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See also: LELAND, See also:JOHN (1691–1766) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Wigan, See also:Lancashire, and educated in See also:Dublin, where he made such progress that in 1716, without having attended any See also:college or See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, he was appointed first assistant and afterwards See also:sole pastor of a See also:congregation of Presbyterians in New See also:Row. This See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he continued to fill until his See also:death on the 16th of See also:January 1766. He received the degree of D.D. from See also:Aberdeen in 1739. His first publication was A See also:Defence of See also:Christianity (1733), in reply to See also:Matthew See also:Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation; it was succeeded by his Divine Authority of the Old and New Testaments asserted (1738),in See also:answer to The Moral Philosopher of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Morgan; in 1741 he published two volumes, in the See also:form of two letters, being Remarks on [H. See also:Dodwell's] Christianity not founded on See also:Argument; and in 1753 Reflexions on the See also:late See also:Lord See also:Bolingbroke's Letters on the Study and Use of See also:History. His View of the See also:Principal Deistical Writers that have appeared in See also:England was published in 1754–1756. This is the See also:chief See also:work of Leland— " most worthy, painstaking and See also:common-See also:place of divines," as See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen called him—and in spite of many defects and inconsistencies is indispensable to every student of the deistic See also:movement of the 18th See also:century.
His Discourses on various Subjects, with a See also:Life prefixed, was published posthumously (4 vols., 1768–1789).
End of Article: LELAND, JOHN (1691–1766)
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