Titles by Soame Jenyns

1704 – 1787

Soame Jenyns was an MP for Cambridgeshire and a commissioner of the Board of Trade.

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Jenyns was primarily known in his time as a poet and a theologian. His light and airy writing style came in for criticism from Samuel Johnson, but helped to ensure the success of his political writing, which was acknowledged as both witty and accessible.

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The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, Briefly Considered

Soame Jenyns

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