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PRINCIPLES

OF

MORAL AND POLITICAL

PHILOSOPHY.

By WILLIAM PALEY, D. D.

THE TWELFTH EDITION,

CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, NEW BOND-STREET.

M.DCC.XCIX.

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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 felecting 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 fhould have

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have found myself directed by many confiderations 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 conftant and unwearied endeavours to advance their discovery, communication and fuccefs of both; a life fo occupied, and arrived at that period which renders every life venerable, commands refpect by a title which no virtuous mind will difpute, which no mind fenfible of the importance of thefe ftudies to the fupreme concernments of mankind will not rejoice to fee acknowledged. Whatever difference, or whatever oppofition, fome who peruse your Lordship's writings may perceive between your conclufions

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