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Hard Bound Cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.

Softcover. xxvii, 221 p.; 20 cm. (Midland books / MB 103) Includes selections from: The appeal to all that doubt or disbelieve the truths of the gospel, whether they be deists, Arians, Socinians, or nominal Christians [1730, from 3rd ed. 1768] / Willliam Law (1686-1761), p. 5-17 -- Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water, and divers other subjects [2nd ed. 1744] / by George Berkeley (1685-1753), p. 21-50 -- Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations [1749] / by David Hartley (1705-1757), p. 51-105 -- The theory of moral sentiments [1759, from 5th ed. 1781] / by Adam Smith (1723-1790), p. 109-16 -- An essay on original genius [2nd ed. 1767] / by William Duff (1732-1815), p. 119-24 -- The light of nature pursued [1768, under pseudonym Edward Search] / Abraham Tucker (1705-1774), p. 127-69 -- A new system; or, an analysis of antient mythology [1774-76, from 3rd ed. 1907] / by Jacob Bryant (1715-1804), p. 173-87 -- Enquiry concerning political justice and its influence on morals and happiness [3rd ed. 1798] / by William Godwin (1756-1836), p. 191-221. -- From the introduction: `This book assembles in convenient form selections from a number of eighteenth-century works which nowadays are hard to find, except in rare or expensive editions, but which helped shape the thinking of the English romantics--specifically, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Hazlitt. We know that they actually read most of these works; at any rate, each selection represents an influential attitude or strain of thought in the air at the time.' (p. vii) VG in orig. illus. plum and magenta wrapper. Uncirculated copy.…