April 13, 2007

Item of the Day: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1758)

Full Title: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By John Brown. Seventh Edition. London, Printed;  Boston, New-England: Re-printed and sold by Green and Russell, at their Printing-Office in Queen-Street, MDCCLVIII.
PART I.
A Delineation of the Ruling Manners and Principles.
 SECT. I.
THE DESIGN.
SUPERFICIAL, though zealous, Observers, think they see the Source of all our [...]