Author:Richard Price

Richard Price
(1723–1791)

Portrait of Richard Price (1784), by Benjamin West.

Works

• "A Demonstration of the Second Rule in the Essay towards the Solution of a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances", in the Philosophical Transactions, Volume 54. 1764 (external scan)
• Four dissertations: I. On providence. — II. On prayer. — III. On the reasons for expecting that virtuous men shall meet after death in a state of happiness. — IV. On the importance of Christianity, the nature of historical evidence, and miracles (1767) (external scan)
• "Observations on the Expectations of Lives, the Increase of Mankind, the Influence of Great Towns on Population, and Particularly the State of London with Respect to Healthfulness and Number of Inhabitants." in a Letter from Mr. Richard Price, F. R. S. to Benjamin Franklin, Esq; LL.D. and F. R. S." in Philosophical Transactions Volume 59. 1769 (external scan)
• A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1769) (external scan)
• "Observations on the Proper Method of Calculating the Values of Reversions Depending on Survivorships" in Philosophical Transactions, Volume 60. 1770 (external scan)
• Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing Annuities (1771) (external scan)
• An Appeal to the Public on the Subject of National Debt (1772) (external scan)
• "Observations on the Difference between the Duration of Human Life in Towns and in Country Parishes and Villages." in Philosophical Transactions, Volume 65. 1775 (external scan)
• Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America (1776) (external scan)
• Additional observations on the nature and value of civil liberty, and the war with America (1777) (external scan)
• Two tracts on civil liberty (1778) (external scan)
• A free discussion of the doctrines of materialism, and philosophical necessity, with Joseph Priestley (1778) (external scan)
• "Essay on the Population of England" in The Doctrine of Annuities and Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (1779) (external scan)
• "Short and Easy Theorems for Finding, in All Cases, the Differences between the Values of Annuities Payable Yearly, and of the Same Annuities Payable Half-Yearly, Quarterly, or Monthly" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 66. 1776 (external scan)
• Facts addressed to the landholders, stockholders, merchants, farmers, manufacturers, tradesmen, proprietors of every description, with John Horne Tooke (1780) (external scan)
• Fast-day Sermons (1781)
• Observations on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of rendering it a benefit to the World (1784) (external scan)
• The evidence for a future period of improvement in the state of mankind (1787) (external scan)
• Sermons on the Christian Doctrine as Received by the Different Denominations of Christians (1787) (external scan)
• A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1790) (external scan)
• Sermons by Richard Price and Joseph Priestley (1791) (external scan)

Works about Price

• "Price, Richard," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Price, Richard (1723-1791)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Price, Richard," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)