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THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH
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Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)
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Contents:
On The Philosophical Genius Of Lord Bacon And Mr. Locke.
A Discourse On The Law Of Nature And Nations.
Life Of Sir Thomas More.
A Refutation Of The Claim On Behalf Of King Charles I. To The Authorship Of EῚKῺN BAΣIΛIKΉ
Dissertation On The Progress Of Ethical Philosophy, Chiefly During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries.
An Account Of The Partition Of Poland.
Sketch Of The Administration And Fall Of Struensee.
Statement Of The Case Of Donna Maria Da Gloria, As A Claimant To The Crown Of Portugal.
Character Of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis.
Character Of The Right Honourable George Canning.
Preface To A Reprint Of The Edinburgh Review Of 1755.
On The Writings Of Machiavel.
Review Of Mr. Godwin's Lives Of Edward And John Philips, &c. &c.
Review Of Rogers' Poems.
Review Of Madame De Staël's 'De L'allemagne.'
Review Of The Causes Of The Revolution Of 1688.
Memoir Of The Affairs Of Holland. A. D. 1667—1686.
Discourse Read At The Opening Of The Literary Society Of Bombay.
Vindiciae Gallicae. A Defence Of The French Revolution And Its English Admirers, Against The Accusations Of The Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Including Some Strictures On The Late Production Of Mons. De Calonne.
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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE LONDON EDITION, BY THE EDITOR.
These Volumes contain whatever (with the exception of his History of England) is believed to be of the most value in the writings of Sir James Mackintosh. Something of method, it will be observed, has been attempted in their arrangement by commencing with what is more purely Philosophical, and proceeding through Literature to Politics; each of those heads being generally, though not quite precisely, referable to each volume respectively. With such selection would naturally have terminated his responsibility; but in committing again to the press matter originally for the most part hastily printed, the Editor has assumed—as the lesser of two evils—a larger exercise of discretion in the revision of the text than he could have wished to have felt had been imposed upon him. Instead, therefore, of continually arresting the eye of the reader by a notification of almost mechanical alterations, he has to premise here that where inaccuracies and redundancies of expression were obvious, these have been throughout corrected and retrenched. A few transpositions of the text have also been made;—as where, by the detachment of the eleventh chapter of what the present Editor, on its original publication allowed to be called, perhaps too largely, the “History of the Revolution of 1688,” a stricter chronological order has been observed, at the same time that the residue—losing thereby much of its fragmentary character—may now, it is hoped, fairly claim to be all that is assumed in its new designation. Of the contributions to periodical publications, such portions only find place here as partake most largely of the character of completeness. Some extended quotations, appearing for the most part as notes on former occasions, have been omitted, with a view to brevity, on the present; while, in addition to a general verification of the Author’s references, a few explanatory notes have been appended, wherever apparently needful, by the Editor.
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Contents:
On The Philosophical Genius Of Lord Bacon And Mr. Locke.
A Discourse On The Law Of Nature And Nations.
Life Of Sir Thomas More.
A Refutation Of The Claim On Behalf Of King Charles I. To The Authorship Of EῚKῺN BAΣIΛIKΉ
Dissertation On The Progress Of Ethical Philosophy, Chiefly During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries.
An Account Of The Partition Of Poland.
Sketch Of The Administration And Fall Of Struensee.
Statement Of The Case Of Donna Maria Da Gloria, As A Claimant To The Crown Of Portugal.
Character Of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis.
Character Of The Right Honourable George Canning.
Preface To A Reprint Of The Edinburgh Review Of 1755.
On The Writings Of Machiavel.
Review Of Mr. Godwin's Lives Of Edward And John Philips, &c. &c.
Review Of Rogers' Poems.
Review Of Madame De Staël's 'De L'allemagne.'
Review Of The Causes Of The Revolution Of 1688.
Memoir Of The Affairs Of Holland. A. D. 1667—1686.
Discourse Read At The Opening Of The Literary Society Of Bombay.
Vindiciae Gallicae. A Defence Of The French Revolution And Its English Admirers, Against The Accusations Of The Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Including Some Strictures On The Late Production Of Mons. De Calonne.
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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE LONDON EDITION, BY THE EDITOR.
These Volumes contain whatever (with the exception of his History of England) is believed to be of the most value in the writings of Sir James Mackintosh. Something of method, it will be observed, has been attempted in their arrangement by commencing with what is more purely Philosophical, and proceeding through Literature to Politics; each of those heads being generally, though not quite precisely, referable to each volume respectively. With such selection would naturally have terminated his responsibility; but in committing again to the press matter originally for the most part hastily printed, the Editor has assumed—as the lesser of two evils—a larger exercise of discretion in the revision of the text than he could have wished to have felt had been imposed upon him. Instead, therefore, of continually arresting the eye of the reader by a notification of almost mechanical alterations, he has to premise here that where inaccuracies and redundancies of expression were obvious, these have been throughout corrected and retrenched. A few transpositions of the text have also been made;—as where, by the detachment of the eleventh chapter of what the present Editor, on its original publication allowed to be called, perhaps too largely, the “History of the Revolution of 1688,” a stricter chronological order has been observed, at the same time that the residue—losing thereby much of its fragmentary character—may now, it is hoped, fairly claim to be all that is assumed in its new designation. Of the contributions to periodical publications, such portions only find place here as partake most largely of the character of completeness. Some extended quotations, appearing for the most part as notes on former occasions, have been omitted, with a view to brevity, on the present; while, in addition to a general verification of the Author’s references, a few explanatory notes have been appended, wherever apparently needful, by the Editor.
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