The English MoralistsChatto & Windus, 1964 - 318 pages Based on lectures delivered at Cambridge University during the past 35 years, these essays include commentaries on Hooker, Bacon, Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne, Locke, The Earl of Shaftesbury, Addison, Hume, Lord Chesterfield, Burke and Coleridge. |
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