When Queen Caroline (wife of George II.) asked Mr. Whiston what fault people had to find with her conduct, he replied that the fault they most complained of was her habit of talking in chapel.

[Footnote 3: William Whiston, born 1667, educated at Tamworth School and Clare Hall, Cambridge, became a Fellow in 1693, and then Chaplain to Bishop Moore.

In 1700 Whiston was invited to Cambridge, to act as deputy to Sir Isaac Newton, whom he succeeded in 1703 as Lucasian Professor.

[Footnote 1: The chief combatant in the conflict over the argument from prophecy, which was called forth by Whiston's corruption hypothesis, was Collins (A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, 1724).

Another case which was notorious in those days was that of William Whiston (1667-1752), the well-known translator of the works of Josephus, who was dismissed from his professorship at Cambridge in 1710 for Arianism.

A prolific writer and a shrewd debater, Whiston played no small part in the general leavening of opinion.

Mrs. Johnson is widely separated from the Doctor, but is as well dressed as he could wish her; and No. 21, Mr. Whiston is as unexpected among this gay crowd as snow in harvest.

"Whiston's Josephus, v, 195.

WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv.

WHISTON, William, Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3; 'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1. WHITAKER, Rev. John, History of Manchester, iii. 333.

WHISTON, William, Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3; 'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1. WHITAKER, Rev. John, History of Manchester, iii. 333.

Christian perfection, By Francois De Salignac De La Mothe Fenelon, edited & prefaced by Charles F. Whiston, translated by Mildred Whitney Stillman.

Charles F. Whiston (A); 16Jan75; R595735.

Christian perfection, By Francois De Salignac De La Mothe Fenelon, edited & prefaced by Charles F. Whiston, translated by Mildred Whitney Stillman.

Charles F. Whiston (A); 16Jan75; R595735.

By Charles Francis Whiston.

Charles F. Whiston (A); 21Jul76; R637185. R637186.

Whiston denounced it as foolish, lascivious, and idolatrous.

In 1700 Whiston was invited to Cambridge, to act as deputy to Sir Isaac Newton, whom he succeeded in 1703 as Lucasian Professor.

Among these, beside Swift, may be named, Whiston, Hare, Hoadly, Bentley, and Samuel Clarke.

Or pray, why might not poor Mr. Whiston, who denies the divinity of Christ, be allowed to come into the Lower House of Convocation, and convert the clergy?

we are overrun with such false notions, that, if Penn or Whiston should do their duty, they would be reckoned fanatics, and disturbers of the holy synod, although they have as good a title to it as St Paul had to go into the synagogues of the Jews; and their authority is full as divine as his.

[Footnote 8: Yet Whiston, who receives this side-cut, was himself an anxious combatant of Collins, in his "Reflections on an Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled, 'A Defence of Freethinking.'" 1713.

And it is certainly true, (for Bishop Taylor and Mr. Whiston the Socinian say so,) that all churches in prosperity alter their doctrines every age, and are neither satisfied with themselves, nor their own confessions; neither does any clergyman of sense believe the Thirty-nine Articles.

Mr. Whiston has published several tracts, wherein he absolutely denies the divinity of Christ: A bishop tells him, "Sir, in any matter where you have the Church's judgment against you, you should be careful not to break the peace of the Church, by writing against it, though you are sure you are in the right."