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And after Bolingbroke not a single writer who can properly be called a Deist appeared in England.The most general sketch of its cobuild collins dictionary english language characteristics would be imperfect without some reference to the influence which his life and teaching exercised upon it.Sherlock's Tryal of the Witnesses ought perhaps to have been noticed as one of the works of permanent value written against the Deists.It is that indiscreet conduct in our defenders of religion that conveys cobuild collins dictionary english language so many worthless books from hand to hand.We may not be surprised to find Warburton mildly suggesting that 'he would hunt down that pestilent herd of libertine scribblers with which the island is overrun, as good King Edgar did his wolves,' But we find almost as truculent notions in writings where we might least expect them.But there are yet two great names which cannot well be passed over, and which both the friends and foes of Deism have claimed for cobuild collins dictionary english language their side.Though Locke died before the works of his two personal friends, Collins and Shaftesbury, saw the light, Deism had already caused a great sensation before his death, and Locke has not left us in the dark as to his sentiments on the subject, so far as it had been developed in his day.Pope's real greatness lay in quite another direction and even those who most admire the marvellous execution of his grand philosophical poem will regret that his brilliant talents were comparatively wasted cobuild collins dictionary english language on so uncongenial a subject.He was, in fact, the great preacher of his time.p cobuild collins dictionary english language.Judged by its intrinsic merits, William Law's answer to Tindal would also deserve to be ranked among the very best of the books which were written against the Deists but like almost all the works of this most able and excellent man, it has fallen into undeserved oblivion.But, after making all allowance cobuild collins dictionary english language for the unfortunate confusion thus attached to the term, the fact remains that the alarm was not unfounded.These are the names of Alexander Pope and John Locke.Hatch cobuild collins dictionary english language.'When it came out,' he writes, 'the buzz and flutter and noise which it made, and the reports which were raised that it subverted all morality and was designed against the Christian religion.