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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt:...it deserves to be treated with the respect due to the memory of a departed friend from whom we have derived both pleasure and advantage. It is worthy also of impartial examination, as having for a great length of time mantained its influence in the world, and been the familiar guide and companion not only of philosophers, but of kings, princes, and potentates, and of the better sort of mankind in different regions of the globe. The founder of the sect of Stoics was remarkable for the ugliness of his person, for the severity of his manners, and the integrity of his life; he enjoyed the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens, but tho' his followers were nu The amiable James Harris, of Salisbury, has spoken favorably of Che Ban, tho' he detested his doctrine, v. Philological Enquiries, p. 262. rnerous, they were not equal to those of Epicurus, whose manners and philosophy were in every respect more attractive. To the credit of his philosophy, it deserves to be told, that by a life of extreme temperance, and with a very feeble constitution, he preserved his existence in tolerable health till the extreme age of ninety-eight: and during that period had the satisfaction of seeing his doctrines embraced by men of high rank and station, and his school flourish in numbers as well as respectability, at the time of his death. The first principle which he held to be implanted in every animal at its birth was self-preservation, derived from the consciousness of existence, but this he denied to be connected with pleasure; it is, however, notwithstanding his aversion to the Epicureans, the very same principle which they call the love of pleasure, and the aversion to pain, for it is that which tends to our preservation and welfare. To live agreeably to nature he affir...