of this book, shewing the way to the supremehappiness of our nature.
Bk.II. Containing a deduction of the more special laws of nature,and duties of life, previous to civil government, and otheradventitious states.
I. The circumstances which encrease or diminish the moral
good or evil of actions.
2. General rules of judging about the morality of actions, fromthe affections exciting to them, or opposing them.
3. The general notions of rights and laws explained; with theirdivisions.
4. The different state of men. The state of liberty not a stateof war. The way that private rights are known. The necessity of a social life.
5. The private rights of men; first, such as are called natural;and the natural equality of men.
6. The adventitious rights, real, and personal. Property or
dominion.
7· The means of acquiring property. How far it extends. In
what subjects it resides.
8. Concerning derived property, and the ways of alienating ortransferring it.

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Bk. II. (continued)
9. Concerning contracts or covenants.

The obligations in the use of speech.
Concerning oaths and vows.
12. The values of goods in commerce, and the nature of coin.
13. The principal contracts in a social life.
14. Personal rights arising from some lawful action of the person
obliged, or of him who has the right.
15. The rights arising from injuries and damages, done by others:
and the abolition of rights.
16. Concerning the general rights of human society, or mankind
as a system.
17. The extraordinary rights arising from some singular necessity.
18. How controversies should be decided in natural liberty.
Bk.III. Of civil polity.
I. Concerning the adventitious states or permanent relations:and first, marriage.
2. The rights and duties of parents and children.
3. The duties and rights of masters and servants.
4. The motives to constitute civil government.
5. The natural method of constituting civil government, andthe essential parts of it.
6. The several forms of polity, with their principal advantages
and disadvantages.
7. The rights of governments, how far they extend.
8. The ways in which supreme power is acquired; how far
just.
9. Of the nature of civil laws and their execution.
10. The laws of peace and war.
I I. The duration of the politik union; and the conclusion.
10.

II.

In a letter of Sept. 21, 1737, Hutcheson says he has been engaged on
this work 'for several summers past.' He never satisfied himself that
it was ready for publication.-Jessop, P.146.
-1755(2V) G &; -1755 (2V).
French: -1770 (2V) Lyon. German: -1756 (2V) Leipzig.

Les Interets de ia France mal entendus.
See 1-74 (4/5)

130.

Jameson, William, 1704-1790.
An essay on virtue and harmony, wherein a reconciliation of thevarious accounts of moral obligation is attempted. By William
Jameson ... Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddimans, for G.
Hamilton and J. Balfour. 1749·
321, [I] p. (Errata on p. [I])ncm.
[Jessop, P.147]' ... "How shall we direct this natural and necessary principle by which
we are excited to action in prospect of good, or on the presence ofpleasing or painful ideas, and which, whether it be called the desire ofgood, self-love, uneasiness, or mental attraction, is the original source
and general spring of all our voluntary motions or actions?" And it is
the main point in question in this enquiry, "Are there in the course andconstitution of things any certain measures and rules, in a conformity towhich the way of acquiring the ultimate good is to be ascertained; or
may it be as effectually secured by neglect of these measures, and loose
and random manner of conduct, and an inconsiderate pursuit of every
species and first appearance of good, without any distinction or exception?" The resolution of which may serve to illustrate and establish the
obligations of virtue.' -Introduction,pp_ 21-22.
' ___ on the whole, I hope it may appear, that moral virtue, far fromdepending in the least on fashion or opinion, is founded upon nature;and not upon human nature alone, far less upon any single detached partof it; but that taking in a wider compass, it fixes its foundation in thenature of the universe itself: that it extends its generous views to every
being within the circle of existence, and ultimately terminates on Him,
who is the author of nature, the parent of life, the standard of beauty,
and the inexhaustible fountain of perfection and happiness.' -Conclusion,

p·320.
-1749 E_131.

French: -1770 Paris_

Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787.
A view of the internal evidence of the Christian religion... By
Soame Jenyns __ . 4th ed. London: Printed for J. Dodsley ... 1776.
17cm.
19 1 P·'To ascertain the true system, and genuine doctrines of this religion
after the undecided controversies of above seventeen centuries, and to
remove all the rubbish, which artifice and ignorance have been heaping
upon it during all that time, would indeed be an arduous task, which Ishall by no means undertake; but to shew, that it cannot possibly bederived from human wisdom, or human imposture, is a work, I think,attended with no great difficulty, and requiring no extraordinary abilities,
and therefore I shall attempt that, and that alone, by stating, and thenexplaining 'the following plain, and undeniable propositions.
'First, that there is now extant a book intitled the New Testament.
'Secondly, that from this book may be extracted a system of religion
intirely new, both with regard to the object and the doctrines, not only
infinitely superior to, but unlike every thing, which had ever before
entered into the mind of man.
'Thirdly, that from this book may likewise be collected a system of
ethicks, in which every moral precept founded on reason is carried to ahigher degree of purity and perfection, than in any other of the wisest
philosophers of preceding ages; every moral precept founded on false
principles is totally omitted, and many new precepts added peculiarlycorresponding with the new object of this religion.
'Lastly, that such a system of religion and morality could not possibly
have been the work of any man, or set of men; much less of those
obscure, ignorant, and illiterate persons, who actually did discover, andpublish it to the world; and that therefore it must undoubtedly have beeneffected by the interposition of divine power, that is, that it must derive
its origin from God.' -Text, PP.7-IO.
See Note to 111-132.
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French: -1797 Paris. German: -1776 Gottingen.

132.

Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787.
The works of Soame ]enyns ... In four volumes. Including several
pieces never before published. To which are prefixed, Shortsketches of the history of the author's family, and also of his
life; by Charles Nalson Cole ... London: Printed for T. Cadell ...
179 0 .

4 vols.

Vol. 1.
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19cm.

lxvi, 224p.

front. (port.)

Contents.Sketches of the life of Soame Jenyns, Esq. with a short accountof his family [by Charles Nalson Cole].
Poems.

Vol. 2.

304p.

Contents.On the immorality of the soul, translated from the Latin of
Isaac Hawkins Browne.
Pieces, religious, moral, metaphysical, and political.
Short but serious reasons for a national militia.
Thoughts on the causes and consequences of the present highprice of provisions.
The objections to the taxation of our American colonies, by thelegislature of Great Britain, briefly considered.
Reflections on several subjects.
Thoughts on a parliamentary reform.
A scheme 'for the coalition of parties.
Thoughts on the national debt.

Vol. 3.

299P.

Contents.A free inquiry into the nature and ongm of evil. In six lettersto--. With an additional preface, and some explanatory notes.
Additional preface.
I. On evil in general.
2. On evils of imperfection.
3· On natural evils.
4. On moral evils.
5· On political evils.
6. On religious evils.
Disquisitions on several s.ub jects.
I. On the chain of universal being.
2. On cruelty to inferior animals.
3. On a pra~·existent state.
4. On the nature of time.
5. On the analogy between things material and intellectual.
6. On rational Christianity.
7. On government and civil liberty.
8. On religious establishments.

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Vol. 4.

290P.

Contents.A view of the internal evidence of the Christian religion. (seeIII-131)
Short and cursory observations on several passages in the New
Testament.
A collection of Jenyns's 'Poems' appeared in 1752. chiefly reprinted
from 'Dodsley's Miscellany.' In 1757 appeared his 'Free Inquiry into
the Nature and Origin of Evil,' which attracted much notice. Dr. Johnson
wrote a review of it in the 'Literary Magazine.' The 'Enquiry' andthe poems were republished in 1761, 2 vols. 'Miscellanies,' 1770, I vol.,comprised the poems, essays contributed to the 'World' ('Pieces, Religious.
Moral, Metaphysical, and Political'), the 'Enquiry' (5th ed., with anadditional preface and explanatory notes), 'Reflections on several subjects,''Short but Serious Reasons for a National Militia (written in the year
1757),' 'The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by theLegislature of Great Britain briefly considered,' 1765. and 'Thoughts on
the causes and consequences of the present high price of provis ions,' 1767.
In 1776 appeared 'View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian
Religion,' which reached a tenth edition in 1798, and was translated into
several foreign languages. Dr. Johnson remarked that it was 'a pretty
book, not very theological, indeed; and there seems to be an affectationof ease and carelessness, as it were not suitable to his character to bevery serious about the matter.' Hannah More knew 'a philosophicalinfidel' who was converted to Christianity by a study of the 'View';
but she thought that Jenyns 'perhaps brings rather too much ingenuity
into his religion.' A long controversy was waged over the book, andmany writers pressed forward to attack and defend the author. Some
divines rejoiced that J enyns had discarded his early scepticism andembraced orthodoxy; others questioned his sincerity and disliked his
ingenious paradoxes. In 1782 appeared 'Disquisitions on Several Subjects,'
and in 1784 'Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform.' -ct. DNB.
-1790 (4v); -1791/92 (2V) D; 2-1793 (4v).

133.

[Kames, Henry Home, Lord] 1696-1782.
Elements of criticism. In three volumes. 2nd ed. With additions
and improvements. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Millar, London:and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh. 1763.
3 vols.
2lcm.
[Jessop, p. 141]

37 2

Vol. 1. xii, 433p.
Contents.Introduction. [signed: Henry Horne]
I. Perceptions and ideas in a train.
2. Emotions and passions.
3. Beauty.
4. Grandeur and sublimity.
5. Motion and force.
6. Novelty, and the unexpected appearance of objects.
7. Visbile objects.
8. Resemblance and contrast.
9. Uniformity and variety.

Vol. 2.

48Ip.

Contents.10. Congruity and propriety.
I I. Dignity and meanness.
12. Ridicule.
13. Wit.
14. Custom and habit.
IS. External signs of emotions and passions.
16. Sentiments.
17. Language of passion.
18. Beauty of language.

Vol. 3.

459, [4 8 ]p.

Contents.19. Comparisons.
20. Figures.
21. Narration and description.
22. Epic and dramatic compositions.
23. The three unities.
24. Gardening and architecture.
25. Standard of taste.
Appendix. Terms defined or explained.
In this work Home inquires into the causes of that pleasure which isderived from the production of poetry, painting, sculpture, music, andarchitecture. It treats of all the subjects usually discussed in books ofrhetoric, and shows an extensive reading in the great classical writers of373

ancient and modern times.
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Basel; 8-1805 (2V); 8-1807 (2V) E; 9-1817 (2V) E; -1824.
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3-1819 (2V) NY; 3-1819 (2V) NY; [4J-1823/19 (2V) NY.
German: -1763/66 (3v) Leipzig; -1776 (2V) Leipzig.

134.

[Kames, Henry Home, Lord] 1696-1782.
Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion. In two
parts. Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A.
Donaldson. 175 I.
[ii],394p.
2lcm.
[Jessop, p. 140 f.]
Contents.-

Pt. 1.
Essay I. Of our attachment to objects of distress.
II. Of the foundation and principles of the law of nature.
Introduction.
I. Of the foundation of the law of nature.
2. Of the moral sense.
3. Of duty and obligation.
4. Of the different orders of moral beauty.
5. Of the principles of action.
6. Of the source of the laws of nature, according to someauthors.
7. Of justice and injustice.
8. Of the primary laws of nature.
9. Of the law of nations.
III. Of liberty and necessity.

II.
Essay I. Of belief.
II. Of the idea of self and of personal identity.
III. Of the authority of our senses.
IV. Of Our idea of power.
V. Of our knowledge of future events.
VI. Of our dread of supernatural powers in the dark.
VII. Of our knowledge of the Deity, of the unity of the Deity,of the power and intelligence of the Deity, of the
benevolence of the Deity.
Conclusion.
374

Horne had been acquainted with David Hume from 1727, and he
carefully studied his writings as they were published. It seems he had
dissuaded Hume from publishing his 'Philosophical essays,' and he felt
himself called to oppose. what he believed to be the extreme views there
propounded. This gave rise, in 1751, to a work which produced a greatnOIse in his own day, 'Essays on the principles of morality and natural
religion.' It was published under the name of 'Sopho.' He showsthat man is influenced by a great number and variety of principles, suchas self·love, benevolence, sympathy and utility, consonance to the divine
will; and that his actions are most frequently the combined result of
the opposite springs, tempering and restraining each other's powers. He
shows that man has, as a separate principle, in his nature and constitution, a moral feeling or conscience, the function of which is to judge
wIth unerring rectitude of all his motives to action, and direct his
conduct to one great and beautiful end,-the utmost happiness of his
nature. In expounding these views, he examines Hume's theory, andshows that it annihilates all real distinction between right and wrong inhuman actions, and makes our preference of one or other depend on thefluctuating opinions of men in respect to the general good. In particular,
he opposes Hume's view of justice, and shows that the idea of property
is coeval with society, and that its violation is universally attended witha feeling of a breach of duty, which is the sentiment of justice. He
sets himself specially to oppose Hume's attempt to undermine thearguments in behalf of the Divine Existence.-McCosh, The Scottish
Philosophy, PP.174-5.
ASSOCIATION COPY. On the front free end.paper appears the
autograph of Andrew Servise (1820-78), the Scottish antiquary, bookcollector, and author of numerous books on family history.
-1751; -1751 E; 2-1758; 3-1763 E; -1779 E.
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135.

[Kames, Henry Home, Lord] 1696-1782.
Essays upon several subjects concerning British antiquities; viz.
I. Introduction of the feudal law into Scotland. II. Constitutionof Parliament. m. Honour. Dignity. IV. Succession or descent.
With an appendix, upon hereditary and indefeasible right.
Composed anno MDCCXLV. 3rd ed. With additions and alterations. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and J. Bell. 1763.
[2], 216p.
18cm.
375

Introduction signed: Henry Home.

-1747 E; -1747; 2-1749; 3-1763 E; -1797 E; -1797 E.

136.

[Kames, Henry Home, Lord] 1696-1782.
The gentleman farmer. Being an attempt to improve agriculture,by subjecting it to the test of rational principles... Edinburgh:
Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, London. 1776.
xxvi (i. e. xxiv), 409, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])
3 plates.
22cm.
p. xxiv, xxv omitted.
Contents.Pt. I. Practice of agriculture.
I. Instruments of husbandry.
2. Farm cattle and carriages.
3. Farm·offices.
4. Preparing land for cropping.
5. Culture of plants for food.
6. Culture of grass.
7. Rotation of crops.
8. Reaping corn and hay crops, and storing them up for use.
9. Feeding farm·cattle.
10. Culture of other plants proper for a farm.
I I. Manures.
12. Fences.
13. The proper size of a farm, and the useful accommodations
it ought to have.
14. What a corn· farm ought to yield in rent.
II. Theory of agriculture.
I. Preliminary observations.
2. Food of plants, and fertility of soil.
3. Means of fertilizing soils.
Appendix.
I. Imperfection of Scotch husbandry.
2. A board for improving agriculture.
3. General heads of a lease for a corn·farm.
4. Plants and animals compared.
5. Propagation of plants.

'As an amateur agriculturist he acquired considerable reputation. andhis "Gentleman Farmer" was a valuable addition to the general stock ofagricultural knowledge.' -DNB.
-1776E; -1776; -1779 D; 2-1779 E; 3-1788 E &; 4-1798E; 5-1802
E; 6-1815 E.

137.

[Karnes, Henry Horne, Lord] 1696-1782.
Introduction to the art of thinking.
Kincaid and 1. BelL 1761.
x, [ii], 202p.
18cm.

Edinburgh: Printed for A.
[Jessop, p. 141]

Contents.I. Observations tending to explain human nature.
2. Prejudices and biases founded on human nature.
3. Peculiarities that depend on character and condition.
4. Rules for the conduct of life.
5. Exhortations to virtue, and dissuasives from vice.
Illustrations, historical and allegorical.
-1761 E; 2-1764 E; 3-1775; 4-1789 E; 5-1810 E&; -1819 G.
American ed.: -1818 NY.

138.

[Karnes, Henry Horne, Lord] 1696-1782.
Loose hints upon education, chiefly concerning the culture of theheart ... Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell...; and John Murray,
London. 1781.
xi,381p. (Publisher's advert. on the last preliminary leaf
recto)
22cm.
Contents.Introduction.
I. Authority of parents.
2. Management of children in the first stage of life.
3. Management of children in their second stage.
4. Management of children in their third stage.
5. Instructions that occasionally may be given in every stage.
6. Peculiarities respecting the education of females.
7. Education with respect to religion.
8. Instructions preparatory to the married state.
377

9. Instructions concerning the culture of the head or understand·ing.
10. Short essays on particular subjects relative to the culture of
the heart.
Selfishness and benevolence compared.
Opinion and belief less influenced by reason than by temperand education.
Differences in opinion make the cement of society.
Partiality.
Association of ideas.
Appendix I. Things to be got by heart for improving the memory.
2. Excerpts from a young gentleman's commonplacebook; being the history of his first excursion after
completing his college education. September 1734.
Home thought that religion should form a main branch of educatIOn
even in the earliest period of infancy, and that the parents or preceptor
should acquaint the child with the fundamental doctrines of revealed
religion.

139.

[Kames, Henry Home, Lord] 1696-1782.
Sketches of the history of man. In two volumes ... Edinburgh:
Printed for W. Creech, Edinburgh; and for W. Strahan, and T.
Cadell, London. 1774.
2 vols.
28cm.
[Jessop, p. 141 f.]

Vol. 1.

xii,519p.

Contents.Bk.1. Progress of men as individuals.
I. Diversity of men and of languages .
• 2. Progress of men with respect to food and population.
3 Progress of men with respect to property.
4· Origin and progress of commerce.
5. Origin and progress of arts.
6. Progress of the female sex.
7. Progress of manners.
8. Progress and effects of luxury.
II. Progress of men in society.
I. Appetite for society.-Origin of national societies.

2. General view of government.
3. Different forms of government compared.
4.' Progress of states from small to great, and from great tosmall.
5. Great and small states compared.
6. War and peace compared.
7. Rise and fall of patriotism.
8. Finances.

Vol. 2.

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Contents.Bk. II. (continued)
9. Military branch of government.
10. Public police with respect to the poor.
11. A great city considered in physical, moral,

and politicalviews.
12. Origin and progress of American nations.
Ill. Progress of sciences.
I. Principles and progress of reason.
2. Principles and progress of morality.
3. Principles and progress of theology.
Appendix. Sketches concerning Scotland.

This work is meant to describe the progress made by man, in respectof language, food, commerce, the arts, science, government, morality,
and religion. He is inclined to think that, as there are different climates,
so there are different species of men fitted for these climates, and argues
that we cannot account for the differences of mankind by climate or byexternal agencies. He would believe that there must have been an
original difference of languages; but, yielding to the Scriptures, heaccounts for the diversities by the confusion of tongues at Babel. He is
fond of discovering everywhere a final cause on the part of God, and a
progress on the part of man. He has collected what seems a wide
induction of facts; but there is a great want of what Bacon insists on asa necessary part of all legitimate induction,-'the necessary rejections
and exclusions.'-McCosh, p.I8I.
PRESENTATION COPY. A unique presentation copy, inscribed by
Lord Kames to his former son-in· law, Patrick Heron, with authorial
inscription on half·title page in volume I, and Heron's autograph andbookplate. See the article by Dr. J. V.Price, 'A Presentation Copyof Kames's Sketches of the History of Man,' Studies in Scottish

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140.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Religion within the boundary of pure reason. By ImmanuelKant ... Translated out of the original German, by J. Vv Semple ...
Edinburgh: Thomas Clark ... ; J. B. Bailliere... London; Nestler& Melle, Hamburgh. 1838.
x, 275, [I] p. (Errata on p. [I])
24cm.
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Contents.Translator's advertisement to the reader.
Kant's preface to the first edition & second edition.
Bk. I. Of indwelling sin.
II. Of the encounter betwixt the good and the evil principle
for the dominion over mankind.
III. Of the overthrow of the evil by the good principle.
IV. Of religion and cleriarchy.
Translation of 'Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloBen Ver.
nunft,' 1st ed., 1793; 2nd ed., 1794.

141.

King, William, Abp. of Dublin, 1650-1729.
De origine mali. Authore Gulielmo King ... Dublinii: Excudebat
Andreas Crook... 1702.
[iv], 214, [26]p. (Errata on pp. [iii-iv])
19cm.
Contents.I. De principiis C\.uibusdam cognitu necessariis ad intelligendam& solvendam difficultatem de o!igine mali.
I. De rerum externarum cognitione.
2. De investigatione primre causre.
3. De causa prima.
II. De natura & divisione mali, & quam difficulter ejus origo

investigatur.
III. De malis imperfectionis.
IV. De malo naturali.
1. De generatione & corruptione.
2. De animalibus & eorum varietate.
3. De morte.
4. De passionibus.
5. De fame, siti & labore.
6. De sobolis propagatione, pueritia & senectute.
7. De morbis, feris & venenatis.
8. De erroribus humanis & ignorantia.
9. Summam eorum, qme de rna lis naturalibus dicta sunt, complectens.
V. De malo morali.
I. De natura electionum.
2. Qua fcelicitatem in electionibus esse ostenditur.
3. De in electionibus indebitis.
4. Quomodo fieri potest ut in electiones indebitas incidamus.
5- Quomodo concilientur electiones pravre cum potentia &bonitate divina.
Appendix. De legibus divinis.
I. Cur Deus leges fanxerit quas servandas non esse noverat.
2. De prremiis & pcenis divinis.
3. Cur malis bene sit, bonis male.
This work was published in 1702 simultaneously in Dublin and London,
with a dedication to Sir Robert Southwell. King attempted, on a Lockean
basis, to reconcile the existence of evil, and particularly of moral evil,
with the idea of an omnipotent and beneficent deity. It attracted
immediate attention on the continent, where it was favourably noticed
in 'Les nouvelles de la republique des lettres' (May and June 1703), atthat time under the editorship of Jacques Bernard. The review wascriticised by Bayle adversely to King in his 'Reponse aux questions d'unprovincial' (chaps. 74-92). Bernard replied in 'Nouvelles de la republi.
que,' January 1706, and Bayle, having read King's book, made several
new observations upon it, which were published after his death in'Reponse aux questions d'un provincial,' vol. v. Leibnitz also publisheda criticism 'Adnotationes in librum De.origine mali haud ita pridem in
Anglia evulgatum,' which was mainly directed to a confutation of King's
doctrine of free will (Opera, ed. by L. Dutens, i. 430-69; also Lettre
16. it M. Thos. Burnet, ib. vi. 285). And J. C. Wolff, in his work 'Manichreismus ante Manichreos' (1707), devotes considerable space to King's
arguments. In England the book appears to have been neglected till itwas translated by Edmund Law, in 1729, and the translation probably
suggested to Pope some of the ideas contained in his 'Essay on Man.'-d. DNB.
-1702 D; -1702.

142.

King, William, Abp. of Dublin, 16so-1729.
An essay on the origin of evil. By Dr. William King ... Translated from the Latin, with large notes. To which are added
two sermons by the same author, the former concerning divineprescience, the latter on the fall of man. 3rd ed. corrected. By
Edmund Law ... Cambridge: Printed for William Thurlbourn. And
sold by J. and P. Knapton, W.lnnys and R. Manby, S. Birt andC. Rivington, Booksellers in London. 1739.
lv, [iiJ, SI 7,82, [24]P. (Publisher's advert. on p. [i]. Errata on
p. [ii])
2lcm.
Contents.Preliminary dissertation, concerning the fundamental principle ofvirtue or morality [by J. Gay].
I. Concerning the criterion of virtue.
2. Concerning obligation.
3. Concerning approbation and affection.
4. Approbation and affection consider'd, with regard to merit,or the law of esteem.
I. Containing some principles previously necessary to the under.
standing and solution of the difficulty about the origin of evil.
I. Of the knowledge of external objects.
2. Of the enquiry after the first cause.
3. Of the first cause.
II. Concerning the nature and division of evil, and the difficultyof tracing its origin.
III. Of the evil of defect.
IV. Concerning natural evil.
I. Of generation and corruption.
2. Concerning animals and the variety of them.
3· Of death.
4. Of the passions.
5. Of hunger, thirst, and labour.
6. Concerning propagation of the species, childhood, and oldage.

7. Of diseases, wild·beasts, and venomous creatures.
8. Concerning the errors and ignorance of man.
9. Containing the sum of what has been said on natural evils.
V. Of moral evil.
Introduction, containing the substance of the chapter.
1. Concerning the nature of elections.
2. Where it is shewn that happiness consists in elections.
3. Concerning undue elections.
4. How it is possible for us to fall into undue elections.
5. How evil elections are consistent with the power and good·ness of God.
Appendix: Concerning the divine laws.
1. Why God made laws when he knew that they would not
be observed.
2. Concerning divine rewards and punishments.
3. Concerning the question, why bad men are happy, and goodmen miserable.
Translation of 'De origine mali.'

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the House of Lords. By his Grace William Lord Archbishopof Dublin. 6th ed.

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143.

Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812.
Remarks on some sceptical posltlOns in Mr. Hume's Enquiry
concerning the human understanding and his Treatise of humannature. By Richard Kirwan, Esq... Dublin: George Bonham ...
1801.
[Jessop, p. 56]
25cm.
47p.
Contents.I. Of the necessity of causes.
2. Of the source of our knowledge of the relation of cause andeffect.
3. Of the grounds of reasoning from experience.
4. Of the nature of belief.
5. Of miracles.
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144.

Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.
Essays moral and literary.
By Vicesimus Knox... In three
volumes... 9th ed .... London: Printed for Charles Dilly. 1787.
3 vols.
22cm.
Vol. 1.

[xvi], 487, [I]p. (Errata on p. [IJ)Contents.Essays I-56.

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[vi], 496p.

Contents.Essays 57-u8.

Vol. 3.

[viii], 500p.

Contents.Essays u9-179.
Knox wrote many of the essays in the first edition of the first volume

at St. John's College, Oxford, as voluntary exercises. Before leaving
Oxford he sent the manuscript anonymously to Charles Dilly, thepublisher, giving him the option of publishing or destroying them. Dilly
obtained a highly favourable opinion of them from Johnson, and publishedthem in one volume in 1778. Vol. 2 was published in 1779, after thesecond edition of the original volume had appeared with Knox's nameon the title· page. Knox was a good scholar, an impressive preacher,and a popular and voluminous writer. Vol. 2 and vol. 3 include Essays
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145.

Leechman, William, 1706-1785.
The nature, reasonableness, and advantages, of prayer: With anattempt to answer the objections against it. A sermon by William
Leechman ... Glasgow: Printed by Rocert Foulis, and sold by him,
at London by Andrew Millar... and by the booksellers in Edinburgh. 1743.
63, [I] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [I])20cm.
'In discoursing ... on this subject, 'tis hop'd it may not be unuseful,to endeavour, in the first place, To explain the nature of prayer; and to
set it in its true light, by stripping it of all foreign and superfluous
circumstances.
'In the second place, To vindicate it from the objections commonly
urged against it. And, Thirdly, To point out the advantages whicharise from the sincere and stedfast practice of it.' -P.4.
'The presbytery of Glasgow refused to enrol him, alleging that hehad made heretical statements in a sermon published in 1743 "On the
Nature, Reasonableness, and Advantages of Prayer." He was accused oflaying too little stress upon the merits of the intercession of the Saviour.
Hume criticised the sermon in a letter to Leechman's pupil, William
Mure, suggesting minute corrections of style, and urging that Leechman
really made prayer a mere "rhetorical figure." The synod of Glasgow
and Ayr rejected the accusation of the presbytery, and their acquittal
was confirmed by the general assembly.' -DNB.

Leechman prefixed a life of the author to Hutcheson's 'System of
Moral Philosophy.' (see 111-129)-1743 G; 2-1743 G; 3-1745 G; 4-1749 G; 5-1755 G; -1758; 6-1769
G; -1773; -[1775].

146.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 1646-1716, and Clarke, Samuel,16 75-17 29.
A collection of papers, which passed between the late learned
Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, in the years 1715 and 1716. Relating to the principles of natural philosophy and religion. With anappendix. To which are added, Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning
liberty and necessity; from a gentleman of the University ofCambrige: with the doctor's answers to them.
Also Remarks
upon a book, entituled, A philosophical enquiry concerning humanlib~rty. By Samuel Clarke ... London: Printed for James Knapton .... 1717.
xiii, [iii], 416,46, [2]p. (Errata on p. [iii])
20cm.
Contents.[Collection of papers between Leibnitz and Clarke]
Appendice, ou Recueil de passages, tirez' de ouvrages impr'imez
de Mr. Leibnitz; qui peuvent servir a eclaircir plusieurs endroits
des ecrits precedens (The appendix. Being a collection of passages out of Mr. Leibnitz's printed works, which may givelight to many parts of the fore·going papers.)[Specific title-page]
Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity; from a
Gentleman of the University of Cambridge [John Bulkeley];with the Doctor's answers to them. London, 1717)[Specific title-page]
Remarks upon a book [by Anthony Collins], entituled, A philosophical enquiry concerning human liberty ... 1717.
This collection of papers consists of five papers by Leibniz and five
replies by Samuel Clarke. They were written in the year 1715 and 1716.
The correspondence was the last phase of a general controversy between
Liebniz and the Newtonians which had started in 1705. The original
point at issue was whether Leibniz or Newton had been the first to
invent the calculus. With each accusing the other of plagiarism thedispute was protracted and acrimonious. Gradually the dispute spreadto other issues, of which the most prominent was Liebniz's attack on
the Newtonian theory of gravity.
In 1715, Leibniz wrote a letter to his friend Caroline, Princess ofWales, to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed fornatural religion. This letter extended the dispute between him and the
Newtoniansto philosophical and theological issues. Clarke, a friend
and disciple of Newton, attempted to answer this charge in a paper toCaroline. Undoubtedly the Englishman best qualified to deal with suchquestlOns was Clarke, who had a considerable knowledge of theology,
philosophy and science. From his reply developed an exchange of papers
which was published in 1717.
The discussion turns principally upon the nature of time and space,which Leibniz asserts to have only an 'imaginary' existence; while
Clarke attributes to them a 'real' existence, which is, he says, thenecessary consequence of the existence of God. It also turned upon thequestion of free will, Clarke holding that Leibniz's solution of the dif·ficulty was an evasion, and really amounted to admitting necessity. He
argued the same question in a criticism of Anthony Collins published in
the same book. The letters to Leibniz are interesting as illustrating.
Leibniz's opinions, and show that Clarke was a powerful antagonist.
His reputation induced many young men to consult him, Bishop Berkeley
sent him the first edition of his 'Principles;' but Clarke declined thework. Arthur Collier, who independently held Berkeley's theory, also
addressed Clarke, but Clarke's letters are lost. His own doctrine wasradically opposed to Berkeley's. Bishop Butler, then a student, addressedto him in 1713-14 remarkable letters appended to later editions of
Clarke's -Boyle Lectures' and of the 'Analogy.' Francis Hutcheson
and Henry Home (Lord Kames) were other philosophical correspondents.
He had many friends and eager disciples among the latitudinarian party,
especially Bishop Hoadly, John Balguy and John Jackson.
-1717(zpt); -1717; -1718.

