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See also:GILLIES, See also:JOHN (1747-1836) , Scottish historian and classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Brechin, in See also:Forfarshire, on the 18th of See also:January 1747. He was educated at See also:Glasgow University, where, at the See also:age of twenty, 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 substitute for the See also:professor of See also:Greek. In 1784 he completed his See also:History of See also:Ancient See also:Greece, its Colonies and Conquests (published 1786). This See also:work, valuable at a time when the study of Greek history was in its See also:infancy, and translated into See also:French and See also:German, was written from a strong Whig See also:bias, and is now entirely superseded (see GREECE: Ancient History," Authorities "). On the See also:death of 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 See also:Robertson (1721-1793), Gillies was appointed historiographer-royal for See also:Scotland. In his old age he retired to Clapham, where he died on the 15th of See also:February 1836.
Of his other See also:works, none of which are much read, the See also:principal are: View of the Reign of See also:Frederic H. of See also:Prussia, with a Parallel between that See also:Prince and See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip H. of Macedon (1789), rather a See also:panegyric than a See also:critical history; See also:translations of See also:Aristotle's See also:Rhetoric (1823) and See also:Ethics and Politics (1786—1797); of the Orations of See also:Lysias and Isocrates (1778) ; and History of the See also:World from See also:Alexander to See also:Augustus (1807), which, although deficient in See also:style, was commended for its learning and See also:research.
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