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Junius, two of his many faces, detail of an engraving by T. Bonner, 1770

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

English author

Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

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Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

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Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

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Tertullian

Christian theologian

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar

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Antero Tarquínio de Quental

Portuguese poet

Bernanos

Georges Bernanos

French author

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Saint Anastasius Sinaita

theologian

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Saint Ephraem Syrus

Christian theologian

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Antoine Arnauld

French theologian

Sydney Smith, detail of an oil painting by H.P. Briggs; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sydney Smith

English preacher

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Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet

French journalist and lawyer

Eck, Johann

Johann Eck

German theologian

Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre

French moralist

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Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

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Gennadios II Scholarios

patriarch of Constantinople