A letter, in answer to one from a free-thinker: occasion'd by the late Duke of Buckinghamshire's epitaph. Wherein certain passages in it that have been thought exceptionable, are vindicated; and the doctrine of the soul's immortality asserted. To which is prefix'd, a version of the epitaph, agreeable to the explication given of it in the answer. With an introduction, containing extracts of two letters relating to the conduct of that noble lord. By Richard Fiddes, D. D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiddes, Richard, 1671-1725.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1647-1721.

Buckingham, John Sheffield.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60p. )

Other Title:

Letter,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1721.

Notes:

Contains in fact two letters, dated 26 and 27 March 1721.

Reissued in 1725 with title: The doctrine of a future state, and that of the soul's immortality, asserted and distinctly proved; in two letters to a free-thinker.

The text of the second letter is not the same as that in "The doctrine of a future state, and that of the soul's immortality, asserted and distinctly proved; in a second letter to a free-thinker", 1721.

The English translation of the Latin poem, coming after the titlepage, ends with "O thou principle of all beings, have pity on me"; a variant has "Causes, have compassion on me".

Printed by William Bowyer; his records show one leaf reprinted.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 757

English Short Title Catalog, T37987.

OCLC:

642585727