147.

Leland, John, 1691-1766.
An answer to a late book intituled, Christianity as old as theCreation. In two parts. Part I. In which that author's accountof the law of nature is consider'd, and his scheme is shewn to
be inconsistent with reason, and with it self, and of ill consequence to the interests of virtue, and the good of mankind.
Part II. In which the authority and usefulness of the revelation
contain'd in the sacred writings of the Old and New Testament,

is asserted and vindicated, against the objections and misrepresentations of that author. By John Leland. Dublin: Printed by
S. Powell, for Abraham Bradley ... 1733.
2 vols. 22cm.

Vol. 1.

lxviii, 420p.

Contents.Pt. 1.
The introduction, contammg some observations on the author's
spirit, and design, and the way of reasoning made use ofby him and others of our modern deists.
I. A general account of the scheme of the author of Christi·
anity as old as the creation, and the various senses in which
he takes the law of nature.
2. Concerning the vast extent the author gives to the law ofnature, as taking in every thing founded on the reason andnature of things.
3. That the law given to mankind at the beginning, was not
so absolutely perfect, that nothing cou'd ever be added to it
by any subsequent revelation.
4. That besides the moral precepts of the original law of nature
obligatory on all mankind from the beginning, God may see
fit, for wise reasons, to appoint positive precepts ...
5. That the law of nature is not so clear to all mankind ...
and that even with respect to those principles and duties ofthe law of n~ture... a revelation may be of great use, togive a clearer and more certain knowledge of 'em ...
6. That there are some things of great importance to us toknow, particularly relating to the methods of our reconcilia·tion with God ...
7. That the author's scheme of natural religion is very defe·
ctive, and that he gives a wrong account of some of themain principles and duties of the law of nature.
8. That he deprives the law of nature of its strongest sanctions;and that his scheme tends to take away the fear of God,and to make men easy in their sins.
9. That the author's scheme is not fitted to answer theadvantages he proposes by it, of delivering mankind fromsuperstition and priestcraft. ..
10. An examination of those passages
in which the author
pretends to describe the religion of a deist, and to draw aparallel between that and Christianity...

The author's pretence of introducing a new and glorious
face of things, examin'd... The conclusion, with a brief
representation of the pernicious tendency, and manifold
inconsistencies of the author's scheme.
Appendix. Whether and how far we are oblig'd by the law ofnature, to believe things above reason.

II.

Vol. 2. S84p.
Contents.-

Pt. II.
Some considerations concerning revelation in general...
The author's objections against the character of the witnesses
or first publishers of the Jewish and Christian revelationconsider' d ...
3. The author's objections against the proof from miracles
consider'd ...
4. That we have all the evidence that can reasonably be desir'd,that the revelation contain'd in the Holy Scriptures, withthe main facts' and attestations by which that revelation was
originally confirm'd and establish'd is transmitted to us withsuch a degree of purity and certainty, as may be safely
depended on ...
5. The authority and integrity of the sacred records of the
New Testament asserted and vindicated against the author's
exceptions; that we have all the external proofs of their
being safely transmitted to us, that can be reasonably
desir'd ...
6. That the wonderful success the gospel met with, and its
speedy and general propagation furnishes a strong proof of
the truth of those facts on which it is founded ...
7. An examination of the author's objections against Scripture,drawn from the nature and manner of the revelation there
contain'd ...
8. Concerning the keys of solution, which our author pretends
are necessary for understanding the Scriptures, and which
the vulgar are 'wholly unacquainted with ...
9 .... many of those passages of Scripture, which this writercensures as obscure and apt to mislead the people, are sonoble and excellent. ..
10. The author's objectIOn against the Gospel·precepts drawn
from their being deliver'd in a loose, general, undeterminedmanner, consider'd ...
I.

2.

A consideration of those passages of Scripture, which theauthor alledges tend to lead the vulgar to form wrong apprehensions of the Deity ...
12. An examuiation of those instances whereby the author pretends to prove, that there are things either commanded orapprov'd of in the Scripture, which tend to lead men astrayin relation to the duties they owe to one another.
I I.

13. The author's attempt to shew that there is a contrast between
the spirit of the Old and the New Testament, consider'd.
14. The Mosaick account of man's original dignity, and the fall,vindicated against the author's exceptions.
15. The Christian account of the Mediator vindicated.
16. An answer to the author's objections against the Christianrevelation ... The conclusion.
'In the first part, I consider the account this author gives of thelaw of nature, and the scheme of religiOn he wou'd introduce andwhich he represents as so beautiful and charming and highly beneficial
to mankind, with a view to shew that all external revelation is perfectly
needless and useless. I endeavour to lay open the inconsistencies of
his scheme; that it is far from deserving the magnificent epithets hehimself so liberally bestows upon it; that it is of pernicious consequence
to the interests even of natural religion taken in its just extent, forwhich yet he professes so great a zeal, and to the cause of virtue inthe world; and that the advantages he proposes may be much better
obtain'd by the assistance of external revelation than without it.
'The second part is more particularly design'd to obviate the objections
this writer has advanc'd against the Revelation contain'd in the sacredwritings of the Old and New Testament. He has not only attempted
to invalidate the proofs and evidences on which the authority of thatrevelation is founded, and to shew that they are uncertain and not to
be depended on, but has endeavoured to draw arguments from the very
nature of that revelation, to prove that it is unworthy of God; that far
from being of use to direct the people in their faith and practice, it
tends rather to mislead them to wrong apprehensions of God and of
their duty, and to this end he has with great art and diligence andwith equal malice rak'd together, whatever he thought might be properto expose the holy Scriptures. I have endeavour'd fairly to consider
what he offers, to obviate his objections, and detect his misrepresentations.' -Preface, pp. ii-iii.
-1733 D; -I733(2V) D; 2-1740 (2V).

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148.

Leland, John, 1691-17 66.
The Divine authority of the Old and New Testament asserted:with a particular vindication of the characters of Moses, and theprophets, our Saviour Jesus Christ, and His Apostles, against theunjust aspersions and false reasonings of a book, entitled, The
moral philosopher. By John Leland ... 2nd ed. corrected... London: Printed for Richard Hett ... 1739·
2lcm.
xxvii, 492P.
p. 184 186, 253. 334 incorrectly numbered 148, 168. 25, 433 respec·tively.
Contents.I. The moral philosopher's concessions concerning the usefulnessof divine revelation, in the present corrupt state of mankind
An entrance on the author's objections against the Old
Testament. ..
3. The author's arguments against the Law of Moses from theauthority of SL Paul considered ...
4. The author's objections against the Law of Moses from theinternal constitution of that Law considered ...
5. The author's pretence that the Law of Moses encouraged
human sacrifices as the highest acts of religion and devotion,
when offered not to idols, but to the true God ...
6. The moral philosopher's account of the original of sacrifices
and of the priesthood, and of Joseph's first establishing an
independent priesthood in Egypt ...
7. His pretence that the Law of Moses made no distinction
between morals and rituals, and never urged things as inthemselves fit and reasonable; and that the stories of themiracles recorded there were the cause of the Jews obduracy
and impenitency throughout all their generations ...
8. A transition to the author's objections against other partsof the Old Testament. ..
9. Some general reflections on the attempt the author makes
to shew that the prophets were the great disturbers of theircountry, and that they were of persecuting principles, enemies
to toleration and liberty of conscience ...
10. The author's farther invective against the prophets considered.
His account of their pretended conspiracy against Solomon ...
1 I. His charge against the prophets that lived before the As·
2.

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synan Captivity, that they declaimed only against idolatry,and not against the other vices and immoralities of thepeople ...
12. A transition to the moral philosopher's objections against
the New Testament. ..
13. The author's charge against the Apostles, examined. His
pretence that they themselves were far from claiming infal·
libility, considered ...
14. The Gospel taught by all the Apostles was the same. The
author's account of the Jewish Gospel, preached by them,false and groundless ...
15. The author's pretence that the Apocalypse is most properly
the Christian revelation, and that it is there that we are
principally to look for the doctrines of Christianity, consi·
dered ...
16. The moral philosopher sets up for rectifying the errors ofChristians with regard to some of the particular doctrinesof Christianity ...

149.

Leland, John, 1691-1766.
A view of the principal deistical writers that have appeared inEngland in the last and present century; wit,h observations uponthem, and some account of the answers that have been publishedagainst them. In several letters to a friend. by John Leland ...
London: Printed for B. Dod ... 1754/[55/56].
3 vols. 2ocm.
Each volume has different title.

Vol. 1. title as above.

1754.
xii, [xii], 483p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [xii], 462464. Errata on P.464. Postscript on PP.465-483)

p. 461 incorrectly numbered 161.
Contents.Letter I. Some account of those that first took upon them thename of deists. Lord Herbert of Cherbury...
2. Farther observations on Lord Herbert's scheme ...

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3. Observations on Mr. Hobbes's writings ...
4. Mr. Charles Blount's notes on the life of Apollonius Tya.
nreus designed to expose Christianity ... Mr. Toland, anotherdeistical writer ...
5. The Earl of Shaftesbury ...
6. Mr. Collins's Discourse of free.thinking ...
7. Mr. Woolston's Discourses on the miracles of our Saviour ...
8 .... An account of Dr. Tindal's Christianity as old as thecreation ...
9. Another attempt against Christianity in Dr. Morgan's book,~alled, The Moral philosopher. ..
10. Observations upon the pernicious tendency of the pamphlet
intitled, Christianity not founded on argument. ..
I I .... a pamphlet intitled, The Resurrection of Jesus consi·
dered ...
12. An account of Mr. Chubb's posthumous works ...
13. Some farther remarks on Mr. Chubb's posthumous works ...
14. Observations upon a pamphlet intitled The case of deism
fairly stated; and on the attempt against the Scriptures in'Lord Bolingbroke's letters on the study and use of history ...
IS. An extraordinary revelation from God to mankind possible
to be given ...
Postscript. A remarkable incident relating to Lord Herbert, considered.

Vol. 2.

A view of the principal deistical writers of the last andpresent century. Vol. 2. Containing observations on Mr.
Hume's philosophical essays; and a defence of naturaland revealed religion, against the attempts made upon
both in the posthumous works of the late Lord Viscount
Bolingbroke. With a conclusion, in an address to deists
and professed Christians. By John Leland... London:
Printed for B. Dod... 1755.
vii, [xi], 668, [16]p. (Publisher's advert. on half-title
page. Errata on p. [xi]. Addition and alterations
made in the 2nd ed. of vol. 1 pp. [1-16])
p. 1-16 duplicated; p. 349, 397. 509, 530 incorrectly number·ed 346, 367, 506, 330 respectively.

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Contents.Letter 1. Mr. Hume... His doctrine concerning the relation between cause and effect, examined ...
2. Observations on Mr. Hume's essay concerning a particularprovidence and a future state ...
3. An examination of Mr. Hume's essay on miracles. A summary of the first part of that essay ...
4. Reflections on the second part of Mr. Hume's essay on
miracles ...
5. Lord Bolingbroke's posthumous works an insolent attempt on
religion natural and revealed ...
6. Lord Bolingbroke asserts the existence of God against theatheists, but rejects the argument a priori, and that drawn
from the general consent of mankind.
7. The doctrine of divine providence nearly connected with thatof the existence of God. Lord Bolingbroke's account of it
considered.
8. Favourable declarations of Lord Bolingbroke concerning theimmortality of the soul, and a future state ...
9. Observations on Lord Bolingbroke's account of the law ofnature ...
10. An examination of what Lord Bolingbroke hath offered con
cerning revelation in general...
11. Lord Bolingbroke's strange representation of
the J ewisr.
revelation.
12. The excellent nature and tendency of the Scriptures of the
Old Testament. Lord Bolingbroke treats it as blasphemy to
say that they were divinely inspired. A summary of his
objections against their divine original and authority ...
13. Farther objections against the Mosaic writings, and the Scriptures of the Old Testament, considered ...
14. The favourable representation made by Lord Bolingbroke ofthe excellent nature and design of the original Christianrevelation ...
15. [Lord Bolingbroke's] objections against the laws and doctrinesof Christianity considered ...
16. The Christian doctrine of future retributions vindicated ...
[Conclusion of the observations on Lord Bolingbroke's posthumous works.]
The Conclusion, in an address to deists and professed Christians.

Vol. 3.
394

A supplement to the first and second volumes of theview of the deistical writers. Containing additions andillustrations relating to those volumes. In several lettersto a friend. To which is added, Reflections on the late
Lord Bolingbroke's letters on the. study and use ofhistory, as far as relates to the Holy Scriptures. 3rd ed. ,corrected and enlarged. With a large index to the three
volumes. By John Leland... London: Printed for B.
Dod ... 1756.
xvi, [viiiJ, I-ISS, clvi-clxxvi, 177-368, [40J p. (Errata on
p. [viii])
Contents.I. The account given of the Earl of Shaftesbury's writings in
the first volumes ... vindicated ...
2. Unfair management in the French translation of Mr. Collins's
Discourse of free thinking, ...
3. Additional observations relating to Mr. Hume ...
4. Some reflections on the extraordinary sanctity ascribed to theAbbe de Paris ...
5. Additions relating to the remarks on Lord Bolingbroke ...
6. St. Paul vindicated against Lord Bolingbroke's charge ofmadness ...
7. Those professed Christians are inexcusable who slight public
worship, and the institutions of religIOn. The great importance of a careful education of children ...
8. A general representation of the state of things among us ...
The unaccountable eagerness that has been shewn in spreading
the principles of infidelity, of very ill consequence to the
public. The tendency of irreligion and vice to bring miseryand ruin upon people, both in the natural course of things,
and by the just judgments of God ...
Reflections on the late Lord Bolingbroke's letters on the study
and use of history, especially so far as they relatl! to Christianity,
and the Holy Scriptures.
Pt. I. On the study and use of history.
2. An examination of the principal things offered by Lord
Bolingbroke, to invalidate the authority and credibility ofthe sacred history.
(I) His Lordship's objections against the Scriptures of the
Old Testament considered.
(2) The Scriptures and history of New Testament vindicatedagainst his Lordship'S exceptions.

395

In the preface Leland gives an account of the original nature anddesign of this work, which was first intended only to make up one
volume.
'The method proposed, and for the most part pursued is this. The
several writers are mentioned in the order of time in which they
appeared. Some account is given of their writings, and of the several
schemes they have advanced, as far as the cause of revelation is con·cerned. And great care has been taken to make a fair representation ofthem, according to the' best judgment I could form of their design.
Some observations are added, which may help to lead the reader intoa just notion of those writings, and to detect and obviate the illtendency of them. There is also an account subjoined of the answers
that were published, not all of them, but some of the most remarkable,or such as have come under the author's special notice ...
'This may suffice to give a general idea of the following work; atthe end of which there are some reflections subjoined. which seem
naturally to arise upon such a view as is here given. Observations are
made on the conduct of the deists in the management of the argument.
And the whole concludes with a brief representation of the evidences
for the Christian religion, and its excellent nature and tendency' (vol.
i, pp. ix-x).
But not long after the publication of it, a second was added upon the
Writing of Hume and Bolingbroke. A supplement. forming a third
volume, and including the third. corrected and enlarged edition of'Reflections upon Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of History'
was separately published in 1753. The whole work was afterwards withsome changes published in two volumes. It is written as a series lettersto his friend, Dr. Thomas Wilson, rector of St. Stephens, Wallbrook.
Wilson has encouraged Leland to write against Bolingbroke, and when
the booksellers refused to offer more than 50 I. for the copy of the work,
published it at his own expence. -d. DNB.
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Reflections ... Bolingbroke: -1753; 2-1753 D; 2-1753 D; 2-1753;
3-1754; -1757; -1764.

[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Life Of George Lesley.
See 1-86.

150.

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.
A short and easie method with the deists. Wherein the certaintyof the Christian religion is demonstrated; by infallible proof
from four rules, which are incompatible to any imposture thatever yet has teen, or that can possibly ce. In a letter to afriend. 6th ed. Corrected and enlarg'd, with a letter from theauthor to a deist, upon his conversion by reading this book. To
which is added a second part to the Jews: and also the Truthof Christianity vindicated; with a Dissertation on private judg·
ment: and a Defence of the short method with the deists prefix'd.
By Mr. Charles Leslie. London: Printed for Geo. Strahan ...
2Icm.
[Specific title·page]
A short and easie method with the deists, wherein the certainty
of'the Christian religion is demonstrated by infallible proof fromfour rules, which are incompatible to any imposture that ever
yet has ceen, or that can possibly ce. In a letter to a friend.
6th ed. London: Printed for George Strahan... 1726.
xi, [iii], 82p.
Contents.Preface.
I. The pretence of the deists against all revelation: with theshort method propos'd, to prove the truth of the Christianreligion.
2. That the whole of this cause does depend upon the truth of
those matters of fact, which are said to be done by Moses
and Christ.
[Four rules.-see, Note below]
3. That these marks, or rules, do all meet in the matters offact of Moses, and of Christ. But not in those of Mahomet,
or of the heathen deities.
4. The deists are challeng'd to shew any fable, that has all
the four rules, or marks, before·mention'd.
5. Many things are true, which have not all these marks. Butthat nothing can be false which has them all.
6. ESl?ecially, where the importance of such things is great.
7. Other topicks ...
8. The attestation of enemies.
9. The fulfilling of prophesies.
397

Of true and false miracles.
But the present topick concludes necessarily, upon the convic·
tion of mens outward senses, and so is obvious to all.
12. None of the popish legends, or other forgeries, can shew
the four marks before·mention'd.
13. If reveal'd religion be priest·craft, it makes the priests tobe.
14. The deists, who laugh at miracles, run themselves upon thegreatest of all.
15. They are forc'd to confess, that the priests are superior tothem in wisdom.
16. False religion is an imitation and corruption of the true.
17. The confusion and contradiction of the deists, in their notionof natural religion, and in their recurring to the common
reason of mankind.
18. Religion is not the invention of priests; but priests are thegreat guard of religion ...
19. The Quakers, and other Dissenters, join herein with thedeists.
20. Advice to the deists.
A letter from the author of the short method with the deists
and Jews.
lO.

I I.

[Specific title-page]
A short and easie method with the Jews. Wherein the certaintyof the Christian religion is demonstrated by infallible proof
from the four rules made use of against the deists. Shewing,that these four rules do oblige the Jews, as much or more thanthe deists, to the acknowledgment of Christ. With an answer
to the most material of their objections, and prejudices against
Christianity. 6th ed. corrected.
London: Printed for Geo.
Strahan... 1726.
viii, [iv], 208p.
p. 58, 182 incorrectly numbered 48,281 respectively.
Contents.The preface.
1. That the truth of the Christian religion stands upon the same
foundation as that of Moses: and the miracles as great.
2. A short answer to the most mighty argument of the deists
against' miracles, viz. that we know not the utmost extent

of the power of nature: and therefore cannot te 11 what
exceeds it.
3. The prejudice of the Jews against Christianity, as seeming
contrary to their expositions of the law.
4. The general expectation which the Jews had of the comingof the Messiah, about that time that our Saviour was born:
and the several false Messiahs whom they set up, from thattime to the destruction of Jerusalem.
5. The like general expectation, at that time, of all the gentile
world. Wherein some notice is taken of the Sibyls.
6. The several false Messiahs set up by the Jews, after thedestruction of Jerusalem, to this present age.
7. The excuse of the Jews, that the coming of the Messiah isdelay'd because of their sins.
8. The promise of another priesthood, superior to that ofLevi.
9. Object. That God cannot alter what he has once ordained.
10. The great objection, from Deut. xiii. I, 2, 3.
I I. God's exact fulfilling of his promises,
particularly of onevery remarkable. to the Jews, which is miraculously visibleat this day.
12. Marks of Jesus, being the Messiah.
13. The Gospel does exalt, and en·noble the law.
14. Some of those obstacles which hinder the conversion of theJews.
15. The qualifications of the Messiah. in relation to the gentiles.
16. The conclusion.

[Specific title-page]The truth of Christianity demonstrated. With a dissertation
concerning private judgment and authority. To which is prefixeda vindication of the short method with the deists. By Charles
Leslie. 6th ed.... London: Printed for George Strahan... 1726.
xii, I48p.
Contents.Vindication. &c.
I. An account of the occasion of writing the Short method withthe deists.
2. The issue of it with some deists, to find some false factwhich had the four marks.
3. The instances brought for this in the detection.
4. Le Clerc's arguments against the Method with the Deists.
399

5. The observator puts in his oar.
6. A conversation with some dissenting preachers upon the mostproper topicks to prove Christianity.
7. A test of the veracity of the detection.
The letter about Sommonocodom.
Truth of Christianity demonstrated, &c.
I. The miserable state of the deists, according to the utmost thatthemse I yes propose.
2. Their notion of the Holy Scriptures, the same as of thelegends.
3. The facts prove the doctrines.
Eight evidences as to the facts in the Holy Scriptures.
(I)They were such of which mens outward senses cou'd judge.
(2)Done publickly in the face of the world.
(3)Perpetual institutions in memory of them.
(4)Which commenc'd from the time of the facts.
(5)The Bible a law as well as a history, wherein of thevarious lections.
(6)Prophecies of Messiah.
(7)Types of the Messiah.
(8)The truth and sincerity of the pen·men of the Holy
Scriptures.
[Specific title-page]

A dissertation concerning private judgment and authority. By theauthor of the Short method with the deists.
London: Printed for Ceo. Strahan ... 1726.

3rd ed. corrected.

44, [4], p. (Publisher's advert. on PP.[J-4])
Contents.I. The importance of the subject.
2. The evil consequences of private judgment.
3· The consequences submitting absolutely to authority. (I) In
the gentiles. (2) In the Jews.
4· The stumbling-block of the Jews was the authority of thechurch. And the promises made to her. Both now taken
up by the Church of Rome.
5· The .advantage in both is to the Jews.
6. The promises in the New Testament not made to the Churchof Rome.
7· She is not the mother-church ...
8. No judge of faith but God. Exemplifyed in the several
articles of the Creed. If the church were judge of faith,400

it would set her above God.
9· We receive the faith, not from the authority, but thetestimony of the Church.
10. Who shall be judge? To be asked only in matters of lesser
concern, not in the faith.
No such authority in the apostles or angels of heaven.
II. Why Christ came in opposition to the church, and all humanauthority.
12. The canon of Holy Scripture settled by the testimony, notthe authority of the church ...
13. The great mistake in understanding the promises of God
made to his church, as if without any implied condition on
her part. Whence the furious zeal of the Jews for theirpeculium. And of Rome less pretence.
14. The church has authority, even in matters of faith.
IS. The extent of that authority. And fallability of the Jewish
church.
16. A short test to determine the matter. God is not obliged
to give men an infallible guide, because not given to thegreatest part of mankind.
17. Application of the whole, as to the pretensions for theseveral churches, now amongst us.
'A Short and Easie Method with the Deists' originated from a letterto a lady friend, who was probably a sister of Henry Hyde, second Earlof Clarendon, Lady Frances Keightly. But in this treatise he substituted'madam' for 'sir.' A companion treatise. 'A Short and Easie Methodwith the Jews, &c.,' appeared the same year (1698) and both werereprinted in one volume, London, 1699.
'His "Method" is nothing if not historical. The miracles are supposed
to vouch for the doctrine, and be in their turn vouched for by conformity
to four rules of historical evidence, such conformity being assumed
sufficient to prove the truth of any alleged "matter of fact," however
extraordinary. The rules to which the miraculous narratives in the
Scriptures in Leslie's view conform are: "I. That the matter of fact besuch as that men's outward senses, their eyes and ears, may be judges
of it. 2. That it be done publicly in the face of the world. 3. Thatnot only public monuments be kept up in memory of it, but someoutward actions to be performed. 4. That such monuments and suchactions or observances be instituted, and do commence from the timethat the matter of fact was done." The argument in its original shapeis very loosely stated; a few of the Old Testament miracles only are
discussed in detail, and the Christian miracles are. merely referred to in401general terms. He argues in a circle at every turn, and the monumental
and ceremonial evidence which he adduces to prove the authenticity of
the Scriptures really presupposes their authenticity.
'The vicious circle latent in the original draft of the "Method" became
patent in a "Vindication" of it, published in answer to some criticisms
by Leclerc and Defoe. In the "Vindication," Leslie explicitly assumes
the authenticIty of the records, and even treats them as the principal
part of the "monumental" evidence. Even so, however, he fails tobring more than a few, and those not the most important, of themiracles under all the four rules. With this important modification, andthe addition of the substance of the "Method with the Jews," he repu·
blished the arguments in the shape of a dialogue, under the title "TheTruth of Christianity demonstrated," 1711. An appended "Dissertation
concerning Private Judgment" is an argument for the via media, after·wards expanded in "The case stated between the Church of Rome andthe Church of England," London, 1713.'
Notwithstanding its inconclu'siveness, the 'Method with the Deists'sufficed to convert Charles Gildon, whom Leslie congratulated upon theevent in a letter dated July 1704. This letter was published in Gildon's'Deist's Manual,' 1705 (see III-l06). It has since been reprinted insome of the numerous later editions and abridgments of the 'Method'and 'The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated: -DNB.
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field; -1812 Windsor; -1830 NY; -1830 Philad; -1835 NY; -[1836
NY]; -1838 Hartford.
French: -1816 Paris.
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6-1726; 7-1727; -1737; 8- 1737; -1755; -1758; -1795; -1800; -1812;-1816; -1837; -1878.
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151.

A Letter to a friend, upon occasion of a late book, intitled,
Essays upon morality and natural religion. Edinburgh: Printed
for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1751.

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[Stuart, John] 1751-1827.
A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen... Aberdeen:
Printed by j. Chalmers ... sold by Mr. james Sibbald, Edinburgh: andMr. ]. Evans ... London. 1790.
See 1-86.

Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father in God,john... at the Guildhall Chappel London, on Thursday the 12. ofDecember, 1672.

See 111-233.

152.

Locke, John, 1632-1704.
An

essay

concerning

human understanding.

Written by John Locke... London:and Samuel Manship ... 1715-16.
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153.

Ludlam, Thomas, 1727-18Il.
Logical tracts, comprising observations and essays illustrative of
Mr. Locke's Treatise upon the human understanding: with occasional remarks on the writings of the two Scottish professors, Reid and Stewart, upon the same subject: and a preface invindication of Mr. Locke, against the mistakes and misrepresentations of the late Mr. Milner, of Hull, Dr. Horne, Bishop of
Norwich; Mr. Kett, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; and Dr.
Napleton, Canon of Hereford. By Thomas Ludlam ... Cambridge:
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Churchman's Review." He was a disciple of Locke, and applied Locke's
principles to religious discussion.' -DNB.
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[Lyttelton, George, 1st Baron Lyttelton] 1709-1773.
Dialogues of the dead.
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5. Ulysses-Circe.
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Mackenzie, Henry (ed.)

Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed
to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems of Ossian.
Drawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry
Mackenzie ... With a copious appendix, containing some of the principal
documents on which the report is founded.
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155.

Mackintosh, Sir James, 1765-1832.
Dissertation on the progress of ethical philosophy, chiefly during
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By the Right Hon.
Sir James Mackintosh... With a preface, by the Rev. William
Whewell... Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London:
Longman ... Simpkin, Marshall... Whittaker... and Hamilton,
Adams ... 1836.
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Contents.Preface [by William Whewell, dated July 1,1835]
Introduction.
I. Preliminary observations.
2. Retrospect of ancient ethics.
3. Retrospect of Scholastic ethics.
4. Modern ethics-Grotius, Hobbes.
5. Controversies concerning the moral faculties and the social
affections-Cumberland, Cudworth, Clarke, Shaftesbury, Fe·nelon-Bossuet, Leibnitz, Malebranche, Edwards, Buflier.
6. Foundations of a more just theory of ethics-Butler, Hutche·son, Berkeley, Hume, Smith, Price, Hart'ley, Tucker, Paley,
Bentham, Stewart, Brown.
7. General remarks.
Note and illustrations.
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156.

