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Priestley, J. (1788) Defences of
Unitarianism for the Year 1787, Containing Letters To The Rev. Dr, Geddes, To The Rev. Dr. Price, Part II. And To The Candidates for Orders in the Two Universities. Part II. Relating to Mr. Howes's APPENDIX to his Fourth Volume of Observations on Books, a Letter by an
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The book was published in four volumes, but as noted by David
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Introductory Discourse concerning the Abuse of the Talent of Disputation in Religion by all classes of men, particularly by those from whom it ought to be now least expected, who style themselves rational Christians, and Free Enquirers after Truth.
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259:). Unitarianism was so controversial at the time that Priestley began writing a pamphlet annually in defence of the Unitarian doctrine. One of his main opponents was Thomas Howes.
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Doubts concerning the
Translation and Notes of the Bishop of London to Isaiah, vindicating Ezechiel, Isaiah, and other Jewish Prophets from Disorder in Arrangement.
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Calippic period proposed as a popular method to discover the day of the visible new Moons in all ages, past present and future... (pp. 1–94).
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Literature of Eastern Nations, so far as respects Jewish and Persian History.
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A Bibliographical
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UNDER-GRADUATE of Oxford, Dr. Croft's Bampton Lectures, and several other PUBLICATIONS. Birmingham.
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concerning the Dates of a lunar Eclipse, in lbn. Younes's History of Celestial Observations.
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