CONYERS MIDDLETON
\kənˈɪəz mˈɪdə͡ltən], \kənˈɪəz mˈɪdəltən], \k_ə_n_ˈɪ__ə_z m_ˈɪ_d_əl_t_ə_n]\
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An eminent English theological and classical writer; born at Richmond, Yorkshire, Dec. 27, 1683; died at Hildersham, July 28, 1750. His life was one of embittered controversy, in which he gained immediate opprobrium and material harm, but enduring intellectual consideration. His principal writings were: "Life of Cicero" (1741), an acute defense of Cicero as statesman; "Introductory Discourse" (1747); most famous of all, the "Free Inquiry" (1748), -an argument to prove that the mediaeval miracles were false because they grew more plentiful as the need of them grew less.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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