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1775030651London: T. Pridden 1775. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. 160 Pp Include Index At End. Full Leather Small Red Spine Label. Small 12 Mo In 6'S 5 1/4" Tall. One Of Many Similar Reprints Of This Work From Various Publishers Also In 1775. Wear To Covers Intact And Complete But Joints Cracked; No Names Or Marks Except Early Quotation On Half Title "Vilifying Human Nature Contributes To Its Depravity. Man Once Taught To Think Meanly Of Himself Will Soon Justify His Own Opinion-" Per Wikipedia François De La Rochefoucauld 2Nd Duke Of La Rochefoucauld Prince De Marcillac 1613 - 1680 Was An Accomplished French Moralist Of The Era Of French Classical Literature And Author Of Maximes And Memoirs The Only Two Works Of His Dense Literary Ouvre Published. His Maximes Portrays The Callous Nature Of Human Conduct With A Cynical Attitude Towards Putative Virtue And Avowals Of Affection Friendship Love And Loyalty. Leonard Tancock Regards Maximes As "One Of The Most Deeply Felt Most Intensely Lived Texts In French Literature" With His "Experience His Likes And Dislikes Sufferings And Petty Spites . Crystallized Into Absolute Truths. <br/> <br/> T. Pridden hardcover
1791025208London: J. Johnson 1791. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 11 15/16" Tall. Frontispiece Portrait By William Blake. Iii Viii Iv 756 Vii. One Volume Quarto Edition With The Blake Frontispiece Complete With Two Preliminary And Two Final Blanks. The Beginnings Of Western Scientific Philosophical Psychology Here Enlarged From The 1749 German Original With Additional Notes And A Biographical Sketch And Portrait. Original Spotted Calf Five Bands Morocco Label All Compartments Tooled With Gilt Designs And Rules. Edge Wear Front Hinge Cracked Externally But Binding Sound Original Endpapers Not Re-Backed No Names Or Marks Except A Few Pencil Notes On The Front Pastedown. Per Wikipedia David Hartley Frs 1705 - 1757 Was An English Philosopher And Founder Of The Associationist School Of Psychology. Like John Locke He Asserted That Prior To Sensation The Human Mind Is A Blank Slate. By A Growth From Simple Sensations Those States Of Consciousness Which Appear Most Remote From Sensation Come Into Being. And The One Law Of Growth Of Which Hartley Took Account Was The Law Of Contiguity Synchronous And Successive. By This Law He Sought To Explain Not Only The Phenomena Of Memory Which Others Had Similarly Explained Before Him But Also The Phenomena Of Emotion Of Reasoning And Of Voluntary And Involuntary Action. His Attempts At Explicit Albeit Somewhat Obvious Analysis Of The Mechanics Of Mental Activity Laid An Important Framework Of Discussion For Subsequent Academic Psychology. <br/> <br/> J. Johnson hardcover
