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| Title: "An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times" and Other Writings |
| By (author): John Brown Edited by: David Womersley |
| ISBN10-13: 086597909X : 9780865979093 |
| John Brown (17151766) was a clergyman who achieved great but transient fame as a writer and moralist. His attack on Shaftesbury and moral sense philosophy, against which he employed utilitarian arguments and also arguments deriving from Gods benevolent intentions toward his creation, was published in 1751 and was later praised by John Stuart Mill. The central text of this volume, An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757), is a vigorous attack on the vain, luxurious, and selfish effeminacy of Englands higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years War (17561763). Brown repeated the usual complaints of corruption that had been raised during the premiership of Walpole and argued that public virtue had been undermined by a preoccupation with luxury and commerce. Estimate was printed no fewer than seven times within the first year, earning the author the name Estimate Brown. Alongside Estimate, the volume includes four other works by Brown: his poem On Liberty (1749); his Essays on the Characteristicks (1751), which is an attack on Shaftesburys Characteristicks; his Explanatory Defence of the Estimate (1758), in which Brown engaged to defend the work, to some modest extent, against his critics; and finally, a late work, Thoughts on Civil Liberty (1765). Two appendixes complement the texts: a brief tribute to Brown by Thomas Hollis (an Englishman who devoted his life to the cause of liberty and for whom this series is named), in which Hollis depicts Brown as a weak man who nevertheless possessed a measure of virtue and talent, and who fell among thieves in the feral literary and political circles of Hanoverian England. The second appendix provides Holliss own annotations to his copy of Estimate. The introduction, by David Womersley, places Browns writings and career in the context of eighteenth-century moralism and, naturally, in the tradition of British writing on liberty. The annotations will gloss now-unfamiliar words and explain now-obscure references to contemporary events, circumstances, and personalities. |
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Pages: 806
Size: 229x152mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - August 2019 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy |
| List Price: 24.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 1 of: 599 |
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| Title: "An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times" and Other Writings |
| By (author): John Brown Edited by: David Womersley |
| ISBN10-13: 0865979103 : 9780865979109 |
| John Brown (17151766) was a clergyman who achieved great but transient fame as a writer and moralist. His attack on Shaftesbury and moral sense philosophy, against which he employed utilitarian arguments and also arguments deriving from Gods benevolent intentions toward his creation, was published in 1751 and was later praised by John Stuart Mill. The central text of this volume, An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757), is a vigorous attack on the vain, luxurious, and selfish effeminacy of Englands higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years War (17561763). Brown repeated the usual complaints of corruption that had been raised during the premiership of Walpole and argued that public virtue had been undermined by a preoccupation with luxury and commerce. Estimate was printed no fewer than seven times within the first year, earning the author the name Estimate Brown. Alongside Estimate, the volume includes four other works by Brown: his poem On Liberty (1749); his Essays on the Characteristicks (1751), which is an attack on Shaftesburys Characteristicks; his Explanatory Defence of the Estimate (1758), in which Brown engaged to defend the work, to some modest extent, against his critics; and finally, a late work, Thoughts on Civil Liberty (1765). Two appendixes complement the texts: a brief tribute to Brown by Thomas Hollis (an Englishman who devoted his life to the cause of liberty and for whom this series is named), in which Hollis depicts Brown as a weak man who nevertheless possessed a measure of virtue and talent, and who fell among thieves in the feral literary and political circles of Hanoverian England. The second appendix provides Holliss own annotations to his copy of Estimate. The introduction, by David Womersley, places Browns writings and career in the context of eighteenth-century moralism and, naturally, in the tradition of British writing on liberty. The annotations will gloss now-unfamiliar words and explain now-obscure references to contemporary events, circumstances, and personalities. |
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Pages: 806
Size: 229x152mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - August 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy |
| List Price: 11.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 2 of: 599 |
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| Title: A Concise History of the Common Law |
| By (author): Theodore F T Plucknett |
| ISBN10-13: 0865978077 : 9780865978072 |
| As always during its long history, English common law, upon which American law is based, has had to defend itself against the challenge of civil law's clarity and traditions. That challenge to our common law heritage remains today. To that end, Liberty Fund now makes available a clear and candid discussion of common law. A Concise History of the Common Law provides a source for common-law understanding of individual rights, not in theory only, but protected through the confusing and messy evolution of courts, and their administration as they struggled to resolve real problems. Plucknett's seminal work is intended to convey a sense of historical development -- not to serve merely as a work of reference. The first half of the book is a historical introduction to the study of law. Plucknett discusses the conditions in political, economic, social, and religious thought that have contributed to the genesis of law. This section is a brief but astoundingly full introduction to the study of law. The second half of the book consists of chapters introducing the reader to the history of some of the main divisions of law, such as criminal, tort, property, contract, and succession. These topics are treated with careful exposition so that the book will be of interest to those just embarking on their quest in legal history while still providing enough substantial information, references, and footnotes to make it meaningful for the well-versed legal history reader. |
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Pages: 802
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - November 2010 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Legal history |
| List Price: 10.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 3 of: 599 |
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| Title: Adam Smith |
| Sub-title: The Man & His Works |
| By (author): E G West |
| ISBN10-13: 091396607X : 9780913966075 |
