{"product_id":"an-estimate-of-the-manners-and-principles-of-the-times-and-other-writings-9780865979109","title":"An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times and Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown (1715-1766) was a clergyman who achieved great but transient fame as a writer and moralist. His attack on Shaftesbury and \"moral sense\" philosophy, against which he employed utilitarian arguments and also arguments deriving from God's benevolent intentions toward his creation, was published in 1751 and was later praised by John Stuart Mill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe central text of this volume, \u003cem\u003eAn Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times\u003c\/em\u003e (1757), is a vigorous attack on the \"vain, luxurious, and selfish effeminacy\" of England's higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Brown repeated the usual complaints of corruption that had been raised during the premiership of Walpole and argued that public virtue had been undermined by a preoccupation with luxury and commerce. \u003cem\u003eEstimate\u003c\/em\u003e was printed no fewer than seven times within the first year, earning the author the name \"Estimate Brown.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlongside \u003cem\u003eEstimate\u003c\/em\u003e, the volume includes four other works by Brown: his poem \u003cem\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e (1749); his \u003cem\u003eEssays on the Characteristicks\u003c\/em\u003e (1751), which is an attack on Shaftesbury's \u003cem\u003eCharacteristicks\u003c\/em\u003e; his \u003cem\u003eExplanatory Defence of the Estimate\u003c\/em\u003e (1758), in which Brown engaged to defend the work, to some modest extent, against his critics; and finally, a late work, \u003cem\u003eThoughts on Civil Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e (1765).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo appendixes complement the texts: a brief tribute to Brown by Thomas Hollis (an Englishman who devoted his life to the cause of liberty and for whom this series is named), in which Hollis depicts Brown \"as a weak man who nevertheless possessed a measure of virtue and talent, and who fell among thieves in the feral literary and political circles of Hanoverian England.\" The second appendix provides Hollis's own annotations to his copy of \u003cem\u003eEstimate\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe introduction, by David Womersley, places Brown's writings and career in the context of eighteenth-century moralism and, naturally, in the tradition of British writing on liberty. The annotations gloss now-unfamiliar words and explain now-obscure references to contemporary events, circumstances, and personalities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Womersley\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on English literature from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. He is the editor of Jonathan Swift's \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) for Cambridge University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865979109","brand":"Liberty Fund","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40830479106163,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b67edbac-e434-466c-9a8e-45985db2e394.jpg?v=1684504442","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/an-estimate-of-the-manners-and-principles-of-the-times-and-other-writings-9780865979109","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}