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354:. Routh's nephew, who helped him with the book, enquired of him: "Why is it, uncle, that you are always working at Burnet, whom you are always attacking?" Routh replied: "A good question, sir. Because I know the man to be a liar; and am determined to prove him so".
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American Anglicans visited England in 1783 on to help them set up their own episcopate, Thurlow recommended they consult Routh. Routh advised them against approaching the Lutheran bishops of Denmark and instead recommended they approach the
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265:, which he would devote the rest of his life to studying. He was especially interested in the minor ecclesiastics of the second and third centuries, the ante-Nicene fathers. In 1814 he published two volumes of
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on 16 March 1823: "The new edition of Burnet is honourable to the
University...As to the Preface, it is worthy of the learned, wise, upright, candid writer. Routh is a Jacobite, but a Constitutionalist; he is
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were living to read what I have been reading...Martin Routh is of the right stamp, orthodox but not intolerant, profound, not obscure, wary, not sceptical, very, very, very learned, not pedantic at all.
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Ministerialist; he is really a lover of civil liberty...The perspicuity and ease of the composition was to me delightful". In 1852, aged 97, Routh published the portion of Burnet's
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Routh did not excel in modern languages but was an excellent classical scholar. In 1784 was published his edition of the
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Reliquiæ sacræ sive auctorum fere jam perditorum secundi tertiique seculi post
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Routh Lane, Tilehurst - adjacent to St
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But Dr. Routh stood alone among his brother Heads in his knowledge of what
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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford
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Salter, H. E.; Lobel, Mary D., eds. (1954). "Magdalen College".
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as this church had a high church tradition. On 14 November 1784
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Eminent English Churchmen: Martin Joseph Routh 1755–1854
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Green, Vivian H. H. "Routh, Martin Joseph (1755–1854)".
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