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Title: Remarks: (in the form of notes after the manner of Voltaire's examination of Pascal) on some passages in the Bishop of Llandaff's reply to the second part of Thomas Paine's Age of reason.
Contributor: Ferris, Mr., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1796]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. On title page" "Written in the Winter of 1796."
Scope/Content: A manuscript fine copy of a response by an anonymous 18th century writer to Dr Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff's Apology for the Bible. This manuscript in support of Thomas Paine, consists of a page by page analysis and criticism of Watson's work. The final page of the text notes that "The Reader will observe tht the references in the preceeding work are to the duodecimo edition of Dr Watson [sic] Apology printed for Evans price 1/-."
Condition: Bound in contemporary half sheep with marbled boards; covers very worn, front board loose.
Type: text
Extent: 56 p., bound ;20 x 14 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n17g8r
MS.2010.026
Language: English
eng
Subject: Deism--18th century.
Rationalism--18th century.
Paine, Thomas, --1737-1809.--Age of reason.
Watson, Richard, --1737-1816.--Apology for the Bible.
Place: England
Provenance: On front paste-down endpaper: "Mr? Ferris, 11 Park Place, Walworth" in a different hand from the text.
Location: CLUW

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