The world unmask'd, or, The philosopher the greatest cheat
Subtitle: in twenty-four dialogues between Crito a philosopher, Philo a lawyer, and Erastus a merchant : in which true virtue is distinguished from what usually bears the name or resemblance of it : the many prejudices and mistakes in judgment and practice, in regard to conscience and religion, are examined and rectified : and the value of truth is shewn, with the reasons why it is not more generally 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, entitled, An Enquiry into Origenism : together with a large introduction, evincing the same truth from the principles of natural religion : translated from the French
By: [Marie Huber]
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Printed for A. Millar
Published: 1736
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Deism; Early works to 1800; Virtue; Religion; Future life; Philosophy; Humor
Other titles: Philosopher the greatest cheat; Le sistéme des anciens et des modernes.
Work titles: Monde fou préferé au monde sage
Notes: A translation of Marie Huber's 'Le monde fou préferé au monde sage', first published in 1731, and 'Le sistéme des anciens et des modernes', 1733.

With a final leaf of advertisements.

The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall.

Reproduction of the original from the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.