THE PRINCIPLES OF MORAL AND POLITICAL Cambridg PHILOSOPHY. BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. THE SIXTH AMERICAN, FROM THE TWELFTH ENGLISH EDITION. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN WEST AND CO. No. 75, CORNHILL 1810. E. G. House, Printer, Court-Street. THE PRINCIPLES OF MORAL AND POLITICAL Cambridge PHILOSOPHY. BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. THE SIXTH AMERICAN, FROM THE TWELFTH ENGLISH EDITION. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN WEST AND CO. No. 75, CORNHILL ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND EDMUND LAW, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. MY LORD, HAD the obligations which I owe to your Lordship's kindness been much less, or much fewer, than they are; had personal gratitude left any place in my mind for deliberation or for enquiry; in selecting a name which every reader might confess to be prefixed with propriety to a work, that, in many of its parts, bears no obscure relation to the general principles of natural and revealed religion, I should have found myself directed by many considerations to that of the Bishop of Carlisle. A long life spent in the most interesting of all human pursuits, the investigation of moral and religious truth, in constant and unwearied endeavours |