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Scripture, he drew forth replies from some of the ablest advo¬ 
cates of Christianity, and particularly Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 
Samuel Clarke. 
In 1699, Toland was engaged by the Duke of Newcastle, 
to publish “ Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holies j” and in the 
following year by Mr. Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of 
Oxford, then a Whig, to give a new edition of Harrington’s 
« Oceana.” When the Act of Succession was passed, on 
occasion of the death of the Duke of Gloucester, in 1701, he 
published “ Anglia Libera,” being an explanation and 
eulogy of this Act; and he accompanied the Earl of Mac¬ 
clesfield, who was deputed to carry it to Hanover, and had 
the honour of presenting his book to the Electress Sophia, 
and of kissing her hand on the occasion. At Berlin, which 
he visited, he held a dispute, before the Queen of Prussia, 
with the learned Beausobre, on the authority of the books 
of the New Testament; an account of which was sent by the 
latter to the “ Bibliotheque Germanique.” Upon his return 
to England, in 1704, he published “Letters to Serena,” 
(meaning the Queen of Prussia,) on the origin and force of 
prejudices; the history of the soul’s immortality among the 
heathens; the origin of idolatry; and remarks on Spinoza’s 
philosophy. These letters were animadverted upon by Wot- 
ton, and by the author of the Divine Legation. In 1708, he 
published at the Hague, two Latin Dissertations, entitled 
“ Adeisidaamon, sive Titus Livius a Superstitione vindica- 
tus,” and “ Origines Judaic®, sive Strabonis de Moyse et 
Religione Judaica Historia breviter illustrata.” In 1718, he 
published “ Nazarenus; or Jewish, Gentile, or Mahometan 
Christianity,” &c., in which he endeavours to shew that the 
Jewish converts were to observe their own law throughout 
all generations, &c. Two years afterwards appeared a Latin 
tract, entitled “ Pantheisticon : sive Formula celebrandae 
Sodalitatis Socraticas, &c.;” a work which has subjected its 
author to the charge of atheism, and in consequence of which 
he was unjustly accused by Dr. Hare with having composed 
a profane prayer to Bacchus in his character of Pantheist. 
In the same year he published his “ Tetradymus,” on the 
pillar of cloud and fire that guided the Israelites; on the 
exoteric and esoteric philosophy of the ancients; on Hy¬ 
patia, the female philosopher; and a defence of his Naza¬ 
renus against Dr. Mangey. To this work he annexed an 
account of his conduct and sentiments, solemnly professing 
his preference of the Christian religion, pure and unmixed, to 
all others. 
Toland’s life closed on the 11th of March, 1722, in the 
53d year of his age. He manifested a considerable degree 
of resolution and patience during the progress of his illness. 
His posthumous works were published in 2 vols. 8 vo., in 
1726, and again in 1747, with an account of his life and 
writings, by Des Maizeaux. Biog. Brit. 
TOLATOLA, a town on the north coast of the island of 
Celebes. It is a considerable place, with a fine harbour, 
abounding in fish, and surrounded by a plentiful country. 
TOLD, pret. and part. pass, of tell. Mentioned ; related. 
The acts of God to human ears 
Cannot, without process of speech, be told. Milton. 
To TOLE, v a. [See the etymology of Toll.] To 
train ; to draw by degrees; to decoy. 
Voices calling me in dead of night 
To make me follow, and so tote me on. 
Through mire and standing pools, to find my ruin. Fletcher. 
TOLE'DO, s. [from Toledo, in Spain.] A sword of the 
finest temper.—You sold me a rapier: you told me it was a 
to/edo. B. Jonson. 
TOLEDO, a province in the central part of Spain, in 
New Castile, situated chiefly to the south of the Tagus. Its 
area (according to Antilion) is 9240 square miles; its popu¬ 
lation 371,000. Its surface consists partly of mountain 
tracks, partly of elevated and extensive plains, the soil of 
which, however, is frequently sandy or chalky, so that 
spring water is scarce, and hardly a tree is met with to en¬ 
liven the prospect or afford a shade. The scarcity of water 
is a great obstacle to the extension of tillage, and, if the 
corn produced be equal, or sometimes more than equal, to 
the consumption, it is owing to the thinness of the popu¬ 
lation. But the pasturage is good, at least in particular 
situations: the flocks of sheep are numerous, and the wool 
of the best quality. Vines, silk, honey, wax, and fruits, 
adapted to the temperature, are the farther products of this 
province. 
