AN
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SEMINARY
That will be opened
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AN
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OF THE SEMINARY, &c.
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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CURSORY STRICTURES, &c.
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:
PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, AT HIS CIRCULATING
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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Entered at Stationers Hall.
A
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OF THE
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&c. &c. &c.
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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 VII
OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER I
LIMITATIONS OF THE DOCTRINE OF PUNISHMENT WHICH RESULT FROM THE PRINCIPLES
OF MORALITY
The subject of punishment is perhaps the most fundamental in the science
of politics. Men associated for the sake of mutual protection and benefit.
It has already appeared that the internal affairs of such associations are
of an inexpressibly higher importance than their external.(1*) It has appeared
that the action of society, in conferring rewards, and superintending opinion,
is of pernicious effect.(2*) Hence it follows that government, or the action
of society in its corporate capacity, can scarcely be of any utility except
so far as it is requisite for the supp... (From: http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/.) BOOK IV
OF THE OPERATION OF OPINION IN SOCIETIES AND INDIVIDUALS
CHAPTER IV
Of Tyrannicide
Diversity of opinions on this subject. - Argument in its vindication. -
The destruction of a tyrant not a case of exception. - Consequences of
tyrannicide. - Assassination described. Importance of sincerity.
A QUESTION connected with the mode of effecting political melioration, and which has been eagerly discussed among political reasoners, is that of tyrannicide. The moralists of antiquity contended for the lawfulness of this practice; by the moderns it has been generally condemned.
The arguments in its favor are built upon a very obvious principle. "Justice ought universally to be administered. Crimes of an inferior descript... (From: Anarchy Archives.) FLEETWOOD;
or, THE
NEW MAN OF FEELING.
by WILLIAM GODWIN.
CHAPTER IX
Among the members of our club who were not themselves authors, there were a few who were among the most distinguished ornaments of the English senate. The intercourse of these men was particularly delightful to me. Their manners were more urbane, attentive, flattering, and uniform, than those of the professional authors. They were gentlemen by birth and education; and, as they had not the same goad urging them along in the pursuit of praise as 1 those who embraced literature as a profession, their passions, at least as seen within these walls, were less restless, their views more enlarged, and their souls possessed of more calm and repose. -In this compariso... (From: Anarchy Archives.) THE
HERALD OF LITERATURE.
[PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.]
THE
HERALD OF LITERATURE;
OR,
A REVIEW
OF THE
MOST CONSIDERABLE PUBLICATIONS
THAT WILL BE MADE IN THE
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LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, NO. 32, FLEET-STREET.
M DCC LXXXIV.
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
OF THE
L I F E
OF
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.
BOOK THE FIFTH
THE GARDEN OF RODOGUNE DESCRIBED. THE HOPES
AND DANGER OF IMOGEN. HER INCONSOLABLE DISTRESS.
IMOGEN, immediately after the interview that had so deeply perplexed her, returning to her apartment, had shut herself up in solitude. Her reflections were gloomy and unpleasing; the new obscurity that hung about them had not contributed to lighten their pressure. But though she was melancholy, her melancholy was of a different hue from that of her ravisher. If virtue can ever be deprived of those glorious distinctions that exclusively belong to her, it must be when she is precluded from the illuminations of duty, and is no longer able to discern th... (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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Printed for J. MURRAY, Fleet-Street; J. DEBRETT,
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 IX. The Count de St. Julian to Signor Hippolito Borelli, Messina
You, my dear Hippolito, were the only one of my fellow-collegians, to whom I communicated all the circumstances of that unfortunate situation which obliged me to take a final leave of the university. The death of a father, though not endeared by the highest reciprocations of mutual kindness, must always make some impressions upon a susceptible mind. The wound was scarcely healed that had been made by the loss of a mother, a fond mother, who by her assiduous attentions had supplied every want, and filled up every neglect, to which I might otherwise have been exposed.
When I quitted Palermo, I resolved before I determined upon any thing, to proceed to the residence of... (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 IV. 1785-1787.
No doubt the voyage to Lisbon tended considerably to enlarge the understanding of Mary. She was admitted into the best company the English factory afforded. She made many profound observations on the character of the natives, and the baleful effects of superstition. The obsequies of Fanny, which it was necessary to perform by stealth and in darkness, tended to invigorate these observations in her mind.
She sailed upon her voyage home about the twentieth of December. On this occasion a circumstance occurred, that deserves to be recorded. While they were on their passage, they fell in with a French vessel, in great distress, and in daily expectation of foundering at sea, at the same time that it was almost destitute... (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.
INFERENCES SUGGESTD BY THE ACCOUNTS OF SWEDEN.
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[pp.165-174 missing]
be to fill the situation of domestic servants, will perhaps be found very generally to marry, though a little later than they might otherwise have done. The females above the lower class, who, for want of the advantage of a portion, waste their years "in single blessedness," are enough in number to have the power of making their complaints heard, but are extremely few, when compared with the total amount of females in a state or nation.
[176] (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 X.
These deficiencies I anxiously anticipated; but there was another evil, upon which I had not calculated, that was still nearer and more overwhelming. The mode of life in which I was now engaged, so different from any thing to which I had been accustomed, excessive fatigue, together with the occasional heat of the weather, the uneasiness of my mind, and the sleeplessness of my nights, all combined to throw me into a fever, which, though it did not last long, had raged so furiously during the period of its continuance, as to leave me in a state of the most complete debility. While the disorder was upon me, I was sensible of my danger; and, as the brilliant and consolatory prospects of life seemed for ever closed upon me, I at fi... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) WILLIAM GODWIN
GODWIN'S OWN ACCOUNT
OF CALEB WILLIAMS
As written for insertion in the edition of FLEETWOOD when that novel was reprinted in Bentley's "Standard Novels' as No. XXII (1832)
London, November 20, 1832
CALEB WILLIAMS has always been regarded by the public with an unusual degree of favor. The proprietor of "THE STANDARD NOVELS" has therefore imagined, that even an account of the concoction and mode of writing the work would be viewed with some interest.
I had always felt in myself some vocation towards the composition of a narrative of fictitious adventure; and among the things of obscure note, which I have above referred to, were two or three pieces of this nature. It is not therefore extraordinary that some p... (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 XIV
OF YOUTH AND AGE
Magna debetur pueris reverentia.
Quintilian.
I am more doubtful in writing the following Essay than in any of those which precede, how far I am treating of human nature generally, or to a certain degree merely recording my own feelings as an individual. I am guided however in composing it, by the principle laid down in my Preface, that the purpose of my book in each instance should be to expand some new and interesting truth, or some old truth viewed under a new aspect, which had never by any preceding writer been laid before the public.
Education, in the conception of those whose office it is to direct it, has various engines by means of which it is to be made effective, and among these are reprehension and... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
