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See also:BAXTER, 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 (1650-1723) , See also:British antiquarian, critic and grammarian, See also:nephew of See also:Richard Baxter, the divine, was See also:born at Llanllugan, See also:Montgomeryshire. When he went to See also:Harrow school, at the See also:age of eighteen, he was unable to read, and could speak no See also:language except Welsh. His progress must have been remarkable, since he published his Latin See also:grammar about ten years afterwards. During the greater See also:part of his See also:life Baxter was a schoolmaster, and was finally headmaster of the Mercers' school, where he remained till shortly before his See also:death on the 31st of May 1723. He was an accomplished linguist, and his learning was undoubtedly very See also:great. His published See also:works are: De Analogia (1679), an advanced Latin grammar; Anacreontis Teii Carmina, including two odes of See also:Sappho (1695; reprinted in 1710, " with improvements," which he was accused of having borrowed from, the edition of See also:Joshua See also:Barnes); See also:Horace (1701 and subsequent See also:editions, regarded as remarkable for its abuse of See also:Bentley); Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum (1719) ; and Glossarium
Antiquitatum Romanarum (1826). The last two works were published by the Rev. See also:Moses See also:Williams, the second (which goes no farther than the See also:letter A) under the See also:title of Reliquiae Baxterianae, including an autobiographical fragment. Baxter also contributed to a See also:joint See also:translation of See also:Plutarch's Moralia, and See also:left notes on See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius.
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