[MacQueen, Daniel]
Letters on Mr Hume's History of Great Britain. Edinburgh:
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Kincaid and A. Donaldson. 1756.
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157.

Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.
Father Malebranche[:] His treatise concerning the search after
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printed in any language. London: Printed by W. Bowyer, forThomas Bennet ... and T. Leigh and W. Midwinter. .. 1700.
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V. [Concerning the passions]
VI. Concerning method.
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The defence of the author of the treatise concerning the search
after truth, against accusation of Monsieur de la Ville.
F. Malebranche's Treatise concerning light and colours. Being an
illustration of the fourth chapter of his sixth book.
A treatise concerning nature and grace.
Bk. I. Of the necessity of the general laws of nature and of grace.
II. Of the laws of grace in particular, and of the occasionalcauses, which regulate and determine the efficacy.
III. Of the manner of grace's acting in us.
The illustration or continuation of the treatise concerning natureand grace ..
The first English translations of 'De la recherche de la verite' (1674-75)
and 'Traite de la mature et de la grace' (1680); 1St ed., 1694; 2nd correcteded. 1700; a possible 3rd ed. of 1720 is no longer extant. Anothertranslation was published in 1694-95, the work presumably of Richard
Sault.
'Both contain numerous mistakes... Both have biases thatsometimes lead them to corrupt the text. ... Malebranche complained of
Taylor's translation of the Eclaircissement sur la lumiere that translators
should inquire of authors as to the most exact editions of their work.'-Nicolas Malebranche, The Search after truth, tr. by Thomas M. Lennon
and Paul J.Olscamp, Ohio State Univ. 1980, Translator's preface, p.
XIX.

158.

[Marshall or Marishall, JaneJ fl. 1765-1788.
Sir Harry Gaylove; or, Comedy in embryo. In five acts. By theauthor of Clarinda Cathcart, and Alicia Montague. Edinburgh;
Printed for the author, and sold by A. Kincaid and W. Creech.
1772.

x, [ivJ, 66, [12J p.

22Cm.

Jane Marshall published in 1765 a sentimental novel entitled 'The
History of Miss Clarinda Cathcart and Miss Fanny Renton' (2nd ed.
1766, 3rd ed. 1767), and in 1767 'The History of Alicia Montague.' In1772 she published 'Sir Harry Gaylove' by subscription, with two
prologues by Dr. Blacklock and Dr. M'Clurg, and an epilogue by Dr.
Downman, and a preface by herself. -DNB.
The ten·page list of subscribers includes David Hume. He subscribed
2 copies.
-1772 E.

159.

Martin, [DavidJ 1639-I72I.
Traite de la religion naturelle.
chez Pierre Brunel. 1713.
[xx], 465, [IJ p.
26cm.

Par Mr. Martin ... Amsterdam:

Contents.Introduction a ce traite.
Pt. I.
I. De la vraye idee que nous devons nous former de Dieu.
2. L'existence de Dieu demon tree d'apres I'idee que nous venons
d'en donner, & prouvee par tous les principes les plus
evidens, & les plus certains de la raison nature lie, & premierement par des preuves metaphysiques.
3. Preuves physiques de l'existence de Dieu.
4. Preuves morales de I'existence de Dieu.
5. Que l'atheYsme est denue de toute sorte de preuves & deraisons, & que c'est par consequent la plus grande extravagance qu'il y ait au monde.
6. OU I'on fait voir qu'il n'y a qu'un Dieu.
7. De l'eternite de Dieu, & de son immensite.
8. De la science de Dieu.
9. De la toute·puissance de Dieu.
10. DeI'origine du monde, ou sont refutez les sentimens
d'Epicure, de Platon, & d' Aristote sur cet important sujet.
II. Continuation du meme sujet, ou I'on fait voir que c'est Dieu
qui a cree Ie monde.
12. De la providence de Dieu en general, par egard a la conservation des creatures.
13. De la providence de Dieu dans toutes sortes d'evenemens.
14. De la bonte de Dieu, & de sa misericorde.
15. De la saintete de Dieu, & de sa justice.
Pt. II. OU I'on fait voir l'obligation dans laquelle sont tous
les hommes par les simples lumieres de la raison, de rendre
a Dieu un culte religieux.
1. Qu'y ayant un Dieu il y do it aVOlr une religion, & quels
sont les caracteres que doit avoir cette religion.
2. De la spiritualite de notre arne, qui est Ie sujet ou residela religion.
3. Des trois principales facultez de I'ame, I'entendement, lavolonte, & la memoire, sur tout par Ie rapport qu'elles ont
a la religion.
4. De I' immortalite de I'ame, ou I'on recherche les sources d'ou
peut etre venue I'opinion, que I'ame meurt avec Ie corps;
410

& ou sont refutees les raisons qui peuvent etre alleguees pourcette opinion erronnee.
5. Premiere preuve. de l'immortalite de l'ame, prise de sa spi.
ritualite.
6. Suite des preuves de l'immortalite de l'ame.
7. Que l'ame hant immortelle, il y do it avoir une autre vie
apres celIe·ci.
8. De la difference essentielle qu'il y a entre la vertu & Ie
vice, d'ou depend Ie bonheur ou Ie malheur de la vie a venir.
9. De la loi naturelle, a laquelle ont essentiellement rapport
la vertu & Ie vice.

10. De la conscience en general, & du rapport qu'elle a avec laloi nature lle.
Si c'est toujours un peche que de ne suivre pas les mouve·
mens de la conscience, & si quelque fois on peche en lessuivant.
12. Quelque excellente & necessaire que soi~ la religion nature lie,
I I.

elle ne suffit pas a l'homme dans l'etat de la nature cor·
rompue.
13. Si les payens ont pu etre sauvez par la seule religion
naturelle.

160.

Middleton, Conyers, 1683-1750.
The miscellaneous works of the late Reverend and learned Conyers
Middleton... Containing all his writings, except the Life of
Cicero: many of which were never before published. In four
volumes. With a complete index to the whole. London: Printed
for Richard Manby ... and H. S. Cox ... 1752.
4 vols.
26cm.

Vol. 1.

[vi], xcv, 400p.

front. (port.)

p. 152,226,227,230,231 incorrectly numbered 132,224,225,228,
229 respectively.
Contents.Preface.
I. A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are sup·posed to have subsisted in the Christian Church from theearliest ages, through several successIve centuries [1749]. To
which is prefixed the Introductory discourse LI747], and411

postscript.
Remarks on two pamphlets lately publish'd against Dr. Mid
dleton's Introductory discourse ... [1748]
3. A vindication of the Free inquiry into the miraculous powers,
which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church,&c. from the objections of Dr. Dodwell and Dr. Church[(posthumous) 1751]
4. A preface to an intended answer to all the objections madeagainst the Free inquiry.
5. Oratio de novo physiologire explicandre munere ex celeber·rimi Woodwardi Testamento instituto: habita Cantabrigire
in Scholis publicis [1732]
2.

V01. 2.

x, 50op.
Errors in pagination: P.7, 8 omitted; p. 159.459,462,463 m·
correctly numbered 195,471,474,475 respectively.

Contents.Preface.
1. Some cursory' reflections on the dispute or dissension, whichhappened at Antioch, between the Apostles Peter and Paul.
2. Reflections on the variations, or inconsistencies, which are foundamong the four Evangelists in their different accounts of thesame facts.
3. An essay on the gift of tongues, tending to explane theproper notion and nature of it, as it is described and delivered
to us in the Sacred Scriptures. And as it appears also tohave been understood by the learned both of the antientand modern times.
4, Some short remarks on a story told by the antients, concern·
ing St. John the Evangelist, and Cerinthus the heretic; andon the use, which is made of it by the moderns, to enforce
the duty of shunning heretics.
5. An essay on the allegorical and literal interpretation of thecreation and fall of man.
6. A letter to Dr, Waterland; containing some remarks on his
vindication of Scripture: in answer to a book, intitled,
Christianity as old as the Creation ... [1731]
7. A defence of the letter to Dr. Waterland ... [1731]
8. Some remarks on a reply to the defence of the letter to Dr.
Waterland... [1732]

412

9. Remarks on some observations, addressed to the author of
the letter to Dr. Waterland [17331
10. Remarks, paragraph by paragraph, upon the proposals lately
published by Richard Bentley, for a new edition of the Greek
Testament and Latin version [1721J
1 I. Some farther remarks, paragraphby paragraph, upon the
proposals ... by Richard Bentley, containing a fuJI answer tothe editor's late defence of the said proposals, as weJl as
to all his objections there made against my former remarks[17 2I J
12. De Latinarum literarum pronunciatione dissertatio.
13. Dr. Middleton's letters to Mr. Warburton, &c. [1734-491

Vol. 3. iv, 502, [2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-2])

1 plate.

Contents.I. A letter from Rome, shewing an exact conformity between
popery and paganism, with the prefatory discourse in answer
to the objections of a popish writer, and a postscript, mwhich Mr. Warburton's opinion concerning the paganism ofRome is considered [1729J
2. An examination of the
Bishop of London's discourses,
concerning the use and intent of prophecy, with some cursory
animadversions on his appendix, or additional dissertation,
containing a farther inquiry into the Mosaic account of theFall [1750]
3. A dissertation concerning the origin of printing in England ...

[1734-35J
4. A full and impartial account of all the late proceedings in
the University of Cambridge against Dr. Bentley [1719J
5. A second part of the full and impartial account ... [1719J
6. Some remarks upon a pamphlet, entitled, The case of Dr.
Bentley farther stated and vindicated, &c .... [1719J
7. A true account of the present state of Trinity College, inCambridge, under the oppressive government of their master,Richard Bentley ... [1720J
8. A treatise on the Roman senate. In two parts [1747J
9. Bibliothecre Cantabrigiensis ordinandre methodus quredam ...

[17 2 3]Vol. 4. ix, [viii], 437, [52] p.

23 plates.

p. 265. 392, 393 incorrectly numbered 295,391,292 respectively.
4 13

Contents.Germana quredam antiquitatis eruditre monumenta ... [1745]
De medicorum aqud veteres Romanos degentium conditione
dissertatio; contra viros celeberrimos lac. Sponium & Rich.
Meadium ... servilem atque ignobilem earn fuisse ostenditur[17 26]
3. Dissertationis ... contra anonymos quosdam ... auctores defensio[17 27]
4. The epistles of M. T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to
Cicero ... [1743]
I.

2.

Middleton's writings are among the ablest of those produced by the
deist controversy, and with Warburton's 'Divine legation' show the ten·dency of discussion to pass into an historical criticism. He touched on
many points raised by modern investigators of the history of religion,
without noticing their full significance. -DNB.

-1752 (4v ); 2-1755 (5v).

161.

Millar, John, 1735-180I.
The origin of the distinction of ranks: or, An inquiry into thecircumstances which give rise to influence and authority, in the
different members of society. By John Millar. .. 4th ed., corrected. To which is prefixed, An account of the life and wntlllgs
of the author, by John Craig ... Edinburgh: Printed for William
Blackwood ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme ... London.
1806.

viii,cxxxiv,[lj,296p. (Errata on p.[Ij)22cm.

Contents.Account of the life and writings of the author [by lohn Craig]
Introduction.
I. Of the rank and condition of women in different ages.
2. Of the jurisdiction and authority of a father over his chilodren.
3. The authority of a chief over the members of a tribe or vii·
lage.
4. The authority of a sovereign, and of subordinate officers, overa society composed of different tribes or villages.
5. The changes produced in the government of a people, by
their progress in arts, and in polished manners.

414

6. The authority of a master over his servants.
This book shows the influence of Montesquieu, and especially of Hume,whose essay on 'The Populousness of Ancient Nations' is similar in design.
First published in 1771 under title: Observations concerning the distinction of ranks in society. 2nd ed., greatly enlarged; 3rd ed., title changed,
and corrected and enlarged.
-1771; -1771 D; 2-1773 (enlarged); 3-1779 (title changed); 3-1781;-1793 Basil; -1806 E.
French: -1773 Amsterdam. German: -1772 Leipzig.

162.

Milner, Joseph, 1744-1797.
Gibbon's account of Christianity considered: together with somestrictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning natural religion. By
Joseph Milner... York: Printed by A. Ward; and sold by G.
Robinson .. _ and T. Cadell... London; ]. Merrill, in Cambridge;]. Fletcher, in Oxford; W. Tesseymann, in York; T. Browne,
III Hull; and]. Binns, in Leeds. 1781. [Price three shillings.]
xiii, [i], 262 (i. e. 288) p. (Errata on p. [i]).
22cm.
[Jessop, p. 55]
Pagination runs as follows: 1-82, *83-*108, 83-262.
Contents.Pt. I. Facts and characters.
1. The Jews.
2. Judaizing Christians.
3. Hereticks.
4. New account of the Gnostics.
5. The revelation of St. John.
6. Ignatius's testimony to our Lord's resurrection defended.
7. The infidel's challenge.
8. Miracles.
9. The character of the primitive Christians defended.
10. Cyprian.
11. Tiberius.
12. Nero.
13. Trajan.
14. The martyrs and the persecutors.
II. Evangelical truth.
415

III. Christian.principles defended.
I. Faith.
2. The peculiar nature of Christianity.
3. Future state.
4. Humanity.
5. Love of glory.
6. Impiety.
7. Mr. Gibbon's dangerous idea of lewdness exposed.
8. Rationality.
9. A Scriptural idea of the church.
10. The progress of Christianity.
II. Cause of the enmity against Christianity.
12. Mr. Hume.
13. Validity of the evidences of Christianity.
Conclusion.
Milner is chiefly known in connection with 'The History of the
Church of Christ.' He was painfully struck by the fact that most church
histories were in reality little more than records of the errors and dis·putes of Christians, and thus too often played into the hands of unbe·
lievers. Perhaps Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' (first volume, 1776) strengthened this feeling. -d. DNB.
'He who reads Mr. Gibbon, with the least degree of attention, mustsee that he is strongly prejudiced against Christianity. Nor will it
appear surprising, that not even his good judgment has secured him froma series of mistakes in every thing relating to this religion, from which,in all other parts of his history, the native force of a found judgment,
operating without controul, has happily secured him.
'Some facts and characters that... have been mis·stated by the author,
shall be examined and set in a true light: This will form Part the First.
'The nature of Christianity itself shall be laid open in a Second Part. ..
The use and necessity of both these Parts will more plainly appear in Part
the Third, which will be devoted to the discussion of several interesting
subjects ... however, to one point, the recommendation of the Gospel to theattention of the polite and the learned, and the vindication of its doctrines
from the subtil aspersions of Mr. Gibbon. I shall have occasion here
to step out of my way, and advert a little to another resolute enemy ofChristianity ... The recommendation of real Christiamty is indeed the
One design of this performance .. .' -Preface, pp. v-viii.
-1781

York; 2-1808; 2-1808 Lincoln.

163.

Milner, Joseph, 1744-1797.
Gibbon's account of Christianity considered: with some strictures on Hume's Dialogues concerning natural religion. By Joseph
Milner ... 2nd ed., corrected. Lincoln: Printed by A. Stark. Soldby Mrs. E. Browne, and all the bookEellers, Hull; Deighton,
Cambridge; Wolstenholme, York; E. Baines, Leeds; Williams
and Smith ... and J Hatchard ... London; and E. Balfour, Edinburgh. 1808.
267p.
23cm.
p. 115 duplicated. pp.9-12 omitted.
See 111-162.

164.

Milner, Joseph, 1744-1797.
A selection of tracts and essays, theological and historical, fromthe miscellaneous writings of the late Rev. Joseph Milner ...
Containing Strictures on Gibbon and Hume; Essays tending toillustrate the Scripture doctrine of the influence of the Holy
Spirit; Remarkable passages in the life of Wm. Howard; Essays
from the theological miscellany; Observations on the use of history; and Observations on Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology. Now
first collated and edited by the Revd. Isaac Milner... London:
Printed by Luke Hansard... for T. Cadell and W. Davies ...
1810.
22cm.
xi,49 8p.
[Not in Jessop]
p. 175 incorrectly numbered 75.
Contents.Gibbon's account of Christianity. &c. (see 111-162)
Essays on several religious subjects [1789]
1. On evangelical religion.
2. The treatment which methodism, so called, has received
from the Critical and Monthly Reviewers.
3. The Scripture doctrine of atonement and justification.
4. Scriptural proof of the influence of the Holy Spirit on theunderstanding.
5. The nature of the Spirit's influence on the understanding.
6. On enthusiasm.

7. The trial of prophets.
8. On the doctrines of the Church of England.
9. Remarks on the history of religion.
Some remarkable passages in the life of Mr. ·William Howard,&c. [1785]
Essays from the 'Theological Miscellany' [1784]
I. The efficacy of divine grace, and the nature of true repen·tance ...
2. Thoughts on 2 Cor. iii. 6 ...
3. Luther's letter to Dr. Caspar Aquila ...
4. The difference between faith and presumption ...
5. The Christian doctrine of justification recommended.
A sermon preached in the Holy Trinity Church ... 1785 ...
Extract of two sermons preached at the Church of the Holy
Trinity ... 1794 ...
Observations on the use of history.
Observations on Sir Isaac Newton's chronology.
-[I780?]; -1810.

165.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 1533-1592.
The essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, translated into
English. 8th ed., with very considerable amendments and improvements, from the most accurate and elegant French edition ofPeter Coste. In three volumes ... London: Printed for ]. Pote, E.
Ballard, C. Bathurst, T. Davies, T. Payne, ]. F. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Caslon, ]. Robson,
W. Ginger, T. Evans, and E. Johnston. 1776.
3 vols.
22cm.

Vol. 1.

[xxxiil,4I4,[24]P·
p. 112, lI4, lI8, 133, 377 incorrectly numbered 108, 98, 120,
132, 337 respectively.

Contents.Ch. I-57.

Vol. 2.

[ii],608,[32]p.
p. 334, 386, 389 incorrectly numbered 343, 354, 386 respectively.

Contents.Ch. 1-37.

Vol. 3.

[i], 468, [27] p.
p. 197,373 incorrectly numbered 167, 337 respectively.

Contents.Ch. 1-13.
Appendix [6 letters]
The first English version of Montaigne's Essays was published in 1603,
by John Florio; 2nd ed., 1613; 3rd ed., 1632. But they were much bet·
ter translated in 1685 by Charles Cotton (1630-1687). 1st ed., 1685/86;
2nd ed., 1693; 3rd ed., 1700; 4th ed., 17II; 5th ed., 1738; 6th ed., 1743;
7th ed., 1759 with amendments and improvements from the French ed.
of Peter Coste; 8th ed. (?) Dublin, 1760; 8th ed., 1776; 9th ed., 18II.

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1720-1800.
Dialogues of the dead.
See 111-154.

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Bredede, 1689-1755.
An essay on taste, a fragment found imperfect among the papers of
the late President de Montesquieu.
See 111-104.

166.

[Morgan, Thomas] d.1743.
The moral philosopher. In a dialogue between Philalethes a Christian deist, and Theophanes a Christian Jew. In which thegrounds and reasons of religion in general, and particularly of
Christianity, as distinguish'd from the religion of nature; thedifferent methods of conveying and proposing moral truths to themind, and the necessary marks or criteria on which they must
all equally depend; the nature of positive laws, rites and ceremonies, and how far they are capable of proof as of standing419

perpetual obligation; with many other matters of the utmost
consequence in religion, are fairly considered, and debated, and thearguments on both sides impartially represented... 2nd ed., corrected. London: Printed for the author. 1738.
20cm.
xii, 13-450, [9]P.

Vol. 2.

title varied.'
The moral philosopher. Vol. 2. Being a farther vindication of
moral truth and reason; occasioned by two books lately published:
one. intitled, The divine authority of the Old and New Testaments asserted. With a particular vindication of Moses and theprophets, our Saviour Jesus Christ, and his Apostles, against
the unjust assertions, and false reasonings of a book intitled,
The moral philosopher. By the Reverend Mr. Leland. The other
intitled, Eusebius: or, The true Christian's defence, &c. By theRev. Mr Chapman. By Philalethes. London: Printed: and soldby the booksellers of London and Westminster. 1739.
20cm.
xxxviii, 273, 80p.

Vol. I appeared in 1737; 2nd ed., 1738; vol. 2, 1739; vol. 3, against
Leland and Lowman, in 1740; vol. 4, called 'Physico Theology,' in 1741.

167.

Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.
A practical essay of the contempt of the world. By William
Nicholls... 3rd ed., corrected. London: Printed for ]. Holland ...
and C. Rivington ... 1717.
[xiv], 284p.
Ocm.
Contents.Preface to the deists and vicious libertines of the age.
Introduction.
I. What is meant by a contempt of the world ...
2. Of the usual mistakes concerning the contempt of the world.
3. In what a true contempt of the world does consist...
4. Of the reasons why we should contemn the world ...
This book inscribed to his schoolfellow, Sir John Trevor.

420

168.

Norris, John, 1657-17II.
An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world.
Design'd for two parts. The first considering it absolutely in it
self, and the second in relation to human understanding. PartI. By John Norris... London: Printed for S. Manship... and
W. Hawes ... 1701.
[vJ, xvi, 452, [1 2J p. (Errata on p. [8]. Publisher's advert. on
pp. [II 12])2ocm.
Contents.I. The state of things distinguish'd into natural and ideal.
2. The reality of the distinction justified, by shewing that this is
not the only state of things, but that they have an ideal aswell as a natural state.
3. Where this ideal state of things, or intelligible world is, witha farther demonstration of its real existence.
4. That the existence of the intelligible is more certain thanthat of the natural or sensible world. With an account of
the comparative certainty of faith and reason.
5. The state of the intelligible world represented in a more dis·tinct view, containing some modal account of the divine idea·
lity or omniformity.
6. A farther view of the intelligible world, in the doctrine ofeternal truths.
7. The notion and distinction of essence and existence briefly
stated and explain'd upon ideal principles.
8. Of the beauty of the intelligible world, and the happiness of
those that have their conversation in it. With some conclu·
ding reflections upon the advantages of a retired and contem·
plative life.
The postscript.

Vol. 2. title varied:An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world.
Being the relative part of it. Wherein the intelligible world isconsider'd with relation to humane understanding. Whereof someaccount is here attempted and proposed. Part II. By John Norris ... London: Printed for S. Manship ... and W. Hawes ... 1704.
[xxviiiJ, 574, [2J p. (Errata on p. [xxvi]. Publisher's advert. on421

pp. [xxvii-xxviii])

2ocm.

Contents.1. A
preliminary consideration concerning the principles ofthought, or what it is that thinks in us.
With a full
discussion of that great question, whether matter can think?
2. A digression concerning the souls of brutes, whether they
have any thought or sensation in them or no.
3. Of thought.
4. An entrance upon the explanation of the manner of ourthinking, containing a general distribution of intelligible objects into their several kinds.
5. That some intelligible objects, viz. of the immaterial kind,
are seen or understood immediately, or by themselves, withan occasional argument for the existence of a God, andsome devotional reflections upon the beatifick vision.
6. That all material obj ects, and perhaps most spiritual ones,
are seen or understood by the mediation of ideas_
7. That the ideas whereby we perceive such objects_ .. do notcome from those objects; with some occasional considerations
upon the intellectus agens of the Schools; Mr. Lock's principleof sensation, and that Scholastick maxim, that there isnothing in the understanding but what was first in the sense.
8. That the ideas whereby we understand, are not the productions of our own souls.
9. That the ideas whereby we understand, are not created in
us by God.
10. That the ideas whereby we understand are not the perfections or modalities of our own souls: or that the mind does
not perceive things by contemplating her own perfections
or modalities.
I I. That 'tis possible that the ideas whereby we understand may
be the divine ideas, and consequently that there is no necessity of having recourse to any other.
12. Wherein is considered what reasons there are to think thatthe divine ideas are actually the id~as whereby we understand, with some explanatory account of this ideal system.
13. Wherein is considered how far the grounds of this hypothesis
are laid by the Schools, and the hypothesis itself confirmedby the authority of St. Austin; with some concluding reflections
upon the whole relating to morality and religion.
Norris was a disciple of MaJebranche, and expounds his master's doc422

trine of the vision of all things in God, in opposItlOn to the philo·sophy of Locke. He is the last offshoot from the school of Cambridge
Platonists, except so far as the same tendency is represented by Shaftes·
bury. His Platonism was radically opposed to the methods which became
dominant in Locke's exposition, and Locke made some remarks, firstpublished in the 'Collection' of 1720, upon Norris's earlier criticisms(Locke, Works, 1824, ix. 247-58). Locke and Molyneux refer rather
contemptuously to Norris, 'an obscure, enthusiastic man,' in theircorrespondence (ibid. viii, 400, 404; see also Locke's 'Examination of
Malebranche,' ibid. pp.2Il-55). -d. DNB.
-1701/04 (2V); -1721 (2V); 3-1722 (2V); -1801 (2V).

169.

Ogilvie, John, I733-I8I3.
An inquiry into the causes of the infidelity and scepticism of
the times: with occasional observations on the writings of Her·bert, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke, Hume, Gibbon, Toulmin, &c.
&c. By John Ogilvie.__ London: Printed for Richardson and
Urquhart ... and W. Gordon, W. Creech, and J. Dickson, Edinburgh.
I7 8 3.
xvi, 462, [2] p. (Publisher'S abvert. on pp. [I-2])

22cm.
[Jessop, p. I6I]

p.309 incorrectly numbered 209; pp.42I-424 duplicated; pp. 429-432
omitted.
Contents.I. Observations on the universality of the religious principle.Enumeration of causes that obstruct its influence.-Of man in
his natural and civilized state. - Method of treating the
subject.
2. General influence of the desire of singularity. - Marks bywhich this passion is distinguished from the love of fame.
-Its. effects on religion during the first and middle agesof the church. - Origin of deism. - Theories of the mosteminent advocates of infideJity.-Present state of religion.
-Objection to Christiantiy, as a scheme adapted wholly tovulgar comprehension, urged by Celsus and Shaftesbury,.. introduceth, in
3. A view of our religion, as the subject of scientifical inquiry.
-Causes which rendered deism coeval with the period of theresurrection of letters.-Comparison of Christian with pagan
morality,-and of the conduct of Jesus, with the practice ofan ancient philosopher, and with the arts of the great
impostor of modern times.-General view of the Christianscheme, as accommodated to the purposes of the legislator
and of the philosopher.-Effect of this religion, as more orless universally known on the mannerS of the people, inthe four principal kingdoms of Europe.
4. General remarks on the imitative propensity. - Paucity oforiginal characters.-Observations on that mode of it which
regards manners and deportment.- Its extensive influence asa cause of infidelity.
5. Enumeration of circumstances that are favourable to him
who attacks Christianity.- Dangerous effects of early pre·possession,- and of pretensions to free and enlarged sen·timent.-Artful conduct of deistical writers in conciliating
favour.-Plausible declamation.-Way of ridicule.-Examples
of both.-Views of the same subject utterly inconsistent.Examination of the scheme of Mr Gibbon, and of Shaftesbury;-their errors, and mutual repugnance.
6. The charge of credulity, as it is enforced by deistical wri·
ters, a capital cause of the infidelity of the times.-Viewof the principles from which this charge derives its efficacy.
-Bad effects of narrow zeal in the conduct of education.
-Manner in which deistical writers enforce this charge.Of Celsus, Voltaire, Hume, Shaftesbury, Bolingbroke.
7. Question introduced respecting the nature of Christian faith.
-Difference of this principle from assent. -Faith founded
wholly on rational examination.-Illustration of this principle
from particular induction.-In what sense mysterious doctrines
are objects of faith.-Of the proof which they seem todemand ;-applied to the doctrine of resurrection.-Requisi.
tions necessary to establish rational belief.-The section is
concluded with an inquiry into the nature of religious and of
philosophical evidence, and a comparison of their force.
8. Ridicule on the de"rical character productive of the worst
consequences.-General influence of prepossession upon prin.
ciple.-Manners of the man of the world,-opposed to thosewhich are formed in retirement; -imaginary connection bet·
wixt these and absurd or pernicious tenets.-Application ofthese remarks to the clerical character.-Circumstances whichgive occasion to ridicule,-and to abuse.-Bad effect of bothon the young and unexperienced.-Ridicule of Shaftesbury

on the mmIsters of religion; -of Voltaire on the clergy ofFrance and Great Britain. - Confutation of Bolingbroke's
false affirmations on this subject,-and of the more dangerous disquisition of Hume.-Ultimate tendency of all topromote the cause of infidelity.-Caution to young readers.
9. Effect of sceptical fluctuation upon action.-Causes that
produce it.- Inexplicable hypotheses framed in consequenceof attempts to investigate subjects above comprehension.Effect of multiplied distinctions and subtleties,-in natural-and in moral philosophy.-Second cause. All points what·ever rendered subjects of disputation.-Platonic doctrine.State of ancient Greece.-Character of the Sophists.-Meansby which they introduced universal scepticism.-Doctrine ofProtagoras. - Observation of Seneca. - Third cause.
Influence of example co·operating with the passions to counte·ract the consequences of education.-Difficulty of erasing goodprinciples.-Effect of passion, and of example, in producing
scepticism.-Address of a young person to a sceptical philosopher.
10. Of the influence of action upon principle.-Address to pro·fessed libertines.-Principles conformed to bad actions, when
actions cannot be conformed to principle.-Observations on
the most proper method of detecting.-and of correcting thisevil.-The surest barrier against the effect of bad practiceis to be laid in the conduct of education.-Method of establishing early prepossessions in behalf of Christianity, so as
to repel the effects of false eloquence, and of example.Answe.r to an objection respecting the impropriety of estab·lisbing prepossessions.-Proper method of procedure in directing the opinions and forming the minds of youth. Conclu·
sion.
Recapitulation, and address to deistical and sceptical writers.
Comparison of the conduct of Cicero with that of Shaftes·bury and Bolingbroke in a striking instance.-Effect of bad
principles operating from the higher to the lower orders ofmen.-Passage from Mr Gibbon's history applied as an illustration.-Consequences of the progress of infidelity and scepticism-Dissolute manners-National decay.
This copy has the autograph of John 'Fish' Craufurd on the title·
page and the bookplate of Matthew Craufurd. 'Fish' Craufurd was
the recipient of one of Hume's autograph letters contained in this collection.

