MORDAUNT MORE. 



dyeing have been divided by doctor Bancroft into 

 substantive and adjective colours. Substantive colours 

 are those which communicate their tint immediately 

 to the material to be dyed, without the aid of any 

 third substance. Adjective colours require the 

 intervention of a third substance, which possesses 

 a joint, attraction for the colouring matter and the 

 i-tiitl' to be dyed. The substance capable of thus 

 fixing the colour is called a mordant, and by Mr 

 Henry, a busts. 



MORDAUXT, CHARLES. See Peterborough, 

 Earl of. 



MORE; the final syllable of a number of Irish 

 geographical names, signifying, in the language of 

 the country, mountain. 



MORE, HANNAH ; an eminent moral writer, was 

 Iwrn at Stapleton, in Gloucester, in 1744. She was 

 one of the five daughters of a village schoolmaster, 

 whose means were not sufficient to give his children 

 many of the advantages of education ; but this defi- 

 ciency was supplied by their own talents and perse- 

 verance. The literary abilities of Hannah early 

 attracted notice, and a subscription was formed for 

 establishing her and her sisters in a school of their 

 own. Her first literary production, The Search 

 after Happiness, a pastoral drama, was written when 

 she was only eighteen years of age, though not pub- 

 lished till 1773. By the encouragement of Mr Gar- 

 rick, she tried her strength in tragic composition, 

 and wrote The Inflexible Captive, a Tragedy, 

 which was printed in 1764. Her tragedy of 

 Percy, the most popular of her dramatic com- 

 positions, was brought out in 1778, and ran fourteen 

 nights successively ; and her last tragedy, The 

 Fatal Falsehood, was produced in 1779. Shortly 

 after, her opinions on public theatres underwent a 

 change, and, as she has stated in the preface to the 

 third volume of her works, " she did not consider the 

 stage, in its present state, as becoming the appear- 

 ance or countenance of a Christian." " Early in 

 life she attracted general notice by a brilliant display 

 of literary talent, and was honoured by the intimate 

 acquaintance of Johnson and Burke, of Reynolds and 

 Garrick, and of many other highly eminent indivi- 

 duals, who equally appreciated her amiable qualities, 

 and her superior intellect. But she quitted, in the 

 prime of her days, the bright circles of fashion and 

 literature, and, retiring into the neighbourhood of 

 Bristol, devoted herself to a life of active Christian 

 benevolence, and to the composition of various works, 

 having for their object the religious improvement of 

 mankind. Her first prose publication was Thoughts 

 on the Manners of the Great, printed in 1788 ; fol- 

 lowed in 1791, by her Estimate of the Religion of 

 the Fashionable World. In 1795, she commenced at 

 Bath, in monthly numbers, The Cheap Repository, 

 a series of admirable tales for the common people, 

 one of which is the well-known Shepherd of Salis- 

 bury Plain. The success of this seasonable publi- 

 cation was extraordinary ; and within a year the sale 

 reached the number of 1,000,000 copies. Her 

 Strictures on the Modern System of Female Edu- 

 cation, appeared in 1799 ; Hints towards Forming 

 the Character of a Young Princess, in 1805 ; 

 Ccelebs in Search of a Wife, in 1809, (which 

 passed through at least six editions in less than 

 a year;) Practical Piety, in 1811; Christian 

 Morals, in 1812 ; Essay on the Character and 

 Writings of St Paul, in 1815; and Moral Sketches 

 of the Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and 

 Domestic, with Reflections on Prayer. The col- 

 lection of her works comprises 1 1 volumes 8vo. 



Near the beginning of the present century, Mrs 

 More left Bath, and retired to Barley Wood, a cot- 

 tage delightfully situated in the village of Wrington, 



the native [lace of John Locke. In 1819, she lost 

 her last surviving sister Martha, and under this 

 bereavement, and being now confined to her room, 

 she quitted Barley Wood for Clifton, where, and at 

 Bristol, she had some valuable friends, though not a 

 single relation of whom she had any knowledge in 

 the world. She died at Clifton in September, 1833. 

 She is said to have realized upwards of 30,000 by 

 her writings ; and her charitable bequests exceeded 

 .10,000. 



MORE, HENRY, a celebrated divine of the church 

 of England, and Platonic philosopher, was born in 

 1614. He was the son of a gentleman of good 

 estate, who educated him at Eton, whence he was 

 sent to Christ's college, Cambridge, in 1631. While 

 at the university, he deeply studied the most cele- 

 brated systems of philosophy, and finally settled into 

 a decided preference for that of Plato, and for his 

 followers of the school of Alexandria. In 1639, he 

 graduated M. A., and in the following year published 

 his Psycho-Zoia, or the First Part of the Song of the 

 Soul, containing a Christiano-Platonical Display of 

 Life. Having been elected a fellow of his college, 

 he became a tutor to several persons of rank. One 

 of these was Sir John Finch, whose sister, lady Con- 

 way, an enthusiast of his own stamp, brought him 

 acquainted with the famous Van Helmont, and that 

 singular pretender, Valentine Greatrakes. In 1675, 

 he accepted a prebend in the church of Gloucester, 

 which it is supposed he took only to resign it to his 

 friend doctor Fowler. He also gave up his rectory 

 of Ingolsby, in Lincolnshire, the perpetual advowson 

 of which had been purchased for him by his father, 

 and would never afterwards accept of preferment of 

 any kind, refusing deaneries, bishoprics, and even 

 the mastership of his own college, so desirous was he 

 of unmolested study. During the civil war, although 

 he refused to take the covenant, he was left un- 

 molested. In 1661, he became a fellow of the royal 

 society, and for twenty years after the restoration, 

 his writings are said to have sold better than any other 

 of their day. Doctor More died in September, 1687, 

 aged seventy-three, leaving behind him the character 

 of a man of profound learning and great genius, 

 alloyed by a deep tincture of enthusiasm, chiefly 

 coloured by the supposition that divine knowledge 

 had been communicated to Pythagoras by the He- 

 brews, and from him to Plato. He was also per- 

 suaded that supernatural communications were made 

 to him by God's appointment, by a particular genius, 

 like that of Socrates. The writings of this singular, 

 but amiable man, who was beloved by all parties, 

 have been published in two volumes, folio. The 

 most admired are his Enchiridion Elhicum, and Di- 

 vine Dialogues, concerning the attributes and provi- 

 dence of God. See Ward's Life of Doctor More 



MORE, Sir THOMAS, a celebrated chancellor of 

 England, was the only son of Sir John More, one of 

 the judges of the court of King's bench, and was born 

 in London, in 1480. He received his early educa- 

 tion from a schoolmaster of great reputation in 

 Threadneedle street, and was afterwards placed in 

 the family of cardinal Morton, archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, and chancellor, who prophesied his future 

 eminence. In 1497, he went to Canterbury college, 

 now Christ-church, Oxford, and, in 1499, became a 

 student in Lincoln's Inn. At the age of twenty-one, 

 he obtained a seat in parliament, and distinguished 

 himself with so much spirit in opposition to a sub- 

 sidy, demanded by Henry VII., that the exasperated 

 and avaricious monarch, in revenge, contrived a 

 quarrel with his father, whom he imprisoned until he 

 had exacted an arbitrary fine. After being admitted 

 to the bar, he was appointed law reader of Furnival's 

 Inn, applied assiduously to the practice of law, and 



