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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

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Samuel Butler, detail of an oil painting by Charles Gogin, 1896; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Butler

English author [1835-1902]

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

Tertullian

Christian theologian

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar

Antero Tarquínio de Quental

Portuguese poet

Bernanos

Georges Bernanos

French author

Saint Anastasius Sinaita

theologian

Saint Ephraem Syrus

Christian theologian

Antoine Arnauld

French theologian

Sydney Smith, detail of an oil painting by H.P. Briggs; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sydney Smith

English preacher

Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet

French journalist and lawyer

Eck, Johann

Johann Eck

German theologian

Joseph de Maistre

Joseph de Maistre

French moralist

Maximus Planudes

Byzantine scholar and theologian

Gennadios II Scholarios

patriarch of Constantinople