William Welch Handwritten provenance note indicating a previous owner.

AN ESSAY

ON THE NATURE AND CONDUCT OF THE PASSIONS AND AFFECTIONS.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE MORAL SENSE,

By the Author of the Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.

The author is Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746), a primary figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Let us, small and great alike, hasten to this work, this pursuit, if we wish to live dear to our country and to ourselves. original: "Hoc opus, hoc studium, parvi properemus, & ampli, Si Patriae volumus, si Nobis vivere chari." — Horace, Epistles, 1.3.28-29.

LONDON:

Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, for John Smith and William Bruce, Booksellers in Dublin; and sold by J. Osborn and T. Longman in Paternoster Row, and S. Chandler in the Poultry. 1728.