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See also:BURGESS, 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 (1756–1837) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Odiham, in See also:Hampshire. He was educated at See also:Winchester, and at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. Before graduating, he edited a reprint of See also:John See also:Burton's Pentalogia. In 1781 he brought out an annotated edition of See also:Richard See also:Dawes's Miscellanea Critica (reprinted, See also:Leipzig, 1800). In 1783 he became a See also:fellow of his college, and in 1785 was appointed See also:chaplain to Shute See also:Barrington, See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury, through whose See also:influence he obtained a prebendal See also:- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall, which he held till 1803. In 1788 he published his Considerations on the Abolition of See also:Slavery, in which he advocated the principle of See also:gradual emancipation. In 1791 he accompanied Barrington to See also:Durham, where he did evangelistic See also:work among the poorer classes. In 1803 he was appointed to the vacant bishopric of St See also:David's, which he held for twenty years with See also:great success. He founded the Society for Promoting See also:Christian Knowledge in the See also:diocese, and also St David's College at See also:Lampeter, which he liberally endowed. In 1820 he was appointed first See also:president of the recently founded Royal Society of Literature; and three years later he was promoted to the see of Salisbury, over which he presided for twelve years, prosecuting his benevolent designs with unwearied See also:industry. As at St David's, so at Salisbury, he founded a Chuich See also:Union Society for the assistance of infirm and distressed clergymen. He strenuously opposed both See also:Unitarianism and See also:Catholic emancipation. He died on the 19th of See also:February 1837.
A See also:list of his See also:works, which are very numerous, will be found in his See also:biography by J. S. Harford (2nd ed., 1841). In addition to those already referred to may be mentioned his See also:Essay on the Study of Antiquities, The First Principles of Christian Knowledge; Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr See also:Priestley, Emendations in Suidam et Hesychium et alios Lexicographos Graecos; The See also:Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the See also:Religion of the 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 of See also:England.
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