Author:Corbyn Morris

Corbyn Morris
(1710–1779)

Works

• A Letter from a Bystander to a Member of Parliament, wherein is examined what necessity there is for the maintenance of a large regular land-force in. this island ; what proportions the Revenues of the Crown have borne to those of the people at different periods from the Restoration to his present Majesty's Accession ; and whether the weight of Power in the Royal or popular side now preponderates (1741-2)
• A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Carte . . . by a Gentleman of Cambridge (1743)
• An Essay towards fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
• An Essay towards illustrating the Science of Insurance, wherein it is attempted to fix, by precise Calculation, several important Maxims upon this subject (1747)
• An Essay towards deciding the important Question, Whether it be a National Advantage to Britain to insure the Ships of her Enemies? Addressed to the Right Honourable H. Pelham (1747)
• Observations on the past Growth and present State of the City of London. To which are annexed a complete Table of the Christnings and Burials within this City from 1601 to 1750 . . . together with a Table of the Numbers which have annually died of each Disease from 1675 to the present time (1751)
• A Letter balancing the Causes of the Present Scarcity of our Silver Coin, and the Means of Immediate Remedy (1757)
• A Plan for Arranging and Balancing the Accounts of Landed Estates (1759)
• Remarks upon Mr. Mill's Proposals for publishing a Survey of the Trade of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Colonies (1771)
• On reading Dr. Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village" "The New Foundling Hospital for Wit" (1784, vi. 95).

Works about Morris

• "Morris, Corbyn," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.