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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers That Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century
A View of the Principal Deistical Writers That Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century Author:John Leland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1755 Original Publisher: Printed for B. Dod Subjects: Deism Apologetics Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or mi... more »ssing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Advertisement to the Reader. AS a new edition of this work is called for, it will be proper to give the reader fome account of the Additions and Alterations that have been made in it. Soon after the firft edition was pub- Jifhcd, the ingenious authors of The Monthly Review, in their Review for March 1754, gave an advantageous and candid account of the nature and defign of this performance : but, at the fame time, they were pleafed to point out to fome omifTions in it, which they thought it their duty to lay before the public. Thefe omifiions relate to the not mentioning feveral good Anfwers which had been pub- Jifhed to The Deiftical Writers, of whom fome account is here given. The author was very fenfible when he was put upon this work, that he mould not be able to avoid fome omiflions of this kind, and this was one reafon, among others, that made him backward to undertake it. He endeavoured however, in the Preface, to guard againft any cen- fures to which this might expofe him, by declaring that he had not given an account of all theAnfwers that had been publifhed, but of fuch of them as came under his own fpecial notice; and that " very probably fome have been omitted, which might ' well deferve to be particularly mentioned." Accordingly, in the execution of the plan he had pro- pofed, it was a rule he laid down to take a particular notice of thofe Anfwers only which he had himfelf read, and of which therefore he was capable of forming a judgment...« less