Olivet, Pierre Joseph, known as Abbe d'Olivet, 1682-1768.
Eloge historique de lIfr. Huet
See 111-119 (English translation, 111-120)

170. [Osward, James] d. 1793.
An appeal to common sense in behalf of religion. Edinburgh:
Printed for A. Kincaid and J. Bell. 1766.
viii, 390, [2] p. (Errata on p. [I]. Publisher's advert. on p. [2])22cm.
[Jessop, p.I6I]
Contents.Bk.I. Mankind in all ages have paid too little regard to theauthority of common sense.
II. By setting aside the authority of common sense, modern
philosophy gives occasion to universal scepticism.
III. To banish scepticism, and establish the belief of primary
truths, it is necessary to depart from the modern hypo·thesis, and to have recourse to the authority of common
sense.
IV. Common sense perceives and pronounces upon all primary
truths with the same indubitable certainty with which weperceive and pronounce on objects of sense by our bodily
organs.
V. The judgment of common sense will be decisive with menof sound understanding.
VI. All objections to the authority of common sense are
groundless.
VII. The assertions of sceptics and infidels ought to be tried at
the bar of common sense.
Letters 1-7.

-1766 E; 2-1768 ;-1768/72 (2V, VI is 2nd ed.)E.

Ouvrages sur le commerce, les finances, &c. Qui ont paru depuis
deux a trois ans.

See 1-74 (2)171. Paley, William, 1743-1805.
The works of William Paley ... With a biographical sketch of
the author, by the Rev. D. S. Wayland ... London: George Cowie... 1 8 37.
5 vols.
22cm.

Vol. 1.

lvi, 399P.

front. (port. )Contents.Biographical sketch of Dr. Paley [by Wayland][Principles of moral and political philosophy] [1785]
Bk. I. Preliminary considerations.
II. Moral obligations.
III. Relative duties.
Pt. I. Of relative duties which are determinate.
2. Of relative duties which are indeterminate, and of thecrimes opposite to these.
3. Of relative duties which result from the constitutionof the sexes, and the crimes opposed to these.
IV. Duties to ourselves.
V. Duties toward God.
VI. Elements of political knowledge.

Vol. 2.

viii, 482p.

Contents.Principles of moral and political philosophy. Bk. VI. (continued)
Horre Paulinre [1790]
The clergyman's companion in visiting the sick.

Vol. 3.

xi, 41 2p.

Contents.[A view of the evidences of Christianity] [i794]
Preparatory Considerations.-Of the antecedent credibility of"miracles.
Pt.I. On the direct historical evidence of Christianity, andwherein it is distinguished from the evidence alleged forother miracles.

II. Of the auxiliary evidences of Christianity.
III. A Brief consideration of some popular objections.

Vol. 4.

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Contents.[Natural theology; or Evidence of the existence and attributes of
the Deity collected from the appearances of nature]
Tracts[I] A defence of the considerations on the propriety of requir.
ing a subscription to articles of faith ... [anon. 1774][2] Reasons for contentment, addressed to the Labouring Partof the British Public [1793]

Vol. 5. vi,418p.
Contents.Sermons on several subjects.
Sermons on public occasions [1777-95]
Vols. 1-4 lack the titles of the contained works.
'Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy,' published in 1785, wasadopted at once as a textbook at Cambridge, a~d went through fifteen
editions during the author's life; 17th ed., 1809; An edition with notesby A. Bain, 1802; with notes by R. Whately, 1859; An 'Analysis' by
C. V. Le Grice reached a 4th edition in 1882. The chapter on the
British constitution was reprinted separately in .1792.
'Evidences of Christianity': 15th ed., 18u; editions, with notes by
T. R. Birks, R. Potts, and R. Whately, appeared in 1848, 1850, and 1859
respectively. An 'Analysis', ·first published at Cambridge in 1795, went
through several editions, and others have since appeared. 'Rhymes for
all the Authors quoted in the First Eight Chapters' was published at Cam·bridge in 1872, and Analysis, with 'Each Chapter summarised in Verse,'
by A. J. Wilkinson, in 1792.
'Natural Theology': 20th ed., 1820. 'Natural theology,' published 1835
-9, includes Paley's 'Natural theology' in vols., ii and iii, with notes
by Lord Brougham and Sir C. Bell. -cL DNB.
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-1837 (5v); -1838 (4v); -1838 (5v); -1838 (IV); -1840 (IV); -1842(IV); -1844 (IV) E; -1845 (5v); -1847 (IV); -1848 (IV); -1849 (IV);-1851 (IV); -1853 (IV); -1860 (IV); -[1877?] (IV).
American ed.: [no d.] (IV) Philad; -1810 (5v) B .& Newport; -1810-27(6v) B; -18II-12 (5v) Newport; -1824 (5v) NY; -1835 (IV) Philad;-1836 (IV) Philad; -1841, (IV) Philad; -1850 (IV) Philad; -1853 (IV)
Philad; -[18571 (IV) Philad.

172.

[Parsons, Philip] 1729-1812.
Dialogues of the dead with the living. London: Printed for N.
Conant ... and H. Payne ... 1779.
[iv],227p. (Errata on p.227)
22cm.
Contents.I. Lord Herbert-Mr. Hume.
2. Lord Herbert-Mr. Hume.
3. Shakespeare-Mr. Garrick.
4. Fielding-Courtney Melmoth.
5. Bishop Sherlock:-Soame Jenyns, Esq.
6. Cowley-Dr. Hurd.
7. Mr. Addison-Dr. Johnson.
8. Archbishop Langton-Edward Gibbon, Esq.
9. Cicely, Duchess of York-Lady 5 - .
The first two dialogues are between Lord Herbert and Hume, thoughas Hume died in 1776, he could hardly be said to be 'living' in 1779
when the book was published.

173.

Patrick, Simon. Bp. of Ely, 1626-1707.
The parable of the pilgriin: vvritten to a friend. By Symon
Patrick... 4th ed. London: Printed by Robert White for Francis
Tyton... 1673.
20cm.
[xii], 527p.
Errors in paging: p.217, 218 omitted; p.225, 226 duplicated; p. 257,526 incorrectly numbered 275, 524.
This work was published in 1665, but the insertion of the date 1663

in the letter to the friend to whom it was written shows that it wascompleted by that year. Although it is constructed on similar lines to
Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' the dates show that Patrick was no borrower from Bunyan_ -d. DNB.
The autography of the poet Edmund Waller (1606-1687) appears on
the ti tie-page.
ASSOCIATION COPY. PP.255-256 of 'Poetical Works of Edmund
Waller,' ed. by Robert Bell, 1854. Postscript-Waller's autograph.

174.

[Plumptre, John] 1753-1825.
A plain and easy introduction to the principles of natural andrevealed religion; with a comprehensive view of the reasonableness and certainty of the Christian dispensation. Intended foryoung students in particular; ~nd exhibiting much of the substance of Dr Jenkin's learned work, long out of print, on thesame subject. By a clergyman of the Church of England. In
two volumes... Kidderminster: Printed by G. Gower, for F. andC. Rivington ... G. G. and 1. Robinson, and T. N. Longman ...
London. 1795.
18cm.
2 vols.

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v, [vi-viiiJ,9-224p.

Contents.Pt. 1.
I. Of the existence of God.
2. Illustration of the argument.
3. Of the nature and attributes of God.
4. Of the incommunicable attributes of God.
5. Of the communicable attributes of God.
6_ Of the moral attributes of God.
7. Of declarations in Scripture concerning God.
8. Of further descriptions of God's attributes in the Scriptures.
9. Of God's essential justice_
10. Concluding reflections upon the attributes of God.
I I . Of atheism.
12. Reflection concerning atheism.

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II.
Of God, as the moral governor of the universe.
Of the groundwork of revelation.
3. Of religion in general; and its divisions.
4. Of a revelation from God. as possible, probable, and necessary.
5. Of the possible means of affording a revelation.
6. Of the method actually adopted; prophecy and miracles.
7. Of miracles.
8. Of distinguishing true miracles from false ones.
9. Of the impossibility of some miracles being false ones.
10. Application of the argument from miracles.
1 I. Of scepti cism.
12. Of infidelity.
I.

2.

III.
Of the antiquity of the Scriptures in general.
Of the knowledge of God, as revealed to men.
3. Of the will of God as revealed to mankind before the law.
4. Amount of this evidence.
5. Sufficient means of knowing God, after the law.
6. Of the intercourse wi th the Jews, as serving to instruct
other nations.
7. Of the further successes of the Israelites, to the same end.
8. The like effects from the separation of the ten tribes.
9. The same effects from the Restoration, after the Captivity.
10. Concluding particulars as to the coedition of the Jews.
11. Of memorials, and remembrances of true religion among
the heathens.
I.

2.

Vol. 2.

[viii], 9-296p.

Contents.-

Pt. 1.
Of the Pentateuch.
Of the predictions in the Books of Moses.
3. Prophecies of Moses.
4. Of the divine authori ty of Moses.
5. Of the possibility of falsehood III the history given
Moses.
6. Of Joshua and the Judges.
7. Of the Israelites under their kings.
8. Of the prophets and their writings.
9. Of the prophecies and miracles of the prophets.
I.

2.

by

431

10. Further of the prophecies.
I I. Conclusion of the subject.
II.
I. Of the connected plan of the Scriptures with each other.
2. Of the person of our blessed Saviour, and the prophecies
relating to his birth.
3. Of the prophecies relating to the life of the Messiah.
4. Of prophecies relating to his death.
5. Of Christ foretold as king.
6. Of our Saviour's prophecies.
7. Of our Saviour's miracles.
8. Of Christ's resurrection and ascension.
9. Further evidence of the resurrection.
10. Of the Apostles and Evangelists.
I I. Of the prophecies of the Apostles and others.
12. Of the miracles of the Apostles and others.
13. Further evidence of miraculous effects on the Apostles,
and others.
14. Conclusion of this argument.

III.'
I. Of the writings of the Apostles, and Evangelists.
2. Of the doctrines contained in the Holy Scriptures.
3. Of motives to obey; -and helps to Holiness in the Scriptures.
4. Of the reformation and happiness of mankind by the Gos·pel.
5. Of the more mysterious parts of the Christian religion.
6. Conclusion.

IV.
I. Of the heathen religions.
2. Of the prophecies and miracles of the heathens.
3. Of the religious doctrines of the heathens.
4. Of the Mahometan religion.
5. The Aleoran false, immoral and absurd.
6. The truth of the Christian religion as certain as the beingof God.
7. Inference from the whole.

The work of Robert Jenkin (1656-1727), 'The Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian religion', was published in 1696-7; 2nd ed.,1700; 3rd corrected and enlarged ed., 1708; 4th ed., 1715; 5th ed., 1721 ;6th ed., 1734.

432

-1975.
ASSOCIATION COPY. This copy probably belonged to the author's
wife, Diana, as her initials, D. F. P. appear in gilt on each cover.

[Pratt, Samuel Jackson] 1749-1814.
An apology for the life and writings of David Hume.
See 1-84.

175.

Price, ~ichard, 1723-1791.
Observations on reversionary payments; on schemes for providing annuities for widows, and for persons in old age; on themethod of calculating the values of assurances on lives; and on
the national debt. Also, Essays on different subjects in thedoctrine of life-annuities and political arithmetic; A collectionof new tables, and a postscript on the population of the Kingdom. By Richard Price... To which are added, Algebraicalnotes, the solution of several new problems in the doctrine ofannuities, and a general introduction. By William Morgan... 5th
ed. London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1792.
2 vols.
22cm.

Vol. 1.

lxxxiv, 372P. (Erratum on p.lxxxiv.)

Contents.General introduction (dated 29th February 1792, by William Morgan).
Observations on reversionary payments ...
I. Questions relating
to schemes for granting reversionary
annuities, and the values of assurances on lives.
2. (i) Of institutions for the benefit of widows; and, particu.
larly, the London Annuity and Laudable Societies. (ii) Of
the association among the London clergy, and the ministers in Scotland, for providing annuities for their widows.
(iii) Of the best schemes for providing annuities for widows ...
(i v) Account of some foreign institutions for the benefit ofwidows. (v) Of schemes for providing life.annuities which
are not to commence till particular ages_; and, particularly433

of the Societies in London for the benefit of old age; anda proposal for establishing life·annuities in parishes forthe benefit of the industrious pOOL. (vi) Of the Amicable
Corporation for a perpetual assurance·office... (vii) Of theSociety for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivor·
ships ...
3. Of public credit, and the national debt. ..
Essays.
L Observations on the expectations of lives; the increase of
mankind, the number of inhabitants in London; and theinfluence of great towns on health and population. In a
letter to Benjamin Franklin... To which is added a post·
script, containing an account of Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin ...
2. On Mr. De Moivre's rules for calculating the values ofjoin t lives.
Postscript, containing a specimen of the most expeditious
method of calculating the values of single and joint lives
according to any given table of mortali ty.
3. On the proper method of calculating the values of rever·sions depending on survivorships.
4. On the proper method of constructing tables for determin·
ing the rate of human mortality, the number of inhabit·
ants, and the values of lives in any town or district, frombills of mortality in which are specified the numbers dying
at all ages.

Vol. 2.

492, [23J, 16p. (Publisher's advert. on the last 16 pages)
p.265, 381, 452 incorrectly numbered 243, 38, 436 respectively.

Contents.General introduction to a collection of tables.
Tables of compound interest; of the duration of human life indifferent situations; of the values of annuities on single andjoint lives in London, in country towns, and among mankind
at large, &c ... ; with explanatory remarks and directions.
Tables of the Equitable Society.
Supplement, containing additional observations on the duration ofhuman life... and on the population of the Kingdom.
Postscript, containing a review of the controversy relating to thestate of population in England and Wales since the Revolution.
Additional essays.
I. Observations on the difference between the duration of434human life in towns and in country parishes and villages.
2. Proofs of the insalubrity of marshy si tua tions. In a letterto the Rev. Dr. Horsley ...
3. Short and easy theorems for finding, in all cases, the dif·ferences between the values of annuities payable yearly,
and of the same annuities payable half·yearly, quarterly, or
momently. Communicated in a letter to Sir John Pringle ...
Appendix.
1. Tables of weekly contributions, towards enabling the labour·
ing poor to provide support for themselves in sickness andold age.
2. Algebraical demonstrations of the questions in the first
volume; and also the solutions of several new problems.
Tables of the values of single and joint Jives according
to Mr. De Moivre's hypothesis.
Index.
-1771; 2-1772; 3-1772 D; 3-1773; -1781 D; 4-1783 (2V); 5-1792(2V, added Algebraical notes ... by W. Morgan); 6-1803 (2V); 7-1812
(2V).

176.

Price, Richard, 1723-1791.
A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals.
Particularly those relating to the original of our ideas of virtue,
its nature, foundation, reference to the Deity, obligation, subjectmatter, and sanctions. 2nd ed., corrected. By Richard Price ...
London: Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) ... 1769.
viii, 462p. (Publisher's advert. on p. ii)
22CID.
[Jessop, P.147J
Contents.Introduction.
1. Of the original of our ideas of right and wrong.
2. Of our ideas of the beauty and deformity of actions.
3. Of the origin of our desires and affections.
4. Of our ideas of good and ill desert.
5. Of the reference of morality to the Divine nature, the rectitude of our facuities, and the grounds of belief.
6. Of fitness, and moral obligation, and the various forms ofexpression, which have been used by different writers III
explaining morality.
435

7. Of the subject·matter of virtue, or its principal heads anddivisions.
8. Of the nature and essentials of virtue in practice, as dis·tinguished from absolute virtue; and particularly of the in·tention accompanying the practice of virtue, or the prin·ciple of action in a virtuous agent as such.
9. Of the different degrees of virtue and vice, and the methodsof estimating them. Of difficulties attending the practice of
virtue, the use of trial and discipline in forming reasonable
beings to virtue, and the essentials of a good and bad
character.
10. The account of morality given in this treatise applied tothe explication and proof of some of the principal doctrinesand facts of natural religion; particularly, the moral at·tributes of God, his moral government, and a future stateof rewards and punishments.
Conclusion.
'There is no wri ter to" whom I have so much reason to acknowledge
myself indebted, as Dr. Butler. .. '--Preface, p. iii.
This work is professedly directed against the doctrines of Hutcheson,
but the treatment as a whole is constructive rather than polemical. -cf.
DNB.
-1758; 2-1769; -1787; 3-1787 (with Appendix ... dissertation ... Deity).

177.

Price, Sir Uvedale, 1747-1829.
Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and thebeautiful; and, on the use of studying pictures, for the purposeof improving real landscape. By Uvedale Price ... London: Printed
for J. Mawman ... 1810.
3 vols.

Vol. 1.

22cm.

xxviii, 402P.

Contents.Essays on the picturesque &c. Pt. I Ch.I-9, Pt. II ch.I-4.
'I have in this Essay, undertaken to treat of two subjects, distinct,
but intimately, connected ... [Pt. I] In the first chapter, I have statedthe general reasons for studying the works of eminent landscape painters, and the principles of their art, with a view to the improvementof real scenery; and in order to shew how little those works, or the
j:lrinciples they contain, have been attended to. 1 have supposed thescenery in the landscape of a great painter, to be new modelled according to the taste of Mr. Brown. Having shewn this contrast between
dressed scenery, and a picture of the most ornamented kind, I have inthe second chapter compared together two real scenes; the one, in its picturesque, unimproved state; the other, when dressed and improved according to the present fashion. The picturesque circumstances detailed
in this scene, very naturally lead me in the third chapter, to investigate
their general causes and effects; and in that, and in the six following
chapters, 1 have traced them, as far as my observation would enable
me, through all the works of art and of nature... The two characterswhich Mr. Burke has so ably discussed, had, it is true, great need ofinvestigation; but they did not want to be recommended to our attention: what is really sublime, or beautiful, must always attract or command it; but the picturesque is much less obvious, less generally attracti ve, and had been totally neglected and despised by professed improvers:
my business therefore, was to draw forth, and to dwell upon thoseless observed beauties ... [Pt. II] The second part is built upon the foundations laid in the first; for 1 have examined the leading features ofmodern gardening, in its more extended sense, on the general princi pies
of painting: and 1 have shewn in several instances, especially in all that
relates to the banks of artificial water, how much the character of thepicturesque has been neglected, or sacrificed to a false idea of beauty.'-Preface, pp. vi-xi.

Vol. 2. xxxi, 408p.
Contents.An essay on artificial water, and on the method in which picturesque banks may be practically formed.
An essay on the decorations near the house.
An essay on architecture and buildings, as connected with scenery.

[I] 'The first step towards acquiring an exact taste and judgment in respect to visible obj ects, is to gain an accura te knowledgeof their leading characters; I, therefore, in my first Essay, traced
the character of the Picturesque, its qualities, effects, and attractions, as distinct from those of the sublime and beautiful, throughthe different works of nature and art.'[2] 'I have... in the second essay, examined the character of437

the old Italian gardens, and the principles on which, as I conceive, their excellence is founded: I have compared them withmodern gardens ... '[3] 'In the third essay... I have considered the character ofarchitecture and buildings as connected with the Scenery in which
they are placed. In pursuing this inquiry, I have taken myarguments and illustrations from the works of eminent painters, -Preface, pp. vi, Xl-Xl1.

Vol. 3. viii, 400P.
Contents.Mr. Repton's letter to Mr. Price.
A letter to H. Repton, on the application of the practice as wellas the principles of landscape-painting to landscape-gardening:
intended as a supplement to the 'Essay on the Picturesque.'By Vvedale Price, Esq.
A dialogue on the distinct characters of the picturesque and thebeautiful. In answer to the objections of Mr. Knight. Pre·
faced by an introductory essay on beauty; wi th remarks on
the ideas of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. Burke, upon that
subject.
Note annexed to the second edition of the landscape, a didactic
poem. By R. P. Knight, Esq.
Appendix.
'He [V. Price] opposed the system of Brown and Kent, arguing in favourof natural and picturesque beauty, and endeavouring to show that the
fashionable mode of laying out grounds was "at variance with all theprinciples of landscape-painting, and with the practice of all the mosteminent masters." These views were set out by Richard Payne Knight,
his friend and neighbour, in "The Landscape, a didactic Poem. Adressed to Vvedale Price" (1794; 2nd ed., 1795), and by himself in "An
Essay on the Picturesque;" 1794. Humphrey Repton acknowledged their
merits in a courteous "Letter to Vvedale Price," 1794, but claimed beautyfor "the milder scenes that have charms for common observers," andPrice replied with equal courtesy in "A letter to H. Repton" (1795; 2nded., 1798) ...
'A new edition, with considerable additions, of the first volume of"An essay on the picturesque" appeared in 1796, and was translated into
German ... in 1798; the second volume came out in 1798. A further
edition of the complete work was issued in 1810, in three volumes ... 'In 'Dialogue on the Distinct Characters of the Picturesque and thebeautiful' (1801), Price combated the objectiQns of Knight in the second
edi tion of the poem of 'The Landscape,' and criticised the opinions of
Sir Joshua Reynolds and Burke on the beautiful. A long note in thesecond volume (PP.383-4c6) of this edition dealt with Knight's remarksin the second edition of the 'Analytical Enquiry into Taste' on Price's
views relating to the temple of Vesta at Tivoli.-DNB.
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Hereford &; -1810 (3v); -1842 E.
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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.
An enquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening.
To which are added, Some observations on its theory andpractice, including a defence of the art. By H.-Repton... London: Printed for J. Taylor ... 1806.
22cm.
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178.

Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
An examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the human mind on
the principles of common sense, Dr. Beattie's Essay on thenature and immutability of truth, and Dr. Oswald's Appeal tocommon sense in behalf of religion. By Joseph Priestley ... London: Printed for J. Johnson ... 1774.
lxi, 371, [3] p. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [1-3]; Errata on p.
2lcm.
[Jessop, p.IOO][3])Contents.Introductory observations on the nature of judgment and reason·
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Remarks on Dr. Reid's theory.
The introduction.
I. A table of Dr. Reid's instinctive principles.
2. A view of the several fallacies by which Dr. Reid has439been misled in his inquiry.
3. Of Dr. Reid's objection to the doctrine of ideas fromtheir want of resemblance to their corresponding objects.
4. Of Dr. Reid's objection to Mr. Locke's division of ideas
into those of sensation and reflection.
5. Dr. Reid's position that sensation implies the belief ofthe present existence of external objects, and his view ofBerkley's theory particularly considered.
6. Mr. Locke's doctrine not so favourable to Berkley's theory
as Dr. Reid's.
7. A sophism of Mr. Hume's in pursuance of Berkley's theory
adopted by Dr. Reid.
8. Cases of the association of ideas which had escaped theattention of Dr. Reid.
9. Concessions of Dr. Reid and other circumstances, whichmight have led him to have recourse to the associationof ideas, rather than to his instinctive principles.
10. Of Dr. Reid's principle of credulity, and his idea of theprinciples of induction and analogy.
1 I. Of the natural signs of the passions.
12. Of the judgment we form concerning the seat of pain.
13. Miscellaneous observations.
Remarks on Dr. Beattie's Essay.
The introduction.
I. Of Dr. Beattie's account of the foundation of truth.
2. Of the testimony of the senses.
3. Dr. Beattie's view of Berkley's theory.
4. Dr. Beattie's account of the source of moral obligation,and of the fundamental principles of religion.
5. Dr. Beattie's view of the doctrine of necessity.
6. The conclusion.
Remarks on Dr. Oswald's Appeal.
The introduction.
I. Of the history of common sense.
2. Of the nature, limits, and general use of the principle ofcommon sense.
3. Of the sufficiency and universality of the principle of com·
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4. Of the natural imperfections and necessary culture of com·
mon sense.
5. Of the extensive application of the principle of common
sense to morals and religion.
6. Of the incroachments of common sense on the province of440reason.
7. Of Dr. Oswald's refutation of the argument in proof ofthe being of a God.
8. Of the application of common sense to various disquisitions
in morals and theology.
The- appendix
1. Of the resemblance between the doctrine of common sense,
and the principles of Dr. Price's Review of the questions
and difficulties in morals.
2. Of Mr. Harris's hypothesis concerning mind and ideas.
3. The correspondence of the author with Dr. Oswald and
Dr. Beattie, relating to this controversy.
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179.

Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.
Letters to a philosophical unbeliever. Part 1. Containing An examination of the principal objections to the doctrines of natural
religion, and especially those contained in the writings of Mr.
Burne. By Joseph Priestley ... Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell; andsold by 1. Johnson ... London. 1780.
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6. Arguments for the infini te benevolence of the Deity.
7. The evidence of the moral government of the world, andthe branches of natural religion.
8. Of the evidence for the future existence of man.
9. An examination of Mr. Hume's Dialogues on natural reli·gion.
10. An examination of Mr. Hume's Essay on a particular provi·
dence, and a future state.

1I. Of the system de la na ture.
12. An examination of some fallacious methods of demonstrating
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1;3. Of the ideas of cause and effect, and influence of Mr.
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Ramsay, [Andrew Michael,] The Chevalier, 1686-1743.
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2. Of the sacred Trinity.
3. Of the three manifestations of the Messiah or middle God of
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4. Of the three states of human nature degraded.
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Ray, John, 16z7-1705.
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Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common
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P.345, 346 duoContents.I. Introduction.
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6. Of seeing.
7. Conclusion.
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answer to Hume's scepticism. It apparently led to Reid's election in
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184. Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
The works of Thomas Reid ... Now fully collected, with selections from his unpublished letters. Preface, notes and supplementary dissertations, by Sir William Hamilton ... Prefixed, Stewart's
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A. Inquiry into the human mind [1764]
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3· Of tasting.
4· Of hearing.
5· Of touch.
6. Of seeing.
7. Conclusion.
B. Essays on the intellectual powers of man [1785]
I. Pre liminary .
2. Of the powers we have by means of our external senses.
3. Of memory.
4. Of conception.
5. Of abstraction.
6. Of judgment.
7. Of reasoning.
8. Of taste.

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509-1034, [I]p. (Errata on p. [I])Contents.C. Essays on the active powers of the human mind [1788]I.
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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818.
An enquiry into the changes of taste zn landscape gardening. To which
are added, Some observations on its theory and practice, including adefence of the art. By H. Repton ...
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Original letters of ]. ]. Rousseau, to M. de Malesherbes, M. D' alembert,

Madame la M. de Luxembourg, &c. &c. With a facsimile of Rousseau's hand-writing, and an original military air of his composition.
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Mackenzie ... With a copious appendix, containing some of the principal
documents on which the report is founded.
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185.

Rutherforth, T[homas] 1712-1771.
An essay on the nature and obligations of virture. By T. Rutherforth... Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham... for William
Thurlbourn... in Cambridge; and sold by W. Innys, C. Bathurst,
and J. Beecroft, in London. 1744.
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Contents.I. Introduction.
2. An enquiry into the notion of virtue.
3. The distinction between virtue and vice has a foundation innature, and is not merely notional. The Fable of the Bees
examined.
4. The terms moral good, moral agent, and moral obligation
explained.
5. No instinctive approbation of virtue is sufficient to oblige us
to the practice of it.
6. No eternal and necessary differences, no fitness or unfitnessof things can be the cause of moral obligation.
7. No obilgation to virtue unless it makes us happy. Every
man's own happiness is the end which nature teaches him
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to pursue.
8. Every man's own happiness IS the ultimate end which reason
teaches him to pursue.
9. We want a guide to teach us what our happiness is. No
happiness in the mere act of virtue, nor any annexed to it
by necessary consequence, can be the cause of moral obliga·
tion, exclusively of God and his providence.
10. The constant and uniform practice of virtue towards all
mankind become~ our duty, when revelation has informed usthat God will make us finally happy for it in a life after
this.
11. The revelations, that were made to mankind before the Law
of Moses, enforced their obedience to the will of God by
the promises of happiness in a life after this.
12. Obedience to the will of God was enforced under the Mo·
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by the promises of temporal happiness.
13. Christianity completes the patriarchal religion; and promises
happiness in a life to corne, upon easier conditions than the
Law of Moses had promised it.
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186.

