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See also:CASAUBON, See also:FLORENCE See also:ESTIENNE M$RIC (1599-1671), See also:English classical See also:scholar, son of See also:Isaac Casaubon, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 14th of See also:August 1599. At an See also:early See also:age he joined his See also:father in See also:England, and completed his See also:education at See also:Eton and 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 (B.A. 1618). His See also:defence of his father against the attacks of certain Catholics (See also:Pietas contra maledicos patrii Nominis et Religionis Hostes, 1621), secured him the See also:notice and favour of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., who conferred upon him 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 in See also:Canterbury See also:cathedral. He also vindicated his father's See also:literary reputation against certain impostors who had published, under his name, a See also:work on The Origin of See also:Idolatry (Vindicatio Patris adversus Impostores, 1624). During the See also:Civil See also:War he lived a retired See also:life, and after its conclusion refused to acknowledge the authority of See also:Cromwell, who, notwithstanding, requested him to write an " impartial " See also:history of the events of the See also:period. In spite of the tempting inducements held out, he declined, and also refused the See also:post of inspector of the See also:Swedish See also:universities offered him by See also:Queen See also:Christina. Af ter the Restoration, he was reinstated in his See also:benefice, and devoted the See also:rest of his life to literary work. He died at Canterbury on the 14th of See also:July 1671. Meric Casaubon's reputation was overshadowed by that of his father; but his See also:editions of numerous classical authors, and especially of the Meditations of See also:Marcus Aurelius (also English See also:translation, new ed. by W. H. D. Rouse, 190o), were highly valued. Among his other See also:works may be mentioned: De Quatuor Linguis Commentatio (165o), Of the See also:Necessity of See also:Reformation (1664), On Credulity and Incredulity in Things natural, civil and divine (1668).
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