December 7, 2006

Item of the Day: Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1773)

Full Title: Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes. By the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury. The Fifth Edition. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville. M.DCC.LXXIII.
TREATISE I. Viz. A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm to My Lord *****.
Sept. 1707.
My Lord,
Now, you are return’d to . . . . . and before the Season comes which [...]