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See also:GREG, 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 RATHBONE (1809–1881) , See also:English essayist, the son of a See also:merchant, was See also:born at See also:Manchester in 1809. He was educated at the university of See also:Edinburgh and for a 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 managed a See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill of his See also:father's at See also:Bury, and in 1832 began business on his own See also:account. He entered with ardour into the struggle for See also:free See also:trade, and obtained in 1842 the See also:prize offered by the See also:Anti-See also:Corn See also:Law See also:League for the best See also:essay on " See also:Agriculture and the Corn See also:Laws." He was too much occupied with See also:political, economical and theological speculations to give undivided See also:attention to his business, which he gave up in 185o to devote himself to See also:writing. His Creed of Christendom was published in 1851, and in 1852 he contributed no less than twelve articles to four leading quarterlies. Disraeli praised him; See also:Sir See also:George Cornewall See also:Lewis bestowed a Commissionership of Customs upon him in 1856; and in 1864 he was made See also:Comptroller of the See also:Stationery 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. Besides contributions to See also:periodicals he produced several volumes of essays on political and social See also:philosophy. The See also:general spirit of these is indicated by the titles of two of the best known, The Enigmas of See also:Life (1872) and Rocks Ahead (1874). They represent a reaction from the high hopes of the author's youth, when See also:wise legislation was assumed to be a remedy for every public See also:ill. Greg was a See also:man of deep moral earnestness of See also:character and was interested in many philanthropic See also:works. He died at See also:Wimbledon on the i5ih of See also:November 1881. His See also:brother, See also:ROBERT See also:HYDE GREG (1795-1875), was an economist and See also:antiquary of some distinction. Another brother, See also:SAMUEL, GREG (1804–1876), became well known in See also:Lancashire by his philanthropic efforts on behalf of the working-See also:people. See also:PERCY GREG (1836–1889), son of William Rathbone Greg, also wrote, like his father, on politics, but his views were violently reactionary, His See also:History of the See also:United States to the Reconstruction of the See also:Union (1887) is a polemic rather than a history.
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