See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• RICHARD PRICE (1723-1791)

PRICE (1723-1791)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English moral and See also:

• POLITICAL

political philosopher, son of a dissenting See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 23rd of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1723, at Tynton, See also:

• GLAMORGANSHIRE (Welsh Morganwg)

Glamorganshire . He was educated privately and at a dissenting See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy in See also:

• LONDON

London, and became See also:

• CHAPLAIN

chaplain and See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion to a Mr Streatfield at Stoke Newington . By the See also:

• DEATH

death of Mr Streatfield and of an See also:

• UNCLE

uncle in 1756 his circumstances were considerably improved, and in 1757 he married a See also:

• MISS

Miss Sarah Blundell, originally of Belgrave in See also:

• LEICESTERSHIRE

Leicestershire . In 1767 he published a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of sermons, which gained him the acquaintance of See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Shelburne, an event which had much See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in raising his reputation and determining the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of his subsequent pursuits . It was, however, as a writer on See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial and political questions that See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

Price became widely known . In 1769, in a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to Dr See also:

• FRANKLIN
• FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790)
• FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN (1786-1847)
• FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903)

Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that See also:

• YEAR

year; in May 1770 he communicated to the Royal Society a See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions . The publication of these papers is said to have exercised a beneficial influence in See also:

• DRAWING

drawing See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the inadequate calculations on which many See also:

• INSURANCE

insurance and benefit See also:

• SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies had recently been formed . In 1769 Price received the degree of D.D. from the university of See also:

• GLASGOW

Glasgow . In 1771 he published his See also:

• APPEAL

Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

Debt (ed . 1772 and 1774) . This pamphlet excited considerable controversy, and is supposed to have influenced See also:

• PITT, THOMAS (1653-1726)
• PITT, WILLIAM (1759-1806)

Pitt in re-establishing the sinking fund for the extinction of the national debt, which had been created by See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole in 1716 and abolished in 1733 . The means, however, which Price proposed for the extinction of the debt are described by Lord See also:

• OVERSTONE, SAMUEL JONES LOYD, 1ST BARON

Overstone as " a sort of See also:

• HOCUS

hocus-pocus machinery," sup-posed to See also:

• WORK

work " without loss to any one," and consequently unsound .

1 Lord Overstone reprinted in 1857, for private circulation, Price's and other rare tracts on the national debt and the sinking fund . nothing to See also:

• BUTLER
• BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
• BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
• BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
• BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
• BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
• BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
• BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
• BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
• BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
• BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
• BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)

Butler . III . Happiness he regards as the only end, conceivable by us, of divine See also:

• PROVIDENCE

Providence, but it is a happiness wholly dependent upon rectitude . Virtue tends always to happiness, and in the end must produce it in its perfect See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . See also:

• WORKS

Works.—Besides the above-mentioned, Price wrote an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on the Population of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England (2nd ed., 178o) ; two Fast-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day Sermons, published respectively in 1779 and 178i; and Observations on the importance of the See also:

• AMERICAN

American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the See also:

• WORLD

World (1784) . A See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his works is given as an appendix to Dr See also:

• PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH (1733-1804)

Priestley's Funeral See also:

• SERMON (Lat. sermo, a discourse)

Sermon . His views on the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Revolution are denounced by See also:

• BURKE
• BURKE, ROBERT
• BURKE, SIR JOHN BERNARD (1814–1892)
• BURKE, WILLIAM (1792–1829)

Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . Notices of Price's ethical See also:

• SYSTEM

system occur in See also:

• MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES (176 1832)

Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy, See also:

• JOUFFROY, JEAN (c. 1412–1473)
• JOUFFROY, THEODORE SIMON (1796-1842)

Jouffroy's Introduction to See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

Ethics, See also:

• WHEWELL, WILLIAM (1794-1866)

Whewell's See also:

• HISTORY

History of Moral Philosophy in England; See also:

• BAIN, ALEXANDER (1818-1903)
• BAIN, ANDREW GEDDES (1797-1864)

Bain's See also:

• MENTAL

Mental and Moral Sciences . See also ETHICS, and T . See also:

• FOWLER, CHARLES (1792-1867)
• FOWLER, EDWARD (1632-1714)
• FOWLER, JOHN (1826-1864)
• FOWLER, SIR JOHN (1817-1898)
• FOWLER, WILLIAM (c. 156o-1614)

Fowler's monograph on See also:

• SHAFTESBURY
• SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 1ST EARL OF (1621-1683)
• SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 7TH EARL OF (1801–1885)
• SHAFTESBURY, ANTHONYASHLEY COOPER, 3RD EARL OF (1671-1713)

Shaftesbury and See also:

• HUTCHESON, FRANCIS (1694-1746)

Hutcheson . For Price's See also:

• LIFE

life see memoir by his See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• MORGAN
• MORGAN, DANIEL (1736-1802)
• MORGAN, EDWIN DENNISON (1811-1883)
• MORGAN, JOHN HUNT (1825-1864)
• MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT (1837–1913)
• MORGAN, LEWIS HENRY (1818-1881)
• MORGAN, SYDNEY, LADY (c. 1783-1859)
• MORGAN, THOMAS (d. 1743)

Morgan .

(J . M .