7-83 FAMILIAR LECTURES ON MORAL PHILOSOPHY: BY JOHN PRIOR ESTLIN, LL. D. Nulla enim vitæ pars, neque publicis, neque privatis, neque forensi- IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1818. ADVERTISEMENT. Ir was originally proposed to publish the following Lectures by subscription, and a considerable number of highly respectable names had been received for this purpose; but subsequent occurrences led to a change in the mode of publication. After a dignified retirement from the active and important labours of a long life, the Author intended to employ himself, during the last summer, in his tranquil residence by the sea-side, in the re-perusal of his Lectures, and the final preparation of them for the press. This design was not carried into execution. The languor of sickness indisposed him to commence the occupation A 2 upon his arrival in Glamorganshire, and the rapid inroads of disease soon terminated a life that had been devoted to the cause of Religion and Virtue. With the Manuscript was found a paper written by the Author, requesting that if Providence should not permit him to fulfil his design of once more revising the Lectures, the plan of publishing them by subscription should be abandoned. The depression of mental elasticity, so well known to those who have laboured under bodily indisposition, produced, probably, a diffidence in the Author's mind with regard to the state of a work, which had engrossed much of his attention during the period of intellectual activity. That he did not, however, contemplate any material alteration, may reasonably be presumed from his continuing to |