biography
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| (1743–1805)
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He was fellow and tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge (1768–76), and became archdeacon of Carlisle (1782) and subdean of Lincoln (1795). In 1790 he published his most original work, Horae Paulinae, the aim of which was to prove the improbability of the hypothesis that the New Testament is a cunningly devised fable. In 1802 he published his most popular work, Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. |
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