MORDVINS, a people in e. Russia, between the Oka and Volga rivers. They be long to the Volgaic division of the Finns. Their number is estimated at 400,000. A grammar of their language was published by Ahlquist at St. Petersburg, 1871.
MORE, Ilminv, D.D., 1614-87; h. Grantham, Lincolnshire, Eng.; studied at Eton, More, Ilminv, D.D., 1614-87; h. Grantham, Lincolnshire, Eng.; studied at Eton, where beside his regular studies he spent much time in reading the philosophical works of Aristotle and Johns Scaliger; entered Christ college, Cambridge, at the age of 17, nod graduated in 1635. During all his college course he devoted himself with great zeal to philosophy, saying to some one, "I immersed myself over head and ears in the study of philosophy, promising a most wonderful happiness to myself in it." He found no rest to his mind in any system, but became more and more perplexed and skeptical, until he came to the writings of Plato and the Platonic writers, and " discovered the long-looked for treasure in the dreamy pages of Marsilius Ficinus, Plotinus and Trismegistus." In 16:.l0 he took the degree of master of arts, and became tutor to several persons of distinction. He declined many important offers in the church, preferring a quiet life at Cambridge and the study of philosophy even to the honors of a bishopie at £1500 a year. Ile resigned the rectory of Ingoldsby in 1642. declined the mastership of his own college in 1651, and though he accepted a prebend in the church of Gloucester in 1675, he soon resigned it. In 1640 he published Psychozoia or the First part of the Sang of the Soul, con taining a Christiano-Platonical display of life. This was reprinted in 1647, and with sonic additional pieces ender the title of the Philosophical. Poops. His -next work was Conjec. tura Cabalislica, and the Philosophits at the request of Lady Conway, a nosed disciple of William Penn. He secured her friendship, and received from her a legacy of £400, which he devoted to private charity. In 1671 he published Enchiridium ifetapitysicum, in which he inveighed against Cartesianism. Ills other principal works
are Enchirldion Ethicom Metaphysicum; The Mystery of Iniquity; A Key to the Recclatiml; Au Apology, for' Descartes; the Immortality of the Soul; Enthusiasm's Triumphatos; the Mystery of Godliness, which for 20 years had a great sale. £300 were left by an admirer of his works to have some of More's pieces translated into Latin, which led the author to publish all his works in Latin in 3 folio vols. in 1679. His last work Jledela he did not live to finish. The greater number of his works appeared in English under the title of A Collection of Writings, folio. The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More was written by the Rev. Richard Ward. Though a mystical philosopher, he was a man of great intellectual prover, profound /earning, and rare excellence of character. He was one of the first fellows of the royal society, and was a correspondent of Descartes.
MORE, ILuse‘f.tu, the daughter of a village schoolmaster, near Bristol, was b. in 1745. More, ILuse‘f.tu, the daughter of a village schoolmaster, near Bristol, was b. in 1745. She wrote verse at an early age: and in 1773, she published a pastoral drama entitled 7' .Starch after Happiness; and the year after, her tragedy ofRegalus. Under the idea that she was possessed of dramatic talent, she was introduced to Garrick, and through him became acquainted with Dr. Johnson, Burke, and sir Joshua Reynolds. Deeply impressed with the importance of religion, she gradually resigned her ambition to shine as a writer for the stage. and after the publication of her Sacred Dramas, she retired to the country, and busied herself with the composition of works of a more serious acd practical cast, tire best remembered of which are, Ccelebs in Search of a TV'fe, mid The Mepherd of Salisbury Piain. She died at Clifton, on Sept. '7, 1833. Her Memoirs and Correspondence were published in the following year, in 4 volumes.