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Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times (Paperback)
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Liberty's Apostle - Richard Price, His Life and Times (Paperback)
Series: Wales and the French Revolution
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Born in the village of Llangeinor, near Bridgend in south Wales,
Richard Price (1723–91) was, to his contemporaries, an apostle of
liberty, an enemy to tyranny and a great benefactor of the human
race. His friend Benjamin Franklin described aspects of his work as
‘the foremost production of human understanding that this century
has afforded us’. A supporter of the American and French
Revolutions, Price corresponded with the likes of Jefferson, Adams,
Washington, Mirabeau and Condorcet. In November 1789 he publicly
welcomed the start of the French Revolution and thus inspired not
only Edmund Burke to write his rebuttal in Reflections on the
Revolution in France, but also the Revolution Controversy, ‘the
most crucial ideological debate ever carried on in English’.
Price also brought to world attention the Bayes-Price Theorem on
probability, which is the invisible background to so much in modern
life, and wrote a fundamental text on moral philosophy. Yet,
despite all this and more, he remains little-known beyond academia,
a situation that this biography helps to rectify. Liberty’s
Apostle tells his life story through his published works and, fully
for the first time, his now published correspondence with a host of
eighteenth century celebrities. The life revealed is of a truly
remarkable Welshman and, as Condorcet remarked, of ‘one of the
formative minds’ of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.
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Imprint: |
University Of Wales Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Wales and the French Revolution |
Release date: |
March 2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Paul Frame
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78316-216-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-78316-216-3 |
Barcode: |
9781783162161 |
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