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… Taylor (eds.), The Church of England, c. 1689-c. 1833: from Toleration to Tractarianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 42. 3 . Improper uses of words are considered by John Locke as one of the main reasons for controversies … Locke, ‘Of the Abuse of Words’, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690], ed. Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 490-491. 4 . Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue … in Valerie Rumbold (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 136. 5 . For a complete list of anti-Methodist publications in the eighteenth century, see Clive D. …
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