An Account of the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus; Bound with; A Brief Confutation of the Pretences Against Natural & Revealed Religion, London, Sam. Smith and B. Walford. 1702.
London: S. Smith, 1702. Hardcover. [2], xxiv, [4], 88p, [4]; [8], 83p, [5]. First editions of both translations by Robert Jenkin (1656-1727). An English clergyman and later Master of St. John?s College Cambridge, Lady Margaret?s Professor of Divinity. The text of Apollonius Tyaneus was originally published in Histoire des Empereurs by Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637-1698). The second work is a dialogue on the subject of atheism. It was widely accepted as Hunter writes, that unreligion centered on London and on the fashionable surroundings of coffee houses, courts, Inns of Court and Westminster? Corners bumped and some marginal foxing and light brown spots in areas. See Michael Hunter, p287. Studies in Intellectual Change in Late 17th century Britain. Regarding Tillemont, See Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition. Vol 26. P975-976. ?Gibbon vouches for his learning when in the 47th chapter he speaks of this incomparable guide, whose bigotry os overbalanced by the merits of erudition, diligence, veracity and scrupulous minuteness? Also see DBG col 376-377. Very Good. Item #7542
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