Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
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| Birth: | 6th March, 1663 |
| Death: | 22nd February, 1732 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Bishop, Politician |
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Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician, and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher, but lacked the intellect to win key polemical debates.
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