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Torchbearer of Freedom. The Influence of Richard Price on Eighteenth Century Thought. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.].
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Author: Carl B. CONETorchbearer of Freedom
Author: Carl B. ConePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A bronze inscription in the public library of Bridgend calls Richard Price "Philosopher. Preacher. Actuary. Cfaill Dynolryw" [Friend of Humanity]. He was all these and something more. Son of a Welsh Presbyterian of Calvinistic leaning, Richard Price was educated for the ministry. That he belonged in the best of Dissenting tradition was exhibited at an early age in his own interest in Arianism, an interest fostered by the academy at Pentwyn where he studied. Here he met the works of Samuel Clarke, which thoroughly aroused the ire of his father. Richard Price did not cringe in the face of hostile public opinion when events temporarily brought his principles into unpopularity. More than most of his liberal contemporaries, he was truly a "torchbearer of freedom." His first book was an attack on the empiricism of Locke, however, Richard Price intended no denial of other aspects of Locke's thought. An abiding faith in human reason, in free will, and in the value of education and science, with the consequent distrust of tyranny of any variety, all show that Price was not in revolt against the leading philosophical trends of his age. Rather he sought to place these values on a firm moral basis. In association with many of the great spirits of the age, Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, John Howard, the Younger Pitt, and Turgot, among others, he moved from moral philosophy to mathematics (an area in which he made many advances in statistics) and from there to political economy. His contribution in this latter respect was twofold. There was his enormous influence in drawing attention to the problem of the national debt of England and suggesting the Sinking Fund scheme that Pitt finally introduced. And there was his interest in and encouragement of the independence of America. In 1778 the Continental Congress voted to invite Price to take up American citizenship and offered to pay his expenses if he chose to move. The life of Richard Price is an example of the power of the human spirit to shape the course of history.
Torchbearer of Freedom
Author: Carl B. ConePublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Richard Price and the Ethical Foundations of the American Revolution
Author: Richard PricePublisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Richard Price was a loyal, although dissenting, subject of Great Britain who thought the British treatment of their colonies as wrong, not only prudentially, financially, economically, militarily, and politically, but, above all, morally wrong. He expressed these views in his first pamphlet early in 1776. It concluded with a plea for the cessation of hostilities by Great Britain and reconciliation. Its analyses, arguments, and conclusions, however, along with its admiration for the colonists, their moral position and qualities, could hardly fail to contribute to their reluctant recognition that there was no real alternative to independence. Price found some of his views not only misunderstood but vilified by negative critics in the ensuing controversy. So he wrote a second pamphlet which was published in early 1777. He expanded his analysis of liberty, extended its application to the war with America, and greatly expanded his discussion of the economic impact upon Great Britain. After the war, in 1784, he published a third pamphlet on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world, appending an extensive letter from the Frenchman, Turgot. Implicitly the letter regards Price as a perceptive theorist of the revolution; explicitly it identifies the problems facing the prospective new nation and expresses a wish that it will fulfill its role s the hope of the world. Selections in the appendices present a part of the pamphlet controversy and the selection of correspondence shows how seriously Price was regarded by Revolutionary leaders.
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The U.S. Quarterly Book Review
Author: Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World. by Richard Price, D. D. L. L. D. and Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Author: Richard PricePublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385797037
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W002326 The Massachusetts Historical Society copy does not include the statement of price in the imprint. Publishers' prospectus, p. [62]. [Philadelphia]: London, printed, and Philadelphia: re-printed by M. Carey and Co. for W. Spotswood, J. Rice, and T. Seddon, booksellers, in Market Street, M, DCC, LXXXV. [1785] Price one-shilling. [2],60, [2]p.; 22 cm
The United States Quarterly Book Review
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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