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Excerpt from A View of the Principal Deistical Writers That Have Appeared in England in the Last and Present Century, Vol. 1 of 2: With Observations Upon Them, and Some Account of the Answers That Have Been Published Against Them; In Several Letters to a Friend What has been' now laid e the Readeryis taken from the preface to the first edition and it gives a just account of the original nature and design of this Work, which was at first in tended only to make up one volume. But not long after the publication of it, I was put in mind of a considerable omission} had been guilty of, in making no mention of Mr Hume, who was look ed upon to be one of the most subtile writers'that had of late appeared against Christianity. About. The same time was published. A pompous edition of the Works of the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in five volumes quarto, the three last of which seemed to be principally intended against reveal-i ed, and c'ven against some important principles of what is usually called natural religion. Some' persons, for whose judgment and friendship I have a great regard, were of Opinion, that, to complete the. Design which 'was proposed in publishing the View oft/le deisticaliwriters, itwas necessary to take a distinct notice of the writings of Mr Hume and Lord Bolingbroke; and that in that case, it might be of use to make more large and particular observations upon them, than could properly be done where a number of writers came under consideration. This produced a second volume, which, though it had the same title with the former, viz. A View of the Deistical Writer's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.