S[ergeant], J[ohn] 1622-1707.
Transnatural philosophy, or Metaphysicks: demonstrating the essences and operations of all beings whatever, which gives the450principles to all other sciences. And shewing the perfect conformity of Christian faith to right reason, and the unreasonablenessof atheists, deists, anti-trinitarians, and other sectaries. With anappendix, giving a rational explication of the mystery of themost B. Trinity. By 1. S. London: Printed by the author, soldby D. Brown ... Abel Roper. .. and Tho. Metcalf ... I700.
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Bk. I. Of the essences of compound entities.
I. Of power and act.
2. Of the essences of bodies in common; and of the first, or
simple, bodies in particular.
3. Of the essences of mixt, vegetable, and animal bodies.
4. Of the essence of man.
5. Of the constitution and dissolution of individual bodies.
6. Some preliminaries for·lay'd, in order to demonstrate theimmortality of the soul.
7. Of the immateriality, and. consequently, the immortalityof man's soul.
II. Of pure acts.
l. Of the soul separated, and angels.
2. Of the existence, essence, knowledge, distinction and actionof angels.
III. Of the most pure actuality of Being, the adorable Deity.
Of the existence, essence. and attributes of God.
IV. Of the several operations of things; and of the manner (incommon) how the first Being administers His world.
A rational explication of the mystery of the most blessed Trinity.

187.

Seth, [Pringle-Pattison] Andrew, 1856-1938 .
.. .Scottish philosophy; a comparison of the Scottish and Germananswers to Hume. By Andrew Seth... 2nd ed. Edinburgh andLondon: William Blackwood ... 1890.
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Contents.I. The philosophical presupposlUons: Descartes and Locke.
2. The philosophica:l scepticism of David Hume.
3. Thomas Reid: sensation and perception.
4. Reid and Kant.
5. The relativity of knowledge: Kant and Hamilton.
6. The possibility of philosophy as system: Scottish philosophy
and Hegel.
This work is 'Balfour Philosophical Lectures, University of Edinburgh'by the author in 1885.

188.

[Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of] 1671-1713.
Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. In three volumes. Vol. I. I. A letter concerning enthusiasm. II. Sensus communis, or an essay on wit, &c. III. Soliloquy, or advice to an
author. Vol. II. IV. An inquiry concerning virtue and merit. V.
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(3) 'Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author' (1710).
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189.

[Shepherd, Lady Mary]
Enquiry respecting the relation of cause and effect; in which
the theories of Professors Brown, and Mr Burne, are examined;with a statement of such observations as are calculated to shew
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not having followed out in detail the train of Mr Brown's arguments
in support of his system, and refuted them seperately. I have, however,followed them out so far as, in my own opinion, completely to haveoverturned his fundamental principles, knowing that any support which
they fictitiously could have acquired from these arguments, would fallof course.
'The short Theory of Causation... must only be considered as an out·line, the great body of which is to be filled in with facts and arguments
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190.

[Shepherd, Lady Mary]
An essay upon the relation of cause and effect, controverting
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notice of only in as far as it forms a foundation for tile latter.'-Preface, p. I.

191. Shepherd, Lady Mary.
Essays on the r:erception of an external universe, and othersubjects connected with the doctrine of causation. By Lady
Mary Shepherd, author of "An essay upon the relation of cause
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Contents.Pt. I. An essay on the academical or sceptical philosophy as
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I. On continuous existence.
2. On external existence.
3. On independant existence.
4. Objection arising to the foregoing doctrines from the phe·nomena of dreams, further considered and answered.
5. On the na ture of objects when acting as ca uses.
6. On the use of the word Idea in this treatise, and cursory
observations on its nature and proper use in general. &c.
7. Application of the doctrine contained in the preceding essay
to the evidence of our belief in several opinions.
8. Recapitulation.
II. Essays containing inquiries relating to the Berkeleian theory;the comparison of mathematical and physical induction; theunion of colour and extension; the credibility of miracles; thenature of a final cause and of mind; the reason of single
and erect vision.
I. Consideration of the erroneous reasoning contained in Bishop
Berkeley's Principles of human knowledge.
2. Upon the nature of the five organs of sense, and theirmanner of action with regard to external perceptionagainst Bp. Berkeley.
3. That the external causes which determine the various
perceptions of sense, are not the immediate actions ofDeity-against Bp. Berkeley.
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4. Upon Mr. Dugald Stewart's, and Dr. Reid's philosophy,
as it regards the union of colour with extension; and theperception of the external primary qualities of matter-against
Mr. D. Stewart.

s. That mathematical demonstration,and physical induction
are founded upon similar principles of evidence-against
Mr. Dugald Stewart.
6. That sensible qualities cannot be causes-against Mr. Hume.
7. That children can perceive the relation of cauie and effect,
on account of their being capable of a latent comparison ofideas-against Mr. Hume.
8. That human testimony is of sufficient force to establish thecredibility of miracles-against Mr. Hume.
9. On the objection to final causes as ends on account of theefficiency of means-Lord Bacon's ideas concerning a final
cause noticed.
On the eternity of mind.
On the immateriality of mind.
12. On the use of organization in animal existence, especially as
it relates to the existence and operation of mental qualities.
13. On the association of ideas, and the interaction of mind andbody.
14. The reason why VIe see objects single instead of double, anderect instead of inverted-against Dr. Reid.
10.
II.

'It was my intention in a former publication to have introduced anappendix containing some inquiry into the nature and proof of the existence of matter, and of an external universe ... but finding the notions
which suggested themselves would exceed the limits of that work ... , I
have ventured to unfold them in the following essay.
'Now the question concerning the nature and reality of external existence can only receive a satisfactory answer, derived from a knowledgeof the relation of Cause and Effect. The conclusions therefore, deduced
from some of the reasonings used in the former essay are the instruments
employed in conducting the argument in this ... , if by carefully defining
the nature of internal and external existence of objects percieved and unperceived, we gain thereby clearer ideas of the method and action of causation ... Thus showing there are two sets of OBJECTS in nature; viz. the
EXTERIOR OBJECTS, the acting causes of nature, independant of the senses; the INTERNAL OBJECTS, the sensible effects of these, when meetingwith the human senses, and determining their specific qualities upon
the mind.' -Preface, pp. xi-xiv.

4S6

192. Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-17 8 8.
A course of lectures on elocution: together with Two dissertations on language; and some other tracts relative to those subjects. By Thomas Sheridan... London: Printed by W. Strahan,
for A. Millar, R. and 1. Dodsley, T. Davies, C. Henderson, J. Wilkie, and E;Dilly. 1762.
28cm.
xviii, [x], 262p.
Contents.Lectures 1-7.
Two dissertations on the state of language in different nations.
1. On the state of language in old Greece and the means bywhich it was brought to perfection.
2. On the state of language in other countries, but moreparticularly in our own, and its consequences.
Heads of a plan for the improvement of elocution; and for pro·moting the study of the English language; in order to therefining, ascertaining, and reducing it to a standard; together
wi th some arguments, to enforce the necessity of carrying
such a plan into execution.
A dissertation on the causes of the difficulties, which occur, inlearning the English tongue. With a scheme for publishing
an English grammar and dictionary, upon a plan entirely new ...
Addressed to a certain noble Lord.
Sheridan lectured on elocution with great success in London, Bristol,Bath, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh. -d. DNB.

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193.

[Skelton, Philip] 1707-1787.
Deism revealed, or, The attack on Christianity candidly reviewed
in its real merits, as they stand in the celebrated writings of
Lord Hertert, Lord Shaftesbury, Hobbes, Toland, Tindal, Collins, Mandeville, Dodwell, Woolston, Morgan, Chubb, and others.
2nd ed. With amendments ... In two volumes ... London: Printed
for A. MiHar. .. 1751.
457

Z

vols.

Vol. 1.

17cm.

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Contents.Dialogues 1-4.

Vol. 2.

[z], 3zoP. (Publisher's advert. on pp. [I-Z])

Contents.Dialogues 5-8.
'He [Skelton] went to London in 1748 to publish "Ophiomaches, orDeism revealed." Andrew Millar, the bookseller, showed the manuscript
to David Hume, who advised him to print it, which he did, giving Skel·ton about zoo t., most of which the author spent on books in London.
A second edition appeared in 1751, and the book was generously com·mended by Bishop Thomas Sherlock. It contains eight conversations
between Dechaine and Cunningham, deists; Shepherd, a clergyman, andTempleton, a layman, uncertain in his belief, but inclined to Christianity.
Collins and Toland, Chubb and Shaftesbury, are sharply dealt with;
but the work lacks continuity, and much is sacrificed to the dialogue
form.' -DNB.
-1751; z-1751 (zv).

194.

Smellie, William, 1740-1795.
The philosophy of natural history. By William Smellie ... Edinburgh: Printed for the heirs of Charles Elliot; and C. Elliot and
T. Kay, T. Cadell, and G. G.]. & ]. Robinsons, London. [1790/99]
Z vols.

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xiii,547p. (Errata on the leaf next to p. xiii)

179 0 •

Contents.I. Of the
distinguishing characters of animals, plants,
minerals ...
2. Of the organs and general structure of animals ...
3. Of the respiration of animals ...
4. Of the motions of animals .. .
5. Of the instinct of animals .. .
6. Of the senses in general. ..
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and

7. Of the infancy of animals ...
8. Of the food of animals .. .
9. Of the sexes of animals .. .
10. Of puberty ...
II. Of love ...
I~. Of the transformation of animals ...
13. Of the habitations of animals .. .
14. Of the hostilities of animals .. .
15. Of the artifices of animals in catching their prey and escaping
their enemies ...
16. Of the society of animals .. .
17. Of the docility of animals .. .
18. Of the characters and dispositions of animals ...
19. Of the principle of imitation in animals ...
20. Of the migration of animals ...
21. Of the longevity and death of animals ...
. 22. Of the progressive scale of animals ...

Vol. 2.

. .. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute, J. Dickson,

w. Creech, E. Balfour, P. Hill, A. Lawrie, Manners andMiller, R. Jack, and Alex. Smellie ... Edinburgh; and G.
G. and J. Robinson ... T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, and
T. Kay... London. 1799.
xii,5I5P·
Contents.I. Of method.
2. Of the multiplication and continuation of species.
3. (i) Of mules, or the anomalous productions of nature ...
(ii) Of a plan for raising the raw material of silk in Britain ...
4. Of the varieties of man which have hitherto been discoveredin every region of the globe ...
5. Of sleep and dreaming.
6. Of those animals who sleep, or continue in a torpid state,during winter.
7. Of the language of beasts.
8. Some remarks on the comparative pleasures and sufferings ofanimals.
9. Of poisonous animals.
Conclusion of the philosophy of natural history.
'About fifteen

years ago, in a conversation with the late worthy,459

respectable, and ingenious Lord Kames, upon the too general neglect ofnatural knowledge, his Lordship suggested the idea of composing a bookon the PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL HISTORY. In a work of this kind, heproposed that the productions of Nature, which to us are almost infinite,should, instead of being treated of individually, be arranged undergeneral heads; that, in each of these divisions, the known facts, as well
as reasonings, should be collected and methodised in the form of regulardiscourses; that as few technical terms as possible should be employed;
and that all the useful and amusing views arising from the different
subjects should be exhibited in such a manner as to convey both pleasureand information.
'This task his Lordship was pleased to think me not altogether
unqualified to attempt. The idea struck me ... ' --Preface to vol. I,
pp. v-vi .
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195. Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
By Adam Smith...

In three volumes ... 8th ed. London: Printed

for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell· jun. and W. Davies (Successors to
Mr. Cadell) ... 1796.
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460

Contents.Introduction and plan of the work.
Bk. I. Of the causes of improvement in the productive powers oflabour, and of the order according to which its produce
naturally distributed among the different ranks of thepeople. (ch. I-II)
II. Of the nature, accumulation, and employment of stock.
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Contents.Bk. II. (continued) (ch. 3-5)
III. Of the different progress of opulence in different nations.
(ch. 1-4)
IV. Of systems of political oeconomy. (ch. 1-8)

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[Dalrymple, Sir David, Lord Hailes] 1726-1792.
Adami Smithi, LL. D. ad Gulielmum Strahanum, Armigerum, de rebus
novissimis Davidis Humei, epistola, nunc primum Latine reddita. 1788.
See 1-86.

196.

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
The theory of moral sentiments; or, An essay towards an analysis of the principles by which men naturally judge concerning
the conduct and character, first of their neighbours, and afterwards of themselves. To which is added, A dissertation on theorigin of languages. By Adam Smith... 6th ed., with considerable additions and corrections. In two volumes ... London :~Printed
for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... ; and W. Creech, and J Bell ...
at Edinburgh. 1790.
2 vols. 22cm.
[Jessop, p. 170f.]
Vol. 1.

xv, 488p.

Contents.Pt. 1. Of the propriety of action.
II. Of merit and demerit; or of the objects of reward andpunishment.
III .. Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own
sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty.

IV.

Vol. 2.

Of the effect of utility upon the sentiment of approbation.

viii, 462p.
p. vii incorrectly numbered vi.

Contents.Pt. V. Of the influence of custom and fashion upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disapprobation.
VI. Of the character of virtue.
VII. Of systems of moral philosophy.
Considerations concerning the first formation of languages, andthe different genius of original and compounded languages-1759 E; -1759; 2-1761; 3-1767; 4-1774; 7-1 777(2V) ; 5-178 1; 6- 1790
(2V); 7-1 792(2V) ; -1793(2V) Basel; 8-1797(2V); 9-18ol(2V); 10-1 804(2V); II-1808(2V) E; 12-1809 G; 11-1812; -1813(2V) E; -1821(2V) E;-1822(2V) E; -1825(2V); -1843 Calcutta; -1853; -1854 G; -1861;-1871; -1880; -1887; -1892 & NY.
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NY.
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German: -1770 Braunschweig; -1791 (2V) Leipzig.

197.

[Smith, Elisha] d. 1739.
The cure of deism: or, The mediatorial scheme by Jesus Christ
the only true religion. In answer to the objections started, andto the very imperfect account of the religion of nature, and of
Christianity, given by the two oracles of deism, the author of
Christianity as old as the Creation; and the author of The
characteristicks. With an application to papists, Quakers, Socinians, and scepticks. And an appendix, in answer to a bookentitled, The moral philosopher, or a dialogue between a
Christian deist and a Christian Jew. In two volumes. 2nd ed.,corrected and improved with large additions. In a new method.
By a country clergyman ... London: Printed for the author; andsold by W. Innys and R. Manby ... Price 1'0 s. 1737.
2 vols.
2lcm.

Vol. 1.

[xv], xxxii, 431P.

Contents I.
The religion of the end.
2. The religion of the means.
3. Of prayer, the other means of natural religion.
4· Of baptism.
5. Of the Lord's Supper.
6. The great benefit and service of baptism and the Lord's
Supper, in carrying on the means, and end of natural
religion; in answer to our author's shameful misrepresenta·
tions.
7. The choice and appointment of the Mediator.
8. The nature or person of the Mediator.
9· The offices of the Mediator.
10.
Of the priestly office of our Mediator upon earth.
II.
The priestly office of our Mediator upon earth continued.
12 The intercession of our Mediator in heaven: where he reigns
a king, 'till he comes to judge the world.
13. Of the Mediator as king.
14. Of the Mediator as judge.

Vol. 2. [viiij,3S2,84, [28]p. (Errata on p.72 of Appendix)
Contents.15. Of the inward aids of the Christian religion.
16. Of external motives.
17. Of helps and instruments.
18. Of the permanent efficacy and obligation of faith in theMediator.
19. A proper answer to the deist objecting the want of uni·versality to the Christian religion.
Appendix.
-1736 (2V); 2-1737 (2V); 3-1739 (2V); 3-1740 (really 4th ed.).

Some late opinions concerning the foundation of morality
examined. In a letter to a friend. London: Printed for R. Dodsley ...
and M.Cooper ...
See 111-151.

198.

[Spearman, Robert] 1703-1761.
An enquiry ~fter philosophy and theology. Tending to show
when and whence mankind came at the knowledge of these two
important points. Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Donaldson,
Murray, and Cochran. Sold by A. Kincaid & A. Donaldson. 1755.
425P. 6 plates. 2lcm.
Contents.Introduction.
Ch. 1-6.
if we imagine that philosophy is discoverable by our naturalabilities without revelation, or if anyone fancies that he has discovered
the true system of nature; this introduces another subsequent imagination,that by reason we can search out God, and find out the Almighty toperfection; and consequence of this, again, is a conceit, that we have noneed of revelation; and this begets a neglect of the Scriptures ...
'And hence it has come to pass, that of late the Scriptures have met
with so general a disregard, while at the same time a kind of veneration
has been paid to the gravitarian scheme ... ; and youth are, now·a·days,
educated with those notions In their heads ... To remove this, is the aim
and design of this enquiry. I shall therefore, in the course of thesesheets, endea vour to shew,'1st, that the Newtonian philosophy has not fixed and determined,
to the certainty they pretend, the laws and causes of the several opera·
tions and phenomena of nature; that the cause of motion, the grandagent of nature, is ... yet unknown ...
'That this grand secret... I mean the cause of motion, is plainly
revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures ...
'And, 2 diy, upon the principles of the Scripture·philosophy, shallattempt to give an account of the motion of the earth round the sun
and of the agents which perform it; of the courses of the moon ... ;together with some remarks upon Sir Isaac Newton's doctrine of lightand colours, designed to shew, that the experiments of that great man,upon that subtile fluid, manifestly tend to illustrate and confirm theprincipia of Moses.
'And, 3dly, I shall shew, that this material world is an emblem ortype of the immaterial; that it was framed so as to give us ideas ... ofthe essence, existence, and personality of God .. .' -Introduction, PP.24-27·-1755 E; 2-1757 D; -1855 E.

199.

Squire, Samuel, Bp. of St. David, 1714-1766.
Indifference for religion inexcusable; or, A serious, impartial
and practical review of the certainty, importance, and harmonyof religion both natural and revealed ... By Samuel Squire ... 2nd
ed. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ... 17S9. [Price Bound
two Shillings and six Pence.][xxii], 186, [S]p.
18cm.
Contents.Sections. 1-89.
'To lay before the attentive and well-disposed reader a plain. distinct
and connected review of the chief principles of religion both naturaland revealed; to describe the evidence upon which they are founded; topoint out the essential laws of moral action, and to furnish the strongest
motives to live agreeably to those laws, is the intention of the following
pages. They are designed as a remedy against that indifference, withregard to God and his worship... by evincing, that the great doctrinesand duties of religion are inseparably connected with the existence of thedivine Being, the uncorrupted dictates Of right reason, our own truest
happiness, and the lasting interests of society.' - Preface, p. [vii]-1758; 2-1759; 3-1763; German: 1764 Leipzig.

Stebbing, Henry, 1799-1883.
On the study of history.
See 1-69 (1)200.

Stevenson, William, 1683 ?-1760.
Familiar letters on free-agency. By William Stevenson ... London:
Printed for J. Whiston and B. White ... 1760.
[ii],144p.
2lcm.
Contents.Letters 1-5.
'The first, second, and third of the following letters were sent,
several years ago, to an ingenious and worthy gentleman, now deceased... , the author of them... hopes that his publishing them now, mayhelp to put some stop to that wild sceptlCISm, daring impiety, andconsequent profligacy of manners... The other letters were lately sent
to a judicious friend... The subject of them will be allowed by all to
be of the utmost importance. And though the author's familiar wayof treating it may not appear to every·one so clear and convincing as
he imagines, he hopes however, that by setting the point of free·agency
in so many different views, that almost every Reader may be able tojudge of the chief reasons upon which it is firmly established .. .' Preface, pp. [i-ii]-1760.

201.

[Stewart, DugaldJ 1753-1828.
Account of the life and writings of William Robertson... [Readbefore the Royal Society of Edinburgh. J London: Printed by
A. Strahan ... for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies ... and E. Balfour,
Edinburgh. 180!.
iv,307,[2Jp.(Publisher's advert. on p.I. Errata on p.2)
23cm.
[Jessop, P.178J
See 111-202.

-ISoI; -ISoI; 2-1802.

202. Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828.
Biographical memoirs, of Adam Smith ... of William Robertsonand of Thomas Reid... Read before the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. Now collected into one volume, with some addi·
tional notes. By Dugald Stewart... Edinburgh: Printed by
George Ramsay... for W. Creech, Bell and Bradfute, and A.
Constable... Edinburgh; - F. and C. Rivingtons, Otridge... T.
Payne, F. Wingrave, R. Lea, J. Nunn, Gray ... J. Cuthell, Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Cadell and Davies, John Richardson, J. Carpenter, B. Crosby, E. Jeffery, J. Murray, J. and A.
Arch, Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, J. Stewart, J. Booker, S.
Bagster, J. Harding, J. Mackinlay.
R. H. Evans, R. Floyer, J.
Mawman, J. Asperne, and R. Scholey, London. 18II.
x,532,[IJp. (Errata on p.[I])3 plates. 28cm.
[Jessop, P.179J

'Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith,' originally in'Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh' in 1793.
'Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson,' originally in'Transactions' in 1793.
'Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid,' originally in'Transactions' in 1802.
ASSOCIATION COPY. From the library of John Brown of Haddington, with his autograph on the title·page.

-1811 E; -18S8 E.

203.

Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828.
Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. By Dugald
Stewart... London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies... and
A. Constable ... Edinburgh.
2 vols. 22cm.
[Jessop, P.I77]

Vol. 1. 6th ed., 1818.
xii,5 85p.
Contents.Introduction.
I. Of the powers of external perception.
2. Of attention.
3. Of conception.
4. Of abstraction.
S. Of the association of ideas.
6. Of memory.
7. Of imagination.
Notes and illustrations.

Vol. 2.

2nd ed. Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay... for
Archibald Constable ... Edinburgh; and Cadell and Davies, London. 1816.
xV,595P' (Errata on the last leaf)

Contents.Pt. II. Of reason, or the understanding properly so called; andthe various faculties and operations more immediately connected with it.

Preliminary observations on the vagueness and ambiguity of thecommon philosophical language relative to this part of ourconstitution.-Reason and reasoning,-understanding,-intellect,-judgment, &c.
1. Of the fundamental laws of human belief; or the primaryelements of human reason.
2. Of reasoning and of deductive evidence.
3. Of the Aristotelian logic.
4. Of the method of inquiry pointed out in the experimental
or inductive logic.
Notes and illustrations.
Appendix.
Vol. I appeared in 1792; vol. 2, in 1814; vol. 3, in 1827.
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204.

[Stewart, Dugald]

1753-1828.

Outlines of moral philosophy. For the use of students in the
University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed for William
Creech. And T. Cadell, London. 1793.
xiv,30zP. zzcm.
[Jessop, P.177f.]
P.3OO, 301 incorrectly numbered 400, 401 respectively.
Contents.Introduction.
Pt. I. Of the intellectual powers of man.
II. Of the active and of the moral powers of man.
1. Classification and analysis of our active and moral powers.
2. Of the various branches of our duty.

Appendix.
, "Outlines of Moral Philosophy," 1793; 4th edit. 1818 (a full syllabusof lectures, divided in the 'Works' into three parts, in vols. ii. vi. andviii., prefixed to corresponding lectures). The "Outlines" were translated
by Jouffroy in 1826.'-DNB.
-1793 E; -1808 E; -1818 E; 7-1844 E; -1845 E; -1865; -1869,
9-1$76; 13-1885; 14-1888 ; 19-1897.

205. Stillingfieet, Edward, Bp. of Worcester, 1635-1699.
Origines sacrae: or A rational account of the grounds of naturaland reveal'd religion. 7th ed. To which is now added part ofanother book upon the same subject written A. D. 1697. Publish'd from the author's own manuscript. By ... Edward Stillingfleet... Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, for Henry
Mortlock... 1702.
front. (port.) 35cm.
[Specific title-page]
Origines sacrae: or A rational account of the grounds of theChristian faith, as to the ·truth and divine authority of the
Scriptures, and the matters therein contain'd. By Edward
Stillingfleet... Cambridge: Printed at the University-Press, forHenry Mortlock... 1701.
[xXiV],424(i.e.4 1 4)p.
pp. 329-338 omitted; p. 149, 243 incorrectly numbered 197, 242 res·pectively.
Contents.Bk. 1.
I. The obscurity and defect of ancient history.
2. Of the Phcenician and .!Egyptian history.
3. Of the Chaldean history.
4. The defect of the Grecian history.
5. The general uncertainty of heathen chronology.
6. The uncertain epochas of heathen chronology.

II.
I.

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The certainty of the writings of Moses.

Moses's certain knowledge of what he writ.
3. Moses's fidelity and integrity proved.
4. The fidelity of the prophets succeeding Moses.
5. The tryal of the prophetical doctrine.
6. The tryal of prophetical predictions and miracles.
7. The eternity of the Law of Moses discussed.
8. General hypotheses concerning the truth of the doctrine ofChrist.
9. The rational evidence of the truth of Christian religion
from miracles.
10. The difference of true miracles from false.
2.

III.
Of the being of God.
Of the origin of the universe.
3. Of the origin of evil.
4. Of the origin of nations.
5. Of the origin of the heathen mythology.
6. Of the excellency of the Scriptures.
I.

2.

[Specific title-page]
Origines sacrae: or A rational account of the grounds of naturaland reveal'd religion: wherein the foundations of religion, andthe authority of the Scriptures are asserted and clear'd; with ananswer to the modern objections of atheists and deists. In fivebooks. By... Edward... Cambridge: Printed at the UniversityPress, for Henry Mortlock ... 1701.
[iv], 126, [z]p (Publisher'S advert. on pp.[I-Z])
Contents.Bk.1. A general discourse in vindication of the principles ofnatural and reveal'd religion; with an answer to the objections of atheists and deists.
I. The general prejudices against religion in our age examin'd,and the old atheistical hypotheses consider'd.
z. The modern atheistical hypothesis examin'd, and the unreasonableness of them shew'd.
This is an apologetic work on an historical basis, asserting the divine
authori ty of the Scriptures.
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(2V) O.
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206.

Stuart, Gilbert, 1742-1786.
A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudeness torefinement: or, Inquiries concerning the history of law, government, and manners. By Gilbert Stuart... London: Printed forLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and for Bell &Bradfute, Edinburgh. 1813.
xv, 351P. 24cm.
Contents.Bk. I.
I.
Of the Germans before they left their woods.
2.
The political establishments of the barbarians after they
had made conquests.

II.
Of the spirit of fiefs.
The progression of fiefs ...
3. Of the military power of a feudal kingdom.
4. The fall of chivalry as a military establishment. ..
5. The military arrangements which prevailed in the declensionof fiefs and chivalry.
The introduction of standingarmeis.
6. Of manners and refinement. The dissolute conduct of thewomen amidst the decline and oppressions of fiefs.
The
general corruption which invades society.
Appendix 1-6.
I.

2.

'In this dissertation the author followed the guidance of Montesquieu.. .'-DNB.
-1778 E; -1778 D; 2-1782; 2-1783; 2-1792 E; -1797 Basel; -1813.
French: -1789 (2V) Paris.

[Stuart, John]

1751-1827.

A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen ...
See 1-86.

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207.

[Sykes, Arthur Ashley] 1684?-I756.
The two questions, previous to Dr Middleton's Free enquiry
impartially considered: viz. What are the grounds upon which
the credibility of miracles, in general, is founded? And uponw hat grounds the miracles of the Gospel, in particular, arecredible? Part II. In which the evidence for the miracles ofthe primitive church is fully examined into: and the miraclesof the Gospel are shewn to have sure marks of credibility ...
London: Printed for J. andP. Knapton ... 1752.
ix,[v],~09,[I] p.(Publisher's advert. on p.[I]. Errata on p.
209)
2lcm.
'The Necessity of a careful Examination into whatever is pretended to
be Miraculous, in order to our Assent to such Facts, being frequently urged
in the following Papers; and those Miracles, which are said to have been
wrought in the Primitive Church, being treated as not credible, because
they appear not to have been examined with proper Care, it may be rightto observe here, in order to obviate all objection to the Scripture Miracles,that many of them were in Fact examined into by industrious and saga·
cious Enemies: And that Many were converted to the Belief of Jesus's
being The Christ from the Sight of them. Should it nOW be said, that it
cannot be proved, that All of the Miracles of Christ were thus criticallyexamined into, and likewise that Many Opposers were made Converts in thePrimitive Church by the Sight of Miracles then done, - - To this last, I
refer the Reader to what is hereafter said. But as to the former, I answer,
That the Gospel Miracles are not left to rhe Evidence that arises merely
from their having been examined, in order to establish their Credibility,
but they have All an Evidence of their own, peculiar to themselves, which
all who are able to search the Scriptures, and can look into what has
passed in the World since the Days of Christ can say - - We ourselves
have seen. And had the Miracles Of the Primitve Church been attended
with the same Circumstance in their Favour, which the Scripture Miracles
have, They too had been credible, if attested as the Scripture Miracles are,even without that critical Examination which is now so necessary, and somuch insisted on. For when a sure Evidence appears, that anyone is undera Supernatural Assistance, or Influence; and he is reported by honest
and able Persons to have performed miraculous Cures, and to have given
Instances Of a Divine Interposition, these latter Facts, not expressly said to
be examined into, become credible, as well as the Former. We see ourselves
the tlain Effects of a Supernatural Power; and the POlver which produced
what we do see, is sufficient to prove what we do not see, but which isonly attested to us. And we may believe St John, who tells us, That the473

Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of ProPhecy.'-Preface, pp. iii-iv.
'Sykes was a voluminous controversial writer of the school of Hoadly.
The catalogue of his works, chiefly pamphlets, prefixed to Disney's"Memoirs" of him, fills fourteen octavo pages, and there are overeighty entries in his name in the "British Museum Catalogue".' -DNB.
-1750; -1752; -1752 (pt2).

208.

