An essay on human life
By: By Lord Pagett
Edition: 4th ed., corrected and much enlarg'd by the author.
Publisher: S. Boden
Published: 1779
Place of publication: Stafford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Notes: In verse.

Appended are: "Verses wrote by the same nobleman in a fit of gout, Jan. 7, 1742."

First published anonymously 1734; the advertisement in one of the two third editions published in 1736 claims the author of 'An essay on human life' is also the author of the then anonymous 'Essay on man.' 'An essay on human life' was subsequently printed in a supplement to the Works of Pope in 1757. cf Dictionary of national biography.