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    tacfeed , till he had perfectly teart ) ed the Greek tongue , and that , in consequence he retired to his house in the country and pursued the Greek with such inde * fatigable industry , that in a short time he was master of it and accurately read all the Greek historians . At this rirnc , probabl y * , ln

    miles of Oxford , * [ at Great I ue , dr Tew , Oxon . ] " he contracted familiarity and friend hip with the in us l polite and accurate vn < n <> £ t * iat University ; who found sue han imm' -nst-ncss of wit , and Mich a

    solidity < i judgment in him , so infinite a fancy , bound in by a mo ^ t logical ratiocination , such a vast knowledge , that he was not ignorant in any thing , yet such

    an excessive humility as if he had known nothing , that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him , as in a college situated in a purer air } so that his house was a

    university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and 10 examine and refine those grosser propositions , which laziness and consent made current in vulgar

    conversation . " -j " Lord Falkland is said to have been the first Socinian in England , and to have been converted by the perusal nf ( he first copy of the F rat res Poloni , which which was brought iuto this country 4

    f Clarendon , ubi sup . pp . 351 , 352 . J For this fact , which many will be inclined to dispute , it , is necessary to give par authorily , who is Aubrey * He says , in his life of Falkland , ** 1 have heard JQr * Ralph Bathunst say , that u / hen he was a boy , my JLord lived at

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    The names of Falkland and Cbiliingworth were $ uitai ) ly joined in a common saying at Oxford in their day , wnich has been handed down to us ; namely , kl that if the Great Turke were lo he converted by naturall reason ^ these two were the persons to convert him . '

    Besides these persons , the evermemorable Mr , John Hales , en * joyed the friendship of Chillingworih ; a friendship coiiciiiated and strengthened by the similarity of tiuir studies and bent of mind : both were patronized by

    Laud , both adhered to the roy ^ J cause , in the struggle betweeui Charles I . and the parliament , and both were reproached as So * cinians . Hales is represented _ tq have assisted Cniliingworth in his argument against the Cliurch of Rome *

    Coventry , ( where he had theii a house ) and that he would sit up very late at night in the study , and many times came to the library at the schooie there . The studies in fashipn in those days ( in England ) were Poetrey and Controversie with the "Church of Home .

    My lord ' s mother was a zealous Papist , who being very earnest to have her soa of her religion , and her son upon that occasion laboring hard to find the truth , was so far at last from settling on the Romish church , that he settled and rested on the Polish ( I mean Socinian * isme ) . —He was the first Socinianin

    England ; and Dr . Cressey , of Merton Coll . ( Dean of in Ireland , afterwards a Benedictine Monk , ) told me at Sain . Cowper ' s , ( 1669 ) that he hifns e \ f was the first that brought Socinus books ; shortly after my tord comeing to him , and

    casting his eie on them 9 would needs presently borrow them to peruse ; and was so extremely taken and satisfied ivith Mem , that from that time was his con ^ version . **

    Life of Falkland , in Letters , &cf % from Bodleian £$ TV . Vol . IJL * Of . Hales , the acute inquirer , the fearlcfc * iz * % ontr the fajr-sceing expo-

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    4 Brief Memoir of Mr \ Chillingwoxty *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/4/