Excerpt from Letters to a Friend, on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of the Christian Religion
IT is much more easy for you to conjecture, than for me to describe, the pleasure I received from learn ing. That you are now fully persuaded of the truth and Ijiviue authority of the Christian and I cheerfully accede to your renewed request that this series of letters shall be extended until I have fur hished you with a view of the principal doctrines pro posed in Scripture for your belief, and of the grand duties which we are called upon as Christians to dis charge. Had I not, however, a decided conviction of your supreme love of truth, and of your stedfast deter 'mination to follow it whithersoever it may lead you, I....
Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (29 January 1774 – 2 February 1841) was an English mathematician, author and editor.
He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical. Having settled at Cambridge in 1796, Gregory first acted as sub-editor on the Cambridge Intelligencer, and then opened a booksellers shop. In 1802 he obtained an appointment as mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich through the influence of Charles Hutton, to whose notice he had been brought by a manuscript on the Use of the Sliding Rule; and when Hutton resigned in 1807 Gregory succeeded him in the professorship. Failing health obliged him to retire in 1838, and he died at Woolwich on 2 February 1841.