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Excerpt from An Essay on the Origin, Progress and Establishment of National Society: In Which the Principles of Government, the Definitions of Physical, Moral, Civil, and Religious Liberty, Contained in Dr. Price's Observations, &C. Are Fairly Examined and Fully Refuted
Such being the Doctor's divifions of liberty, he pror meds to ive a definition of each of them. A31 mean not faperecially to treat the fubjea contained in his obfer nations, and as he, profefl'edly, intends to apply to civil liberty all he (hall fa of the other kinds, it becomes expedient that there definitions be not inattentively exa mined. And, if the refait of this difquifition (hall prove chem tobe erroneous, impracticable and fubverfwe of the ends of national fociety, as they, confefi'edly, include the principles on which he grounds his jufiification of the American refifiance, there can exifi but little reafon meal to dunoliih that edifice which he has thereon crea ed, The foundation being fapped, the whole fabric ne cefl'arily tumbles into ruin. Toefl'efi that end {hall be the endeavour of this enquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
