 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 408 pages
...'set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent...from God both to elevate and sweeten human nature.' This passage, while it supplies additional evidence of Burnet's habitual sympathy with whatever was... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Abbie Findlay Potts - Christian biography - 1922 - 364 pages
...set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent...strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. . . . Wilkins was ... a great observer, and a promoter of experimental philosophy, which was then a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Christian biography - 1922 - 350 pages
...from God bQth_±o-.ete.vate ajid sweetejl.Jluman nature; in which he was a great example, as weTTas a wise and kind instructor. Cudworth carried this...strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. . . . Wilkins was ... a great observer, and a promoter of experimental philosophy, which was then a... | |
 | A. Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 324 pages
...set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent...from God, both to elevate and sweeten human nature. (1874: 32) Other contemporary observations of a link between the Emmanuel theologians and the reading... | |
 | Norman Sykes - Religion - 2004 - 256 pages
...set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent...strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. Wilkins was of Oxford, but removed to Cambridge— At Cambridge he joined with those who studied to... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - Philosophy - 2005 - 180 pages
...set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers; chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin; and on considering the CHRISTIAN RELIGION as a doctrine sent...great example, as well as a wise and kind instructor. 12. John Tillotson, ed., The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, 2nd ed., 3 vols., including "Some Account... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 672 pages
...teachers, it is suited to raise those who conversed with them to a nobler sort of thoughts, and " to teach a doctrine sent from God both to elevate and sweeten human nature." The author seems to suppose that there is some cloud suspended over the moral world which in our day... | |
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... 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 his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly... 
