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LIFE OF TOLAND. 33names <strong>of</strong> Bacchus, Typho, Silenus, Priapus, andAdonis. Though Mr. Toland was unquestionablyin <strong>the</strong> right, Huetius was greatly incensed,and expressed his resentment in a letter, first publishedin <strong>the</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Trevoux, and afterwardsprinted by Abbot Tilladet. It w ill be recollected,that <strong>the</strong>se are <strong>the</strong> two gentlemen, who endeavouredto convict Mr. Toland <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> high and unpardonablecrime, <strong>of</strong> not directing his parents topropagate him legitimately.In 170.9, he published at Amsterdam, a second<strong>edition</strong> <strong>of</strong> his Philippic against France.In 1710,hepublished, withouthisname, a French])amphlet, relating to Dr. Sacheverell.While in Holland, he had <strong>the</strong> good fortune toget acquainted with prince Eugene <strong>of</strong> Savoy, w hogave him several marks <strong>of</strong> his generosity.After his return to England in 1711, he published<strong>the</strong> Iliimours <strong>of</strong> Epsom; and, at <strong>the</strong> same time,a translation <strong>of</strong> four <strong>of</strong> Pliny s Letters,In 1712, he published Imo. A Letter against Popery^written by Sophia Charlotte, late queen <strong>of</strong>Prussia. 2 do. Her Majesty's reasonsfor creating<strong>the</strong> electoral prince <strong>of</strong> Hanover a peer <strong>of</strong> that realm,3tio.The Grand Mystery laid open; namely, bydividing <strong>the</strong> protestants, to weaken <strong>the</strong> Hanoveriansuccession, &c.About <strong>the</strong> same time, he published a <strong>new</strong> <strong>edition</strong><strong>of</strong> Cicero s tvorks, an undertaking for w hich he waseminently qualified. This work alone, is suffi-D

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