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See also:COLLIER, See also:JEREMY (1650-1726) , See also:English nonjuring divine, was See also:born at See also:Stow-with-Quy, See also:Cambridgeshire, on the 23rd of See also:September 1650. He was educated at See also:Ipswich See also:free school, over
which his See also:father presided, and at See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1693 and M.A. in 1676. He acted for a See also:short 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 as a private See also:chaplain, but was appointed in 1679 to the small rectory of Ampton, near See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, and in 1685 he was made lecturer of See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn.
At the Revolution he was committed to Newgate for See also:writing in 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 II. a See also:tract entitled The See also:Desertion discuss'd in a See also:Letter to a See also:Country See also:Gentleman (1688), in See also:answer to See also:Bishop See also:Burnet's See also:defence of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William's position. He was released after some months of imprisonment, without trial, by the intervention of his See also:friends. In the two following years he continued to harass the See also:government by his publications: and in 1692 he was again in See also:prison under suspicion of treasonable See also:correspondence with James. His scruples forbade him to acknowledge the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:court by accepting See also:bail, but he was soon released. But in 1696 for his boldness in granting See also:absolution on the See also:scaffold to See also:Sir See also:John Friend and Sir William Parkyns, who had attempted the assassination of William, he was obliged to flee, and for the See also:rest of his See also:life continued under See also:sentence of See also:outlawry,
When the See also:storm had blown over he returned to See also:London, and employed his leisure in See also:works which were less See also:political in their See also:tone. In 1697 appeared the first See also:volume of his Essays on Several Moral Subjects, to which a second was added in 1705, and a third in 1709. The first See also:series contained six essays, the most notable being that " On the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a Chaplain," which throws much See also:light on the position of a large See also:section of the See also:clergy at that time. Collier deprecated the extent of the authority assumed by the See also:patron and the servility of the poorer clergy.
In 1698 Collier produced his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English See also:Stage. . . . He dealt with the immodesty of the contemporary stage, supporting his contentions by a See also:long series of references attesting the See also:comparative decency of Latin and See also:Greek See also:drama; with the profane See also:language indulged in by the players; the abuse of the clergy See also:common in the drama; the encouragement of See also:vice by representing the vicious characters as admirable and successful; and finally he supported his See also:general position by the See also:analysis of particular plays, See also:Dryden's Amphit,See also:yon, See also:Vanbrugh's Relapse and D'Urfey's See also:Don Quixote. The See also:Book abounds in hypercriticism, particularly in the imputation of See also:profanity; and in a useless display of learning, neither intrinsically valuable nor conducive to the See also:argument. He had no See also:artistic appreciation of the subject he discussed, and he mistook cause for effect in asserting that the decline in public morality was due to the flagrant indecency of the stage. Yet, in the words of See also:Macaulay, who gives an admirable See also:account of the discussion in his See also:essay on the comic dramatists of the Restoration, " when all deductions have been made, See also:great merit must be allowed to the See also:work." Dryden acknowledged, in the See also:preface to his Fables, the See also:justice of Collier's strictures, though he protested against the manner of the onslaught;' but See also:Congreve made an angry reply; Vanbrugh and others followed. Collier was prepared to meet any number of antagonists, and defended himself in numerous tracts. The Short View was followed by a Defence (1699), a Second Defence (1700), and Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Playhouse, in a Letter to a See also:Person of Quality (1703), and a Further Vindication (1708). The fight lasted in all some ten years; but Collier had right on his See also:side, and triumphed; his position was, moreover, strengthened by the fact that he was known as a See also:Troy and high churchman, and that his attack could not, therefore, be assigned to Puritan rancour against the stage.
From 1701 to 17 21 Collier was employed on his Great See also:Historical, See also:Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical See also:Dictionary, founded on, and partly translated from, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Moreri's Dictionnaire historique, and in the compilation and issue of the two volumes See also:folio of his own Ecclesiastical See also:History of Great See also:Britain from the first planting of See also:Christianity to the end of the reign of See also:Charles II.
' ' He is too much given to See also:horse-See also:play in his raillery, and comes to See also:battle like a See also:dictator from the plough. I will not say, ' the zeal of See also:God's See also:house has eaten him up ' ; but I am sure it has devoured some See also:part of his See also:good See also:manners and civility " (Dryden, Works, ed. See also:Scott, xi. 239).
(1708-1714). The latter work was attacked by Burnet and others, but the author showed himself as keen a controversialist as ever. Many attempts were made to shake his fidelity to the lost cause of the Stuarts, but he continued indomitable to the end. In 1712 See also:George See also:Hickes was the only survivor of the nonjuring bishops, and in the next See also:year Collier was consecrated. He had a See also:share in an See also:attempt made towards See also:union with the Greek 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. He had a long correspondence with the Eastern authorities, his last letters on the subject being written in 1725. Collier preferred the version of the Book of Common See also:Prayer issued in 1549, and regretted that certain practices and petitions there enjoined were omitted in later See also:editions. His first tract on the subject, Reasons for Restoring some Prayers (1717), was followed by others. In 1718 was published a new Communion Office taken partly from See also:Primitive Liturgies and partly from the first English Reformed Common Prayer Book, . . . which em-bodied the changes desired by Collier. The controversy that ensued made a split in the nonjuring communion. His last work was a volume of See also:Practical Discourses, published in 1725. He died on the 26th of See also:April 1726.
End of Article: COLLIER, JEREMY (1650-1726)
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