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Whatever is, is not, is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Richard Bentley

The Atoms or Particles, which now constitute Heaven and Earth, being once separate and diffused in the Mundane Space, like the supposed Chaos, could never without a God by their Mechanical affections have convened into this present Frame of Things or any other like it.

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It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

Richard Bentley

I hold it as certain, that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

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It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.

Richard Bentley

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

Richard Bentley

The smallest planets are situated nearest the sun and each other; whereas Jupiter and Saturn, that are vastly greater than the rest, and have many satellites about them, are wisely removed to the extreme regions of the system, and placed at an immense distance one from the other.

Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley

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Born: January 27, 1662

Died: July 14, 1742 (aged 80)

Bio: Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Known for:

The Correspondence of Richard Bentley
Greenbeard
A dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris
Sermons preached at Boyle's lecture

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