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William Chillingworth : The Works

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

William Chillingworth : The Works

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

William Chillingworth : Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation

'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one of him [sic] told him that the other had been reading Chillingworth for the last week very diligently leaving a [italics] Mark [end italics] always in the place he left off, which his [italics] Chumm [end italics] moved a few pages backward every Day, & so forced him unknown to himself to go over the same Ground without advancing one Jot or ever finding the Joke out'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

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