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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy== | ||
Bound in full calf. Purchased from Alex Alec-Smith. | Bound in full calf. Purchased from Alex Alec-Smith. |
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by Henry St. John Bolingbroke
The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke | |
Title page from The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
Author | Henry St. John Bolingbroke |
Published | London: Published by David Mallet, Esq. |
Date | 1754 |
Language | English |
Volumes | 1 volume set |
Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751), was a prominent member of the Tory party in the British Parliament from 1701 until the 1714 shift of power to the Whigs.[1] After joining the failed 1715 Jacobite Rebellion as secretary of state to James Stuart, he was exiled to France until his pardon in 1723.[2] During his exile, he encountered the ideas of the French Enlightenment and devoted much time to philosophical study, struggling to develop a system of morality grounded in natural law and reason and tending towards a deist worldview.[3] His Philosophical Works grew out of this period and his subsequent study, and were first published three years after his death.[4]
Bolingbroke’s works had some influence in the American colonial period: John Adams claimed to have read through his works five times, and Bolingbroke influenced Pope and Swift, who were widely read in the colonies.[5] Additionally, Bolingbroke’s Philosophical Works was a favorite of Jefferson, who copied approximately 10,000 words from the work into his Literary Commonplace Book, complied in the 1760s.[6]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
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Bound in full calf. Purchased from Alex Alec-Smith.
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References
- ↑ H. T. Dickinson,"St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004-), accessed September 25, 2013. (Subscription required for access.)
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Robert M. Weir, "Review: Bolingbroke and His Circle, The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole by Isaac Kramnick," South Carolina Historical Magazine 70, no. 4 (1969): 270.
- ↑ "Religion in Eighteenth-Century America - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions - Library of Congress" Library of Congress, accessed September 25, 2013 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html.