Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on the text
- Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
- Preface
- A letter concerning enthusiasm to my Lord *****
- Sensus communis, an essay on the freedom of wit and humour in a letter to a friend
- Soliloquy, or advice to an author
- An inquiry concerning virtue or merit
- The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody, being a recital of certain conversations on natural and moral subjects
- Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises and other critical subjects
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Further reading
- Note on the text
- Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
- Preface
- A letter concerning enthusiasm to my Lord *****
- Sensus communis, an essay on the freedom of wit and humour in a letter to a friend
- Soliloquy, or advice to an author
- An inquiry concerning virtue or merit
- The moralists, a philosophical rhapsody, being a recital of certain conversations on natural and moral subjects
- Miscellaneous reflections on the preceding treatises and other critical subjects
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Summary
If the author of these united tracts had been any friend to prefaces, he would probably have made his entrance after that manner in one or other of the five treatises formerly published apart. But as to all prefatory or dedicatory discourse, he has told us his mind sufficiently in that treatise which he calls Soliloquy. Being satisfied, however, that there are many persons who esteem these introductory pieces as very essential in the constitution of a work, he has thought fit, in behalf of his honest printer, to substitute these lines under the title of a preface and to declare ‘that (according to his best judgment and authority) these presents ought to pass and be received, construed and taken as satisfactory in full, for all preliminary composition, dedication, direct or indirect application for favour to the public or to any private patron or party whatsoever, nothing to the contrary appearing to him from the side of truth or reason’. Witness his hand, this fifth day of December 1710.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000