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See also:DAY, 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 (1748-1789) , See also:British author, was See also:born in See also:London on the and of See also:June 1748. He is famous as the writer of See also:Sandford and Merton (1783-1789), a See also:book for the See also:young, which, though quaintly didactic and often ridiculous, has had consider-able educational value as inculcating manliness and See also:independence. Day was educated at the See also:Charterhouse 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, and became a See also:great admirer of J. J. See also:Rousseau and his See also:doctrine of the ideal See also:state of nature. Having See also:independent means he devoted himself to a See also:life of study and philanthropy. His views on See also:marriage were typical of the See also:man. He brought up two foundlings, one of whom he hoped eventually to marry. They were educated on the severest principles, but neither acquired the_high quality of stoicism which he had looked for. After several proposals of marriage to other ladies had been rejected, he married an heiress who agreed with his ascetic See also:programme of life. He finally settled at Ottershaw in See also:Surrey and took to farming on philanthropic principles. He had many curious and impracticable theories, among them one that all animals could be managed by kindness, and while See also:riding an unbroken See also:colt he was thrown near Wargrave and killed on the 28th of See also:September 1789. His poem The Dying See also:Negro, published in 1773, struck the keynote of the See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:movement. It is also obvious from his other See also:works, such as The Devoted Legions (1776) and The Desolation of See also:America (1777), that he strongly sympathized with the Americans during their See also:War of Independence.
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