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Richard Whately (1787-1863) was an English rhetorician, academic, logician, philosopher, theologian, and economist. Written when he lived in Oxford, his tract "Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte" is a witty jeu d'?sprit aimed at excessive scepticism of Gospel history... Read Full Overview

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Richard Whately (1787-1863) was an English logician and theological writer. During his residence at Oxford he wrote his tract, Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Bonaparte, a clever jeu d' sprit directed against excessive scepticism as applied to the Gospel history. His lectures,... Read Full Overview

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