General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ng proper-ty ; and in the seventh, those laws which relateto paternal authority and good order in first two parts are contained in the firstand second volumes : the third made its ap-pearance in 1783, in the third and fourth vo-lumes ; the fourth was published in theend of the year 1785, in the fifth, sixth,anil seventh volumes; and the first part of thefifth book was published in an eighth volume,in 1791
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ng proper-ty ; and in the seventh, those laws which relateto paternal authority and good order in first two parts are contained in the firstand second volumes : the third made its ap-pearance in 1783, in the third and fourth vo-lumes ; the fourth was published in theend of the year 1785, in the fifth, sixth,anil seventh volumes; and the first part of thefifth book was published in an eighth volume,in 1791. After the authors death, no part ofthe ninth volume, which would have concludedthe fifth book, was found among his papers,but a list of some works which he wished toexamine in regard to certain points, and a tableof contents, with notes respecting the objectsto be treated of in each chapter. The two firstparts were received, as they deserved, with thewarmest approbation; and the authors famecontinued to increase ; but as he had indulgedin many bold and free assertions, which fewwriters before, at least in Italy, had venturedto employ, he could not fail of giving umbrage. FRANCI5CV/, PHBLrEIyPHV^ , ( 93 ) F I L to narrow-minded or self-interested work, therefore, was publicly attacked byprofessor Joseph Grippa, who, in 1782, pub-lished a loiter, afterwards reprinted in 1784,;r the title of Scienza della Legislationevindicata, with some observations againstFilangeris proposal respecting feudal and crimi-nal laws- This letter, which made very littleimpression on the public mind, was answeredin a pamphlet published in 1785 by a learned ad-vocate, D. Joseph Costanzo, of Catania. Ofas little effect was the decree of the congregationdel Indice, issued on the 6th of December,1784, by which the Science of Legislation, onaccount cf the advice given in the second bookto abolish ecclesij&tical property, and the pro-posal promise;. i%$he fifth for reformin the power of the chu
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