Robert Molesworth's An Account of Denmark (The Thomas Hollis Library) PDF

By Robert Molesworth

ISBN-10: 0865978034

ISBN-13: 9780865978034

ISBN-10: 0865978042

ISBN-13: 9780865978041

The Liberty Fund version of An Account of Denmark, with its comparable texts, is the 1st sleek variation of Molesworth’s writings. This quantity offers not just An Account, a textual content that for many of the eighteenth century was once well-known as one of many canonical works of Whiggism, but in addition his translation of Francogallia and Some issues for the marketing of Agriculture and applying the Poor. those texts encompass Molesworth’s significant political statements on liberty in addition to his vital and understudied innovations for the applying of liberty to fiscal development, all offered right here with editorial equipment to supply old and contextual history for the reader.

In An Account of Denmark, "Robert Molesworth famously clinically determined the reasons of a disordered commonwealth," writes Champion within the creation. "Unlike the reception of Locke, Molesworth's writings supplied perception into techniques of corruption instead of easily a collection of prescriptive juristic values. within the Account of Denmark, specifically, Molesworth tested how tyranny labored, deciding upon the contaminating ideologies and institutions."Robert Molesworth (1656–1725) used to be an Irish baby-kisser and diplomat.

Justin Champion is Chair of the heritage division at Royal Holloway university, college of London.David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature on the college of Oxford.

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