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The life of Socrates, [electronic resource] : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dia...

The life of Socrates, [electronic resource] : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dia...

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The life of Socrates, [electronic resource] : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others. In which The Doctrine of that Philosopher and the Academic Sect are vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Aristophanes, Aristoxenus, Lucian, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Suidas and Lactantius; the Origin, Progress and Design of Pagan Theology, Mythology, and Mysteries, explain'd; Natural Religion defended from Atheism on one hand. and Superstition on the other, and the destructive Tendency of both to Society demonstrated; Moral and Natural Beauty analogously compar'd; and the present Happiness of Mankind shewn to consist in, and the future to be acquir'd by, Virtue only derived from the true Knowledge of God. Herein the different Sentiments La Mothe Le Vayer, Cudworth, Stanley, Dacier, Charpentier, Voltaire, Rollin, Warburton, and others on these Subjects, are occasionally consider'd. By John Gilbert Cooper, Jun. Esq;.

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The life of Socrates, [electronic resource] : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others. In which The Doctrine of that Philosopher and the Academic Sect are vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Aristophanes, Aristoxenus, Lucian, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Suidas and Lactantius; the Origin, Progress and Design of Pagan Theology, Mythology, and Mysteries, explain'd; Natural Religion defended from Atheism on one hand. and Superstition on the other, and the destructive Tendency of both to Society demonstrated; Moral and Natural Beauty analogously compar'd; and the present Happiness of Mankind shewn to consist in, and the future to be acquir'd by, Virtue only derived from the true Knowledge of God. Herein the different Sentiments La Mothe Le Vayer, Cudworth, Stanley, Dacier, Charpentier, Voltaire, Rollin, Warburton, and others on these Subjects, are occasionally consider'd. By John Gilbert Cooper, Jun. Esq;.

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London : printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1749.

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1749.

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74VvkqADKaeX

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991013792559702626

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English

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179,[1]p. : ill.,port. ; 8°.

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London : printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1749.

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England

Date Published

1749.

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The life of Socrates, [electronic resource] : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others. In which The Doctrine of that Philosopher and the Academic Sect are vindicated...

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Reproduction of original from British Library.

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ESTC T100669.

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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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991013792559702626