Anthony Ashley-Cooper

IN THE CUSTODY OE TME BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. SHELF N° (3pie {Kit/ /it X^oizaral'le ^svnthonu ^If/ifeu C(rc^er~oadofJhcTftejln/ryXoafV7i ^djhleif of ^ItinlroumJ. (fUej, ds^Cord Coupe r ofxrans/eff. J.C/irjterman tyinx-. Charafterifticks O F Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In THREE VOLUMES. By the Right Honourable ANTHONY, Earl of Shaftesbury. The Fifth Edition. Vo/ . JU fculps; B IR MING HAM: Printed by John Baskerville, M.DCC.LXXIII. Ou. A Letter concerning Enthusiasm. Sen/us Communis; an Effay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour. Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author. VOL. II. An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Me- rit. The Moralists ; a Philofophical Rhap- fody. VOL. III. Miscellaneous Reflections on the faid Treatifes, and other critical Subjects. A Notion of the Hiftorical Draught, or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercu- les. A3 Chara6terifticks. VOLUME I. A Letter concerning Enthusiasm. Sen/us Communis; an Eflay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour. Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author. Printed in the Year M.DCG.XXVII. .1 IT. I Ill PREFACE. /F the Author of thefe united Tracts had been any Friend to Prefaces, he woud probably have made his Entrance after that manner ', in one or other of the Five Trea- tifes formerly publifid apart. But as to all Prefatory or Dedicatory Difcourfe, he has told us his Mind fujficiently , in that Trea- tife which he calls Soliloquy. Being f a- tisfyd however, that there are many Perform who efleem thefe Introductory Pieces as very effential in the Conflitution of a Work; he has thought fit , in behalf of his honefl Printer, iv PREFACE.…