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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460666503321

Autore

Cone Carl B.

Titolo

Torchbearer of freedom : the influence of Richard Price on 18th century thought / / by Carl B. Cone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1952

©1952

ISBN

0-8131-8597-1

0-8131-6254-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

923.242

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; PREFACE; Contents; I THE GOOD DR. PRICE; II THE DISSENTING INFLUENCE; III CLERGYMAN AND MORALIST; IV PRICE IN THE PULPIT; V MATHEMATICS AND LIFE INSURANCE; VI FRIENDSHIPS; VII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; VIII ANSWERING CRITICS AT HOME; IX THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES; X GLOOM YIELDS TO HOPE; XI THE SINKING FUND; XII AFFAIRS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; XIII THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; XIV THE LAST YEAR; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

A bronze inscription in the public library of Bridgend calls Richard Price ""Philosopher. Preacher. Actuary. Cfaill Dynolryw"" [Friend of Humanity]. He was all these and something more. Son of a Welsh Presbyterian of Calvinistic leaning, Richard Price was educated for the ministry. That he belonged in the best of Dissenting tradition was exhibited at an early age in his own interest in Arianism, an interest fostered by the academy at Pentwyn where he studied. Here he met the works of Samuel Clarke, which thoroughly aroused the ire of his father.Richard Price did not cringe in the face of hosti