TOLEDO, an ancient city in the interior of Spain, in 
New Castile, the chief town of the preceding province, and 
the see of an archbishop. Toledo is a place of great antiquity, 
and was successively the seat of government under the 
Goths, the Moors, and the kings of Castile; 40 miles south- 
south-west of Madrid, and 290 east-by-north of Lisbon. 
Lat. 39. 52. 24. N. long. 4. 11. W. 
TOLENTINO, a town in the central part of Italy, in the 
State of the Church, situated on a rising ground, bathed by 
the river Chiento; 30 miles south-south-west of Ancona, 
and 92 north-north-east of Rome. 
TO'LERABLE, adj. [tolerabilis, Latin.] Supportable; 
that may be endured or supported.—It shall be more tole¬ 
rable for Sodom in the day of judgment than for that city. 
St. Matth. —Not excellent; not contemptible ; passable.— 
The reader maybe assured of a tolerable translation. Dry den. 
TO'LERABLENESS, s. The state of being tolerable. 
TO'LERABLY, ado. Supportably; in a manner that 
may be endured.—The pious Christian is the only tolerably 
wise. Hammond. —Passably; neither well nor ill; moder¬ 
ately well.—Sometimes are found in these laxer strata bodies 
that are still tolerably firm. Woodward. 
TO'LERANCE, s. [tolerancia, Lat. ; tolerance , Fr.] 
Power of enduring; act of enduring.—Diogenes one frosty 
morning came into the market-place shaking, to shew his 
tolerance; many of the people came about him, pitying 
him : Plato passing by, and knowing he did it to be seen, 
said, “ If you pity him indeed, let him alone to himself.” 
Bacon. 
TO'LERANT, adj. [tolcrans, Latin.] Favourable to 
toleration.—We know and lament his [Gibbon’s] eagerness 
to throw a veil over the deformities of the heathen theology, 
to decorate with all the slendour of panegyric the tolerant 
spirit of its votaries, to degrade by disingenuous insinuation 
or by sarcastic satire the importance of revelation, to exhibit 
in the most offensive features or distortion the weaknesses and 
the follies of its friends, and to varnish over the cruelties and 
exalt the wisdom of its merciless and unrelenting enemies. 
White. 
To TO'LERATE, v. a. [tolcro , Lat.] To allow so as 
not to hinder; to suffer; to pass uncensured.—We are fully 
convinced that we shall always tolerate them, but not that 
they will tolerate us. Swift. 
TOLERA'TION, s. [tolero, Lat.] Allowance given to 
that which is not approved.—I shall not speak against the 
indulgence and toleration granted to these men. South. 
TOLETHORPE, a hamlet of England, in Rutlandshire; 
12i miles east of Oakham. 
TOLFA, a small town of Italy, in the State of the Church, 
remarkable on account of its extensive mines of alum; 10 
miles east-north-east of Civita Vecchia. 
TOLHUYS, a petty town of the Netherlands, in Gelder- 
land, on the Rhine; 6 miles west-south-west of Emmerich. 
TOLKEMIT, a small town of West Prussia, near the 
inlet called the Frische Haff; 12 miles north-east of Elbing, 
and 44 south-west of Konigsberg. Population 1400. 
TOLL, s. [This word seems derived from tol/o, Latin; 
Col, Saxon ; tol, Dutch ; told, Danish; toll, Welsh; taille, 
French.] An excise of goods; a seizure of some part for 
permission of the rest .-—Toll, in law, has two significa¬ 
tions: first, a liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of 
a manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market; 
secondly, a tribute or custom paid for passage. Cowel. — 
Empson and Dudley the people esteemed as his horse-leaches, 
bold men, that took toll of their master’s grist Bacon. — 
The sound made by the bell being tolled.—The toll of a bell 
is its being lifted up, which causes that sound we call its 
toll. H. Tooke. 
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