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See also:ANNET, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER (1693–1769) , See also:English deist, is said to have been See also:born at See also:Liverpool. A schoolmaster by profession, he became prominent owing to his attacks on orthodox theologians, and his membership of a semi-theological debating society, the See also:Robin See also:Hood Society, which met at the "Robin Hood and Little See also:John" in See also:Butcher See also:Row. To him has been attributed a See also:work called A See also:History of the See also:Man after See also:God's own See also:Heart (1761), intended to show that See also:George II. was insulted by a current comparison with See also:David. The See also:book is said to have inspired See also:Voltaire's See also:Saul. It is also attributed to one John Noorthouck (Noorthook). In 1763 he was condemned for blasphemous See also:libel in his See also:paper called the See also:Free Enquirer (nine See also:numbers only). After his See also:release he kept a small school in See also:Lambeth, one of his pupils being See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Stephen (1758–1832), who became See also:master in See also:Chancery. Annet died on the 18th of See also:January 1769. He stands between the earlier philosophic deists and the later propagandists of See also:Paine's school, and " seems to have been the first freethought lecturer" (J. M. See also:Robertson); his essays (A Collection of the Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer, 1739–1745) are forcible but lack refinement. He invented a See also:system of shorthand (2nd ed., with a copy of verses by See also:Joseph See also:Priestley).
End of Article: ANNET, PETER (1693–1769)
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