The Age of Credulity: Believing the Unbelievable in the Century of Enlightenment
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The Age of Credulity: Believing the Unbelievable in the Century of Enlightenment
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In 1795 appeared a pamphlet by the Calvinist preacher Thomas Williams entitled The Age of Credulity. The occasion of this publication was the public support given by the orientalist, philologist and close ally of Warren Hastings, the MP for Lymington (Hampshire), Nathaniel Brassey Halhed to the self-styled prophet, millenarian and Anglo-Israelite, Richard Brothers. In 1794 Brothers had published A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times written, according to the title page “under the d...
Creator
Hopes, Jeffrey
Publisher
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII
Date
2016-12-05
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
article
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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.686
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/686
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en
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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X
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