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    Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
    Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
    Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
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    Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."

    By John Watts, Charles Bradlaugh and Anthony pseud. Collins

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    This insightful work contains an abstract of the lives and philosophies of some of those personalities who have stood highest in the ranks of free thinkers in all nations and all ages. The writer has put forward ample factual information in a simple way through this work. A must-read for students of literature, philosophy, and history.
    Content includes:
    Thomas Hobbes
    Lord Bolingbroke
    Condorcet
    Spinoza
    Anthony Collins
    Des Cartes
    M. De Voltaire
    John Toland
    Compte De Volney
    Charles Blount
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Claud Arian Helvetius
    Frances W. D'arusmont
    Epicurus
    Zeno, the Stoic
    Matthew Tindal
    David Hume
    Dr. Thomas Burnet
    Thomas Paine
    Baptiste De Mirabaud
    Baron D'holbach
    Robert Taylor
    Joseph Barker
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateApr 25, 2021
    ISBN4057664653253
    Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers: Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."

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