The life of Socrates : collected from the Memorabilia of Xenophon and the Dialogues of Plato, and illustrated farther by Aristotle, Diodorus Siculus, Cicero, Proclus, Apuleius, Maximus Tyrius, Boethius, Diogenes Laertius, Aulus Gellius, and others : in which the doctrines of that philosopher and the academic sect are vindicated from the Misrepresentations of Aristophanes, Aristoxenus, Lucian, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Suidas and Lactantius; the Origin, Progress and Design of Pagan Theology, Mythology, and Mysteries, explain'd; Natural Religion defended from Atheism on one hand, and Superstition on the other, and the destructive Tendency of both to Society demonstrated; Moral and Natural Beauty analogously compar'd; and the present Happiness of Mankind shewn to consist in, and the future to be acquir'd by, Virtue only derived from the true Knowledge of God. Herein the different Sentiments of La Mothe le Vayer, Cudworth, Stanley, Dacier, Charpentier, Voltaire, Rollin, Warburton, and others on these Subjects, are occasionally considered
by: Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723-1769
Published: (1750)