" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigraph from Milton on the title page, right after the author's name: 'So spoke the Fiend, and with Necessity, / -- excused his dev'lish deeds.'"
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies"; another the "Home Friend - a weekly miscellany"; a third, the "Saturday Magazine"; a fourth, the "History of Redemption"; and a fifth, the "Family Quarrel - an humble story".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the human will, by stating, with wonderful acute ingenuity, our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist, that the only relief I had was to forget it". MAYO. "But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWELL. "It puzzled me so much as to the freedom of the human will, by stating, with wonderful acute ingenuity, our being actuated by a series of motives which we cannot resist, that the only relief I had was to forget it". MAYO. "But he makes the proper distinction between moral and physical necessity".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Mayo Print: Book
'My fears shook my weak and tender frame in reading Edwards on the Affections. A heartsearching book. A truly valuable author'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Davies Print: Book
