[Ads-l] More Re: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"

Tue Apr 16 11:19:58 UTC 2024

Peter Morris wrote:
> 1797
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Thoughts_on_the_Christian_Religion/toW7vrJoETcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Separation+of+church+and+state%22&pg=RA2-PA9&printsec=frontcover

Unfortunately, the citation with a Google date of 1797 is really from
1859. I also came across this match while searching. Google Books can
be confusing when books are "pasted together". It is possible to
scroll backwards from the matching text to check the date.
Garson

> March  18 1798
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bell_s_Weekly_Messenger/Xqw2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Separation+of+church+and+state%22&pg=RA2-PA81&printsec=frontcover
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> From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> Date 15/04/2024 13:43:51
> Subject More Re: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"
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> >"Separation of church and state" also appears in J. Penn, A Timely Appeal to the Common Sense of the People of Great Britain (1798), page 56.
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> >Fred Shapiro
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> >From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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> >Subject: Origin of the Phrase "Separation of Church and State"
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> >OED does not have an entry for the phrase "separation of church and state," although there is a citation for it in the entry for "separation."  This phrase is commonly traeed to an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson.
> >
> >Newspapers.com retrieves a 1798 occurrence of "separation of church and state" in the Evening Mail (London), 7 Feb. at page 3.  These words appear in a report of a convention at the Hague.
> >
> >Fred Shapiro
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