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See also: - CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
CLARKE, See also:ADAM (1762?—1832) , See also:British See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at Moybeg, Co. See also:Londonderry, See also:Ireland, in 176o or 1762. After receiving a very limited See also:education he was apprenticed to a See also:linen manufacturer, but, finding the employment uncongenial, he resumed school-See also:life at the institution founded by See also:Wesley at Kingswood, near See also:Bristol. In 1782 he entered on the duties of the See also:ministry, being appointed by Wesley to the See also:Bradford (See also:Wiltshire)See also:circuit. His popularity as a preacher was very See also:great, and his See also:influence in the See also:denomination is indicated by the fact that he was three times (18o6, 1814, 1822) chosen to be See also:president of the See also:conference. He served twice on the See also:London circuit, the second See also:period being extended considerably longer than the See also:rule allowed, at the See also:special See also:request of the British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society, who had employed him in the preparationof their Arabic Bible. Though ardent in his See also:pastoral See also:work, he found 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 for diligent study of See also:Hebrew and other See also:Oriental See also:languages, undertaken chiefly with the view of qualifying himself for the great work of his life, his Commentary on the See also:Holy Scriptures (8 vols., 1810—1826). In 1802 he published a See also:Bibliographical See also:Dictionary in six volumes, to which he afterwards added a supplement. He was selected by the Records See also:Commission to re-edit See also:Rymer's Foedera, a task which after ten years' labour (18o8—1818) he had to resign. He also wrote See also:Memoirs of the Wesley See also:Family (1823), and edited a large number of religious See also:works. Honours were showered upon him (he was M.A., LL.D. of See also:Aberdeen), and many distinguished men in 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 and See also:state were his See also:personal See also:friends. He died in London on the 16th of See also:August 1832.
His See also: Miscellaneous Works were published in 13 vols. (1836), and a Life (3 vols.) by his son, J. B. B. Clarke, appeared in 1833.
End of Article: CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
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