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See also:ABAUZIT, FIRMIN (1679-1767) , a learned Frenchman, was See also:born of See also:Protestant parents at See also:Uzes, in See also:Languedoc. His See also:father died when he was but two years of See also:age; and when, on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes in 1685, the authorities took steps to have him educated in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic faith, his See also:mother contrived his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape. For two years his See also:brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the See also:Cevennes, but they at last reached See also:Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of their See also:flight. Abauzit at an See also:early age acquired See also:great proficiency in See also:languages, physics and See also:theology. In 1698 he went to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and there became acquainted with See also:Pierre See also:Bayle, P. See also:Jurieu and J. See also:Basnage. Proceeding to See also:England, he was introduced to See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton, who found in him one of the earliest defenders of his discoveries. Sir Isaac corrected in the second edition of his Principia an See also:error pointed out, by Abauzit, and, when sending him the Commercium Epistolicum, said, " You are well worthy to See also:judge between See also:Leibnitz and me." The reputation of Abauzit induced See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III. to See also:request him to See also:settle in England, but he did not accept the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's offer, preferring to return to Geneva. There from 1715 he rendered valuable assistance to, a society that had been formed for translating the New Testament into See also:French. He declined the offer of the See also:chair of See also:philosophy in the university in 1723, but accepted, in 1727, the See also:sinecure See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of librarian to the See also:city of his See also:adoption. Here he died at ,a See also:good old age, in 1767.
Abauzit was a See also:man of great learning and of wonderful versatility. Whatever chanced to be discussed, it used to be said of Abauzit, as of See also:Professor W. See also:Whewell of more See also:modern times, that he seemed to have made it a subject of particular study. See also:Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Nouvelle Heloise, a See also:fine See also:panegyric; and when a stranger flatteringly told See also:Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit. Little remains of the labours of this intellectual See also:giant, his heirs having, it is said, destroyed the papers that came into their See also:possession, because their own religious opinions were different. A few theological, archaeological and astronomical articles from his See also:pen appeared in the See also:Journal Helvetique and else-where, and he contributed several papers to Rousseau's Dictionnaire de musique (1767). He wrote a See also:work throwing doubt on the canonical authority of the See also:Apocalypse, which called forth a reply from Dr Leonard Twells. He also edited and made valuable additions to J. See also:Spon's Histoire de la republique de Geneve. A collection of his writings was published at Geneva in 1770 ((uvres de See also:feu M. Abauzit), and another at See also:London in 1773 (euvres diverses de M. Abauzit).
Some of them were translated into See also:English by Dr See also:Edward Harwood (1774).
See also:Information regarding Abauzit will be found in J. See also:Senebier's Histoire Liiteraire de Geneve, Harwood's Miscellanies, and W. See also:Orme's Bibliotheca Biblica (1824).
'ABAYE, the name of a Babylonian 'amora (q.v.), born in the See also:middle of the 3rd See also:century. He died in 339.
'ABBA 'ARIKA, the name of the Babylonian 'amora (q.v.) of the 3rd century, who established at Sura the systematic study of the Rabbinic traditions which, using the Mishnah as See also:text, led to the compilation of the See also:Talmud. He is commonly known as See also:Rab.
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