Bower, Archibald (1686-1766)

Mr. Bower's answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, intituled, Six letters from A------d B----r to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England, &c. Part I.

London

Printed for W. Sandy

1757

"Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa!"

In page 29: in February last, says the Libeller, a friend of mine was told by one, who, I suppose, had his information from B--r himself, that upon his coming to England he waited upon Bishop Gibson, to acquaint him, that tho' he had left his own religion, he was not yet determined as to the opinions to be substituted in it's stead. What, in the name of wonder, can this driveler mean! Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa! In the very next page he tells his readers, that it is one of my talents to accommodate myself to the principles of the company in which I happen to be; and elsewhere, p. 35, that I become all things to all men, that I may gain something. If that be true, and it likewise be true that I waited upon the Bishop to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, I must have looked upon his Lordship as a Free-thinker too, and expected him, as such, some preferment in the Church [...]
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BBower, Archibald. Mr. Bower's answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, intituled, Six letters from A------d B----r to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England, &c. Part I. London, 1757. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.
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