The life of Socrates, 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 Su

People / Organizations

• John Gilbert Cooper (Author)

Imprint

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

Publication year

1749

ESTC No.

T100669

Grub Street ID

154593

Description

179,[1]p. : ill.,port. ; 8°.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. = ill. - Pp.5-12 are in Roman numerals. Pp.74, 78 and 121 misnumbered 78, 74 and 221 respectively