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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (2): 61–87.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Churchman, Deist, Enlightenment gentleman, and witty blasphemer. 3. See Paulson, Hogarth , 1:238–39. For Hogarth's prints, see Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works (1965; rep. London: Print Room, 1989), numbers 121–26, hereafter, HGW , followed by the number or numbers. 4. Ashley Marshall...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 January 2023
... because he proceeded to taunt Defoe mercilessly in print for years after the original event. Prince's deep dive into Leslie's publications begins with his pamphlet A Short and Easy Method with the Deists (short title 1699), the one Defoe used for a model, of sorts, and moves through several that attack...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 126–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... “feel the need
not only to deny that mortalism exists but also to offer arguments against
it” (63). Drawing on Taylor’s concept of “fragilization,” Sider Jost suggests
that “non-Christian (that is, philosophical or deist) writings had taken on “an
intellectual respectability and cultural...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 133–137.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the
deist Anthony Collins and the theologian Samuel Clarke; and Hume’s views
on the matter in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739 – 40) and An Enquiry Con-
cerning Human Understanding (1748). Kramnick proceeds in the second chap-
ter to observe the discussion of matter, consciousness, and free...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 45–52.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of “tolerance” is not in the 1707
rules, but it appeared repeatedly in opinions written during the second half
of the 18th century. Along with deists, atheists, materialists, naturalists, lib-
ertines, and seditionists, the “tolerantists” were much scrutinized...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 41–60.
Published: 01 April 2004
... apathetic, Men-
delssohn the rejected citizen, Bayle the Huguenot exile, and Spinoza
the radical deist— presents a rare opportunity to investigate how out-
siders value, positively or negatively, other outsiders and use them to further
specific social and philosophical causes. All four are identified...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the Presbyterian order in
the Kirk by Law Established, in the tradition of his house, though privately
pretty clearly an enlightened Deist with views probably not dissimilar from
those of George Washington. Ilay’s ecclesiastical management was one of his
most significant fields of activity. The clergy...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 110–117.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Enlightenment and Modernity: The English Deists and Reform
(London: Pickering and Chatto, 2009). Pp. ix + 225. $99
Hunt, Lynn, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt, eds. Bernard Picart and the
First Global Vision of Religion (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute,
2010). Pp. viii + 362...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
... author’s
pompously annotated 1751 edition of Pope. According to John Sainsbury,
Wilkes and Potter believed that Warburton, who in the Divine Legation
had paradoxically called himself a “religious deist,” defending revealed
religion from the deists, “committed a major offence by his heavy-handed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 30–62.
Published: 01 September 2023
... manifestations of the deistic controversy in England, which, as James E. Force showed in 1990, played out as “a basic epistemological polarity” between natural and revealed religion. As it happened, Newton was identified by some contemporaries (for one, the influential divine George Hickes) as a deist, hardly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 134–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Harlot, Paulson elaborates upon Hogarth’s
link to Dürer by bringing to bear the conviction of the deist Woolston for
blasphemy, an event that allowed Hogarth to make a case for the separation
of religious and civil authority. Woolston had published a number of works
denying the truth of miracles...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 28–42.
Published: 01 April 2017
... republicanism, and deist-inflected
natural theology. In the English context, this shift was challenging for
Anglicanism, positioned as it was between High Church orthodoxy and
Calvinism. The most pertinent Anglican response to the assault on the
concept of the virtues was mounted by divines who sought...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 124–139.
Published: 01 September 2003
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sciousness of nationhood, applied far more often to Catholic Europe, espe-
cially Britain’s great rivals, France and Spain, than to the Islamic world. For
their part, by the 1750s prominent Catholic intellectuals were concerned that
Deists and spiriti forti (freethinkers) were greater threats...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 April 2011
... with
rhetorical devices directed “point-blank” to the heart, capable of moving
their audience (hardly a congregation by this time) with moral lessons in
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keeping with an age being shaped by deists and unbelievers, and perhaps
best understood in the light of Cardinal Newman’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of Roman
Catholics and Dissenters, and even explains the diffi culties of defi ning terms
such as Deist in a climate so inimical to religious nonconformity. She reviews
the history of the evangelical revival and examines the challenges it posed for
the established Church. She explains the three...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 54–76.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a transition to the anecdote of the duel between a black snake and a water snake that concludes the chapter. Crèvecœur's account of hummingbirds asserted a Deist, or to modern readers, an environmentalist principle that animals of all sizes deserve respect and appreciation, and emphasized his authority...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2000
...-
racy but against neo-Harringtonian critics of the new commercial regime,
radical deists, Jacobites, and at least some elements of the rural gentry. In
his work on how the language of politeness in Augustan England came to
be an important element of its political discourse, Lawrence Klein has...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of the century, and Macpherson’s characterization of the Druids is
in itself far from unique: it echoes, for example, their role in John Toland’s
Deist attack on priestcraft and religious sophistry. But it is unusual in the
context of Celtic enthusiasm, where the movement of the Druid from being
seen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 January 2025
... the diverse nontraditional Protestants in Britain during the century: the conspicuous Quaker Cumming chose a Moravian and a Methodist as executors of his will, and he had friendships not only with the Anglican Johnson but also with the deist Benjamin Franklin, suggesting that the borders between faiths were...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 January 2010
... (London, 1732), 12. Like many lower
churchmen or Dissenters, the Deist Chubb doubts the loyalty of the High Church
and Tory dispensations. “Numberless” thirty of January sermons have been preached
to treat “the principle upon which the late happy revolution is founded . . . with the
utmost...
