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See also:BASNAGE, JACQUES (1653-1723) , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was the eldest son of the eminent lawyer See also:Henri Basnage, sieur de Franquenay (1615–1695), and was See also:born at See also:Rouen in See also:Normandy in 1653. He studied classical See also:languages at See also:Saumur and afterwards See also:theology at See also:Geneva. He was pastor at Rouen (his native See also:place) from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, he obtained leave of 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 to retire 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. He settled at See also:Rotterdam as a See also:minister See also:pensionary till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the Walloon See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. In 1709 the See also:grand pensionary A. See also:Heinsius (1641–1720) secured his See also:election as one of the pastors of the Walloon church at the See also:Hague, intending to employ him mainly in See also:civil affairs. Accordingly he was engaged in a See also:secret negotiation with See also:Marshal d'Uxelles, plenipotentiary of See also:France at the See also:congress of Utrecht—a service which he executed with so much success that he was entrusted with several important commissions, all of which he discharged with See also:great ability. In 1716 See also:Dubois, who was at the Hague at the instance of the See also:regent 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 purpose of negotiating the Triple See also:Alliance between France, Great See also:Britain and Holland, sought the See also:advice of Basnage, who, in spite of the fact that he had failed to receive permission to return to France on a See also:short visit the See also:year before, did his best to further the negotiations. The French See also:government also turned to him for help in view of the threatened rising in the See also:Cevennes. Basnage had welcomed the revival of the Protestant church due to the zeal of See also:Antoine See also:Court; but he assured the regent that no danger of active resistance was to be feared from it, and, true to the principles of See also:Calvin, he denounced the See also:rebellion of the See also:Camisards (q.v.) in his Instructions pastorales aux Reformer de France sur l'obeissance due aux souverains (See also:Paris, 1720), which was printed by 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 court and scattered broadcast in the See also:south of France. Basnage died on the 22nd of See also:September 1723.
Basnage was a See also:good preacher and a prolific writer.
His See also:works include several dogmatic and polemical See also:treatises, but the most important are the See also:historical. Of these may be mentioned Histoire de la See also:religion See also:des eglises reformees (Rotterdam, 1690), the Histoire de l'eglise depuis Jesus-See also:Christ jusqu'd See also:present (ib. 1699)—both of them written from the point of view of Protestant polemics—and, of greater scientific value, the Histoire des Juifs (Rotterdam, 1706, Eng. trans. 1708) and the Antiquites judaiques ou remarques critiques sur la republique des Hebreux (1713). He. also wrote short explanatory introductions and notes to a collection of See also:copper-See also:plate engravings, much valued by connoisseurs, called Histoires du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, representees See also:par des figures gravees en faille-See also:douce par" R. de Hooge (See also:Amsterdam, 1704).
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