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Title:  The Algerine captive; or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: six years a prisoner among the Algerines. [Three lines from Shakespeare] : Vol. I[-II]. : Published according to act of Congress.
Author: Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826.
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He has added second parts, and made other, and audacious adjuncts to deism. No might nor greatness escapes him. He has vilified a great prophet, the sa|viour of the Gentiles; he has railed at Washington, a saviour of his country. A tasteful, though irreligious scholar might tolerate a chastised scepticism, if exhibit|ed by an acute Hume, or an eloquent Boling broke. But one cannot repress the irritability of the fiery Hotspur, when one beholds the pillars of morality shaken by the rude shock of this modern vandal. The reader should learn, that his paltry system is only an Mr. Johnson, a respectable bookseller in St. Paul's church yard, London, has asserted that Mr. Paine's tongue used to flow most freely against re|vealed religion, when he was most intoxicated with "ale, or vilerliquors."outrage of wine; and that it is in the ale house, he most vigor|ously assaults the authority of the proph|ets, 0