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See also:AMYOT, JACQUES (1513-1593) , See also:French writer, was See also:born of poor parents, at See also:Melun, on the 3oth of See also:October 1513. He found his way to the university of See also:Paris, where he supported himself by serving some of the richer students. He was nineteen when he became M.A. at Paris, and later he graduated See also:doctor of See also:civil See also:law at See also:Bourges. Through Jacques See also:Colure (or See also:Colin), See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of St See also:Ambrose in Bourges, he obtained a tutorship in the See also:family of a secretary of See also:state. By the secretary he was recommended to See also:Marguerite de See also:Valois, and through her See also:influence was made See also:professor of See also:Greek and Latin at Bourges. Here he translated Theagene et Chariclee from See also:Heliodorus (1547 fol.), for which he was rewarded by See also:Francis I. with the See also:abbey of Bellozane. He was thus enabled to go to See also:Italy to study the Vatican See also:text of See also:Plutarch, on the See also:translation on whose Lives (1559; 1565) he had been some 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 engaged. On the way he turned aside on a See also:mission to the See also:council of See also:Trent. Returning See also:home, he was appointed See also:tutor to the sons of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II., by one of whom (See also:Charles IX.) he was after-wards made See also:grand See also:almoner (1561) and by the other (Henry III.) was appointed, in spite of his plebeian origin, See also:commander of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost. See also:Pius I. promoted him to the bishopric of See also:Auxerre, and here he continued to live in See also:comparative quiet, repairing his See also:cathedral and perfecting his See also:translations, for the See also:rest of his days, though troubled towards the See also:close by the insubordination and revolts of his See also:clergy. He was a devout and conscientious churchman, and had the courage to stand by his principles. It is said that he advised the See also:chaplain of Henry III. to refuse See also:absolution to 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 after the See also:murder of the See also:Guise princes. He was, nevertheless, suspected of approving the See also:crime. His See also:house was plundered, and he was compelled to leave Auxerre for some time. He died on the 6th of See also:February 1593, bequeathing, it is said, 1200 crowns to the See also:hospital at See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans for the twelve " deniers " he received there when " poor and naked " on his way to Paris. He translated seven books of Diodorus (1554), the See also:Daphnis et Chloe of See also:Longus (1559) and the See also:Opera Moralia of Plutarch (1572). His vigorous and idiomatic version of Plutarch, Vies See also:des hommes See also:illustres, was translated into See also:English by See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:North, and supplied See also:Shakespeare with materials for his See also:Roman plays. See also:Montaigne said of him," I give the See also:palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his See also:language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so See also:long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning . . . but I am grateful to him especially for his See also:wisdom in choosing so valuable a See also:work." It was indeed to Plutarch that Amyot devoted his See also:attention. His other translations were subsidiary. The version of Diodorus he did not publish, although the See also:manuscript had been discovered by him-self. Amyot took See also:great pains to find and interpret correctly the best authorities, but the See also:interest of his books to-See also:day lies in the See also:style. His translation reads like an See also:original work. The See also:personal method of Plutarch appealed to a See also:generation addicted to See also:memoirs and incapable of any See also:general theory of See also:history. Amyot's See also:book, therefore, obtained an immense popularity, and exercised great influence over successive generations of French writers.
There is a See also:good edition of the See also:works of Amyot from the See also:firm of See also:Didot (25 vols., 1818-1821). See also Auguste de Blignieres, Essai sur Amyot et See also:les traducteurs See also:francais an xvie siecle (Paris, 1851).
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