The Politics of Pluralism in Newport, Rhode Island - 1760-1800

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51. Whithey, 86.

52. Stiles, 1:472.

53. Stiles, 2:28, 150.

54. Stiles, 1:472.

55. Stiles, 1:490.

56. Stiles, 1:492.

57. Stiles, 1:492.

58. Stiles, 1:493.

59. Stiles, 1:490 - 491.

60. Stiles, 1:531.

61. Stiles, 1:531. Dr. Magpie, a known linguist, would be the one to write the new translation. It would be taken "from a very antient Syriac Edition of the Old Testament once in the possession of the celebrated Rabbi Aben Ben Ezra, and from the Geneva Edition of the New, which he proposes to collate with a MS Copy of English, prepared for the Press by the Rev. Mr Goodwin, Chaplain to the Lord Protector." The English copy, the newspaper was claimed, was stolen from London by a "celebrated American Patriot [Henry Marchant], and sent to the Doctor as a Testimony of Respect for his great Abilities displayed in calculating accurately, the prodigious Swarm of Independents that will cover the face of the Western World towards the Close of the 9999."

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