Richard Hooker war ein englischer, anglikanischer Theologe. Er gilt mit Thomas Cranmer und Matthew Parker als der Mitbegründer der anglikanischen Theologie. In seinem zweiten Treatise of Civil Government zitiert John Locke Hooker mehrfach. Sein Patronatsfest als Heiliger in den Heiligenkalendern der Church of England und der Episkopalkirche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ist der 3. November. Wikipedia
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface http://books.google.com/books?id=j-UIAAAAQAAJ&q=change+%22is+not+made+without+inconvenience+even+from+worse+to+better%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1597), Book IV.11.7, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Izaac Walton, The Life of Mr Rich. Hooker. In Walton's Lives, George Saintsbury, ed., reprinted in Oxford World's Classics (1927).
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“That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Izaak Walton, in Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism and Son of Exeter http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/Clergy/Hooker.html. Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was the chief biographer of Hooker.
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