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  • Clarke's argument failed to convince Anthony Collins, who made no bones about his materialist leanings and intervened in defense of Dodwell.

    Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

  • In his “Letter to Dodwell” Collins claims that there are material systems all about us whose parts do not have the properties found in the whole.

    Anthony Collins Uzgalis, William 2009

  • Clarke wrote an open letter to Dodwell complaining that he had opened wide the floodgates to libertinism by providing an excuse for the wicked not to fear eternal punishment.

    Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009

  • Dodwell held that all souls are material, and only a few souls are granted immortality.

    Motherly Advice Trace Sheridan 2009

  • They rake up the antiquated tales of the Church; they know nothing of either Middleton, or Dodwell, or Bruker, or

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The learned Dodwell, the dexterous Middleton, the judicious

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Dodwell supposes that he was born so early as a.d. 97, but this is clearly a mistake; and the general date assigned to his birth is somewhere between a.d.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Dodwell supposes this Latin version to have been made about the end of the fourth century; but as Tertullian seems to have used it, we must rather place it in the beginning of the third.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • [56] And Dodwell says, “His personage was proper and comely, and he had a very graceful behaviour in the pulpit, an eloquent elocution, a winning and insinuating deportment, and could, by the persuasion of his oratory, in conjunction with some other outward advantages, move and wind the affections of his auditory almost as he pleased.”

    Life of Dr Owen 1965

  • The monuments of antiquity which still exist in Athens have been described by Chandler, Clarke, Gell, Stuart, Dodwell, Leake, and other travellers, the most recent and competent of whom perhaps is Mr. Henry

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

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