Soame Jenyns

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Soame Jenyns

British writer

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Johnson’s poetry and prose
…in his relentless review of Soame Jenyns’s Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757), which caustically dissects the latter’s complacent attitude to human suffering, and his analytic capacities are evidenced at their height in the successful completion of two major projects, his innovative Dictionary of the English…
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…in his relentless review of Soame Jenyns’s Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757), which caustically dissects the latter’s complacent attitude to human suffering, and his analytic capacities are evidenced at their height in the successful completion of two major projects, his innovative Dictionary of the English…
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Samuel Johnson
The Literary Magazine
…Evil, by the theological writer Soame Jenyns, may well be the best review in English during the 18th century:
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…Evil, by the theological writer Soame Jenyns, may well be the best review in English during the 18th century:
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