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Charles Christian Hennell

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circles going back to Priestley, with some German theologians, but largely limited (as Strauss wrote) to works in Latin; and that his writing was not in those terms so innovative as to justify the weight sometimes given it as an influence on George Eliot.
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Hennell's acquaintance with Dr. Brabant was followed (1843) by marriage to his daughter, Elizabeth Rebecca ("Rufa"); Mary Ann Evans took over the English translation of Strauss's
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Aged 15, Hennell obtained a junior clerkship with a firm of foreign merchants in London. In 1836, after twelve years in the post, he began business on his own account in
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in 1846 was more sympathetic, and called some reactions in the area alarmist. In 1851 Chapman was trying to interest the philanthropist
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in 1838. The main conclusion of the work is that Christianity is to be accepted as forming simply a portion of natural human history.
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as a silk and drug merchant, and in 1843, on the recommendation of his former employers, he was appointed manager of an iron company.
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that Rufa had started. After Hennell's death she married in 1857 a disillusioned Anglican priest, the author
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on the edge of London, where Charles attended a day school; from this he went to a school at
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Observations on the Attempted Application of Pantheistic Principles to the Gospel
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Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
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Robertson classified Hennell as a representative of "revived English
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on 30 March 1809, the fifth of a family of eight children, including
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in low-cost editions of the works of Hennell and Theodore Parker.
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was translated into German (1839): Strauss wrote it a preface.
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and Hennell had little impact, in their introduction of the
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argues that Hennell was familiar, as was common enough in
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Index

English
apologist
Manchester
Sara Hennell
Caroline Bray
Hackney
Derby
Threadneedle Street
John Thomas Barber Beaumont
New Philosophical Institution
Mile End
Woodford, Epping
Woodford, Essex
Charles Bray
Caroline
Joseph Priestley
Thomas Belsham
Robert Taylor
John Mackinnon Robertson
deism
Francis William Newman
W. R. Greg
Theodore Parker
Devizes
David Strauss
Elinor Shaffer
rational dissenter
Alexander Geddes
higher criticism
William Hodge Mill

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