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Alciphron

Alciphron , fl. c.AD 200?, Greek satirist. His only extant work, in fine Attic style, consists of over 100 fictitious letters from ordinary people living in Athens in the 4th cent. BC

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Wishart, William

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Wishart, William (c.1692–1753), Scots cleric and controversialist, and co-founder of the Rankenian club. He was an energetic exponent of the moral sense philosophy of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. In addition to sermons, he published anonymous satires on Berkeley's Alciphron in 1734 and Doddridge's Life of Col. Gardiner in 1747.

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