record number: 010133

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Dates:

( noDate conjectural )

16 May 1756 to 23 May 1756

Original paper slip text:n.d. [16–23 May? 1756]

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

"Extracts from Bentley's Confutation of Atheism" and "Sermon 8th" [from Bentley's Sermons at the Boilean Lectures?]*

Length:

3 p., 9 p.

Document Type:

JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.

Notes:

Cf. JA, Works, 2:18: "This week I have read ... one half of Bentley's Sermons at the Boilean Lectures" (23 May 1756); and Works, 2:21 (30 May 1756).
Note:A query (laid in) in CFA's hand: "To ascertain if this be Tillotson. see paper book Diary Feb. 20, 1756, 27 1756."
*Not Tillotson. See Bentley, Works (London, 1838), 3:173–200: Sermon 8, preached 5 Dec. 1692. Copy in MHi, Dowse F.III.2.

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