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BARNES, JOSHUA (1654-1712)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BARNES, See also:
JOSHUA, BOOK OF
JOSHUA (1654-1712) , See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

LONDON

London on the loth of See also:

JANUARY

January 1654. Educated at See also:

Christ's See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

Hospital and at See also:

EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen regius See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

Greek, a See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. One of his first publications was entitled Gerania; a New See also:

DISCOVERY

Discovery of a Little Sort of See also:

PEOPLE

People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675), a whimsical See also:

SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch to which See also:

Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something. Among his other See also:

WORKS

works are a See also:

HISTORY

History of that Most Victorious Monarch See also:

EDWARD

Edward III. (1688), in which he introduces See also:

long and elaborate speeches into the narrative; See also:

EDITIONS

editions of See also:

EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides (1694) and of Hornet (1711), also one of See also:

ANACREON

Anacreon (1705) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish. He died on the 3rd of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1712, at Hemingford, near St Ives, Hunts.

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