Mori, Gustav Philipp, a German theologian, was bom at Nuremberg Dec 20, 1673, and was educated first in the schools of his native place and then at the uni- versity in Altdorf. where he studied philosophy and philology from 1690 to 1692, when he was removed to Jena lo study theology and the ancient languages. He travelled through Holland, and \-isited its most impor- tant universities. After his return home he was ap- pointed assistant of the philosophic faculty at Halle, and in 1698 became professor and ecclesiastical inspect- or at Altdorf. He resigned this position in 1703, and was appointed dean of St. .Sebald's church at Nurem- berg. In 1706 he was apfjointed minister of the St. Aegidien church, and ins[>ect'«r of the gjmnasium : in 1714 minister at .St. Lawrence, in connection with which he had the supervision of the ecclesiastical seminary. In 1724 he was appointed minister of the church of .St, Sebald, superintendent of the consistorj- of Nuremberg, city librarian, and professor of di\-inity of the Aegidische gjTnnasium. He died May 7. 17.'jti. Besides several dissertations in journals, he published Diss, de diitinc-
1 tione essentiali agnoscenda et uttributis (Jenae, 1694, 4to) : ; — Diss, contiuens theses misceUaneas (Habe, 1694, 4to) : — Diss, continens cindicationem reguiarem methodi Cartesi- ana (ibid. 1694, 4to) : — Diss, i et ii de metise humana (ibiiL 1696, 1697, 4to) : — Repetitio doctrince orfhodoxa de fundamento jidei, occasione disputationis Halensis de qtiestione : A n hceresis sit crimen f (ibiiL 1696, 4to) : — Defensio repetitionis hiijus adrersiis Chr. Thomasivm I (ibid. 1697, 4to): — Disquisitio de jide, occasione epistoUa I ad Chr. Thomasium scriptie (ibid. 1698, 4to) : — Diss, de modo dirigendi omnes actiones nostras ad gloriam Dei (.\ltdorf, 1701, 4to): — Vindicict doctrinte Lutherante de gratia pradestinationis (Norimb. 1702, 8vo) : — Die Lehre run der Basse, in 122 Predigten. nach den Lehrsdtzen und Texten enticorfen (NUniberg. 1711. 4to) : — Ordnung der KOnige in Juda und Israel, in einer Tabelle (ibid. 1740, fol.) •.—Sterbeschule ; eine Samndung von PredigtenticUr- fen (ibid. 1743, 1744, 2 vols, fol.),
Mori, Johann Sigxntind, a German theologian, son of the preceding, was Ixirn at Nuremberg March 3, 1710, and was eilucated in liis native place until ready for the university at Altdorf, where he studied theology after 1727. In 1735 he was appointed dean of a church at Nuremberg. He preached until 1759, when he was appointed minister and inspector of the " Jilgidianum.'^ In 1765 he was elected in this g^-mnasium to the pro- fessorship of Greek. Towards the close of 1770 he was called to the position of minister of St, Lawrence's church. In 1773 he accepted the position of first minbter at St. .Sebald's church, the superintendency of the consbtory of Nuremberg, the ofiice of city librarian, and also a professorship of positive divinity and moral philosophy, ; He died Feb. 22, 1791. Besides several contributions to the HaUische AHgemeine Welthistorie and the Anti- \ deistiscke Bibel (Erlangen, 1768), to which he contrib- i uted a new computation of time from the exodus of the I Jews to the time of Solomon, he published Scholia phi- lologica et critica ad selecta S. Codieis loca (Norimb. il737, 8vo; improved ed. by Wilder, ibid. 1793, 8vo):— Schediasma philologico-geographicum, in quo Jo. Har- • duini disquisitio de situ Paradisi ierresiris ex/jininatur . (ibiiL 1750, foL) : — Oratio de-meriiis Xorimbergensium in i Gtographiam (ibid. 1750, 8vo).
Morlaks or Morlachians (Slav. Primorfzi, i. e. . " adjoining the sea" ). the name of a rude people of un- certain origin, inhabiting the mountainous coast-land of Dalmatia, the Croatian military frontier, and the maritime districts of Austro-Hungarj-. ITiey s|)eak a s<.iuth Sla^-ic dialect, and are mostly Roman Catholics, They are skilful mariners. The strait which separates the islands of TegUa. Arbc, and Pago from the same coast b generally called from them the Strait of Mor- lacca.
Morley, George, D.D., a learned EngUsh prelate, noted for his able ptdemics against Romanism and his faithful adherence to king Charles II in the face of all opposition, was born in London in 1597. He lost his parents when very young, and also his patrimony. . However, at fourteen he was elected a king's scholar at Westminster School, aud became a student of Christ Church. Oxford, in 1615, where he took the first degree I in arts in 1618, and the second in 1621. Then he en- i tered holy orders, and in 1628 became chaplain to Rob- ert, earl of Caernarvon, and hU lady, with whom he lived till 1640. without having or seeking any prefer- [ ment in the Church, After that he was presented to the rectorj- of Hartfield, in Sussex, which he exchanged ; for the rector;.- of JlildenhalL, in \\'iltshire ; but before I thb exchange, Charles I, to whom he had been appoint- i ed chaplain in ordinary, had given him a canonrj- of Christ Church. Oxford, in 1641. This is said to be the only preferment he ever desired. In 1642 he was ad- mitted to the degree of D.D. About that time also he preacheil before the House of Commons, then largely made up of Nonconformists, but so little to their liking , that he was not commanded to print hb sermon, as all
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the other preachers had been. Nevertheless he was ] nominated one of the assembly of divines at Westmin- ster because of his strong leaning to Calvinism, but he never appeared among them; on the contrary-, he al- ways remained with the king, and did him what ser- vice he could. Dr. Morley also used his influence at Oxford University to incline its professors to opposition against the Visitation Bill which had been enacted by the anti-royalists in Parliament ; and as the Cromwel- lian party gained the ascendency he was marked out for punishment. In 1648, the Presbyterians ha-s-ing in the mean time gained the control of state aflairs. Dr. Morley was deprived of all his preferments, and imprisoned for some Utile time. The length of his imprisonment is not exactly known, but in 1649 we find him preparing to quit England to join his royal master in Holland. Dr. Jlorley met the king at the Hague, and was for some time a constant companion of Charles II. In 1650, when the king set out on his expedition to Scotland, Dr. Morley went first to the Hague and then to Ant- werp, where he resided, together ^vith his friend, Dr. John Earle, in the house of Sir Charles CottereU, and a year later in the house of Sir Edward Hyde. While thus retired from home and pubUc life, he yet remained a most faithful adherent of the royal and episcopal cause, and even held Church services daily, '• catechized once a week, and administered the communion once a month to all the English who would attend" (Hook). About 1654 he became chaplain to the queen of Bohe- mia at the Hague, but about 1656 he removed to Breda with the family of Sir Edward Hyde, and there contin- ued the same practice as at Antwerp.