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EVENTS

'' The Spectator '' founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

NEW BOOKS

'' An Essay On Criticism '' by Alexander Pope

''An Argument against Abolishing Christianity'' by Jonathan Swift

''The History of the Heathen Gods'' by William King

''Representation of the State of Religion'' by Francis Atterbury

BIRTHS

May 7 - David Hume , philosopher

November 19 - Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov , Russian writer and polymath (+ 1765)

DEATHS

March 13 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

March 19 - Bishop Thomas Ken , theologian and hymn-writer

June 7 - Henry Dodwell , theologian