"'Twas a sign that this Philosopher believ'd there was a good Stock of Visionary Spirit originally in Human Nature."
A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord ***** [collected in Characteristics]
At least 10 entries in ESTC (1708, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790). Letter dated September, 1707; printed the following year.<br>
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See <u>A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord *****</u> (London: J. Morphew, 1708). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4501">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yigJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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See also "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm" in <u>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: John Darby, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T30440">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. <u>Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times</u>, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]