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See also:BLAIR, See also:HUGH (1718-1800) , Scottish Presbyterian divine, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:April 1718, at See also:Edinburgh, where his See also:father was a See also:merchant. Entering the university in 1730 he graduated M.A. in 1739j his thesis, De Fundamentis et Obligatione Legis Naturae, contains an outline of the moral principles afterwards unfolded in his sermons. He was licensed to preach in 1741, and a few months later the See also:earl of See also:Leven, See also:hearing of his eloquence, presented him to the See also:parish of Collessie in See also:Fife. In 1743 he was elected to the second See also:charge of the Canongate 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, Edinburgh, where he ministered until removed to See also:Lady Yester's, one of the See also:city churches, in 1754. In 1757 the university of St See also:Andrews conferred on him the degree of D.D., and in the following See also:year he was promoted to the High Church, Edinburgh, the most important charge in See also:Scotland. In 1759 he began, under the patronage of See also:Lord See also:Kames, to deliver a course of lectures on See also:composition, the success of which led to the See also:foundation of a See also:chair of See also:rhetoric and belles lettres in the Edinburgh University. To this chair he was appointed in 1762, with a See also:salary of £70 a year. Having See also:long taken See also:interest in the See also:Celtic See also:poetry of the See also:Highlands, he published in 1763 a laudatory Dissertation on See also:Macpherson's See also:Ossian, the authenticity of which he maintained. In 1777 the first See also:volume of his Sermons appeared. It was succeeded by four other volumes, all of which met with the greatest success. See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson praised them warmly, and they were translated into almost every See also:language of See also:Europe. In 178o See also:George III. conferred upon Blair a See also:pension of £200 a year. In 1783 he retired from his professorship and published his Lectures on Rhetoric, which have been frequently reprinted. He died on the 27th of See also:December 1800. Blair belonged to the " moderate " or latitudinarian party, and his Sermons have been criticized as wanting in doctrinal definiteness. His See also:works display little originality, but are written in a flowing and elaborate See also:style. He is remembered chiefly by the See also:place he fills in the literature of his 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. Blair's Sermons is a typical religious See also:book of the See also:period that preceded the See also:Anglican revival.
See J. See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Account of See also:Life and Writings of Hugh Blair (1807).
End of Article: BLAIR, HUGH (1718-1800)
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