AN
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That will be opened
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AN
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THE two principal objects of human power are government and education. They have accordingly engrossed a very large share in the disquisitions of the speculative in all ages. The subject of the former indeed is man, already endowed with his greatest force of body, and arrived at the exercise of his intellectual powers: the subject of the latter is ... (From: Anarchy Archives.) CURSORY STRICTURES
ON THE
CHARGE
DELIVERED BY
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE EYRE
TO THE
GRAND JURY,
OCTOBER 2 , 1794.
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A Special Commission was opened on the second day of October, for the trial of certain persons apprehended upon suspicion of High Treason, the greater part of whom were taken into custody in the month of May 1794. Upon this occasion a charge was delivered to the Grand Jury, by Sir James Eyre, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
It is one... (From: Anarchy Archives.) p>--NEQUE SEMPER ARCUM
TENDIT APOLLO. HOR.
LONDON:
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LIBRARY, NEW BOND-STREET, CORNER
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M,DCC,LXXXIV.
CONTENTS
PART the FIRST.
CHAPTER I.
Containing introductory Matter.
CHAPTER II.
A Ball
CHAPTER III.
A Ghost.
CHAPTER IV.
A love Scene.
CHAPTER V.
A Man of Humor.
CHAPTER VI.
Containing some Specimens of Heroism.
CHAPTER VII.
Containing that with which the Reader will be acquainted when he has
read it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Two Persons of Fashion.
CHAPTER IX.
A tragical Resolution.
CONTENTS.
PART the SECOND.
CHAPTER I.
In which th (From: Gutenberg.org.) A
D E F E N C E
OF THE
ROCKINGHAM PARTY,
IN THEIR LATE
C O A L I T I O N
WITH
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
FREDERIC LORD NORTH.
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A
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THE present reign will certainly appear to our posterity full of the noblest materials for history. Many circumstances seem to have pointed it out as a very critical period. The general diffusion of science has, in some degree, enlightened the minds of all me (From: Anarchy Archives.) Part I.
Essay I. Of Awakening the Mind
The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness.
Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other, and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other. The first object should be to train a man to be happy; the second to train him to be useful, that is, to be virtuous.
There is a further reason for this. Virtue is essential to individual happiness. There is no transport equal to that of the performance of virtue. All other happiness, which is not ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) BOOK VI
OF OPINION CONSIDERED AS A SUBJECT OF POLITICAL INSTITUTION
CHAPTER I
GENERAL EFFECTS OF THE POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENCE OF OPINION
A principle which has entered deeply into the systems of the writers on
political law is that of the duty of governments to watch over the manners
of the people. 'Government' say they, 'plays the part of an unnatural step
mother, not of an affectionate parent, when she is contented by rigorous
punishments to avenge the commission of a crime, while she is wholly inattentive
beforehand to imbue the mind with those virtuous principles which might have
rendered punishment unnecessary. It is the business of a sage and patriotic
magistracy to have its attention e... (From: http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/.) BOOK V
OF LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWER
CHAPTER VIII
OF LIMITED MONARCHY
Liable to most of the preceding objections -- to further objections peculiar to itself. -- Responsibility considered. -- Maxim, that the king can do no wrong. -- Functions of a limited monarch. -- Impossibility of maintaining the neutrality required. -- On the dismission of ministers. -- Responsibility of ministers. -- Appointment of ministers, its importance. -- its difficulties. -- Recapitulation. -- Strength and weakness of the human species.
I proceed to consider monarchy, not as it exists in countries where it is unlimited and despotic, but, as in certain instances it has appeared, a branch merely of the general constitution.
Here it is only necessary... (From: Anarchy Archives.) FLEETWOOD;
or, THE
NEW MAN OF FEELING.
by WILLIAM GODWIN.
CHAPTER VI
The first woman who in this career fixed my regard, was a finished coquette, by which epithet I understand a woman whose ruling passion is her vanity, and whole invention is hourly on the rack for means of gratifying it. She was a lady of high rank, and married to a person of great figure at court. I first obtained her attention under favor of the epithet, by which the Parisian belles thought proper to distinguish me, of the handsome Englishman. Sir Charles, my introducer, was certainly of more established vogue than myself, and in this respect might have seemed a conquest still more flattering to a person of her character. But the mar... (From: Anarchy Archives.) THE
HERALD OF LITERATURE.
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THE
HERALD OF LITERATURE;
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TO THE (From: Gutenberg.org.) Godwin, William (1783). The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. London: Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsley. Dublin: Potts, Wilson, Walker and Byrne. pp. i - xvii.
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H I S T O R Y
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W I L L I A M P I T T,
EARL OF CHATHAM
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MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL (From: Anarchy Archives.) From: William Godwin (1784). Imogen: A Pastoral Romance From the Ancient
British.
PREFACE
If we could allow ourselves in that
license of conjecture, which is become almost inseparable from the
character of an editor, we should say: That Milton having written it
upon the borders of Wales, might have had easy recourse to the
manuscript whose contents are now first given to the public: And that
the singularity of preserving the name of the place where it was first
performed in the title of his poem, was intended for an ingenuous and
well-bred acknowledgment of the source from whence he drew his choicest
materials.
But notwithstanding the plausibility of these
conjectures, we are now inclined to give up our original opinion, and t... (From: Anarchy Archives.) I N S T R U C T I O N S
TO A
S T A T E S M A N.
HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO
T H E R I G H T H O N O U R A B L E
GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
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Piccadilly; and J. SEWELL, Cornhill.
M.DCC.LXXXIV.
TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
MY LORD,
THE following papers fell into my hands by one of those unaccountable accidents, so frequent in human life, but which in the relation appear almost incredible. I will not however trouble your lordship with the story. If they be worthy of the press, it is of no great consequence to the public how they found (From: Anarchy Archives.) Letter III. The Same to the Same, Naples
Since I wrote last to my dear count, I have been somewhat more in public, and have engaged a little in the societies of this city. You can scarcely imagine, my friend, how different the young gentlemen of Naples are from my former associates in the university. You would hardly suppose them of the same species. In Palermo, almost every man was cold, uncivil and inattentive; and seemed to have no other purpose in view than his own pleasure and accommodation. At Naples they are all good nature and friendship. Your wishes, before you have time to express them, are forestalled by the politeness of your companions, and each seems to prefer the convenience and happiness of another to his own.
With one y... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS:
OR
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN SUCCESSIVE AGES, WHO HAVE
CLAIMED FOR THEMSELVES, OR TO WHOM HAS BEEN IMPUTED BY OTHERS,
THE
EXERCISE OF MAGICAL POWER.
BY WILLIAM GODWIN.
LONDON
Frederick J Mason, 444, West Strand
1834
PREFACE.
The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the
credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive of the most salutary lessons.
One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance
of our faculties. Without pride man is in reality of little value. It
is pride that stimulates us to all our great undertakings. Without
pride, and the secret persuasion of extraordinary talents... (From: Project Gutenberg.) CHAPTER III. 1783-1785.
Mary was now arrived at the twenty-fourth year of her age. Her project, five years before, had been personal independence; it was now usefulness. In the solitude of attendance on her sister's illness, and during the subsequent convalescence, she had had leisure to ruminate upon purposes of this sort. Her expanded mind led her to seek something more arduous than the mere removal of personal vexations; and the sensibility of her heart would not suffer her to rest in solitary gratifications. The derangement of her father's affairs daily became more and more glaring; and a small independent provision made for herself and her sisters, appears to have been sacrificed in the wreck. For ten years, from 1782 to 1792, she m... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Note: Godwin wrote this piece, according to a note in
the manuscript, "while the Enquirer [1797] was in the press, under
the impression that the favor of the public might have demanded
another volume."
The study of history may well be ranked among those pursuits
which are most worthy to be chosen by a rational being.
The study of history divides itself into two principal
branches; the study of mankind in a mass, of the progress the
fluctuations, the interests and the vises of society; and the
study of the individual.
The history of a nation might be written in the first of these
senses, entirely in terms of abstraction, and without descending
so much as to name one of those individuals to which the nation is
co... (From: Anarchy Archives.) Godwin, William. Of Population. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820.
CHAPTER V.
Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times
Les hommes ne multiplient pas aussi aisément qu'oun le pense. Voltaire, Histoire Générale, CHAP. I.
It is not a little singular, and is proper to be commemorated here, that a controversy existed in the early part of the last century, as to the comparative populousness of ancient nations, or the contrary. One of the leaders in this debate was the celebrated Montesquieu; and what he says on the subject is so much to the purpose, that I shall translate the passage.
"To amuse in some part," says one of the correspondents in the Persian Letters to another, "the ti... (From: Anarchy Archives.) William Godwin, The Enquirer. Reflections On Education, Manners, And Literature. In A Series Of Essays. London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
The Enquirer.
Part I.
Essay I.
Of Awakening the Mind
The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness.
Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other, and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other. The first object should be to train a man to be happy; the second to train him to be useful, that is, to be virtuous.
There is a further reas... (From: Anarchy Archives.) CHAPTER II.
I was in this state of mind, when early one morning in the beginning of summer, soon after I rose, I was startled by the sound of trumpets in the plain near the château. The bugle at the gate was presently sounded; the drawbridge was let down; and the Marquis de Villeroy entered the court-yard, accompanied by about thirty knights in complete armor. I saluted him with respect, and the tenderness excited by recent grief. He took me by the hand, after a short repast in the hall, and led me to my closet.
“My son,” said he, “it is time to throw off the effeminacy of sorrow, and to prove yourself a true soldier of the standard of France.”
“I trust, my lord,” replied I, with modest earnest... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) THE ADVENTURES OF CALEB WILLIAMS
OR
THINGS AS THEY ARE
BY WILLIAM GODWIN
CHAPTER TWO
Among the favorite authors of his early years were the heroic poets of Italy. From them he imbibed the love of chivalry and romance. He had too much good sense to regret the times of Charlemagne and Arthur. But while his imagination was purged by a certain infusion of philosophy, conceived that there was in the manners depicted by these celebrated poets, something to imitate, as well as something to avoid. He believed that nothing was so well calculated to make men delicate, gallant, and humane, as a temper perpetually alive to the sentiments of birth and honor. The opinions he entertained upon these topics were illustrated in his conduct, which was ... (From: Anarchy Archives.) This work is part of the International Institute for Social History collection and appears in Anarchy Archives with ISSH's permission.
Thoughts Occasioned By The Perusal Of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon, Preached At Christ Church, April 15, 1800:
Being A Reply to the Attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. Mackintosh, the Author of an Essay On Population, and Others.
by William Godwin
LONDON: Printed by Taylor and Wilks, Chancery-Lane; and sold by G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1801.
I HAVE now continued for some years a silent, not an inattentive, spectator of the flood of ribaldry, invective and intolerance which has been poured out against me and my writings. The work which has principally afforded a topic for the exercise of th... (From: Anarchy Archives.) ESSAY VII
OF THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE
The active and industrious portion of the human species in civilized countries, is composed of those who are occupied in the labor of the hand, and in the labor of the head.
The following remarks expressly apply only to the latter of these classes, principally to such as are occupied in productive literature. They may however have their use to all persons a considerable portion of whose time is employed in study and contemplation, as, if well founded, they will form no unimportant chapter in the science of the human mind.
In relation to all the members of the second class then, I should say, that human life is made up of term and vacation, in other words, of hours that may be intellectually employ... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
