The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, Which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the College of New Jersey (Volume 2); On the Subjects of Moral and Political Philosophy (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1812. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The lectures, corrected and improved, which have been delivered for a series of years in the College of New Jersey Samuel Stanhope Smith LECTURES, CORRECTED .flJVD IMPROVED, WHICH HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FOR A SERIES OF YEARS', IN THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY; ON THE SUBJECTS OF MORAL JWD POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. L . The t THE FORMER PART EMBRACING, ' X. "The general principles of human nature considered as a subject of moral science* II. The principles of ethics, or the moral relations and duties of men. III. The principles of natural theology. IV. And lastly, those of economics, or family relations, as preparatory to the consideration of the relations and duties of civil and political life. THE LATTER PART EMBRACING, I. The rales which ought to regulate the conduct of men towards one another in a state of civil society, and the means of enforcing those rules. II* The rules and principles which give the form to the society or government itself, and which direct its operations. III. And finally, the rules which should govern the conduct of independent governments or states to one another--the whole comprehending those general principles on the subjects of jurisprudence, politics, and public law, or the law of nature and nations, with which every man of liberal information in a free country ought to be acquainted. BY THE REV. SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH, D. D. L. L. D, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME II. -:: --*:: -:: - TRENTON; PUBLISHED BY DAMEl FENTON, FOR THE AUTHOR. JAMES J. WILSON, PRINTER, DISTRICT OF NEW-JERSEY, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-ninth day of August, in the thirty-seventh year oftbe independence of the United States of America, Samuel Stanhope Smith, of the said district, hath dep...