[Synge, Edward] 16S9-1741.
A gentleman's religion: .in three parts. The first contains theprinciples of natural religion. The second and third, thedoctrines of Christianity, both as to faith and practice. With anappendix, wherein it is proved, that nothing contrary to ourreason can possibly be the object of our belief: but that it isno just exception against some of the doctrines of Christianity,that they are above our reason. sth ed. London: Printed forthe executors of R. Sare, and sold by R. Williamson ... 1726.
16cm.
[vi], 301, [S]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp.[I-S])
Contents.Pt. I. In which the truth of Christianity in general is vindicated;
its simplicity asserted; and some introductory rules, for the
discovering of its particular doctrines and precepts, are propos'd.
II/III. In which the nature of the Christian religion is particularly
enquir'd into, and explain'd.
Appendix. In which it is prov'd that nothing contrary to ourreason can possibly be the object of our belief; but that it is nojust exception against some of the doctrines of Christianity,
tha t they are above our reason.
-1693 (pt I); -1697 (pt 2/3); -1698; -1703; 2-1705; 3-1710; 4-1710;
5-1726; 6-1730 D: 6-1736; 6-1737; 7-1752: 8:-1778; -1800 O.

209.

Temple, Sir WiIlam, 1628-1699.
The works of Sir William Temple ... complete. In four volumes.
To which is prefixed, The life and character of the author,
considerably enlarged. A new edition ... London: Printed for F. C.
and J. Rivington; F. Wingrave; R. Lea; Longman ... ; White,
Cochrane ... S. Bagster; J. Mawman; J. Faulder; J. Booker; Clarke474

... ; ]. Hatchard; R. Baldwin; and Cradock and Joy.
S. Hamilton ... 1814.
4 vols. 23cm.

Vol. 1.

Printed by

xxvii, 496p.

Contents.Life of the author.
An essay on the original and nature of government [1672]
Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
I.
Of the rise and progress of the United Provinces.
2.
Of their government.
3. Of their situation.
4. Of their people and dispositions.
5. Of their religion.
6. Of their trade.
7. Of their forces and revenues.
8. The causes of their fall in 1672.
Letters containing an account of the most important transactions
that passed in Christendom from 1665 to 1672.

Vol. 2.

[iJ, S86p.

Contents.Sequel of the author's letters, serving to supply the loss of thefirst part of his memoirs.
A survey of the constitutions and interests of the Empire,
Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Holland, France, and Flanders In
1671.
A letter to the Duke of Ormond, written in October 1673, upon
his Grace's desiring the author to give him his opinion, what
was to be done in that conjuncture.
Memoirs part II. What passed in Christendom from the war
begun 1672 to the peace concluded 1679.
Memoirs part III. From the peace concluded 1679, to the timeof the author's retirement from public business.
Appendix to the memoirs part III.

Vol. 3.

iv, S6op.

Contents.An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland.
475

Of popular discontents.
An introduction to the history of England.
Upon the Garden of Epicurus; or, Of gardening.
An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa.
Of health and long life.
Of heroic virtue.
Of poetry.
An essay upon ancient and modern learning.
Thoughts upon reviewing that essay.
To the Countess of Essex; upon her grief occasioned by the lossof her only dauthter-Of the excesses of grief.
Of the different conditions of life and fortune.
Heads of an essay on conversation.
Poetry.

V01. 4.

ii, 543p.
P.271 incorrectly numbered 17I.
gathered.

P·145, 321, 337 disorderly

Contents.Letters to the King, the Prince of Orange, &c.
Temple composed his 'Essay on the Original and Nature of Govern·ment,' during 167I (first publisned in 1680). This is notable not only forsome fine imageS and sensible definitions, but as anticipating the viewexpressed nine years later in Filmer's 'Patriarcha' that the state is theoutcome of patriarchal system rather than of the 'social compact' as
conceived by Hooker or Hobbes. At the same time he manages toavoid the worse extravagances of Filmer. In 1672 he penned his'Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands' (London,
1672; in Dutch, London, 1673; 3rd ed. 1676, 8th 1747; in French, The
Hague 1685, Utrecht 1697), which was and deserved to be extremely
popular, both at home and abroad. Temple used to declare that he was
influenced in some points of style by the 'Europa'! Speculum' of Sir
Edwin Sandys. If so, he was probably influenced no less by Sandys's
large view of toleration. In the fourth chapter, upon the disposition of
the Hollanders, Temple displays a limpid humour and much quiet
penetration; but it is curious that he never so much as mentions Dutch
painting, then at its apogee.
Jean Ie Clerc, while pointing out someerrors, praised the work as a whole as the best thing of its kind extant.
His power as a rhetorical wri ter was displayed about the same time in
his 'Letter to the Countess of Essex.'

'During the whole period of his retirement since 1681, Temple had
been elaborating those essays upon which his literary reputation now
chiefly rests. Six of these appeared in 1680 under the title of "Miscellanea." The second and more noteworthy volume appeared in 1692 (the"Miscellanea" in two parts appeared united, 4th ed. 1693, 5th 1697,
revised Glasgow 1761, Utrecht 1693)... The second part included theessays of gardening, of heroic virtue, of poetry, and the famous essayon "Ancient and Modern Learning." The vein of classical eulogy andreminiscence which Temple here affects was adopted merely as an
elegant prolusion upon the passing controversy among the wits of France
as to the relative merits of ancient and modern writers. First broached
as a paradox by Fontenelle, the thesis had been maintained in earnest
by Perrault, and Temple now joined hands fraternally with Boileau incontesting some of Perrault's rash assertions. The essay was in fact
light, suggestive, and purely literary; it scarcely aimed at being critical,so that much of the serious criticism which has been bestowed on it isquite inept. William Wotton was the first to enter the lists against
Temple with his "Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning," publishedin 1694. Charles Boyle, by way of championing the polite essayist, set
to work to edit the "Epistles to Phalaris" which Temple professed toregard as genuine. It was when this conjecture had been ruthlessly
demolished by the learned sarcasm of Bentley that Swift came to theaid of his patron with the most enduring relic of the controversy, "TheBattle of the Books." Temple had begun a reply to Bentley, but he was
now happily spared the risk of publication.
'Temple's next literary venture was "An Introduction to the History
of England" (London, 1695 8vo, 1699, 1708; in French, Amsterdam, 1695,
12mo), which he intended as an incitement to the production of a general
history of the nation, such as those of De Serres or Mezeray for France,
Mariana for Spain, or De Mexia for the empire. The introduction
concludes with an account of the Norman conquest and a eulogy of
Wil1iam I, in which many saw intended a compliment to WiJliam III,the more so as the putting aside of Edgar the Atheling was carefully
condoned. The presumption of this work, which abounds in historicalerrors, was perhaps not inferior to that which prompted the "Essay on
Ancient and Modern Learning." Fortunately for Temple, no historical
Bentleys were Jiving to take exception to his statements. Among thelighter productions of his years of retirement was a privately printed
volume of "Poems by Sir W. T.," containing Virgil's last eclogue, a few
odes and imitations of Horace, and Aristreus, a version of the 4th
Georgic of Virgil - most of the pieces written professedly by requestof Lady Temple or Lady Giffard ...
"As a writer, apart from a weakness for gallicisms, which he admitted
477

and tried to correct, his prose marked a development in the direction ofrefinement, rhythmical finish, and emancipation from the pedantry oflong parentheses and superfluous quotations. He was also a pioneer inthe judicious use of the paragraph ... Swift gave expression to the belief
that he had advanced our English tongue to as great a perfection as it
could ",ell bear ; ... Dr. Johnson spoke of him as the first writer to givecadence to the English language; and Lamb praises him delightfully in
his "Essay on the Genteel Style." During the eighteenth century his
essays ",ere used as exercises and models, and down to Sir James
Macintosh the best judges had the highest opinion of Temples's style.'-DNB .
. 1720 (2V); -1731 (2V): -1740 (2V) with 'Life' by Lady Giffard);-1750 (2V); -1754 (4v) E; -1757 (4v); -1770 (4v); -1814 (4v).

210.

Thompson, William.
An enquiry into the natural state of man. By William Thompson ... Dublin: Printed by M. Rhames ... 1743.
IS,[36],344p. (Errata on p.16)
21cm.
'If, then, upon the sum of the argument, I have given competentevidence from reason and experience, that religion is so far frombeing insignificant and useless to the true ends of government,that government cannot subsist without it: That whatever
motives may force men into societies, it is only the belief of asuperintending Deity, and religion, which is the natural consequence of that belief, which makes a cement, able to unite societies
in any manner of stability, I think I need not say any thingin answer to the nominal diests, who pretend, that religion is
not only useless, but hurtful...'-p. 343.
-1743 D.

211.

Tillotson, John, Abp. afCanterbury, 1630-1694.
The works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... : containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions.
Together with the rule of faith. Being all that were publishedby His Grace himself, and now collected into one volume. To
which is added, An alphabetical table of the principal matters.
6th ed. London: Printed for W. Rogers ... and T. Goodwin... ].

Nicholson ... and B. Tooke ... 1710.
[xx], 755, [19]P.
front. (port.)

3 2cm .

P·399 incorrectly numbered 339.
contents.Sermons I-54.

[Specific title-page]The rule of faith. Or, An answer to the treatise of Mr. 1. S.
Entitled Sure-footing, &c. By His Grace John, late Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury. 9th ed., corrected. London: Printed
by Sam. Buckley, for William Rogers, Timothy Goodwin, andBenjamin Tooke ... and for John Nicholson ... 1710.
Contents.Pt. I. The explication and state of the question.
II. Concerning the properties of the rule of faith; and whe·ther they agree solely to oral tradition.
III. In which Mr. S's demonstration and corollaries are exam·ined.
IV. Testimonies concerning the rule of faith.
'The Design of these Discourses is fou.rfold.
'First, To shew the unreasonableness of Atheism, and of scoffing
at Religion; which I am sorry is so necessary to be done in thisAge. This I have endeavour'd in the two first' of these Discourses.
'Secondly, To recommend Religion to men from the great andmanifold advantages which it brings both to publick Society andto particular Persons. And this is the argument of the third andfourth.
'Thirdly, To represent the excellency, more Particularly, of theChristian Religion; and to vindicate the practice of it from thesuspicion of those grievous troubles and difficulties which many
imagine it to be attended withal. And this is the subject of the
fif th and sixth.
'Fourthly, To persuade men to the practice of this holy Religion,
from the great obligation which the profession of Christianity
lays upon men to that purpose; and more Particularly, from theglorious rewards of another life; which is the design of the twolast Discourses.'-Preface, p. [ii]479- 1696 ; 2- 1699; 3- 1701 ; 4-1704; 5-1707; 6- 1710; 7-1714; 7- 1714;
8-1720; 9-1726 D; 9-1728; 10-1735.

212.

[Tindal, Matthew] 1657-1733.
Christianity as old as the Creation: or, The Gospel, a republicationof the religion of nature[.] Volume 1... London, Printed in theyear, 1730.
26cm.
viii, 432P. (Errata on p. ii)
P.324 incorrectly numbered 332.
Contents.I. That God, at all times, has given mankind sufficient meam.
of knowing whatever be requires of them; and what thosemeans are.

That the religion of nature consists in observing those
things, which our reason, by considering the nature of God
and man, and the relation we stand in to him, and one
another, demonstrates to be our duty; and that those things
are plain; and likewise what they are.
3. That the perfection, and happiness of all rational beings,
supreme, as well as subordinate, consists in living up to the
dictates of their nature.
4. That not only the matter of all God's laws, but thepenalties annex'd to them, are for the good of mankind;even those who suffer for the breach of them.
5. That God requires nothing for his own sake; no, not theworship we are to render him, nor the faith we are tohave in him.
6. That the religion of nature is an absolutely perfect religion;and that external revelation can neither add to, nor takefrom its perfection; and that true religion, whether internally,
or externally reveal'd must be the same.
7. That natural and reveal'd religion having the same end, theirprecepts must be the same.
8. That the not adhering to those notions reason dictates,
concerning the nature of God, has been the occasion of all
superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs, that mankind,on the account of religion, have done either to themselves,or one another.
9. Human happiness being the ultimate design, and end of all
traditional, as well as original revelation, they must bothprescribe the same means; since those means, which, at one
2.

time, promote human happiness, equally promote it at all
times.
10. God does not act arbitrarily, or interpose unnecessarily; but
leaves those things, that can only be consider'd as means(and as such, are in their own nature mutable;) to humandiscretion; to determine as it thinks most conducing to those
things, which are in their own nature obligatory.
I I. The
supposing things merely. positive, to be made theingredients of religion, is inconsistent with the good of mankind, as well as the honour of God.
12. That they, who, to magnify revelation, weaken the force ofthe religion of reason and nature, strike at all religion; andthat there can't be two independent rules for the governmentof human actions.
13. The bulk of mankind, by their reason, must be able todistinguish between religion and superstition; otherwise they
can never extricate themselves from that superstition they
chance to be educated in.
14. Dr. Clark's Discourse of the unchangeable obligation ofnatural religion, and the truth, and certainty of the Christianrevelation; consider'd: and from thence is shewn, howinconsistent soever with the design of that that discourse,that nothing can be a part of religion, but what is foundedon the nature, and reason of things.

Tindal's thesis is an elaboration of the proposition from Dr. Thomas
Sherlock, bishop of Bangor and later of London, quoted on the title
page: 'The religion of the Gospel is the true original religion ofreason and nature... And its precepts declarative of that original
religion, which was as old as the Creation.' But his use of Sherlock's
thesis, developed in a dialogue between A (Tindal) and B (an objector
to, and a questioner of, A), is entirely negative.
-173 0 ; -173 0 ; -173 1 ; 2- 1732; 3-1732; -1798; -1798 Newburgh.
German: 1741 Frankfort & Leipzig.

213.

Towers, Joseph, 1737-1799.
Observation on Mr. Hurne's History of England. By Joseph
Towers... London: Printed by H. Goldney, for G. Robinson ...
1778vii, I51p.

22crn.

[Jessop, p. 50]

'Few of our modern historical performances have been more read,or more celebrated, than the History of England by Mr. David Hume:and as an elegant composition, and the production of real and distinguished genius, it is unquestionably entitled to great applause. But
though beauty of diction, harmony of periods, and acuteness andsingularity of sentiment, may captivate the reader, yet there are otherqualifications essentially necessary to the character of a good historian.
Fidelity, accuracy, and impartiality, are also requisite: and in these,it· is apprehended, Mr. Hume is frequently deficient; so that those
who read his work, with a view to obtain just ideas of the mostremarkable transactions and events which have happened in thiscountry, will, if they rely solely on his authority, be led to form
conceptions exceedingly erroneous respecting matters of very consider·able importance. It is, therefore, the design of the following observations to evince, that those who wish to acquire an accurate knowl·edge of the real state of facts, and to think justly of the persons
and transactions treated of in Mr. Hume's history, should read his
work with some degree of caution and circumspection, without too
implicit a reliance on his integrity as an historian, and that theyshould compare his relations with those of other authors.' -pp. 1-2.

214.

Tucker, Josiah, 012-1799.
A brief essay on the advantages & disadvantages which respectively attend France and Great-Britain, with regard to trade. By
Josiah Tucker. .. London: Printed for John Stockdale ... 1787.
xvi, 0-96, [8Jp. (Publisher's advert. on pp.[1-8])
24CID.
[Jessop, p. 24JContents.The introduction.
A brief essay on trade.
r. The principal advantages of France, with respect to trade.
2. The principal disadvantages of trade with regard to France.
3. The principal advantages of Great·Britain with respect totrade.
4. The principal disadvantages of Great-Britain with regard to
trade.
Three essays [by David HumeJ
1. On the balance of trade.
2. On the jealousy of trade.

3. On the balance of power.
'The first of the following works IS a tract of that celebrated
commercial writer Doctor Tucker, dean of Glocester, which is now
reprinted from the third edition in 1753; and which, being written witha quite different purpose, may reasonably be supposed to contain thecandid sentiments of a very competent judge on an interesting subject.
'The second consists of three discourses, by that great master ofpolitical reasoning, Mr. Hume, the historian ... ' -Editor's advertisment,
pp. iii-iv.
-1749; 2-1750; 3-1753 (with additions); 4-1756 G; 3-1757; -1787(Three Essays ... by David Hume); -1787.

215.

Tytler, William, 1711 -1 792.
An historical and critical enquiry into the evidence produced by
the Earls of Murray and Morton, against Mary Queen of Scots.
With an examination of the Rev. Dr. Robertson's dissertation,and Mr. Hume's history, with respect to that evidence. Edinburgh: Printed and sold by W. Gordon, and the other booksellers;and sold at London by T. Longman, and J. Scott... Davie andLaw ... and W. Johnstone ... 1760.
viii, 262, 31, [I]p. (Publisher's advert. on preliminary leaf.
Errata on p. [IJ)
[Jessop, p. so]
p.142 incorrectly numbered 124.
[Contents]I. The history of the letters from their discovery by the Earlof Morton, their being produced against Queen Mary, andtheir several appearances in England before Queen Elizabeth
and her commissioners, until they were final1y delivered backagain to the Earl of Morton.
2. A short abstract of Mr. Goodall's arguments for proving
the letters to be spurious and forged; and of Dr. Robertsonand Mr. Hume's objections by way of answer to Mr. Goodal1,
with critical observations on these authors.
3. An examination of the arguments of Dr. Robertson and Mr.
Hume, in support of the authenticity of the letters.
4. An examination of the confession of Nicholas Hubert,
commonly cal1ed French Paris, with observations showing

the same to be a forgery.
5. A short recapitulation or summary of the arguments on bothsides of the question.
6. An historical collection of the direct or positive evidence,sti 11 on record, tending to show what part the Earls of
Murray, and Morton, and secretary Lethington, had in themurder of the Lord Darnley.
Appendix.
'The history of Scotland, during the unfortunate reign of Queen
Mary, has always been looked upon as one of the most interesting
periods of modern history. Of late, it has become a fashionable part ofreading, having been treated of by two eminent writers, whose works
make a considerable figure in the republic of letters; I mean, the Rev.
Doctor Robertson, and David Hume, Esq;
'These two gentlemen, tho' differing considerably in the character
given by them of that princess, yet seem to agree in their sentimentswith respect to the evidences of her knowledge of, and accession to,
the murder of the lord Darnley her husband; and particularly as to thegenuineness of the letters said to have been wri tten by her to the Earlof Bothwell. These letters have indeed been always regarded, by thediscerning class of readers, as the principal point of controversy between
Queen Mary and her accusers, the Earls of Murray and Morton... theletters can be proved to be spurious and forged, Mary not only stands
absolved, but these letters must become a direct evidence of the guiltof Murray and Morton, who produced them against her.
'A late author, Mr. Goodall, keeper of the Advocates Library in
Edinburgh, from an accurate examination of the letters, together withseveral other collateral evidences found among the records, has mademany ingenious discoveries, tending to prove, that these letters are
spurious. On the other hand, Mr. Hume, and Dr. Robertson in the
Dissertation annexed to his History, have laboured to prove these lettersto be genuine, in opposition to Mr. Goodall's proofs to the contrary.'
The plan of the following treatise is 'to trace these letters, step bystep, from their very first appearance in the hands of the Earl of
Morton, and to remark with care and candour every circumstance that
attended them thro' the whole procedure of the conferences in England,
before Queen Elizabeth and her council and commissioners.' -Preface,
pp. i-iii.
'His work continued, till the publication in 1809 of John Hosack's"Mary Queen of Scots and her Accusers," the most widely read of theliterary productions of Mary's apologists.' -DNB.

See III-216 & 217.

-1760 E &; 2-1767 E; 3-1772 E &; 4-1790 (2V).
French: -1772 Paris; 2-1860 Paris; -1861 Paris.

216.

Tytler, William, 1711-1792.
An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against
Mary Queen of Scots. And an examination of the histories of
Dr Robertson and Mr Hume, with respect to that evidence ... 3rded., with additions, and a postscript. Edinburgh: Printed for W.
Drummomd [sic]: sold by him and the other booksellers in thatcity; and at London by W. Owen, E. & c. Dilly, T. Cadell,Richardson & Urquhart, and D. Wilson. 1772.
22cm.
[Jessop, p.so]
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Contents.Pt.1.
I. The history of the letters said to have been wri tten by
Queen Mary to the Earl of Bothwell, (1) from their first
appearance in the hands of the Earl of Morton. -Theirproduction before Queen Elisabeth and her council. - Anddelivery back to Morton.
2. Abstract of Mr Goodall's arguments proving the letters tobe spurious. -Dr Robertson and Mr Hume's objection~(')and answers to Goodall's proof. -Critical observations
on these authors, and answers to the objections.
3. Dr Robertson's arguments in support of the letters. (3)_Answers to his arguments. -Examination of the sonnets
or love-verses(4) on Dr Robertson's principles.
4. Examination of French Paris's confession, and proof of its
forgery.
5. Summary and trial of the evidence.

II.
Queen Mary's accusation against the Earls of Murray and
Morton, and Secretary Lethington, as conspirators in themurder of Lord Darnley. - Mr Hume and Dr Robertson's
defence of them. - Heads of the charge undertaken to be
proved against them.
2. Secret association of the confederates with Queen Elisabeth.
-Murray'S insurrection, (5)-rebellion, (G)-and design to kill
Lord Darnley, (7)and to imprison the Queen. -His banishI.

ment.
3. Conspiracy for restoring Murray. - Assassination of David
Rizio. - Falsehood of Buchanan. - Confederacy at theCastle of Craigmillar.- Examination of the Queen's conduct(')preceding the murder of Lord Darnley.
4. (')The Queen's ministers at the time of Lord Darnley's
murder. -The Earl of Bothwell's trial and acquittal by the
conduct of the Earl of Morton and the confederates. Association of the confederates for promoting the Queen's
marriage with Bothwell. -Remarkable forgery of the confederates detected. -Apology for the Queen's marriage.
Her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle, and Bothwell's flight
to Denmark.
5. Conduct of the confederates with regard to Bothwell. Embassy by the Regent Lennox to the King of Denmarkfor delivering up Bothwell. -Morton's behaviour on thatoccasion. -Murray's treachery to the Duke of Norfolk.
-His conduct as to Lethington.-And assassination.
6. Morton's conduct with respect to Lethington. -Lethington's
attainder as one of the accomplices in Lord Darnley's murder.
-Morton and Lethington accuse one another. -Morton's
trial,-conviction,-and confession.
7.(10) Summary of
the presumptive proof against Murray. Positive proof against Morton and Lethington. - Charactersof the three confederates. (11) -And character of Queen
Mary.
8Y2) Queen Elisabeth's conduct as to Queen Mary. -Elisabeth's
severe treatment of that Princess in England. -Secretnegotiation for putting her to death in Scotland. -For
privately putting her to death in England. - (13)Conclusion,and character of Queen Elisabeth.
Postscript. (14)Changes in 4th ed. (111-217)
J) , from ... back to Morton] omitted.
2) and answers] omitted.
3) -] omitted.
4) on ... principles] omitted.
5) -] omitted.
6) - ] omitted.
7) and ... Queen] omitted.
8) preceding ... Darnley] omitted.
9) Ch.4-7 are revised as follows:

4. A review of the conduct of Queen Mary previous
to Lord Darnley's murder. -Dissertation on themurder, and vindication of the Queen.
5. The conduct and proceedings of Murray and his
confederates, subsequent to the murder of Lord
Darnley. - Bothwell's trial and acquittal by the
management of the confederates. - Murray and his
associates conduct in inducing the Queen's marriage
with Bothwell.- Forgery of the confederates detec·
ted.-Apology for the Queen's Marriage. -Treaty
at Carberry Hill. - Her surrender, and imprison.
ment in Lochleven, and Bothwell's retreat to theCastle of Dunbar.
6. The conduct of the confederates with regard to
Bothwell. -The Queen's escape from Lochlevin[sicJ.-Battle of Langside; and the Queen's retreat
into England. - Embassy to the King of Denmark,for delivering up Bothwell.-Murray's treachery to
the Duke of Norfolk. - Behaviour as to Lethington.
-His assassination.
7. Abstract or outlines of the history of the times,
serving to illustrate the actions and characters of
the confederates against Queen Mary, while she
was detained a prisoner in England, during the
successive regencies of the Earls of Lennox, Mar,and Morton. -The trial, confession, and death ofMorton.
10) ch.7J ch.8.
II) - ... Queen MaryJ omitted.
12) ch.8] ch.9.
13) Conclusion,... Queen Elisabeth.] Severe treatment ofQueen Mary after her condemnation. - Her last lettersto Queen Elizabeth.-Death of Elizabeth, and character.
14) Postscript] Postscript, addressed to the public.

217.

Tytler, William, 1711-1792.
An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against
Mary Queen of Scots; and an examination of the histories ofDr. Robertson and Mr. Hume, with respect to that evidence. By
William Tytler. .. 4th ed., containing several additional chapters,
and an introduction, in two volumes. London: Printed for T.

Cadell ... ; and W. Creech, Edinburgh. 1790.
2 vols.
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In troduction.
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Pt.II. Ch.I-2 (see the table of contents of 111-216)

Vol. 2.

viii, 422, [1]p.(Errata on p.[I])p. 142 incorrectly numbered 42.

Contents.Pt. II. ch.3-9 (see the table of contents of 111-216)
Postscript, addressed to the public.

Voltaire, [Francois Marie Arouet de] 1694-1778.
An essay on taste.
See 111-104.

Voltaire, [Francois Marie Arouet de] 1694-1778.
Lettre de Mons. de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume.
See 1-82.

218.

Voltaire, [Francois Marie Arouet de] 1694-1778.
A treatise on toleration; The ignorant philosopher; and A
commentary on the Marquis of Becaria's treatise on crimes andpunishments. Translated from the last Geneva edition of Mr. de
Voltaire, by the Rev. David Williams. London: Printed for
Fielding and Walker. .. 1779. 23cm.
[Specific title-page]
A treatise on toleration; memorials, letters, &c. relating topersecution; and particularly to the cases of Calas and Sirven.
Translated from the French of Mr. de Voltaire, by the Rev.

David Williams.

London: Printed for Fielding and Walker ...

1779·iv, 224p. (Errata on p. iv)

1

plate.

Contents.I. A short account of the death of John Calas.
2. Consequences of the punishment of John Calas.
3. An idea of the reformation in the sixteenth century.
4. Whether toleration be dangerous? And in what nations it
is allowed ?
5. In what cases toleration might be a llo ....'ed.
6. Whether intolerance be a principle of nature, or a law ofhumanity?
7. Whether the Greeks knew any thing of intolerance
8. Whether the Romans tolerated religious opinions ?
9. Of martyrs.
10. The danger of false legends and of persecution.
I I. The effects of intolerance.
12. Whether intolerance was a divine principle or law, in thereligion of the Jews? And whether the Jews always
persecu ted ?
13. Extreme tolerance of the Jews.
14. Whether intolerance was taught by Jesus Christ ?
IS. Testimonies against intolerance.
16. A dialogue between a dying man and one in perfect health.
17. The only cases in which intolerance may be admitted inhuman policy.
18. Account of a controversy in China.
19. Whether it be useful to keep up the superstition of thepeople ?
20. Virtue more valuable than science.
21. Universal toleration.
22. Prayer to God.
23. Postscript.
24. Sequel and conclusion.
An article added since the first publication of the treatise,in which an account is given of the last decree of thecouncil, in favour of the Family of Calas.
Original pieces.
History of Elizabeth Canning and of John Calas.

[Specific title-page]The ignorant philosopher, translated from the French of Mr. de
Voltaire, by the Rev. David Williams. London: Printed for
Fielding and Walker... 1779.
iii,86p.
Contents.Sections I-56, and Supplement.

[Specific title-page]
A commentary on the Marquis Becaria's Treatise on crimes andpunishments.
Translated from the French of Mr. de Voltaire,by the Rev. David Williams. London: Printed for Fielding
and Walker ... 1779.
ii, sop.
Contents.Ch.I-23.
Translations of 'Traite sur la tolerance' (1763), 'Le philosophe
ignorant' (1766), and 'Commentaire du livre delits et des peines [deBeccaria], (1766).
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219.

Walker, Alexander.
Beauty; illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of
beauty in woman. Preceded by a critical view of the generalhypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight,
Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypothesesof beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo cia Vinci,
Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker ...
illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard ... drawn onstone by M. Gauci and R. J. Lane, .. London: Effingham Wilson ...
18 36.
front.,
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Contents.I. Importance of the subject.
2. Urgency of the discussion of this subject in relation to theinterests of decency and morality.
3. Cautions to youth.
4. Nature of beauty.
5. Standard of taste in beauty.
6. The elements of beauty.
Appendix to the preceding chapters.
7. Anatomical and physiological principles.
8. Of the ages of woman in relation to beauty.
9. Of the causes of beauty in woman.
10. Of the standard of beauty in woman.
I I. Of the three species of female beauty generally viewed.
12. First species of beauty: beauty of the locomotive system.
13. Second species of beauty: beauty of the nutritive system.
14. Third species of beauty: beauty of the thinking system.
15. Beauty of the face in particular.
16. Combinations and transitions of the three species of female
beauty.
17. Proportion, character, expression, &c.
18. The Greek ideal beauty.
19. The ideal of female beauty.
20. Defects of beauty.
21. External indications, or art of determining the precise figure,the degree of beauty, the mind, the habits, and the age ofwomen, notwithstanding the aids and disguises of dress.
'There is perhaps no subject more universally or more deeply interest·
ing than that which is the chief subject of the present work. Yet notbook, even pretending to science or accuracy, has hitherto appeared
upon it. The forms and proportions of animals-as of the horse andthe dog, have been examined in a hundred volumes. Not one has been
devoted to woman, on whose physical and moral qualities the happinessof individuals and the perpetual improvement of the human race, aredependent.
'The cause of this has been probably the neglect, on the part ofindividuals, to combine anatomical and physiological knowledge with thecritical observation of the external forms of woman; and perhaps some
repugnance to anthropological knowledge on the part of the public.
The last obstacle, if ever it existed, is now gone by, as many
drcumstances show; and it will be the business of the author, in thiswork, to endeavour to obviate the former.

