The life of Socrates, collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero. Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others : in which the doctrine of that philosopher and theacademic sect arevindcaed from the misrepresentations of Aristophanes, Aristoxenus, Lucian, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Suidas and Lactantius ; the origin, progress and design of pagan theology, mythology, and mysteries, explain'd ; natural religion defended from atheism on one hand, and superstition on the other, and the destructive tendency of both to society demonstrated ; moral and natual beauty analogously compar'd ; and the present happiness of mankind shewn to consistin, and the future to b acquir'd by, virtue only derived from the true knowledge of God. Herein the different sentiments la Mothe le Vayer, Cudworth, Stanley, Dacier, Charpentier, Voltaire, Rollin, Warburton, and others on these subjects, are occasionally consider'd
Cooper, John Gilbert, jun1749
Books
Find it!
Total copies: 1
Author:
Imprint:
London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749.
Collation:
xii, 179p. ; ill. ;
Dewey class:
920
Language:
English
BRN:
1686442
Find it!
Total copies: 1
