The Miscellaneous Works of the late Reverend and Learned Conyers Middleton
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Adams#: Adams 53.9 v.1 Title: The miscellaneous works of the late reverend and learned Conyers Middleton : containing all his writings, except the Life of Cicero: many of which were never before published. In four volumes.
Author: Middleton, Conyers
Page: title page [1]
John Adams
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Mr. Locke's opinion.
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Facts and witnesses must both be credible.
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Mark 16.17.
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Earliest fathers, who? 1, 2, 3, and 4th century!
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Church historians unanimous down to the reformation.
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Grotius was a shaking Quaker.
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Middleton makes Paulinus, Athanasius, Basil, Austin, Jerom, Chrysostom all liars.
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Is this from Enoch or Indostan Brahma?
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A blunder, or a trick of Justin and Lactantius.
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Wonderful vine!
Wonderful wheat!
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This is as good as Dupuis's twelve signs of the zodiac. There are twelve hours in a day and also twelve pence in a shilling. Q.E.D.
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Veracity! Veracity! Veracity! To vindicate the veracity of politicians, philosophers or theologians in any age, would not be an easy task. It would be easier to show that in general they adopted another rule. When it is to combat evil –Tis lawful to employ the Devil. Or Cato's "Corrupta civitate Corruptio est Civita."
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Curious.
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What a confession!
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Like the widows and martyrs to Juggernaut in India.
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Shrewd.
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A cat should be called a cat.
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Sibylline oracles forged by some of the ablest and most learned of Christians.
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Popular glamour.
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Important distinction between the mysteries and Scriptures!
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