A letter, in answer To one from a Free-Thinker: occasion'd by the late Duke of Buckinghamshire's epitaph. Wherein Certain Passages in it that have been thought exceptionable, are vindicated; and the Doctrine of the Soul's Immortality asserted. To which is prefix'd, a version of the epitaph, agreeable to the explication given of it in the answer. With an introduction, containing extracts of two letters relating to the conduct of that noble lord. By Richard Fiddes, D. D.
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London: printed for J. Pemberton, at the Buck and Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1721.
- Publication year
- 1721-1721
- ESTC No.
- T37987
- Grub Street ID
- 267505
- Description
- 60p. ; 8⁰
- Note
- The two letters are dated 26 and 27 March 1721.
The English translation of the Latin poem, coming after the titlepage, ends with "O thou principle of all beings, have pity on me"; a variant has "Causes, have compassion on me".