BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE OF SOME BRITISH WRITERS ADAMS, William, D.D., 1706-1789, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1775, and Archdeacon of Llandaff. The Nature and Obligation of Virtue. A Sermon, &c., with an Appendix. Lond. 1754, 8vo. ANON. (1) An Essay towards demonstrating the immateriality and free agency of the Soul (in answer to S. Strutt and Antony Collins). Lond. 1740, 8vo; 1760, 8vo. (Brit. Mus. 698, f. 6 (3)) (2) A vindication of mankind, or free-will asserted (in answer to Antony Collins). 1717, 8vo. (Brit. Mus. 4371, df. 5 (2).) 5 (3) Wisdom the first spring of action in the Deity. Lond. 1734, 8vo. (Brit. Mus. 4224, cc. 17.) BALGUY, John, M.A., 1686-1748, Vicar of Northallerton. (1) A letter to a Deist concerning the beauty of Moral Virtue, &c. 1726. (2) The foundation of Moral Goodness. 1728. (3) The second part of the foundation of Moral Goodness. 1729. (1) (2) (3) Tracts Moral and Theological. Lond. 1734, 8vo. BENTHAM, Jeremy, 1748-1832. (1) Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislations first printed, 1780; ed. 1, 1789. (2) Deontology, or the Science of Morality, ed. Bowring, 1834. BERKELEY, George, D.D., 1684-1753, Bishop of Cloyne. (1) A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin, 1710, 8vo, part i. only; Lond. 1734, 8vo. (2) Passive Obedience. Ed. 1 and 2, Lond. 1712, 8vo, ed. 3, 1713. (3) Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher ed. 1 and 2, Dublin, 1732, 8vo, ed. 3, 1752. BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, M.D., d. 1729. (1) Essays on several subjects (including essays on False Virtue and on the Laws of Nature). Lond. 1716, 8vo; ed. 2, 1717. (2) Natural Theology, or Moral duties considered apart from positive. Lond. 1728, 8vo. BLOUNT, Charles, 1654-1693. Oracles of Reason. 1693; 1695. BLUETT, T. (1) An Enquiry whether a general practice of Virtue tends benefit or disadvantage of a people, &c. Lond. 1725, 8vo. (2) [Anon.] The true meaning of the Fable of the Bees (being a reply to the above). 1726, 8vo. (Brit. Mus. 1028, c. 6 (2).) BOTT, Thomas (Philanthropus), 1688-1754, Rector of Spixworth and Edgefield. (1) Remarks upon Dr. Butler's sixth chapter of the Analogy and also upon the Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue. Lond. 1737, 8vo. (2) [Anon.] A defence of Mr. Wollaston's notion of Moral Good and Evil, in answer to a letter, &c. [by T. B.]. 1725, 4to. (Brit. Mus. 4So, c. 21 (2).) BROWN, John, M.A., 1715–1766, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Newcastle. BRYANT, Jacob, M.A., 1715-1804, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. BUTLER, Joseph, D.D., 1692-1752, Bishop of Durham. (1) Fifteen Sermons, &c. Lond. 1726, 8vo; ed. 2, 1729; ed. 3, 1736; ed. 4, 1749. (2) Analogy of Religion, including Dissertation upon Virtue. Lond. 1736, 4to; Dublin, 1736, 8vo; ed. 2, Lond. 1736, 8vo; ed. 7, Aberdeen, 1775. CAMPBELL, Archibald, D.D., 1691-1756, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St. Andrews. 'Aper Aoyia, An Enquiry into the original of Moral Virtue, &c., first published as by A. Innes. 1728, 8vo. Republished as by Campbell, 1733. CHUBB, Thomas, 1679-1747. (1) A Discourse concerning Reason, &c. Lond. 1731, 8vo. (2) The ground and foundation of Morality considered, wherein is shown that disinterested benevolence is a proper and worthy principle of action to intelligent beings (with Remarks on Dr. Rutherford's Essay on Morality). Lond. 1745, 8vo. CLARKE, John, M.A., 1687–1734, Master of the Grammar School at Hull and Gloucester. (1) Examination of the notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced, &c., in The Religion of Nature delineated.' Lond. 1725, 8vo. (2) The foundation of Morality in theory and practice considered in an examination of Dr. S. Clarke's opinion, &c., as also of . . . an 'Inquiry into the original of our ideas of Beauty and Virtue.' York, no date (? 