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Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

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Blount was created baronet of Tittenhanger on 27 January 1679. On his death in Tittenhanger the title passed to his son, Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 2nd Baronet.
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V. Whether the Men of this present Age are any way inferiour to those of former Ages, either in respect of Vertue, Learning, or long Life.
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Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur
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Censura celebrorum authorum sive tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujusque seculi scriptoribus judicia traduntur
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IV. Of the Ancients: And the Respect that is due unto them: That we should not too much enslave our selves to their Opinions.
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III. Of Education, and Custome; The great Influence it hath upon most Men. But that a good Education is not al∣way Effectual.
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I. That INTEREST Governs the World: And that Popery is nothing but Priest-Craft, or an Invention of the Priests to get Money.
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II. The great Mischief and Prejudice of LEARNING. And that a Wise Man ought to be preferr'd before a Man of LEARNING.
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A Natural History, containing many not common observations extracted out of the best modern writers
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De re poetica, or remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable Poets
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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VII. The Variety of Opinions: Whence it proceeds: The uncertainty of Humane Knowledge.
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VI. Of Passion: And whether the Passions are an Advantage, or Disadvantage to Men.
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in Hertfordshire from his mother. He was the member of parliament for
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on 1 December 1668. In December 1678 he succeeded to the estate of
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In 1697 Blount added an essay that has been described as openly
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Thomas Blount was the son of Henry and Hester Blount (pictured).
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This biography of a baronet in the baronetage of England is a
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between 1689 and 1697. A loyal Whig, he was a member of the
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Members of the Parliament of England for Hertfordshire
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Thomas Pope Blount was born on 12 September 1649 in
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Civil servants in the Audit Office (United Kingdom)
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in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
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baronet
Upper Holloway
Islington
Henry Blount
Charles Blount
Henry Caesar
Lincoln's Inn
Tittenhanger
St Albans
Hertfordshire
Green Ribbon Club
Commissioner of Public Accounts
deistic






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Chisholm, Hugh
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope
Encyclopædia Britannica
Baronetcies beginning with "B" (part 3)


"[Portrait] Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (1649-1697), 1700, [by] Thomas Forster (c.1677-1712)"
"Essays on several subjects written by Sir Tho. Pope Blount"
Thomas Pope Blount

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