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See also:BLACKWELL, 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 (1701-1757) , Scottish classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the 4th of See also:August 1701. He took the degree of M.A. at the Marischal See also:College in 1718. He was appointed See also:professor of See also:Greek in 1723, and was See also:principal of the institution from 1748 until his See also:death on the 8th of See also:March 1757. In 1735 his first See also:work, An Inquiry into the See also:Life and Writings of See also:Homer, was published anonymously. It was re-printed in 1736, and followed (in 1747) by Proofs of the Enquiry into Homer's Life and Writings, a See also:translation of the copious notes in See also:foreign See also:languages which had previously appeared. This work, intended to explain the causes of the superiority of Homer to all the poets who preceded or followed him, shows considerable See also:research, and contains many curious and interesting details; but its want of method made See also:Bentley say that, when he had gone through See also:half of it, he had forgotten the beginning, and, when he had finished the See also:reading of it, he had forgotten the whole. Blackwell's next work (also published anonymously in 1748) was Letters Concerning See also:Mythology. In 1752 he took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:laws, and in the following See also:year published the first See also:volume of See also:Memoirs of the See also:Court of See also:Augustus; the second volume appeared in 1755, the third in 1764 (prepared for the See also:press, after Blackwell's death, by See also:John See also:Mills). This work shows considerable originality and erudition, but is even more unmethodical than his earlier writings and full of unnecessary digressions. See also:Black-well has been called the restorer of Greek literature in the See also:north of See also:Scotland; but his See also:good qualities were somewhat spoiled by pomposity and affectation, which exposed him to ridicule.
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