“
I ought sooner, in answer to your letter of Sep. 29. to have said that I shall be glad to recieve the second hand copy of
the Traité du Bonheur et de la morale, which you supposed you could get me . . .
”
The book was sent on November 26, when Dufief wrote: “J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser par le Courrier d’Aujourd’hui un petit paquet contenant “le traite élementaire de la Morale
& du Bonheur”. S’il arrivait que ce ne fut l’ouvrage que vous attendez, je vous prie d’avoir la bonté de me le renvoyer .
. .”
Jean Zacharie Paradis de Raymondis, 1746-1800, French philosopher and moralist. The first edition was printed at Lyon in 1784.
[1249]
J. 13
Whitby’s Ethics.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 27, as above,
p 8vo.
WHITBY,
Daniel.
Ethices compendium, in usum Academicæ Juventutis. Authore Daniele Whitby, S. Th. P. Oxonii: Typis
Lichfieldianis, prostat apud
Joannem Langley Bibliopolam,
c
I
ɔ. dc. lxxxIv
. [1684.]
BJ1021 .W5
First Edition. 8vo. 116 leaves: A, A-Z, Aa-Ee
4; printer’s device on the title-page.
Not in Lowndes.
This edition not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
A. Wood,
Athenae Oxoniensis IV, 676.
STC W1726
Rebound in red morocco, gilt line border, by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. A
paragraph on page (22) is crossed out so untidily as to be probably not by Jefferson; on page (88) the word
non is written in the margin.
Daniel Whitby, 1638-1726, English polemical divine and commentator.
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14
Compendium Ethices.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 56. no. 28, as above.
1831 Catalogue, page 106. no. J. 35: Compendium Ethices, 12mo (no title page).
For want of further data it is impossible to identify this book.
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J. 15
Wollaston’s religion of nature.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 59, no. 88, as above.
[WOLLASTON,
William.]
The Religion of Nature delineated . . . The
Seventh Edition.
Glasgow: Printed by
R. Urie and Company
mdccxlvi
. [1746.]
BL180 .W6
8vo. 204 leaves: [ ]
2, B-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Eee
4, Fff
2.
Halkett and Laing V, 60.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Rebound in half red morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T.
Wollaston written in ink on the title-page (not by Jefferson); some leaves stained.
This book was acquired by Jefferson with his purchase of the Bland library.
In a letter to Thomas Law, dated from Poplar Forest, June 13, 1814, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . of all the theories on this question [i.e., moral principles]
the most whimsical seems to have been that of Woollaston, who considers
truth
as the foundation of morality . . .”
William Wollaston, 1660-1724, English moral philosopher. The first edition was printed in London in 1722.
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