1730), 8vo. (3) An examination of what has been aavancea relating to Moral Obligation in a late pamphlet entitled 'A Defence of the Answer to the Remarks upon Dr. Clarke's exposition of the Church Catechism.' (Bodleian Library.) Lond. 1730. ... (4) [Anon.] A letter to Mr. John Clarke . . wherein is showed that he hath treated the learned Dr. Clarke very unfairly. Lond. 1727. (Brit. Mus. 698, e. 8 (5).) CLARKE, Samuel, D.D., 1675-1729, Rector of St. James', Westminster. (1) Demonstration of the being and attributes of God, being the substance of eight sermons preached at St. Paul's in the year 1704 at the Boyle Lectures. 1705; ed. 2, 1706. (2) Discourse concerning the unchangeable obligations of Natural Religion, being eight sermons preached at St. Paul's in the year 1705 at the Boyle Lectures. 1706; ed. 4. 1716. (3) A collection of papers which passed between Dr. Clarke and Mr. Leibnitz, &c. (including correspondence with R. Bulkley and remarks on A. Collins.) 1717; in French, Amst. 1720. (4) Works, with Life by Bp. Benj. Hoadley. 4 vols. fol., 1738. COCKBURN, Mrs. Catharine (née Trotter), 1679-1749. (1) A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding. 1702, 8vo. (2) Remarks upon some writers. . . concerning the foundations of Moral Duty, 1743. (3) Remarks upon .. Dr. Rutherforth's essay... in vindication of the principles of Dr. Samuel Clarke (with preface by W. Warburton). Lond. 1747, 8vo. (4) Collected Works (with Life). 2 vols. Lond. 1751. COLLINS, Antony, 1676-1729. (1) A Philosophical Enquiry concerning human Liberty and Necessity. 1715; corrected 1717, 8vo; republished by J. Priestly, Birmingham, 1790, 8vo. (2) A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity. 1729, 8vo. (See S. Clarke, Jackson, Anon.) CUDWORTH, Ralph, D.D., 1617-1688. (1) The True Intellectual system of the Universe. Lond. 1678, fol. (2) A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality. Lond. 1731, 8vo. (3) A Treatise of Free-will; ed. J. Allen. 1838. CUMBERLAND, Richard, D.D., 1632-1718, Bishop of Peterborough. (1) De Legibus Naturae disquisitio philosophica. Lond. 1672, fol. ; ed. 3, Lubeck, 1694. (2) A Treatise of the Laws of Nature made English from the Latin by J. Maxwell (with introduction and appendices by the Translator). Lond. 1727, 4to. (3) Another translation with notes and appendix by J. Towers. Dublin, 1750, 4to. (Translated into French by Barbeyrac. Amst. 1744, 4to; Lieden, 1757, 4to.) DAWES, Manasseh, d. 1829, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. Philosophical considerations on a Free Inquiry into the Merits of a controversy between Dr. Priestley and Dr. Price (with an Introductory Essay). Lond. 1780, 8vo. DENNIS, John, M.A. Vice and Luxury, or Remarks on ... the Fable of the Bees.' Lond. 1724, 8vo. [EDWARDS, Jonathan the elder, M.A., President of the College of New Jersey. (1) A careful and strict enquiry into the notion of that freedom and will which is supposed to be essential to moral agency. Boston, N. E., 1754, 8vo; Lond. 1762, 8vo. (2) Two Dissertations, (1) Concerning the end for which God created the world; (2) The Nature of True Virtue. Boston, Mass., 1765, 8vo; Edinb. 