( noDate conjectural )
14 Apr. 1756 to 9 May 1756
Original paper slip text:n.d. [14 April–9 May? 1756]
Copies of extracts from [Joseph] Butler's Analogy:
21 p.
JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.
- [1] "Of a future life"
- [2] "Of the Government of God by Rewards and Punishment"
- [3] "The Government of God a scheme incomprehensible"
- [4] "Of personal identity"
- [5] "Of the nature of virtue"
- Conjectural dates based on JA, Works, 2:16 (2 May 1756), 2:17 (9 May 1756), q.v.
- Note: Joseph Butler (1692–1752), Bishop of Durham, published the Analogy in 1736 (see DNB, 8:67–72).
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