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An essay on the origin of evil / by Dr. William King ... : translated from the Latin with notes and a dissertation concerning the principles and criterion of virtue and the origin of the passions.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BJ1406 .K5 1732 2 v. v.1
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
King, William, 1650-1729.
Contributor:
Law, Edmund, 1703-1787.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Standardized Title:
De origine mali. English. 1732
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Good and evil.
Predestination.
Fall of man.
Penn Provenance:
Flower, Elizabeth (donor)
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 20 cm (8vo)
Edition:
The second edition, corrected and enlarged from the author's manuscripts : to which are added two sermons by the same author, the former concerning divine praescience, the latter on the fall of man, never before published / by Edmund Law ...
Place of Publication:
London : Printed by J. Stephens for W. Thurlbourn, 1732.
Notes:
Translation of: De origine mali.
Paged continuously.
"'Preliminary dissertation on the fundamental principles of virtue or morality' is by John Gay." -- BM.
Local Notes:
Imperfect: prelim. pages of v. 1, to p. xxx (including t.p.) and v. 2 wanting. Title information supplied from NUC pre-1956.
OCLC:
41301728

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