Publisher's Synopsis
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.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)
P003066
Title pages for v. 1-2 are engraved. Title and imprint from collected issue title pages, repeated on title pages of individual issues. Title repeated as caption on first page of text of each issue. Imprints of v. 1-2 include dates; year of publication lacking on individual issue title pages and on v. 4-5. Issue contents and plates described on individual issue title pages. Note following title reads in part: "Calculated to furnish the readers with a complete Christian library ... undertaken by a society of clergymen, of the Diocese of London." Note following v. 1 imprint: To be continued monthly, price only sixpence. On verso of title page for no. 21 (Apr. 1784): "To be published in future weekly. ... On Saturday, the 8th of May 1784, will therefore be published, number XXII." From v. note below imprint reads: The whole publishing in fifty weekly numbers. Frontis. and interior plates are of bishops or cathedral churches; printed in two columns. Includes biographies of contemporary bishops and early church dignitaries, a history of the early church, theological articles, book reviews, hymn and psalm texts, religious poetry. Monthly issues include preferments, new books, lists of marriages, births, and deaths, current events, and bills of mortality.
London [England]: printed for the editors; and published by Alexr. Hogg, no. 16, Paternoster Row, 1782-[1784?]. 50 v., plates: ports.; 22 cm. (8°)
