...Life of Benedict de Spinoza, London, t706, repr. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, t906. Collins, Anthony, A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Freethinkers, London, t7t3. Discourse of the Grounds ,1nd Reasons of the Christian Religion, London, t724. A Philosophical...

...Collins, an eighteenth-century deist, articulates the position of the Ancients in regard to Homer in his A Discourse of Free-Thinking Occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a Sect call'd Free-Thinkers (1713). Collins's contention that Homer displayed a "Universal Knowledge of things"...

...the position occupied by Anthony Collins, the friend and disciple of Locke, in his best-known work, A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a sect call'd Free-thinkers (1713). Bentley's brilliant criticism of this book, in his Remarks upon a late...

...faith. Free-thinking was the declared position of Anthony Collins (16761729), whose best-known work is A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a Sect call'd Free-thinkers (1713). What may be called the two main motives in the faith of Collins, belief...

...Trajecti, 1737 Full of curious matter, — and very hard on the Atheists. 17728 [COLLINS (Antony)] Discourse of Free-Thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a sect call'd Free-thinkers, sm. 8vo. fine copy in vellum, 10s 1713 17729 • — •— - another copy, old...