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DUBOS , See also:JEAN-See also:BAPTISTE (1670-1742), See also:French author, was See also:born at See also:Beauvais in See also:December 167o. After studying for 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, he renounced See also:theology for the study of public See also:law and politics. He was employed by M. de Torcy, See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs, and by the See also:regent and See also:Cardinal See also:Dubois in several See also:secret See also:missions, in which he acquitted himself with See also:great success. He was rewarded with a See also:pension and several• benefices. Having obtained these, he retired from See also:political See also:life, and devoted himself to See also:history and literature. He gained such distinction as an author that in 1720 he was elected a member of the French See also:Academy, of which, in 1723, he was appointed perpetual secretary in the See also:room of M. See also:Dacier. He died at See also:Paris on the 23rd of See also:March 1742, repeating as he expired the well-known remark of an See also:ancient, " See also:Death is a law, not a See also:punishment." His first See also:work was L'Histoire See also:des quatre Gordiens prouvee et illustree See also:par des medailles (Paris, 1695, 12mo), which, in spite of its ingenuity, did not succeed in altering the See also:common See also:opinion, which only admits three emperors of this name. About the commencement of the See also:war of 1701, being charged with different negotiations both in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and in See also:England, with the See also:design to. engage these See also:powers if possible to adopt a pacific See also:line of policy, he, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to promote the See also:objects of his See also:mission, published a work entitled See also:Les Interests de l'Angleterre mal entendus daps la guerre presente (See also:Amsterdam, 1703, 12m0). But as this work contained indiscreet disclosures, of which the enemy took See also:advantage, and predictions which were not fulfilled, a wag took occasion to remark that the See also:title ought to be read thus: Les Interests de l'Angleterre mal entendus par l''See also:abbe Dubos. It is remarkable as containing a distinct prophecy of the revolt of the See also:American colonies from Great See also:Britain. His next work was L'Histoire de la Ligue de Cambray (Paris, 1709, 1728 and 1785, 2 vols. 12mo), a full, clear and interesting history, which obtained the See also:commendation of See also:Voltaire. In 1734 he published his Histoire critique de l'etablissement de la monarchie franQaise clans les Gaules (3 vols. 4to)—a work the See also:object of which was to prove that the See also:Franks had entered See also:Gaul; not as conquerors, but at the See also:request of the nation, which, according to him, had called them in to govern it. But this See also:system, though unfolded with a degree of skill and ability which at first procured it many zealous partisans, was victoriously refuted by See also:Montesquieu at the end of the thirtieth See also:book of the Esprit des lois. His Rejiexions critiques sur la poesie et sur la peinture, published for the first 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 in 1719 (2 vols. 12mo), but often reprinted in three volumes, constitute one of the See also:works in which the theory of the arts is explained with the utmost sagacity and discrimination. Like his history of the See also:League of Cambray, it was highly praised by Voltaire. The work was rendered more remarkable by the fact that its author had no See also:practical acquaintance with any one of the arts whose principles he discussed. Besides the works above enumerated, a manifesto of See also:Maximilian, elector of See also:Bavaria, against the See also:emperor See also:Leopold, relative to the See also:succession in See also:Spain, has been
attributed to Dubos, chiefly, it appears, from the excellence of the See also:style.
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