1726 in Literature - Non-fiction

Non-fiction

• John Balguy - A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion
• Joseph Butler - Fifteen Sermons
• Anthony Collins - The Scheme of Literal Prophecy
• Daniel Defoe
  • The Political History of the Devil
  • A System of Magick
• John Dennis - The Stage Defended (reply to Law, below)
• William Law
  • The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage
  • A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection
• William Penn
  • Fruits of a Father's Love
  • A Collection of the Works of William Penn
  • (with William Pulteney) - The Discovery
• Joseph Spence - An Essay on Pope's Odyssey (concerning a translation of Homer's Odyssey by Alexander Pope)