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822  governments of Nizhni Novgorod, Tambov, Pensa, Simbirsk, and Saratov, extending also into Samara and Astrakhan. Dialectically they may be subdivided into Mokzhas, chiefly dwelling on the banks of the Sura and Mokzha, and Ersas, occupying the shores of the Oka.—See Ahlquist, Mokscha-mordwinische Grammatik (St. Petersburg, 1871).  MORE, Hannah, an English authoress, born in Stapleton, Gloucestershire, Feb. 2, 1745, died in Clifton, Sept. 7, 1833. She was educated at a seminary kept by her sisters in Bristol, in the direction of which she afterward became associated. At the age of 16 she composed a pastoral drama, "The Search after Happiness" (1773). In 1774 appeared her tragedy of "The Inflexible Captive," and in 1775 two legendary poems, "Sir Edred of the Bower" and "The Bleeding Rock." Garrick brought out her tragedy of "Percy" in 1777. "The Fatal Falsehood" was produced in 1779. About this time religious impressions induced Miss More to cease writing for the stage. A volume of "Sacred Dramas" (1782), "Florio," a satirical tale (1786), a "Poem on the Slave Trade" and "Thoughts on the Manners of the Great" (1788), and "Religion of the Fashionable World" (1791) were among her next productions. She began at Bath in 1795 a monthly periodical called the "Cheap Repository," consisting of short moral tales written by herself, among which was "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain." The work attained an enormous circulation. Miss More removed to Cheddart, founded there several schools, and soon extended her charitable efforts for the education of the poor into all the surrounding country. After the appearance of her "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" (1799), she was invited to draw up a plan of instruction for the princess Charlotte of Wales, and produced "Hints toward forming the Character of a Young Princess" (1805). "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife," her most popular work (1809), went through 10 editions in one year. It was followed by "Practical Piety" (1811), "Christian Morals" (1812), an "Essay on the Character and Writings of St. Paul" (1815), and "Modern Sketches" (1819). In 1828 she removed from Barleywood in Gloucestershire, where she had lived for several years with her sisters, to Clifton. She accumulated by her writings about 30,000, one third of which she bequeathed for charitable purposes. The best edition of her works is in 11 vols. 16mo (London, 1853).—See "Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More," by William Roberts (4 vols. 8vo, London, 1834; 2 vols. 12mo, New York, 1836), and " Correspondence of Hannah More with Zachary Macaulay " (London, 1860).  MORE, Henry, an English philosopher, born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Oct. 12, 1614, died in Cambridge, Sept. 1, 1687. He studied at Eton, and in 1631 removed to Christ's college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of bachelor in 1635 and of master in 1639, became a fellow of his college, and passed the remainder of his life in retirement and meditation. The rectory of Ingoldsby was resigned by him in 1642, and he became a prebendary of Gloucester in 1675, but soon resigned. In 1640 he published a philosophical poem, entitled "Psychozoia, or the Life of the Soul." At the request of Lady Conway, a Quakeress, he wrote the Conjectura Cabalistica, the Philosophiæ Teutonicæ Censura, and other works. The first of these treatises was an attempt to interpret the book of Genesis into three distinct meanings, the literal, philosophical, and mystical or divinely moral. In 1656 appeared his Enthusiasmus Triumphatus, a discourse on the nature, causes, kinds, and cure of enthusiasm. Among his other publications are: Enchiridium Metaphysicum; "The Mystery of Godliness;" "The Mystery of Iniquity;" a "Discourse on the Immortality of the Soul;" and a treatise entitled "Medela Mundi, or Cure of the World," left unfinished. His principal writings appeared in English (2d ed., 1662; 4th ed., 1712), and a complete edition of his works was published in Latin (1679). His life was written by the Rev. Richard Ward (London, 1710).  MORE, Sir Thomas, an English statesman, born in London in 1480, executed there, July 6, 1535. He was the son of Sir John More, one of the justices of the court of king's bench, was educated in Latin under Nicholas Hart, and in his 15th year was placed in the family of Cardinal Morton, archbishop of Canterbury. The aged cardinal often predicted that "whosoever shall live to see it, this child will prove a marvellous rare man." In 1497 he went to Oxford, where he studied Greek under Grocyn, and formed a lifelong friendship with Erasmus. At the university, or soon after leaving it, More composed the greater part of his English verses, and also wrote Latin epigrams (Basel, 1520), which contain proofs that he always regarded government as dependent on the consent of the people. From Oxford he passed to the study of law successively at New Inn and at Lincoln's Inn, London, at the same time delivering lectures on jurisprudence at Furnival's Inn, and on Augustine's De Civitate Dei at St. Laurence's church. He manifested a predilection for monastic life, but soon relinquished the project of adopting it, and resolved on marriage. Of the three daughters of Mr. Colt, a gentleman of Essex, the second seemed to him the fairest; but when he considered the slight and consequent grief to the eldest sister if the younger were preferred to her in marriage, he then "of a certain pity framed his fancy" to the former, and married her. Called to the bar, he quickly rose to professional eminence, his practice amounting to £400 a year. He was employed in nearly every important case brought before the courts, was appointed under-sheriff and judge of the sheriff's court for London and Middlesex, was elected a burgess of the parliament under Henry VII., and his eloquence both