| E G West brings to life Adam Smith's first years in the bustling Scottish seaport of Kirkcaldy (and recounts Smith's brief kidnapping, as a baby, by gypsies). We follow young Smith as a student, watch his thought develop as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and enjoy with him the hospitality of David Hume, the Parisian literary salons, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, and other giants of the era. West gives us a masterful summary of 'The Wealth of Nations'. Even more significant, West restores to eminence an earlier work of Smith's, 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'. "If The Wealth of Nations had never been written," he asserts, "this previous work would have earned for him a prominent place in intellectual history." West takes particular delight in using 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' to rebut Marx's assumptions about laissez-faire capitalism. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 140x215mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - January 1977 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of Western philosophy : Economic theory & philosophy |
| List Price: 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 4 of: 599 |
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| Title: Adam Smith |
| Sub-title: The Man & His Works |
| By (author): E G West |
| ISBN10-13: 0913966061 : 9780913966068 |
| E G West brings to life Adam Smith's first years in the bustling Scottish seaport of Kirkcaldy (and recounts Smith's brief kidnapping, as a baby, by gypsies). We follow young Smith as a student, watch his thought develop as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and enjoy with him the hospitality of David Hume, the Parisian literary salons, Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, and other giants of the era. West gives us a masterful summary of 'The Wealth of Nations'. Even more significant, West restores to eminence an earlier work of Smith's, 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments'. "If The Wealth of Nations had never been written," he asserts, "this previous work would have earned for him a prominent place in intellectual history." West takes particular delight in using 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' to rebut Marx's assumptions about laissez-faire capitalism. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 145x215mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - January 1977 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: History of Western philosophy : Economic theory & philosophy |
| List Price: 14.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 11 |
| Title: 5 of: 599 |
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| Title: Adam Smith & the Wealth of Nations DVD |
| By (author): Adam Smith |
| ISBN10-13: 0865976082 : 9780865976085 |
| This DVD is an introduction to modern economics and the importance of free markets. The DVD is narrated by Dr Benjamin A Rogge of Wabash College and was prepared with the advice of Professors Ronald H Coase of the University of Chicago and E G West of Carleton University. From his childhood in Scotland through his university days in Oxford and on to his academic career, the film examines the events and influences that made Adam Smith the father of economics. The film delineates the original brilliance of Adam Smith's ideas that culminated in his masterwork, 'The Wealth of Nations'. Students come to understand the central concepts that Smith presented in 'The Wealth of Nations', and they see how those concepts made our modern world possible. |
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - July 2005 |
| Format: DVD |
| Subjects: Economics : Scotland |
| List Price: 18.33 Pounds Sterling (Excluding VAT) |
| List Price inc VAT: 22.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 6 of: 599 |
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| Title: Adam Smith -- Glasgow Edition |
| Sub-title: 8 Volume Set |
| By (author): Adam Smith |
| ISBN10-13: 0865973695 : 9780865973695 |
| Now complete in seven titles/eight volumes, this series is the first uniform collection of Adam Smith's writings. The Glasgow edition is published in hardcover by Oxford University Press. The paperback edition is published by Liberty Fund. |
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Pages: 3311
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - January 1982 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of Western philosophy : Economic theory & philosophy |
| List Price: 81.60 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 7 of: 599 |
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| Title: America's Second Crusade |
| By (author): Francis Hutcheson |
| ISBN10-13: 0865977070 : 9780865977075 |
| The author offers his perspective as a seasoned journalist on the US involvement in World War II. It was written only five years after the surrender of Germany and Japan making the book a window into its time. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction; The First Crusade; Communism and Fascism: Offspring of the War; The Collapse of Versailles; Debacle in the West; "Again and Again and Again"; Road to War: The Atlantic; Road to War: The Pacific; The Coalition of the Big Three; The Munich Called Yalta: War's End; Wartime Illusions and Delusions; Poland: The Great Betrayal; Germany Must Be Destroyed; No War, But No Peace; Crusade in Retrospect; Index. |
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Pages: 387
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - October 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 |
| List Price: 8.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 8 of: 599 |
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| Title: American Commonwealth, 2-Volume Set |
| By (author): James Bryce |
| ISBN10-13: 086597117X : 9780865971172 |
| In "Democracy in America" (1835), the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville viewed the fledgling United States through the lens of political theory. A half-century later, the Englishman James Bryce recorded, not what he thought about democracy or America, but "the institutions and the people of America as they are." This work was first published in three volumes in 1888. This two-volume edition is based on the updated third edition of 1941, which encompassed all the changes, corrections and additions that Bryce entered into the previous three editions. Its expanded appendix includes Bryce's 1887 essay, "The Predictions of Hamilton and De Tocqueville", and contemporaneous (1889) reviews of "The American Commonwealth" by Woodrow Wilson and Lord Acton. Bryce presents the results of conversations with scores of Americans, and the close observation of the operation of American political institutions, including political parties and municipal and state governments. |
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Pages: 1711
Size: 155x230mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - January 1995 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literary essays : Political structure & processes : Political parties |
| List Price: 14.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 19 |
| Title: 9 of: 599 |
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| Title: American Democrat |
| By (author): James Cooper |
| ISBN10-13: 0913966916 : 9780913966914 |
| When 'The American Democrat' was first published in 1838, Cooper's position as America's first major novelist obscured his serious contribution to the discussion of American principles and politics. |
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Pages: 251
Size: 155x235mm
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| Published: Liberty Fund Inc. (US) - January 1981 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: History of the Americas : Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 : Political science & theory : Political structures: democracy |
| List Price: 14.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 10 of: 599 |
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