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See also:AMHURST, See also:NICHOLAS (1697-1742) , See also:English poet and See also:political writer, was See also:born at Marden, See also:Kent, on the 16th of See also:October 1697. He was educated at the See also:Merchant Taylors' School, and received an See also:exhibition (1716) to St See also:John's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. In 1719 he was expelled from the university, ostensibly for his irregularities" of conduct, but in reality, according to his own See also:account, because of his whig principles, which were sufficiently evident in a congratulatory See also:epistle to See also:Addison, in See also:Protestant Popery; or the See also:Convocation (1718), an attack on the opponents of See also:Bishop See also:Hoadly, and in The Protestant Session . . . by a member of the Constitution See also:Club at Oxford (1719), addressed to See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, first See also:Earl See also:Stanhope, and printed anonymously, but doubtless by Amhurst. He had satirized Oxford morals in Strephon's Revenge; a See also:Satire on the Oxford Toasts (1718), and he attacked from 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 to time the See also:administration of the university and its See also:principal members. An old Oxford See also:custom on public occasions permitted some persqn to deliver from the rostrum a humorous, satirical speech, full of university See also:scandal. This orator was known as Terrae filius. In 1721 Amhurst produced a See also:series of bi-weekly satirical papers under this name, which ran for seven months and incidentally provides much curious See also:information. These publications were reprinted in 1726 in two volumes as Terrae Filius; or the See also:secret See also:history of the University of Oxford; in several essays. . . . He collected his poems in 1720, and wrote another university satire, Oculus Britanniae, in 1724. On leaving Oxford for See also:London he became a prominent pamphleteer on the opposition See also:side. On the 5th of See also:December 1726 he issued the first number of the Craftsman, a weekly periodical, which he conducted under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Caleb D'Anvers. The See also:paper contributed largely to the final over-throw of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole's See also:government, and reached a circulation of 1 o,000 copies. For this success Amhurst's editorship was not perhaps chiefly responsible. It was the See also:organ of See also:Lord Boling-See also:broke and 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 Pulteney, the latter of whom was a frequent and See also:caustic contributor. In 1737 an imaginary See also:letter from See also:Colley See also:Cibber was inserted, in which he was made to suggest that many plays by See also:Shakespeare and the older dramatists contained passages which might be regarded as seditious. He therefore desired to be appointed See also:censor of all plays brought on the See also:stage. This was regarded as a " suspected " See also:libel, and a See also:warrant was issued for the See also:arrest of the printer. Amhurst surrendered himself instead, and suffered a See also:short imprisonment. On the overthrow of the government in 1742 the opposition leaders did nothing for the useful editor of the Craftsman, and this neglect is said to have hastened Amhurst's See also:death, which took See also:place at See also:Twickenham on the 27th of See also:April 1742.
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