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'The present work, besides giving new views of the theory of beauty,
and of its application to the arts, presents an analysis and classificationof beauty in woman. A subsequent work will apply the principles here
established to intermarriages and crossings among mankind, and will
explain their results in relation to the happiness of individuals, and tothe beauty and the freedom from insanity of their offspring .. .' -Adver·
tisement, pp. vii-viii.

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NY; -1848 Hartford; -1851 Hartford; -1852 Hartford.

220.

[Wallace, Robert] 1697-1771.
Characteristics of the present political state of Great Britain ...
London: Printed for A. Millar... I7 58.
[ii], xiv, 15-228p. (Errata on p. [iiJ)
20CID.
Contents.Pt. I. Of banks, and of paper·credit.
II. Of national debts; and of the source of the national
debts in England.
III. Of national riches; and of the riches of Great Britains.
IV. Of the payment of the national debts.
V. Of the national genius and capacity for self·defence.
'The following characteristics were written in order to give a morejust and a more agreeable prospect of the present state of Britain, thanis to be seen in many late writings. The author hopes, they willcontribute something to remove the disquiet of good citizens, and to
defeat the designs of the disaffected.
' ... the writer of the characteristics endeavours to shew, that Britain
is in an opulent condition at present, and has been very happy eversince the Revolution... and that... we have sufficient means of self·
defence, and are fully able to support ourselves against the French, or
any nation whatever.'-Advertisement, pp. i, x.

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221.

[Wallace, Robert] 1697-1771.
Characteristics of the present political state of Great Britain ...
2nd ed., with corrections and additions by the author. London:492

Printed for A. MilIar. .. 1758.
[ii] , xiv, 15-22], [I] p. (Errata on p. [iiJ)

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222.

[Wallace, Robert] 1697-1771.
A dissertation on the numbers of mankind in antient and modern
times: in which the superior populousness of antiquity is maintained. With an appendix, containing additional observations on
the same subject, and some remarks on Mr. Hume's Political
discourse, Of the populousness of antient nations... Edinburgh:
Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour. 1753.
2lcm.
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'Philosophers have been advising, and divines calling upon mankind
to cultivate frugality, temperance, simplicity, contentment with a little,
and patience of labour, demonstrating, that these humble virtues are
the only means by which they can expect to secure solid, lasting, andindependent felicity ...
'But the cultivation of these virtues not only makes individuals
happy; but, from what has been maintained in the preceeding Dissertation, appaers further to be the surest way of rendering the earth
populous, and making society flourish ... The decay of these virtues, andthe introduction of a corrupted and luxurious taste, have contributed ina great measure to diminish the numbers of mankind in modern days.'-PP.159-160.
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223.

[Wallace, Robertl 1697-1771.
Various prospects of mankind, nature, and providence.
Printed for A. Millar... 1761.
viii,406p.
22cm.

London:Contents.I. A general view of the imperfections of human society, andof the sources from whence they flow.
2. The model of a perfect government, not for a single nation
only, but for the whole earth.

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3. Whether government, according to the preceding model, ever
could have been, or ever can be established and maintained in
the world.
4. The preceding model of government, tho' consistent withthe human passions and appetites, is upon the wholeinconsistent with the circumstances of mankind upon theearth.
5. A view of the beauty, wisdom, and magnificence of nature.
6. A view of the distresses of mankind, and of the brute
animals.
7. A comparison of the happiness and misery within our view,shewing, in answer to Mr. Maupertuis, that the first issuperior.
8. Of liberty and necessity.
9. A vindication of providence, on the supposition of the free·
dom of rational beings.
ro. A vindication of providence, On the scheme of necessity.
11. Proof of a future state of mankind after death, on theprinciples of reason and philosophy.
12. Advices to certain freethinkers.
'Though the writer of the following pieces has made several
observations upon civil government, and the constitution of society; yet
his principal intention in these prospects, is to illustrate the principles
of morality and patural religion; in particular, to discover whether thepresent life of man has a relation to any other, and thus to trace thedesigns of providence with respect to a state after death. At the sametime, he hopes that his observations will not only answer his principal
purpose, but serve likewise to throw some additional light upon humannature, and human society, considered only with relation to the present
life.'-Advertisement, p. iii.

224.

[Warburton, William1 Bp. of Gloucester, 1698-1779.
A critical and philosophical enquiry into the causes of prodigies
and miracles, as related by historians. With an essay towards
restoring a method and purity in history. In which, thecharacters of the most celebrated writers of every age, and of
the several stages and species of history, are occasionallycriticized and explained. In two parts... London: Printed for494

Thomas Corbett ... 1727.
xxii,137,[7]P. (Errata on p. [7])17cm.

Contents.Pt. I.
History over·run with prodigies, &c.
Why it has not made equal advances with the other sciences,to free itself from superstition.
The cause of this evil hi therto assigned, proved insufficient.
Besides that commonly assigned, four other principal causes.
The two first resolved into the weakness of the mind, the twolatter into the knavery of it.
First cause, that weakness of the mind that betrays us into
the love of falsehood.
That love kept up by admiration.
A dissertation on admiration, its causes and effects; its influenceon human actions, illustrated in many particulars.
Second cause, a national pride.
By such men, prodigies are thought to add honour to the country
that is the scene of them.
This particularly observable in the Roman writers.
The cure for this evil oft worse than the disease.
An occasional dissertation on tce Fable of the bees.
The true bounds of free philosophizing marked out.
Third cause, the knavery of the writer, who takes advantage ofthat general weakness, so largely discoursed of under the firstcause.
The Greek writers here principally guilty.
Most historians, in some instances or other, flatter the wrong
taste of the reader.
The French most remarkably in that specious kind, called, thehistory of the revolutions, &c.
That kind censured.
Proved contrary to just composition.
Least instructive.
And pernicious to genuine history.
Fourth cause, the writer's common refuge to skreen his igno·
rance of human nature, and the laws of good writing.
The modern historians, and principally the English, concernedhere.
A dissertation on the present state of English history.
II.
A general censure of this false taste.
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An example of the true in Sallust, who is shewn to be entirely
free from the infection.
To illustrate his merit, the age in which he wrote is considered.
An account is given of the rise and progress of history in Rome.
Sallust's conduct in the history of Catiline's conspiracy particu.
larly examined.
Shewn to be entirely free from this superstition, and highly
rational.
That it cou'd not be otherwise, from his knowledge of humanna ture, and the historic art.
The ignorance of which, the never.failing source of these errors.
A particular examination; first of his knowledge of humannature, which is shewn from some passages in his introduc·tion.
Which occasions a dissertation on the various opinions of thepagan world, concerning human vicissitudes.
And of some Christian philosophers.
Their absurdities exposed.
Sallust's notions on this head most agreeable to right reason
and revelation.
An affectation of St. Evremond censured.
Second, his great skill in the historic art.
This shewn from another passage in his introduction to theCatiline conspiracy.
Aulus Gellius's explanation of this passage examined andcensured.
The true sense attempted to be given.
Confessed to be obscure.
The causes of that obscurity inquired into.
An enquiry.
First, whether any of the prodigies in prophane history are tobe credited.
The affirmative is asserted from fact.
From reason.
From analogy.
Second, ",hether true miracles shou'd have a place in civil
history.
Resolved in the affirmative.
But with great caution and restriction.
The means of discriminating true from false miracles.
True miracles of some kind only, t.o be admitted into civil
history.
Third, whether false miracles are ever to have a place there.

On what occasion even they are to be admitted.
An example from Sallust, Plutarch, and Dio Cassius.
The conclusion.
This was Warburton's second publication, but was not included in thecollective edition of his 'Works' in 1788. His first publication was'Miscellaneous translation in prose and verse from Roman poets,orators, and historians,' 1724. These two were reprinted by SamuelParr (1747-1825) in 'Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian,' 1789.
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225.

Warburton, [William] Bp. of Gloucester, 1698-1779.
The principles of natural and revealed religion occasionally
opened and explained; in a course of sermons preached before the
Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. In two volumes ... By the Rev.
Mr. Warburton... London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton ...
1753[/54].
2 vols.
2lcm.
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1753.

viii, 331, [I] p. (Errata on p. [I])Contents.Sermons.
I.
The nature and condition of truth.
2.
God's moral government.
3· The love of God and man.
4. The love of God and man.
5. The character and office of the Messiah.
6. The office and operations of the Holy Spirit.
7. The character and conduct of the messengers of the Gospel.
8. The character and conduct of the messengers of the Gospel.

Vol. 2.

1754.

vii,21 7,1 23,[2]p. (Publisher's advert. on pp.

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Contents.Sermons. (continued)
9. The edification of Gospel righteousness
10.
The nature and end of the Lord's supper
I I.
Of church authori ty.
12. Of church authority.
13. Of church communion.
14. Of church commumon.
15. The influence of learning on revelation.
Appendix: Sermons,Occasioned by the late unnatural rebellion [1745:
I.
2. On the general fast, during the late rebellion [1745J
3· On the thanksgiving for the suppression of therebellion [1746]
4· On the nature of the marriage unIon.

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226.

Warburton, [William] Bp. of Gloucester, 1698-1779.
Tracts, by Warburton, and a Warburtonian; not admitted into
the collections of thier respective works... London: Printed forCharles Dilly ... 1789.
22cm.
[i],ii,[iii],z81p. (Errata on p.206)
Contents.Preface of the editor of Warburton's Tracts.
Miscellaneous translations, in prose and verse, from Roman
poets, orators, and historians. First printed 1724.
A cri tical and philosophical enquiry into the causes of prodigies
and miracles, as related by historians. vVith an essay towards
restoring a method and purity in history. In which, thecharacters of the most celebrated writers of every age, and of
the several stages and species of history, are occasionally criti·
cized and explained. In two parts. First printed in 1727.
Dedication of the two tracts of a Warburtonian, addressed by
the editor to a learned critic [1788]
Tbe editor's preface to the Two tracts of a Warburtonian.
Testimonia auctorum.
On the delicacy of friendship. A seventh dissertation, addressedto the author of the sixth. First printed 1755.
A letter to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Leland ... in which his late Dis·
sertation on the principles of human eloquence is criticized;
and the Bishop of Gloucester's Idea of the nature andcharacter of an inspired language, as delivered in his Lordship's
doctrine of grace, is vindicated from all the objections of thelearned author of the Dissertation. First printed 1764.
Edited by Samuel Parr (1747-1825); the 'Warburtonian' is Richard
Hurd. (See 111-224)

227.

Watson, R[ichard] Bp. of Llandaff, 1737-1816.
An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters, addressed toThomas Paine ... By R. Watson ... London: Printed for T. Evans
Cadell and Davies, and P. Elmsley... J. Debrett... and J.
Robson, and R. Faulder. .. 1796.
[Price four shillings sewed.]
385p.
18cm.
Contents.Letters 1-10.
The most popular work of Watson.
'This is usually described as an answer to Paine's "Age of Reason"(1794), which Watson had not seen. It is directed against Paine's"Second Part" (1795), and especially against Paine's treatment ofscripture, which Watson thought unworthy of his powers. The "Apology"
was eagerly read in America as well as in this country. In addition tovery numerous reprints it has been abridged (1829) by Louis Theodore
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228.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Logic: or, The right use of reason in the inquiry after truth,with a variety of rules to guard against error in the affairs of
religion and human life, as well as in the sciences. By Isaac
Watts... Glasgow: Printed by William Falconer, for J & J
Lyle ... 1823.
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Contents.Introduction, and general scheme.
Pt. I. Of perception and ideas.
L Of the nature of ideas.
2. Of the objects of perception.
3. Of the several sorts of perceptions or ideas.
4. Of words and their several divisions, together with the ad·vantage and danger of them.
5. General directions relating to our ideas.
6. Special rules to direct our conceptions of things.
II. Of judgment and proposition.
I. Of the nature of a proposition, and its several parts.
2. Of the various kinds of propositions.
3. The springs of false judgment, or the doctrine of prejudices.
4. General directions to assist us in judging aright.
5. Special rules to direct us in judging of particular obj ects.
III. Of reasoning and syllogism.
L Of the nature of a syllogism, and of the parts of which it
is composed.
2. Of the various kinds of syllogisms, with particular rules
relating to them.
3. The doctrine of syllogisms.
4. Some general rules to direct our reasoning.
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2. General and special rules of· method.
I.

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229.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Philosophical essays on various subjects, viz. space, substance,
body, spirit·, the operations of the soul in union with the body,
innate ideas, perpetual consciousness, place and motion of spirits,
the departing soul, the resurrection of the body, the production
and operations of plants and aminals: with some remarks on
Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is
subjoined, A brief scheme of ontoloy [sic], or The science ofbeing in general; with its affections. By I. Watts ... 6th ed., corrected. London: Printed for J. Buckland, and T. Longman... J.
Waugh ... E. Dilly ... and T. Field ... 1763.
xvi, 407, [I] p.
22cm.
Contents.Essays.
I. A fair enquiry and debate concerning space.
2. Of substance; and of solid extension and a thinking power,
as the two only original substances.
3. Of the original of our perceptions and ideas.
4. Of innate ideas, and propositions, natural and moral.
5. An enquiry whether the soul thinks always.
6. Of the power of spirits to move bodies, of their being in aplace, and removing from it.
7. The departing soul.
8. The resurrection of the same body.
9. Of the production, nourishment and operations of plants
and animals.
10. Of sun·beams and star·beams.
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12.

On some metaphysical subjects.
Remarks on some chapters of Mr. Locke's Essay on thehuman understanding.

A brief scheme of ontology: or the science of being in general;",herein all the various affections, of properties, adjuncts andrelations of it, are contracted into a comprehensive view, andranged in a natural and easy method.
I. Of being andnot being, with a general scheme of theaffections of being.
2. Of
absolute affections, and first of essence or nature,
matter and form.
3. Of existence, whether actual, possible or impossible;
necessary or contingent; dependent or independent.
4. Of duration, creation and conservation.
5. Of uni ty and union.
6. Of act and power, action and passion, necessity and liberty.
7. Of relative affections or relations.
8. Of real relations, (viz.) truth, goodness, and perfection.
9. Of the whole and parts.
10. Of principles, causes and effects.
II. Of subject and adjunct.
12. Of time, and place, and ubiety.
13. Of agreement and difference of sameness, and the doctrineof opposi tes.
14. Of number and order.
IS. Of mental relations, (viz.) abstract notions, signs, words,
terms of art, &c.
16. The chief kinds or divisions of being, and first of substanceand mode.
17. Of finite and infinite.
18. Of natural, moral, and artificial beings and ideas.
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6- 1 794.

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4-[I7S 0 ?];6- 176 3;

5- 1793;

Whately, Richard, Abp. of Dublin, 1787-1863.
Elements of logic. Comprising the substance of the article in
the Encyclopaedia metropolitana: with additions, &c. By Richard
Whately ... 5th ed., revised. London: B. Fellowes ... 1834.
2 vols.
22cm.

502

Vol. 1. xxxix, [iJ, 2S4p.
Contents.Introduction.
Bk. I. Analytical outline of the science.
II. Synthetical compendium.
I. Of the operations of the mind, and of terms.
2. Of proposi tions.
3. Of arguments.
4. Supplement to ch.3.
5. Supplement to ch. I.
III. Of fallacies.
IV. Dissertation on the province of reasoning.

Vol. 2.

2SS-432P.

Contents.Bk. IV. (continued)
I. Of induction.
2. On the discovery of truth.
3· Of inference and proof.
4· Of verbal and real questions.
5· Of realism.
Appendix.
I. On certain terms which are peculiarly liable to be usedambiguously.
2. Miscellaneous examples for the exercise of learners.
3. Example of analysis.
Index.
This work appeared in 1826. Whately'S 'Logic,' as well as his'Rhetoric,' was not 'of the kind which lays posterity under permanent
obligation; but the logic unquestionably marks, if it did not make, a
new epoch in the history of the science. It displays in a striking manner
Whately'S characteristic merits and shortcomings.' 'The effect of thework was twohold: with certain thinkers it served to rehabilitate thediscredited formal logic; to others it suggested the deeper questions as
to the nature of the scientific method which it so airily dismissed fromits purview, and of the illative process in general, to the solution ofwhich John Stuart Mill addressed himself.' -d. DNB.
-1826; 2-1827; 3-1829; 4-1831; 6-1836 (revised); 7-1840; 8--1844;9-1848; -1851; 2-1857; -1857; -1859; -1862; -1870; -1872; -1873;

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NY; -r847 B & NY; -r848 B & NY; -r848 B & Cambridge [Mass.]& NY; -r849 NY; -[r85-?] NY; -r850 B; -185r B & Cambridge[Mass.]; -r852 B; -r852 NY; -r853 NY; -r854 B; -1855 NY; -1856
B & Cambridge [Mass.]; -r856 NY; -1857 B & Cambridge [Mass.];-1857 NY; -1858 B; -1859 B; -1859 Louisville; -1860 B; -1861
Nashville; -1861 NY; -1862 NY; -r865 NY; -r866 NY; -1867
NY; -r869 NY; -1869 NY; -1870 NY; -1871 NY; -1872 NY;-1873 NY; -1874 NY; -r875 NY; -1876 NY; -[1878] NY; -1881
NY; -1884 NY.

231.

Whiston, William, 1667-1752.
Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd. In nIne
parts: I. Lemmata; or the known laws of matter and motion.
II. A particular account of the system of the universe. III. The
truth of that system briefly demonstrated. IV. Certain observations drawn from that system. V. Probable conjectures of thenature and uses of the several celestial bodies contain'd in thesame system. VI. Important principles of natural religion
demonstrated from the foregoing observations. Vll. Importantprinciples of divine revelation confirmed from the foregoing
conjectures. VIII. Such inferences shewn to be the common
voice of nature and reason, from the testimonies of the mostconsiderable persons in all ages. IX. A recapitulation of thewhole: with a large and serious address to all, especially to the
scepticks and unbelievers of our age. Together with a preface,of the temper of mind necessary for the discovery of divine
truth; and of the degree of evidence that ought to be expectedin divine matters. By William Whiston... 2nd ed. London:
Printed for J. Senex... W. and J. Innys... J. Osborn, and T.
Longman ... 1725.
I I plates.
20cm.
xxxii, 304p.
In r7r5 Whiston started a Society for Promoting Primitive Christianity.
To this Society he invited Clarke, Hoadly, and Hare, who, however, did
not attend. Whiston was on particulary intimate terms with Clarke.

Clarke probably introduced him to the Princess of Wales (afterwards
Queen Caroline), who enjoyed Whiston's plainness of speech and took
his reproofs good.humouredly. Among the members of Whiston'sSociety was Thomas Chubb, of whose first book he procured the
publication. He had afterwards to attack Chubb's more developed
deism. A more decided opponent was Anthony Collins, whose twobooks on the 'Grounds and Reasons, &c.' (1724), and the 'Scheme of
Literal Prophecy' (1727) are professedly directed against Whiston's viewof the prophecies.-cf. DNB.
'Astronomical Principles of Religion' were dedicated 'to the illustrious
Sir Isaac Newton, President, and to the rest of the coucil and membersof the Royal Society,' March 10, 1724/5. -Preliminary leaf.
-1717; -1725; 2-1725.

232.

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed
Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country,
contrasted with real Christianity. By William Wilberforce ...
3rd ed. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies,(Successors to Mr. Cadell) ... 1797.
[iii], 491, [16] p. (Publisher's advert. on p. [16])22cm.
Contents.In troduction.
1. Inadequate conceptions of the importance of Christianity.
2. Corruption of human nature.
3. Chief defects of the religious system of the bulk of professed
Christians, in what regards our Lord Jesus Christ, and theHoly Spirit-with a dissertation concerning the use of thepassions in religion.
4. On the prevailing inadequate conceptions concerning the natureand the strictness of practical Christianity.
5. On the excellence of Christi ani ty in certain importantparticulars. Argument which results thence in proof of its
divine origin.
6. Brief inquiry into the present state of Christianity in thiscountry, with some of the causes which have led to its
critical circumstances. Its importance to us as a politicalcommunity, and practical hints for which the foregoing
considerations give occasion.

7. Practical hints to various descriptions of persons.
'The main object which he has in view is, not to convince the sceptic,
or to answer the arguments of persons who avowedly oppose thefundamental doctrines of our religion; but to point out the scanty anderroneous system of the bulk of those who belong to the class oforthodox Christians, and to contrast their defective scheme with arepresentation of what the author apprehends to be real Christianity.'-Introduction, p.4.
-1797; -1797 D; 2- 1797; 3-1797; 4- 1797 7- 1797; 6-1798; 7-1798;-1801 D; 8-1805; 1e-1811; 12-1817; 15-1824; 11-1825 G; -1826 G;
17-1829; 18-1830; -1833 G; -1834; -1836; 8-1841 G; -1842; -1850;-1854; -[186-]; -1886.
American ed. : -1798 Philad; 2-1799 B; 3-1803 B; 4-1815 B; -1829
B & NY; -1830 NY; -1833 Baltimore; -1835 NY; -1835 Philad;-1851 NY; -[18--] NY; -[183-] NY.
German: -1807 Frankfort. Greek: -1841 Athens.

233.

[Wilkins] John, Bp. of Chester, 1614-1672.
Of the principles and duties of natural religion: two books. By
John late Lord Bishop of Chester. To which is added, A
sermon preached at his funerals, by William Lloyd... London:
Printed for T. Basset ... Joanna Brome ... R. Chiswel... 1683.
[xii], 410, 55P.
19cm.
Contents.The preface [by 1. Tillotlon (correctly Tillotson), the editor]
Bk.1. Of the reasonableness of principles and duties of natural
religion.
I. Concerning the several kinds of evidence and assent.
2. Two schemes of principles, relating to practical things,
whether natural or moral; proposed in the method used bymathematicians, of postulata, definitions and axioms.
3. Some propositions necessary to be premised for theremoving of several prejudices in debates about religion.
4. Concerning the existence of a Diety; and the arguments
for it. I. Arg. From the universal consent and agreementof mankind: and the objections against it answered.
5. 2. Arg. From the original of the world.
6. 3. Arg. From the admirable contrivance of natural things.

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7. 4. Arg. From providence, and the government of theworld.
8. Concerning the' excellencies and perfections of the divine
nature: and first, of those which are commonly called
incommunicable; namely, simplicity, unity, immutability,
infini teness, immensi ty, eternity.
9. Of the communicable perfections of God: and first of
those which relate to the divine understanding;viz.
knowledge, wisdom, particular providence.
10. Of the perfections relating to the divine will; goodness,justice, faithfulness.
I I. Of the perfections belonging to the powers and faculties
of acting, viz. power, dominion, distribution of future
rewards and punishments.
12. Concerning the duties of religion naturally flowing fromthe consideration of the divine nature and perfections: andfirst, of adoration and worship.

13. Of faith or affiance.
14. Of love.
15. Of reverence and fear.
16. Of active obedience to the laws of God.
17. Of passive obedience; or patience and submission to thewill of God.
II. Of the wisdom of practising the duties of natural religion.
I. Shewing in general, how religion conduces to our happiness.
2. How it conduces to our present happiness in this world:and first to the happiness of the outward·man. I. In
respect of health.
3. In respect of liberty, safety, and quiet.
4. In respect of our estates and possessions; riches.
5. In respect of pleasure; or the chearful enjoyment of outward
blessings.
6. In respect of honour and reputation.
7. How religion conduces to the happiness of the inward·man.
As it tends to the perfecting and regulating of ourfaculties; and to the peace and tranquillity of our minds.
8. How religion conduces to our happiness in the next world.
9. The conclusion of the whole, shewing the excellency of theChristian religion, and the advantages of it, both as to theknowledge and practice of our duty, above the meer lightof nature.

[Specific title-page]

A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Reverend Father
in God, John late Lord Bishop of Chester, at the Guildhall
Chappel London, on Thursday the 12. of December, 1672. By
William Lloyd ... London: Printed for Joanna Brome, 1673.
'The Design of it is threefold. First, To establish the great PrinciPlesof Religion, the Being of God, and a Future State; by shewing how firmand solid a Foundation they have in the Nature and Reason of
Mankind ...
'Secondly, To convince men of the natural and indispensable obligationof Moral Duties ...
'Thirdly, To perswade men to the practice of Religion, and the vertuesof a good life, by shewing how natural and direct an influence they
have, not only upon our future blessedness in another World, but evenupon the happiness and prosperity of this present Life .. .' -Preface, pp.
[iii-vii]
The thoughts in this work anticipate'Analogy.'

theargumentof

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234.

[Wishart, William] d. 1753.
The principles of liberty of conscience stated and defended: ina letter to a friend. By Gwitmarpscheldon [pseud.] Edinburgh:
Printed by Tho. and Wal. Ruddimans, and sold by the Booksellers. 1739.
38p.
19cm.
-1739 E.

235.

[Wollaston, William] 1660-1724.
The religion of nature delineated. London: Printed by SamuelPalmer... and sold by B. Lintott, and W. and J. Innys, J.
Osborn and T. Longman, and J. Batley. 1726.
219, [II]p.
30cm.

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Contents.I.
Of moral good and evil.
2. Of happiness.
3. Of reason, and the ways of discovering truth.
4. Of the obligations of imperfect beings with respect to theirpower of acting.
5. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his existence, perfection,
providence, &c.
6. Truths respecting mankind in general, antecedent to all
human laws.
7. Truths respecting particular societies of men, or governments.
8. Truths concerning families and relations.
9. Truths belonging to a private man, and respecting (directly)
only himself.
This work was privately printed in 1722, and published in 1724. The
thought in this work is a version of the 'intellectual' theory of
morality of which Samuel Clarke was the chief representative. One
peculiari ty is the paradoxical turn given to the doctrine by the deductionof all the virtues from truth. Wollaston left a few fragments incontinuation.-cf. DNB.
ASSOCIATION COPY. This copy belonged to the author's grandson,
Francis Wollaston. There is an inscription by him and his bookplate on
the front paste·down end·paper.
-17 22 ; -17 24; -1725; -1726 ; -1726 D; 5-1731 ; -1737; 6-1738; -1738;
7-1746 G; 7-1750; 7-1750 G; 8-1759 (duplicate of 7th ed., with newt. p.)
French: -1726 The Hague; -1756 (3v) The Hague.

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4 vols. 1753·
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corrected, with additions. London& Edinburgh.
Vol. 2. Philosophicalessaysconcerning
human understanding. 2nd ed. withadditions and corrections. (Reissueof separate 2nd ed., 2nd issue of1751 with cancel title) London.
Vol. 3. An enquiry concerning the principles
of morals. (Reissue of separate 1stissue of 1751 with cancel title)
London.
Vol. 4. Political discourses. 2nd ed. (Reissueof separate 2nd ed. of 1752 withcancel title) Edinburgh.
Same. 4 vols. 1753-56
Vol. 1. Essays, moral and political. 4th
ed. corrected,
with additions.
London & Edinburgh 1753.
Vol. 2. Philosophical essays
concerning
human understanding.
3rd ed.,with additions and corrections.
London 1756.
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human understanding.
2nd ed.
with additions and corrections.
(Reissue of separate 2nd ed., 2ndissue of 1751) London 1753 [1751].
Vol. 3. An enquiry concerning the principles
of morals. (Reissue of sepq.rate 1sted., 1st issue of 1751) London 1753
[1751].
Vol. 4. Political Discourses. 2nd ed. (Reissueof separate 2nd ed. of 1752) Edinburgh.
Same. I vol. A new edition. London & Edinburgh 1758.
Same. 4 vols. A new edition. London & Edinburgh 1760.
Vol. 1. Essays, moral, political, and literary.
Pt. I. A new edition.
Vol. 2. Essays, moral, political, and literary.
Pt. II. A new edition.
Vol. 3. An enquiry concerning humanunderstanding. A new edition.
Vol. 4. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. A new edition.
Same. 2 vols. A new edition. London &Edinburgh 1764.
Vol. 1. Essays, moral, political, and literary.
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Same. 4 vols. A new edition. London &Edinburgh 1770.
Vol. 1. Essays, moral, political, and literary.
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history of religion.
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Vol. 1. Essays, moral, political, and literary.
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the passions; An enquiry concerning
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Essais philosophiques
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Vol. 2. Of the passions. London 1739.
Vol. 3. Of morals. London 1740.
Same.

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Essays, moral and political, Edinburgh 1741.
Vol. 2. Edinburgh 1742.
Same. 2nd ed., corrected. Edinburgh 1742.
Same. 3rd ed., corrected, with additions.
London 1748.
Three essays, moral and political. London &Edinburgh 1748.

