[53] Cp. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 1796, Let. xviii. One of the grounds on which the queen was charged with unchastity was, that she had established a hospital for foundlings. [↑]
[54] Trans. from the German, 1774; 2nd ed. 1825. See it also in the work, Converts from Infidelity, by Andrew Crichton; vols. vi and vii of Constable’s Miscellany, 1827. This singular compilation includes lives of Boyle, Bunyan, Haller, and others, who were never “infidels.” [↑]
[55] Crichton-Wheaton, ii, 190–91. [↑]
[56] Work cited, Letter vii. [↑]
[57] Id. Letter viii, near end. [↑]
[58] Crichton-Wheaton, ii, 324. [↑]
[59] He claimed that the remarks penned by him in an anti-atheistic work, challenging its argument, represented not unbelief but the demand for a better proof, which he undertook to produce. See Krasinski, Sketch of the Religious History of the Slavonic Nations, 1851, pp. 224–25. It is remarkable that the Pope, Innocent XI, bitterly censured the execution. [↑]
[60] Fletcher, History of Poland, 1831, p. 141. [↑]
[61] Fletcher, pp. 145–46. [↑]
[62] Hardwick, Church History: Middle Age, 1853, pp. 386–87. [↑]