Authority Cited: Nichols [Nicholls]
Author name and dates: William Nicholls (1664-1712)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Nichols cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Nichols or Nicholls cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 245 8. Nichol's a conference with a theist, 2v. &c. The 1723 edition was published in two volumes. The 1723 edition spells the author's name Nichols, which is the citation in both the 1755 Dict. and the Sale Catalogue. The archived DNB correctly cites this title, but the online DNB incorrectly cites Conference with a Deist. Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young, UCF, for researching the source title for this quote.]
A conference with a theist: containing an answer to all the most usual objections of the infidels against the Christian religion, in five parts, by William Nichols., D.D. v.1, The Third Edition, with the addition of two conferences . . . all carefully revis'd and prepar'd for the press by the author. 1723, London: Printed for J. Holland and J. Bowyer in St. Paul's Churchyard; A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, in Pater-noster-row; F. Clay, without Temple-bar; and J. Walthoe, jun' over against the Royal Exchange; eft (eff in text)
1755 Dict.: "The crocodile in Egypt is the lizard in Italy and the eft in our country."
Text: "And how great a difference the alteration of the Climate will create may be judged, from the Opinion of those who assert, that the same Crocodile of Aegypt is the Lizzard in Italy, and the Eff in our Country."
Author name and dates: William Nicholls (1664-1712)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Nichols cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Nichols or Nicholls cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 245 8. Nichol's a conference with a theist, 2v. &c. The 1723 edition was published in two volumes. The 1723 edition spells the author's name Nichols, which is the citation in both the 1755 Dict. and the Sale Catalogue. The archived DNB correctly cites this title, but the online DNB incorrectly cites Conference with a Deist. Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young, UCF, for researching the source title for this quote.]
A conference with a theist: containing an answer to all the most usual objections of the infidels against the Christian religion, in five parts, by William Nichols., D.D. v.1, The Third Edition, with the addition of two conferences . . . all carefully revis'd and prepar'd for the press by the author. 1723, London: Printed for J. Holland and J. Bowyer in St. Paul's Churchyard; A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, in Pater-noster-row; F. Clay, without Temple-bar; and J. Walthoe, jun' over against the Royal Exchange; eft (eff in text)
1755 Dict.: "The crocodile in Egypt is the lizard in Italy and the eft in our country."
Text: "And how great a difference the alteration of the Climate will create may be judged, from the Opinion of those who assert, that the same Crocodile of Aegypt is the Lizzard in Italy, and the Eff in our Country."