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Essays moral, political, and literary. Ed.
with prelimirary dissertations and notes, byT.H. Green and T.H. Grose. 2 vols. New
edition. London and New York 1889.
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VIII. History of England
The history of England, from the invasionof Julius Caesar to the accession of Henry
VIL London 1762.
Vol. 1. [The Princes before the ConquestJohn]
Vol. 6. [Henry III-Richard III]The history of England, under the House of
Tudor. 2 vols. London 1759.
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The history of Great Britain.
Vol. 1. [James L and Charles L] Edinburgh
1754.
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Vol. 2. [Henry I.-JohnJ
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The history of England, from the invasion of
Julius Caesar, to the abdication of Jamesthe Second. (13 vols.) With the author's lastcorrections and improvements. London [1793/94].
The history of England, from the invasion of
Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. 8
vols., illustrated with plates. A new edi·tion, with the author's last corrections andimprovements. London 1792 (vols. 1-3,5),
1793 (vols. 4,6-8).
The history of England, from the Revolution
to the death of George the Second. 5 vols.
By T. Smollett.
The history of England, abridged from Hume.
By the author of the abridgement of Mr.
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London 1816.

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Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688. 8
vols. London, Liverpool, York, Edinburgh,
and Glasgow 1820.
Same. 8 vols. London 1822.

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1688 to the death of George II. Designed
as a continuation of Hume. By T. Smollett.
A new edition. 5 vols. London 1822.
History of England, by Hume and Smollett;with a continuation by T. S. Hughs. 21
vols. London 1834 (vols. 1-12), ? (vols. 17-18), 1836 (vols. 19-21).

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une introduction par Leon Say. Traduction
nouvelle par M. Formentin. Paris [1888]
Discours politiques de Mr. David Burne. tr.
par [Eleazar] de M [auvillon] Amsterdam
1754.
Discours politiques. (4 vols., published as complements to Burne's work) Amsterdam 1756
(vols. 2-3), 1757 (vols. 4-5).

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The history of England, from the reign ofWilliam and Mary to the death of George
II. By Tobias Smollett. London [1848].
The history of England, from the Accessionof George III. to the tenth year of thereign of Queen Victoria. by Edward Farr.
London [1848].

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Political Discourses (An issue without the listof Scotticisms and Advert. bound in) Edinburgh 1752. (An issue with the list of
Scotticisms and Advert. bound in) Edinburgh 1752.
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ed. London 1779.

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Expose succinct de la contestation qui s'est
elevee entre M. Hume et M. Rousseau.
London [Paris] 1766.
Same. London 1766.
A concise and genuine account of the dispute
between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau.
17 66 .
Justification de J.J. Rousseau. London 1767.
Original letters of J.J. Rousseau, to M. deMalesherbes, M. d' Alenbert, Madame la M.
de Luxembourg, &c. &c.
Lettre de Mons. de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume.
17 66 .

XII. Autobiography, Biography, Letters
The life of David Hume. 1St ed. 1St issue.
1777·[Horne, George] A letter to Adam Smith on
the life, death, and philosophy of his friendDavid Hume. Oxford 1777.
Same.
[Pratt, Samuel Jackson] An apology for thelife and writings of David Hume. London& Edinburgh 1777.
Supplement to the life of David Hume. Lon.
don 1777.
The life of David Hume. Written by himself.
London 1826.
Vita di David Hume scritta da lui stesso.
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[Short biographies of Scottish authors].
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Ritchie, Thomas Edward, An account of thelife and writings of David Hume. London
1807.
Private correspondence of David Hume withseveral distinguished persons, between theyears 1761 and 1776. London 1820.
Murray, Thomas (ed.), Letters of David Hume
Edinburgh 184I.
Burton, John Hill (ed.), Letters of eminent
persons addressed to David Hume. Edin·burgh & London 1849.
McGilchrist, John, David Hume. London[1 88 5].
Mossner, Ernest Campbell, The forgotten
Hume. New York 1943.
Greig, ]. Y. T. (ed.), The letters of David
Hume. Oxford 1969.

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A true account of the behaviour and conduct
of Archibald Stewart. London 1748.
The beauties of Hume and Bolingbroke. 2 nded. London 1782.
Essays on suicide, and the immortality of thesoul. London 1783.
Hume's essay on public credit. Boston 1822.
The mortality of the soul. London 1890.
Manstein, Christoph Hermann von, Memoirsof Russia. London 1770.
Report of the Committee of the Highland
Society of Scotland. Edinburgh 1805.
The Scotch haggis. Edinburgh 1822.

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Abercrombie, John, The philosophy of themoral feelings. 18342.
Adams, William, The duties of industry,
frugality and sobriety. 1777 3•- - , An essay on Mr. Hume's Essay on
miracles. I7 52.
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miracles. 1752.
- - , An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essayon miracles. 1754 2 •- - , An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essayon miracles. 17764.
[--], Saggio in risposta a Mr. Hume circa
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the use and abuse of philosophy in mattersthat are properly relative to taste. (in:Alexander Gerard, An essay on taste) 1759.
Alison, Archibald, Essays on the nature andprinciples of taste. 1790.
[Allen, John], Illustrations of Mr. Hume's
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the subject of liberty and necessity, prOVI·
dence, and a future state. 1785.
The Antidote: or, Memoirs of a modern
freethinker. 2 vols. 1827.
Aristoteles, Ethics and politics. 2 vols. 1797.
Armstrong, John, Miscellanies. 2 vols. 1770.
Atterbury, Francis, Sermons and discourses
on several subjects and occasions. 3 vols.
1774 9•[Balfour, JamesJ, A delineation of the natureand obligation of morality. With reflexions
upon Mr. Hume's book. 1753.
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[--J, Philosophical essays. 1768.
Balguy, Thomas, Divine Benevolence asserted,and vindicated from the objections of ancientand modern sceptics. 1782.
Barton, Richard, The analogy of divine wis.
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- - , An essay on the nature and immutabilityof truth. 1772 3.
- - , An essay on the nature and immutabilityof turth. 1774 5 •- - , Essays. 1776.
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[--J, Scoticisms. 1787.
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[Blair, Hugh], A critical dissertation on thepoems of Ossian. 1763.
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2 vols. 1783.
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Blakey, Robert, History of moral SCIence.
2 vols. 1833.
Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John, The beauties
of Hume and Bolingbroke. 17822.
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Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount
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[Brown, John], An estimate of the manners
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Burke, Edmund, A philosophical inquiry into
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Stuart, Gilbert, A view of society in Europe,in its progress from rudeness to refinement:or, Inquiries concerning the history of law,
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Academical questions. Vol. I. By William Drummond.
An account of some experiments and observations on tarwater. By Stephen Hales.
An account of the life and writings of David Burne. By
Thomas Edward Ritchie.
An account of the life and writings of James Beattie. 2
vols. By William Forbes.
An account of the life and writings of James Beattie. 3
vols. By William Forbes.
Account of the life and writings of William Robertson. [ByDugald Stewart]
Adam Smithi ad Gulielmum Strahanum. [By David Dalrymple]
Admonitions from the dead.
Alciphron. 2 vols. [By George Berkeley]
Alciphron. 2 vols. 2nd ed. [By George Berkeley]
Alciphron. 3rd ed. [By George Berkeley]
Algebraical notes, the solution of several new problems inthe doctrine of annuities, and a general introduction. By
William Morgan.
The analogy of divine wisdom, in the material, sensitive,
moral, civil and spiritual system of things. By Richard
Barton.
The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature. By Joseph Butler.
An analysis of the moral and religious sentiments containedin the writings of Sopho and David Hume. [By John
Bonar]An answer to a late book intituled, Christianity as old as
the Creation. 2 vols. By John Leland.

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An answer to David Hume, and others, on the subject ofliberty and necessity, providence, and a future state.
The antidote: or, Memoirs of a modern freethinker. 2 vols.
An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters, addressedto Thomas Paine. By R richard] Watson.
An adology for the life and writings of David Hume. [BySamuel Jackson Pratt]
An appeal to common sense in befalf of religion. [By James
Csward]Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd. By
William Whis ton.
Astro.theology. By William Derham.
An attempt to prove the existence and absolute perfectionof the supreme unoriginated being. By Hugh Hamilton.
The beauties of Hume and Bolingbroke.
Beauty; illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classificationof beauty in woman. By Alexander Walker.
Biographical m:emoirs, of Adam Smith ... of William Robertson ... and of Thomas Reid. By Dugald Stewart.
A brief essay on the advantages & disadvantages which reo
spectively attend France and Great·Britain, with regard to
trade. By Josiah Tucker.
Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times. 3 vols.
[By Shaftesbury]
Characteristics of the present political state of Great Britain.
[By Robert Wallace]
Characteristics of the present political state of Great Britain.
2nd ed. [By Robert Wallace]
Christianity as old as the Creation. By Matthew Tindal.
A collection of papers, which passed between the late learned
Mr. Leibnits, and Dr. Clarke.
A comparative view of the state and faculties of man withthose of the animal world. [By John Gregory]Considerations sur les finances d'Espagne. (in vol. 2 of Dis.
cours politiques de Mr. David Hume)A course of lectures On elocution. By Thomas Sheridan.
A critical and philosophical enquiry into the causes of pro-

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digies and miracles, as related by historians. [By William
Warburton]
A critical dissertation on the r:oems of Ossian. [By HughBlair]
Critical observations concernig the Scottish historians Hume,
Stuart, and Robertson.
The cure of deism: or, The mediatorial scheme by Jesus
Christ the only true religion. 2 vols. [By Elisha Smith]David Hume. By John McGilchrist.
Davidis Humei, Scoti, summi apud suos philosophi, de vita
sua acta. [By David Dalrymple]
The Death of Hume.
Deism revealed, or, The attack on Christianity candidly
reviewed in its real merits. 2 vols. [By Philip Skelton]
The deist's manual: or, A rational enquiry into the Christianreligion. By C [harles] Gildon.
A delineation of the nature and obligation of morality. With
reflexions upon Mr. Hume's book. [By James Balfour]
A demonstration of the existence of God; deduced fromthe knowlege of nature, and of man in particular. (translation of 'Demonstration de l'existence de Dieu') By
Fenelon.
De origine mali. By William King.
A dialogue between a tutor and his pupil. By Edward
Lord Herbert, of Chirbury.
Dialogues concerning education. [By David Fordyce]
Dialogues concerning eloquence in general. (translation of'Dialogues sur l'eloquence en general') [By Fenelon]
Dialogues of the dead. By Elizabeth Montagu.
Dialogues of the dead. [By Lyttelton, George]
Dialogues of the dead with the liv1ng. [By Philip Parsons]
Dialogues on the uses of foreign travel. considered as apart of an English gentleman's education; between Lord
Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke. [By Richard Hurd]
Dialogues on various subjects. By the late William Gilpin.
Discours prononces au parlement d' Angleterre. (in vol. 3 ofDiscours politiques de Mr. David Hume)A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God,

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the obligations of natural religion, and the truth andcertainty of the Christiart revelation. By Samuel Clarke.
A dissertation concerning private judgment and authority.
By Charles Leslie.
A dissertation on miracles. By Hugh Farmer.
A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of
the principles advanced by David Hume. By George
Campbell.
A dissertation on miracles:/ containing an examination of
the principles advanced by David Hume. 2nd ed. By
George Campbell.
A dissertation on miracles; containing an examination of
the principles advanced By David Hume. 3rd ed. By
George Campbell.
A dissertation on miraclEs: containing an examination of
the principlES advanced by David Hume. To which are
added sermons and tracts. By George Campbell.
A dissertation on the numbers of mankind in antient andmodern times. [By Robert Wallace]
Dissertation on the progress of ethical philosophy, chiefly
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By James
Mackin tosh.
Dissertations moral and critical. By James Beattie.
Dissertations on subjects relating to the genius and the evidences of Christianity. By Alexander Gerard.
The Divine authority of the Old and New Testament asserted. By John Leland.
Divine Benevolence asserted, and vindicated from the objections of ancient and modern sceptics. By Thomas Balguy.
Divine predestination and fore-knowledge, consistent withthe freedom of mans will. By William King.
The duties of industry, frugality and sobriety. By William
Adams.
Elements of criticism. 3 vols. [By Lord Kames, HenryHome]
Elements of logic. 2 vols. By Richard Whately.
Elements of moral science. 2 vols. By James Beattie.
Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. 2 vols.

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By Dugald Stewart.
Eloge historique de Mr. Huet. By Pierre Joseph Olivet.
An enquiry after philosophy and theology. [By Robert
Spearman]
An enquiry into morals of the ancients. By George England.
An enquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening.
By Humphry Kepton.
An enquiry into the natural state of man. By William
Thompson.
Enquiry respecting the relation of cause and effect. [By Mary
Shepherd]
Essai sur la nature du commerce en general. (in vol. 3 of
Dincours politiques de Mr. David Hume)
Essai sur les interets du commerce maritime. (in vol. 2 ofDiscours politiques de Mr. David Hume)An essay concerning human understanding. 2 vols. By John
Locke.
An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. 2nd
ed. By William Adams.
An essay in answer to Mr. Hume'a Essay on miracles. 4th
ed. By William Adams.
An essay of the evils of popular ignorance: and a discourseon the communication of Christianity to the people ofHindoostan. By John Foster.
An essay on consciousness; or, A series .of evidences of a
distinct mind. By John Fearn.
An essay on military music. By].]. Rousseau.
An essay on Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By William
Adams.
An essay on Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles. By William
Adams.
An essay on taste. By Alexander Gerard.
An essay on taste. (in: Alexander Gerard, An essay on
taste) By Montesquieu .
. An essay on taste. (in: Alexander Gerard, An essay on
taste) By Voltaire.
An essay on the nature and conduct of the passions andaffections. With illustrations on the moral sense. [By1II-1l9
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An essay on the nature and immutability of truth. 3rd ed.
By James Beattie.
An essay on the nature and immutability of truth. 5th ed.
By James Beattie.
The essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism, by James Beattie.
An essay on the nature and obligations of virtue.
By
T[homas] Rlltherforth.
An essay on the origin of evil. (translation of 'De origine
mali') By Dr. William King.
An essay on the study of history. (Prefixed in Hume's History) By H. Stebbing.
An essay on virtue and harmony. By William Jameson.
An essay towards a new theory of vision. [By George Berke·ley]
An essay towards a new theory of vision. [By George Berkeley]
An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible
world. 2 vols. By John Norris.
An essay upon the relation of cause and effect. [By Mary
Shepherd]
Essays. By James Beattie.
Essays moral and literary. 3 vols. [By Vicesimus Knox]
The essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. 3 vols.
Essays on the nature and principles of taste. By Archibald
Alison.
Essays on the perception of an external universe, and othersubjects connected with the doctrine of causation.
By
Lady Mary Shephered.
Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime
and the beautiful. 3 vols. By Uvedale Price.
Essays on the principles of morality and natural religion.
[By Lord Kames Henry Home,]
Essays upon several moral subjects. Part III. By Jeremy
Collier.
Essays upon several subjects concerning British antiquities.
[By Lord Kames, Henry Home]An estimate of the manners and principles of the times. 2
550

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vols. [By John Brown]
Ethics and politics 2 vols. By Aristoteles.
Evidences of the Christian religion. 2 vols. By James
Beattie.
An examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the human mindon the principles of common sense, Dr. Battie's Essayon the nature and immutability of truth, and Dr. Oswald's
Appeal to common sense in behalf of religion. By Joseph
Priestley.
An examination of some remarks in the reply of Dr. John
Inglis to professor Playfair. By Thomas Brown.
False zeal reproved. By William Adams.
Familiar letters on free-agency. By William Stevenson.
A familiar survey of the Christian religion, and of history
as connected with the introduction of Christianity, andwith its progress to the present time. By Thomas
Gisborne.
Fifteen sermons. By Joseph Butler.
First truths, and the origin of our opmlOns, explain ions,explained. (translation of 'Traite des premieres veritez, etde la source de nos jugemens') By Claude Buffier.
The forgotten Hume. By Ernest Campbell Mossner.
A general treatise of morality, form'd upon the principles
of natural reason only. By Richard Fiddes.
The gentleman farmer. [By Lord Kames, Henry Home]
A gentleman's religion. [By Edward Synge]
Gibbon's account of Christianity considered: together withsome strictures on Hume's Dialogues concernig natural
religion. By Joseph Milner.
Gibbon's account of Christianity considered: with somestrictures on Hume's Dialogues conceruing natural religion.
2nd ed. By Joseph Milner.
An historical and critical enquiry into the evidence producedby the Earls of Murray and Morton, against Mary Queenof Scots. By William Tytler.
The history of England, from the Accession of George III.

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to the tenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. By
Edward Farr.
The history of England, from the death of George II. III
1760. 8 vols. By T. S. Hughes.
The history of England, from the reign of William andMary to the death of George II. By Tobias Smollett.
The history of England, from the Revolution in 1688 tothe death of George II. 5 vols. By Tobias Smollett.
The history of England, from the Revolution in 1688 tothe death of George II. in 1760. 5 vols. By Tobias
Smollett.
The history of England, from the Revolution to the deathof George the Second. 5 vols. By Tobias Smollett.
History of moral science. 2 vols. By Robert Blakey.
Illustrations of Mr. Hume's essay concerning liberty andnecessity. [By John Allen]
Indifference for religion inexcusable; or, A serious, impartial
and practical review of the certainty, importance, andharmony of religion both natural and revealed. By Samuel
Squire.
The influence of the pastoral office on the character examined; with a view, especially, to Mr. Hume's representation of the spirit of that office. By Alexander Gerard.
An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against
Mary Queen of Scots. 3 rd ed. By William Tytler.
An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against
Mary Queen of Scots. 2 vols. 4th ed. By William Tytler.
An inquiry into the causes of the infidelity and scepticism
of the times. By John Ogilvie.
An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense. By Thomas Reid.
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth ofnations. 3 vols. By Adam Smith.
An inquiry into the origin of the discoveries attributed tothe moderns. (translation of 'Recherches sur l'origine desdecouvertes attribuees aux modernes') By Louis Dutens.
An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty andvirtue. [By Francis Hutcheson]552

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Institutes of moral philosophy. By Adam Ferguson.
Institutes of moral philosophy.
3rd ed. By Adam Ferguson.
Les interets de la France mal entendus. 2 vols. (vols. 4-5
of Discours politique de Mr. David Hume)Introduction to the art of thinking. [By Lord Kames, Henry
Home]
Istituzioni di filosofia morale By Adam Fergusson.

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Justification de J. J. Rousseau, dans la contestation qui lui
est survenue avec M. Hume.

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Lectures on ecclesiastical history. 2 vols. By George Campbell.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. 2 vols. By HughBlair.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. 3 vols. 5th ed. By
Hugh Blair.
Letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan. By Adam
Smith.

III-68A letter to a friend, upon occasion of a late book, intitled,
Essays upon morality and natural religion.
A letter to Adam Smith on the life, death, and philosophyof his friend David Hume. [By George Horne]
A letter to Adam Smith on the life, death, and philosophyof his friend David Hume. [By George Horne]
A letter to Adam Smith on the life, death, and philosophyof his friend David Hume. [By George Horne]
A letter to T... P... [By George Berkeley]
Letters on chivalry and romance. [By Richard Hurd]
Letters on infidelity. [By George Horne]
Letters on infidelity. 2 nd ed. [By George Horne]
Letters on Mr Hume's History of Great Britain. [By Daniel
MacQueen]
Letters, on the intellectual and moral character of women.
Letters to a friend, on the evidences, doctrines, and dutiesof the Christian religion. 2 vols. By Olin thus Gregory.
Letters to a philosophical unbeliever. By Joseph priestly.
Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity. [ByIII-46
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John Bulkeley]
Letters to Dr. Clarke concerning liberty and necessity [fromJohn Bulkeley], with the Doctor's answers to them. By
Samuel Clarke.
Lettre de Mons. de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume.
Life of George Lesley. [By David Dalrymple]
Lcgic: or, The right use of reason in the inquiry after
truth, with a variety of rules to guard agaisnt error in
the affairs of religion and human life, as well as in thesciences. By Isaac Watts.
Logical tracts, comprising observations and essays iilustrativeof Mr. Locke's treatise upon the human understanding.
By Thomas Ludlam.
Loose hints upon education. [By Lord Kames, Henry Home]
Matho: or, The cosmotheoria puerilis. 2 vols. [By Andrew
Baxter]Memoir of the life and character of the Right Hon. Edmund
Burke. 2 vols. By James Prior.
Memoirs of Russia. By Christoph Hermann von Manstein.
The miscellaneous ·works of the late Reverend and learned
Conyers Middleton. 4 vols.
Miscellanies. 2 vols. By John Armstrong.
Moral and political dialogues. [By Richard Hurd]
Moral and political dialogues. 2 nd ed. [by Richard Hurd]
Moral and political dialogues; with letters on chivalry andromance. 3 vols. By Richard Hurd.
The moral philosopher. 2 vols. [By Thomas Morgan]
Natural religion insufficient; and reveal'd necessary to man's
happiness in his present state: or, A rational enquiry
into the principles of the modern deists.
By Thomas
Halyburton.
The Nature and obligation of virtue. By William Adams.
The nature, reasonableness, and advantages of prayer. By
William Leechman.
The necessity of revelation. By Archibald Campbell.
The new whole duty of man. [By Richard Allestree]554

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III-17Observations by Dea~ Tucker, and David Burne in a cor!espondence with Lord Kaimes. By Josiah Tucker.
Observations on Mr. Burne's Bistory of England. By Joseph
Towers.
Observations on reversionary payments. 2 vols. By Richard
Price.
Observation on the nature and tendency of the doctrine of
Mr. Burne, concerning the relation of cause and effect.
By Thomas Brown.
Of the principles and duties of natural religion. By John
[Wilkins]
The origin of the distinction of ranks: or, An inquiry into
the circumstances which give rise to influence and authority, in the different members of society. By John Millar.
Original letters of ].]. Rousseau.
Origines sacrae: or A rational account <;>f the grounds ofnatural and reveal'd religion. By Edward Stillingfleet.
The other side of the question: or, An attempt to rescue
the characters of the two Royal Sisters Q. Mary and Q.
Anne. [By James Ralph]
Outlines of moral philosophy. [By Dugald Stewart]
Ouvrages sur Ie commerce, les finances, &c. (in vol. 2 of'Discours politiques de Mr. David Burne')

III-72The parable of the pilgrim. By Symon Patrick.
Pastoral advice to young persons before confirmation. [ByWilliam Adams]
Perseverance in well-do~ng. By William Adams.
Philosophical dissertations. By James Balfour.
Philosophical essays. [By James Balfour]
Philosophical essay~ on various subjects. By Isaac. Watts.
A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of thesublime and beautiful. By Edmund Burke.
The philosophical principles of natural and revealed religion.
2 vols.
By The Chevalier Ramsay.
Philosophical principles of religion. Natural and revealed.
(2 pt. in I) By George Cheyne.
A philosophical treatise concerning the weakness of humanunderstanding. (translation of 'Traite philosophique deIII-173
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l'esprit humain') By Peter Huet.
The philosophical works of the late Right Honorable Henry
St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
The philosophy of natural history. 2 vols. By William
Smellie.
The philosophy of rhetoric. 2 vols. By George Campbell.
The philosophy of the moral feelings. By John Abercrombie.
Physico.theology. By William Derham.
A plain and easy introduction to the principles of naturaland revealed religion. 2 vols. [By John Plumptre]
A practical essay of the contempt of the world. By William
Nicholls.
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of pro·fessed Christians, in the higher and middle .classes in thiscountry, contrasted with real Christianity. By William
Wilberforce.
A preservative against the principles of infidelity. By AI·
exander Duncan.
The principles of liberty of conscience stated and defended.
[By William Wishart]
Principles of moral and political science. 2 vols. By Adam
Ferguson.
The principles of natural and revealed religion occasionally
opened and explained. 2 vols. By [William] Warburton.
The procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding.
[By Peter Browne]Arational explication of the mystery of the most B.
Trinity. By J. S. London.
Reflexions on the use and abuse of philosophy in mattersthat are properly relative to taste. By d' Alembert. (in:Alexander Gerard, An essay on taste)
Reflexions r:olitiques sur l'etat present de l' Angleterre. (invol. 2 of Discours politiques de Mr. David Hume) By
Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke.
Reflexions sur la necessite de comprendre l'etude du commerce
et des finances. (in vol. 2 of Discours politiques de Mr.
David Hume)The religion of nature delineated. [By William Wollaston]556

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Religion within the boundary of pure reason. (translation of'Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloBen Vernunft')
By Immanuel Kant.
Remarks on Mr. Hume's dialogues, concerning natural religion. By T [homas] Hayter.
Remarks on some sceptic.al positions in Mr. Hume's Enquiry
concerning the human understanding and his Treatise ofhuman nature. By Richard Kirwan.
Remarks upon a book [by Anthony Collins], entituled, Aphilosophical enquiry concerning human liberty. By Samuel
Clarke.
Remarks upon a late Discourse of free-thinking. Part n.
[By Richard Bentley]
Remarks uJ::on a late Discourse of free-thinking. 3rd ed.
[By Richard Bentley]
Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticityof the Poems of Ossian.
A review of the principal questions and difficulties in morals.
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The sacred theory of the earth. 2 vols. By Thomas Burnet.
Saggio in risposta a Mr. Hume circa i Miracoli. By William
Adams.
The Scotch haggis.
Scoticisms. [By James Beattie]
Scottish philosophy; a comparison of the Scottish andGerman answers to Hume. By [Pringle-Pattison] Andrew
Seth.
A selection from the Harleian miscellany of tracts, whichprincipally regard the English history; of which many arereferred to by Hume.
A selection of tracts and essays, theological and historical.
By Joseph Milner.
A sermon on the eloquence, and An essay on the action,of the pulpit. By James Fordyce.
A sermon on the fall of man. By William King.
A sermon preached at' St. Chad's Church. By William
Adams.

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A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Reverend
Father in God, John. By William Lloyd.
Sermons. 5 vols. By Hugh Blair.
Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions.
3 vols. By Francis Atterbury.
Sermons on the following subjects. 4 vols. By James Foster.
Sermons preached at Lincoln's-Inn, between the years 1765
and 1776. 3 vols. By Richard Hurd.
Several letters to the Reverend Dr Clarke, with the Dr's
answers thereunto. [By Joseph Butler]
Several letters written by a noble Lord to a young man at
the university. [By Shaftesbury]
A short and easie method with the deists. By Charles
Leslie.
A short and easie method with the Jews. By Charles Leslie.
[Short biographies of Scottish authors]
A short discourse upon light and colours. (translation of the'Eclaircissement sur la lumiere') By Nicolas Malebranche.
A short introduction to moral philosophy. By Francis
Hutcheson.
Sir Harry Gaylove; or, Comedy in embryo. [By Jane Marshallor Marishall]Siris. By George Berkeley.
A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel.
Sketch of the life of John Barclay. [By David Dalrymple]
Sketch of the life of John Hamilton. [By David Dalrymple]
Sketch of the life of Mark Alexander Boyd. [By David
Dalrymple]
Sketches of the history of man. 2 vols. [By Lord Kames,
Henry Home]
Some late opinions concerning the foundation of morality,
examined.
Some thoughts concerning religion, natural and revealed.
[By Duncan Forbes]
A survey of the strength and opulence of Great Britain.
By [Thomas Brooke] Clarke.
Synopsis compendiaria librorum Hugonis Grotii de jure belli
et pacis, Samuelis Clarkii de dei existentia etattributis,
et Joannis Lockii de intellectu humano. [By William
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A system of moral philosophy. 2 vols. By Francis Hutcheson.
A test of true and false doctrines. By William Adams.
Theodorus: A dialogue concerning the art of preaching.
By Mr. David Fordyce.
The theory of moral sentiments. 2 vols. By Adam Smith.
Things divine and supernatural conceived by analogy withthings natural and human. [By Peter Browne]
Three dialogues between Hylas arid Philonous. By George
Berkeley.
Three physico· theological discourses. By John Ray.
Tracts, by Warburton, and a Warburtonian; not admitted
into the collections of their respective works. By [William] Warburton and [Richard Hurd]
Traite de la religion naturelle. By [David] Martin.
Traite philosophique de la foiblesse de l'esprit humain, par[Pierre Daniell] Huet.
Transnatural philosophy, or Metaphy:sicks. By J [ohn] S[ergeant]
A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality. By
Ralph Cudworth.
Treatise concerriing the search after truth. (translation of'De la recherche de la verite') By Nicolas Malebranche.
Treatise of nature and grace. (translation of 'Traite de lanature et de la grace') By Nicolas Malebranche.
A treatise on toleration; The ignorant philosopher; and A
commentary on the Marquis of Becaria's treatise on crimes
and punishments. (translations of 'Traite sur la tolerance' ;'Le philosophe ignorant'; and 'Commentaire d~ livre
delits et des peines [de Beccaria]') By Voltaire.
The true intellectual system of the universe. 3 vols. By
Ralph Cudworth.
The truth of Christianity demonstrated. To which is prefixed a vindication of the short method with the deists.
By Charles Leslie.
The two questions, previons to Dr Middleton's Free enquiry
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A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudenessto refinement: or, Inquiries concerning the history of law,
government, and manners. By Gilbert Stuart.
A view of the internal evidence of the Christian religion.
By Soame Jenyns.
A view of the principal deistical writers that have appearedin England in the last and present century. 3 vols. By
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The works of James Hartis. 5 vols.
The works of Sir William Temple. 4 vols.
The works of Soame Jenyns. 4 vols.
The works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson.
The works of Thomas Reid. 2 vols.
The works of William Paley. 5 vols.
The world unmask'd: or, The philosopher the greatest cheat.
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