PRINCIPLES OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPΗ Υ. BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. THE FIFTH AMERICAN, FROM THE TWELFTH ENGLISH EDITION. BOSTON: PRINTED FOR JOHN WEST, No. 75, CORNHILL DAVID CARLISLE, Printer, No. 5, Court Street. EDMUND LAW, D:jDiomised LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. MY LORD, HAD the obligations which I owe to your Lordship's kindness been much less, or much fewer, than they are; had personal gratitude left any place in my mind for deliberation or for enquiry; in selecting a name which every reader might confess to be prefixed with propriety to a work, that, in many of its parts, bears no obscure relation to the general principles of natural and revealed religion, I should have found myself directed by many considerations to that of the Bishop of Carlisle. A long life spent in the most interesting of all human pursuits, the investigation of moral and religious truth, in constant and unwearied endeavours |