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See also:LESLIE, See also:CHARLES (1650-1722) , See also:Anglican nrnjuring divine, son of See also:John Leslie (1571–1671), See also:bishop of Rapt-oe and afterwards of See also:Clogher, was See also:born in See also:July 165o in See also:Dublin, and was educated at See also:Enniskillen school and Trinity See also:College, Dublin. Going to See also:England he read See also:law for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but soon turned his See also:attention to See also:theology, and took orders in 1680. In 1687 he became See also:chancellor of the See also:cathedral of See also:Connor and a See also:justice of the See also:peace, and began a See also:long career of public controversy by responding in public disputation at See also:Monaghan to the See also:challenge of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic bishop of Clogher. Although a vigorous opponent of Roman Catholicism, Leslie was a See also:firm supporter of the See also:Stuart See also:dynasty, and, having declined at the Revolution to take the See also:oath to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and See also:Mary, he was on this See also:account deprived of his See also:benefice. In 1689 the growing troubles in See also:Ireland induced him to withdraw to England, where he employed himself for the next twenty years in See also:writing various controversial See also:pamphlets in favour of the nonjuring cause, and in numerous polemics against the See also:Quakers, See also:Jews, Socinians and Roman Catholics, and especially in that against the Deists with which his name is now most commonly associated. He had the keenest See also:scent for every See also:form of See also:heresy and was especially zealous in his See also:defence of the sacraments. A See also:warrant having been issued against him in 1710 for his pamphlet The See also:Good Old Cause, or Lying in Truth, he resolved to quit England and to accept an offer made by the Pretender (with whom he had previously been in frequent See also:correspondence) that he should reside with him at See also:Bar-le-Due. After the failure of the Stuart cause in 1715, Leslie accompanied his See also:patron into See also:Italy, where he remained until 1721, in which See also:year, having found his sojourn amongst Roman Catholics extremely unpleasant, he sought and obtained permission to return to his native See also:country. He died at Glaslough, Monaghan, on the 13th of See also:April 1722.
The Theological See also:Works of Leslie were collected and published by himself in 2 vols. See also:folio in 1721; a later edition, slightly enlarged, appeared at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1832 (7 vols. 8vo). Though marred by persistent arguing in a circle they are written in lively See also:style and show considerable erudition. He had the somewhat rare distinction of making several converts by his reasonings, and See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson declared that " Leslie was a reasoner, and a reasoner who was not to be reasoned against." An See also:historical See also:interest in all that now attaches to his subjects and his methods, as may be seen when the promise given in the See also:title of his best-known See also:work is contrasted with the actual performance. The See also:book professes to be A See also:Short and Easy Method with the Deists, wherein the certainty of the See also:Christian See also:Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
Proof from Four Rules, which are incompatible to any imposture that ever yet has been, or that can possibly be (1697). The four rules which, according to Leslie, have only to be rigorously applied in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to establish not the See also:probability merely but the See also:absolute certainty of the truth of See also:Christianity are simply these: (1) that the See also:matter of fact be such as that men's outward senses, their eyes and ears, may be See also:judges of it; (2) that it be done publicly, in the See also:face of the See also:world; (3) that not only public monuments be kept up in memory of it, but some outward actions be performed; (4) that such monuments and such actions or observances be instituted and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done. Other publications of Leslie are The Snake in the Grass (1696), against the Quakers; A Short Method with the Jews (1689) ; See also:Gallienus Redivivus (an attack on William III., 1695); The Socinian Controversy Discussed (1697); The True Notion of the Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (1703); and The See also:Case Stated between the Church of See also:Rome and the Church of England (1713).
End of Article: LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
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