...imaginable danger to their persons. And to urge another argument of a parallel nature : if christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the...reasoners , and the men of profound learning , be able to flnd another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? What wonderful...

...imaginable danger to their persons. And to urge another argument of a parallel nature : if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the...upon raillery and invectives against religion, and who would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject ? We are...

...imaginable danger to their persons. And to urge another argument of a parallel nature : if Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the...profound learning, be able to find another subject so G calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? What wonderful productions of wit should...

...parallel nature : if Christianity were abolished, how could the free-thinkers, the strong-reasoners, and the men of profound learning, be able to find...calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? . . . We daily complain of the great decline of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest,...

...imaginable danger to their persons. And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the Freethinkers, the...of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be...

...: if christianity were oncs abolisbed, how could thé freetbinkers, thé strong reasoners, and thé men of profound learning, be able to find another subject so calculated in ail points whereon to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived...

...sceptics. Swift was never more spirited than in this daring attack upon the Deists : "If Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers,...deprived of from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be...

...sceptics. Swift was never more spirited than in this daring attack upon the Deists: " If Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers,...deprived of from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be...

...sceptics. Swift was never more spirited than in this daring attack upon the Deists : " If Christianity were once abolished, how could the freethinkers, the\...men of profound learning, be able to find another j subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? What wonderful productions...

..." is a very happy and judicious irony. One passage in it deserves to be selected. " If Christianity were once abolished, how could the free-thinkers,...of from those, whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be...