E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Shaftesbury, Earl of,
Anthony Ashley Cooper (b. London, February 26th, 1671, d. Naples, February 15th, 1713). “Inquiry Concerning Virtue” (1691); “An Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit” (1699); “A Letter concerning Enthusiasm” (1708), “Sensus Communis” (1709); “Moralists: a Philosophical Rhapsody” (1709); “Soliloquy; or, Advice to an Author” (1710); “Miscellaneous Reflections” (1714); forming the seven treatises of his “Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, and Times” (1711); “The Judgment of Hercules” (1713). He also wrote “Several Letters by a Noble Lord to a Young Man at the University” (1716); and “Letters to Robert Molesworth, Esq., with Two Letters to Sir John Cropley” (1721). See Gizycki’s “Philosophie Shaftesburys” (Leip., 1876).
