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William Warburton : The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally are. Mem.: to read it again.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham      Print: Book

William Warburton : The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated

'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". By wisdom, truth and heed was he/ advanced an aldermanto be./ First chapter also of that most absurd dogmatical and offensive book, the "Divine Legation Demonstrated".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham      Print: Book

William Warburton : The divine legation of Moses demonstrated

'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels his airy flight...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Book

[William] Warburton : Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Tracts by Warburton and "A Warburtonian" ...;'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

William Warburton : 'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aeneis’

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & consequently incapable of improvement — for Homer is possessed of the province of Morality Virgil of politics & Milton of Religion. all this I deny. the morality of Homers heroes is as savage as the age they lived in — as for politics they are yet in their infancy — & the tale of Paradise Lost is the fatal source of all the corruptions of Xtianity.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

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