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A new edition of Toland's History of the druids: - Free History Ebooks

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50 LIFE OF TOLAND,lean instruments.Perliaps, <strong>the</strong> delicacy and refinement<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> present day, might ha^ esluuiikfrom <strong>the</strong> ardnous task, and left <strong>the</strong> desirable m orknot only unfinished, but nnattempted.fame has triumphed over allbe transmitted to <strong>the</strong> latest posterity.TohuRVsopposition, and willThat veryparty which branded him, when alive, with <strong>the</strong>epi<strong>the</strong>ts <strong>of</strong> a<strong>the</strong>ist, infidel, deist, mahometan, &c.have now discovered,that he was only tincturedwith socinianism; and, in less than fifty years, <strong>the</strong>same party w ill discover that he was a rigid presbyterian,— peace to his manes.—It were ardentlyto be wished, that <strong>the</strong> British empire, in all greatand critical emergencies, may possess many christianslike John Toland.

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