Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)

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No. Title Page Author The Work Year Discipline Collection
1 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters: or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects. In Four Volumes. The Sixth Edition, corrected. (London : Printed for J. Walthoe, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, A. Millar, J. and J. Rivington, and M. Cooper. MDCCLV (1755)).
1755 Political Thought Guillaumin
2 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
A Collection of Tracts. By the late John Trenchard, Esq; and Thomas Gordon, Esq; The First Volume. (London: Printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet-street, 1751). 22 Tracts. A Collection of Tracts. By the Late John Trenchard, Esq; and Thomas Gordon, Esq; Vol. II. (London: Printed for F. Cogan, at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet-street; and T. Harris, in the Minories, 1751). 18 Tracts.
Editor's Note: There are two volumes in the Collection containing a total of 40 tracts dated from 1697 to 1750, with 2 with no author given, 11 by Trenchard, and 27 by Gordon. The first volume in HTML and PDF are listed above; see also volume 2 in PDF, HTML, and ePub. There is also a "2 volumes in 1" version in HTML and ePub.
1697 Political Thought Guillaumin
3 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
Thomas Gordon, A Discourse of Standing Armies; Shewing the Folly, Uselesness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain. By CATO. The Third Edition (London: Printed for T. Warner, at the Black Boy in Pater-noster Row. 1722).
1722 Political Thought Guillaumin
4 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
Thomas Gordon, An Essay on Government (London: J. Roberts, 1747).
1744 Political Thought Guillaumin
5 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
The Independent Whig (1720-1743).
Editor's Note: I have compiled an edition of "The Collected Independent Whig" (1720-1747) using the available volumes from these different editions (1741, 1743, 1747).
1720 Political Thought Guillaumin
6 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
Thomas Gordon, Tyranny, Empire, War, and Corruption: The Political Discourses on Tacitus and Sallust (1728-1744). Edited by David M. Hart (Pittwater Free Press, 2021).
Editor's Note: This is a compilation of Thomas Gordon's "Political Discourses" which he wrote as introductions to his translations of the works of Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c.120) and Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) (86 – c. 35 BC). There are 44 discourses in total.
1728 Political Thought Anthology
7 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
Thomas Gordon, "Political Discourses upon Tacitus" in The Works of Tacitus. In Four Volumes. To which are prefixed, Political Discourses upon that Author by Thomas Gordon. The Second Edition, corrected. (London: T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1737).
Editor's Note: Four volumes. Part 1 in vol. 1, pp. 1-236 ; Part 2 in vol. 3, pp. 1-255. (1st ed. 1728-31).
1728 Political Thought Guillaumin
8 Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)
Thomas Gordon, The Works of Sallust, Translated into English with Political Discourses upon that Author. To which is added, a Translation of Cicero’s Four Orations against Cataline (London: R. Ware, 1744).
Editor's Note: The "Political Discourses upon Sallust", pp. 1-202 are also available separately.
1744 Political Thought Guillaumin