 | Edward Bickersteth - 1829 - 738 pages
...nature. Cudworth carried this on with great strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. WUkins joined with those who studied to propagate better...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions. He was a great observer and promoter of experimental philosophy. More... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 676 pages
...sister ; but made no other use of that alliance, but to do good offices, and to cover the university from the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions. He was also a great observer and a promoter of experimental philosophy,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...sister : but made no other use of that alliance, but to do good offices, and to cover the University, from the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge,...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions. He was also a great observer and a promoter of experimental philosophy,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...sister : but made no other use of that alliance, but to do good offices, and to cover the university from the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge,...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness * Ralph Cudwnrth, DD, born 1617., at Alter, in Somersetshire, of which place, his father... | |
 | George Hickes - 1847 - 374 pages
...genius and a vast compass of learning Wilkins was of Oxford, but removed to Cambridge . . where . . he joined with those who studied to propagate better...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions." " This set of men studied to assert and examine the principles of religion... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 pages
...sister ; but made no other use of that alliance, but to do good offices, and to cover the university M \ p n \ +es f\) O R " * Ƕ( 6 ` ( w ; ] a fierceness about opinions. He was also a great observer and a promoter of experimental philosophy,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...Cromwell's sister, yet he made no other use of that alliance but to do good offices, and to recover the university of Oxford from the sourness of Owen...superstitious conceits and fierceness about opinions. Ho was also a great observer and promoter of experimental philosophy, which was then a new thing, and... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 566 pages
...great a mind, as true a judgment, as eminent virtues, and of as good a soul, as any I ever knew; and though he married Cromwell's sister, yet he made no...studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men nil' from being in parties, or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and fierceness about... | |
 | 1862 - 978 pages
...strength of genius and a vast compass of learning. Wilkins was of Oxford, but removed to Cambridge, where he joined with those who studied to propagate better...from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits, and a fierceness about opinions. He was also a great observer, and a promoter of experimental philosophy,... | |
 | 1882 - 462 pages
...as in their own day they were called, whom Burnet has well described as those " who, at Cambridge, studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men...superstitious conceits and fierceness about opinions." Principal Tulloch has done an excellent work in seeking to reawaken our interest in this noble but... | |
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Cambridge he joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men off from being in parties or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits and a fierceness about opinions. 
