 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...the dry, systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a noble set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed...phrases): in order to this, he set young students on considering the Christian religion is a doctrine sent from God, both to elevate and sweeten human... | |
 | Ambrose Bonwicke - 1870 - 284 pages
...was much for liberty of conscience: and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to...thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform 25 nature, (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading... | |
 | JOHN E. B. MAYOR M.A - 1870 - 284 pages
...much for liberty of conscience : and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to...thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform 25 nature, (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...of conscience," says Burnet, " and, being " disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he " studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler " set of thoughts." His Platonism altogether was of a simpler kind than More's. The same may be said of Cudworth's, who... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...: and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those that conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as the seed of a Deiform nature, (to use one of his own phrases.) In order to this, he set young students... | |
 | Ferris Greenslet - Cambridge Platonists - 1900 - 262 pages
...liberty of conscience, and being disgusted with the dry, systematical way of those times, he strove to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler...of thoughts and to consider religion as a seed of deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to do this he set young students much on reading... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - Cambridge Platonists - 1901 - 388 pages
...much for liberty of conscience, and, being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to...of thoughts, and to consider Religion as a seed of Deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to do this he set young students much on reading... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Christianity and art - 1903 - 420 pages
...much for liberty of conscience ; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to...religion as a seed of a deiform nature, to use one of his ffwn phrases. In order to this he set young students much on reading the ancient Philosophers, chiefly... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1912 - 544 pages
...liberty of conscience,' and one who, 'being disgusted with the dry systematical ways of those times,' 'studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts,' and, with this aim, 'set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully,... | |
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He was much for liberty of conscience; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of... 
