Philemon to Hydaspes : relating several conversations with Hortensius, upon the subject of false religion. In four parts. Part I. In which is endeavoured to be shewn, that the best key to men's religious oeconomy is the observation of their natural temper; and that every Instance of False Conduct in the one, is to be resolved into some corresponding Peculiarity in the other: With a more peculiar Application to the Case of an extravagant Devotion. Part II. In which is asserted, The General Lawfulness of Pleasure; and the Extravagant Severities of some Religious Systems are shewn to be a direct Contradiction to the Natural Appointment and Constitution of Things. Part III. In which some General Account is endeavoured to be given of the Rise and Constitution of False Theory in Religion in the earlier Pagan World. Part IV. In which a farther general account is endeavoured to be given of the rise and constitution of false theory in religion in the earlier pagan world.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coventry, Henry, d. 1752.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pleasure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],94,[2][2],105,[1][2],93,[1][2],135,[1]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Philemon to Hydaspes

Place of Publication:

London : printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan, without Temple-Bar; and T. Waller, in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, MDCCXLII. [1742]

Notes:

Anonymous. By Henry Coventry.

With a half-title.

Each part with separate titlepage, with the imprint: "printed for M. Steen" and with separate pagination and register.

Parts 1 and 2 are of the second edition, and are dated 1738 and 1740 respectively.

Parts 3 and 4 are dated 1739 and 1741 respectivy.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T179578.

OCLC:

642501406