Richard Whately Quotes


It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.


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Whately, Richard. Essays on Some of the Peculiarities of the Christian Religion. B. Fellowes, 1831.

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Richard Whately
Richard Whately
  • Born: February 1, 1787
  • Died: October 8, 1863
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer

Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.