Note 725 — Chapter XIX · MINOR FOUNDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

“Emboldened by his first adventure, he determined to become the public teacher of infidelity. For this purpose he hired the use of Carpenters’ Hall, where for some time he delivered his Orations, which consisted chiefly of scraps from Tindal and other similar writers” (Chalmers’ Biog. Dict., xix, 228).