1788, 12mo. (3) Remarks on the Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (by H. Home, Lord Kames). Ed. 3, Lond. 1768, 8vo.] [ESPRIT, Jacques. (1) The falsehood of Human Virtue. A Moral Essay done out of the French (La fausseté des Vertus humaines'). [Anon.] Lond. 1691, 8vo. (2) Discourses on the deceitfulness of Human Virtues; done out of French by W. Beauvoir. Lond. 1706, 8vo.] FERGUSON, Adam, LL.D., 1724-1816; Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh, 1764-1785. (1) Institutes of Moral Philosophy. Edinb. 1772; ed. 2, 1773; ed. 3, enlarged, 1785. New ed., Basil, 1800, 8vo. German translation by Garve, Leipzig, 1772. (2) Principles of Moral and Political Science. Edinb. 1792, 2 vols., 4to. FIDDES, Richard, 1671-1725, Rector of Halsham. A general treatise of Morality formed upon the principles of Natural Reason only. Lond. 1724, 8vo. FISHER, Joseph, Vicar of Drax. A Review of the Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity... wherein is clearly shown that man is endowed with a power of self-determination and free agency. Lond. 1779, 8vo. FORSTER, Joseph, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Queens' College, Cambridge. Two Essays; the one on the Origin of Evil . . the other on the Foundation of Morality. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1734, 8vo. GAY, John, M.A., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. (1) Dissertation concerning the Fundamental principle of Virtue o Morality (prefixed to Edmund Law's translation of Archbishop King's Essay on the Origin of Evil'). 1731. (2) Preface to Edmund Law's Enquiry into the Idea of Space, Time, &c. 1734. GISBORNE, Thomas, M.A., Curate of Barton-under-Needwood, Prebendary of Durham. The Principles of Moral Philosophy... together with remarks on the principle assumed by Mr. Paley, &c. Lond. 1789, 8vo; also 1795, 1798. GLOVER, Philip, of Wispington, Lincolnshire. (1) A discourse concerning Virtue, &c. 1732, 8vo. (2) Inquiry concerning Virtue and Happiness, with preface by Charles Plumptre; written in 1728, published in 1751. HARRIS, James, 1709-1780 (author of Hermes). Three Treatises... the third concerning Happiness. Lond. 1744, 8vo; ed. 2, 1765; ed. 3, 1772; ed. 5, 1792. HARTLEY, David, M.A., 1705–1757, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. (1) Enquiry into the origin of the human appetites and affections. Lincoln, 1747, 1758. (2) Observations on Man. Lond. 1749, 8vo; ed. 2, 1791, 4to, with notes, &c. 1801. (See also Priestley.) HIBERNICUS v. HUTCHESON (art. 3). HOBBES, Thomas, of Malmesbury, 1588-1679. (1) Human Nature. Lond. 1650, 12mo; ed. 2, 1651. (2) Leviathan, or the Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth. Lond. 1651, fol. HOME, Henry, v. KAMES, Lord. HUME, David, 1711-1776. (1) A Treatise of Human Nature. Lond. 1739-1740, 3 vols, 8vo. (2) Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and the Principles of Morals. 1748-1751, Lond., 8vo. HUTCHESON, Francis, LL.D., 1694-1746; Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, 1729-1746. (1) Inquiry into the original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. Lond. 1725, 8vo; ed. 2, 1726; ed. 3, 1729; ed. 5, 1753, translated into German, Frankfurt, 1762, 8vo. (2) Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Illustrations upon the Moral Sense. 1728; ed. 3, 1742. (3) Reflections upon Laughter and Remarks on the Fable of the Bees in Hibernicus Letters, 1725-7; ed. 2, 1734; separately, 1750, 1758. (4) Letters between the late Mr. G. Burnet and Mr. Hutchinson, 1735 (formerly published in the 'London Journal'). (3) and (4) Letters concerning the Foundation of Virtue. Collected Edn. 1772. (5) Philosophiae Moralis Institutio, &c. 1742, 1755, 1787. (7) De Naturali hominum socialitate. 1756. (8) A System of Moral Philosophy, with Life by Leechman. 1755. (9) A short Introduction to Moral Philosophy. 1747, 1764. See also Taylor, Philaretus. |