SERMONS ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN, AND THE VALUE OF THE OBJECTS PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO HUMAN HAPPINESS. ON THE DIGNITY OF AND MAN, THE VALUE OF THE OBJECTS PRINCIPALLY RELATING TO From the German of the late REV. GEORGE JOACHIM ZOLLIKOFER, By the Rev. William Tooke, F. R.S. A PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTERS STREET, FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCII. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. A S I delivered these fermons occasionally, and not in the order they here follow on each other, nor upon any fettled plan concerning the connection and arrangement of the subjects treated of, it is not unlikely that fome readers may obferve at least two defects in the work before them; that it is not complete and not fufficiently connected. I prefume, however, that these do not effentially affect the undertaking. If every thing whatever that relates to human happiness, or is reckoned as pertain ing to it, be not specifically and expressly handled ; yet no kind or clafs of these objects is abfolutely overlooked. And the order or fucceffion of them may the more easily be changed by every perfon, according to his mind, as they are all diftinct and separate treatises. Neither did I fo much pretend to |