William Paley

(1743-1805)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Paley, William, 1743-1805 NRA: Paley William (1743-1805) Archdeacon of Carlisle Philosopher and Theologian DNB: Paley, William (1743-1805), theologian and moralist LBT ID: WiPaley1805 VIAF ID: 19975235 LOC ID: n50051780	B/BAP: 1743-07 DIED: 1805-05-25
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Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, he was archdeacon of Carlisle (1782) and author of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), Evidences of Christianity (1794) and Natural Theology (1802).
REFERENCES TO William Paley: Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 4 June 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IX. 1776-1777 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 15 Ch. XI. 1779-1786 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n1 Ch. XIV. 1786-1789 Found 3: ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ n1 Ch. XVI. 1776-1790 Found 2: ¶ 22 ¶ n1 Ch. XXIII. 1794 Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 9 Ch II. 1807-1810 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch III. 1809 Found 1: ¶ 33 Ch XXI. Found 1: ¶ 23 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Kennedy on Scripture Found 1: ¶ 11 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 44 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter III. 1787-1792 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter XVI. 1819 Found 1: ¶ 9 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Shelley at Oxford Found 1: ¶ 12 Character of Shelley Found 1: ¶ 36 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter 4 Found 1: ¶ 24 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 17 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IV 1798 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 18 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IV. 1801-1803 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter IX. 1811. Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter XI. 1812. Found 1: ¶ 2 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 7