 | Charles John Abbey - Bishops - 1887 - 426 pages
...possessed with this idea, and always ready to push his arguments to their was a man of great penetration, of extensive learning, and the soundest piety ; and...writing upon the deepest subjects to the plainest understanding ' (Horsley's Charges, p. 123). 1 Bishop Berkeley looked askance upon Hntohinson, as upon... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - Great Britain - 1890 - 634 pages
...powers of argument. Bishop Horsley's criticism on Mr. Jones's writings, "He had beyond any man that I knew the talent of writing upon the deepest subjects to the plainest understanding," is eminently justified. The concluding sentences of this able work strike a deep note.... | |
 | John Henry Overton - England - 1894 - 396 pages
...was," adds the bishop, " a man of quick penetration, of extensive learning, of the soundest piety, and had, beyond any other man I ever knew, the talent...writing upon the deepest subjects to the plainest understanding." 2 1 See Churton's Memoir of Joshua Watson, \. 28 ; Stevens's Life of William Jtnes... | |
 | Excavations (Archaeology) - 1897 - 636 pages
...The whole of his writings were published in 12 vols. in 1801. Bishop Horsley in his Charges said, " He had, beyond any other man I ever knew, the talent...deepest subjects to the plainest understandings." Among his most celebrated works were : The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity ; Dissertations upon Life... | |
 | William Strong (bookseller.) - 1828 - 378 pages
...Jones of Nayland was a man of quick penetration, of extensive learning, and the soundest piety : and be had, beyond any other man I ever knew, the talent...deepest subjects to the plainest understandings."— Bp. HORSLEV. 2438 Jones's (John) Ecclesiastical Researches ; or, Philo and Josephus proved to be Historians... | |
 | 1854 - 796 pages
...calf gilt, £3. Зг 1801 "A man of quick penetration, extensive learning, and the Roundest piety: he had beyond any other man I ever knew the talent of wilting upon the deepest aubjei-te to the plainest understanding."— lip. HOHNE. 448 JONSON'S (Ben)... | |
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He was a man of quick penetration, of extensive learning, and the soundest piety. And he had beyond any other man I ever knew, the talent of writing upon the deepest subjects to the plainest understanding. 
