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GRETRY , ANDR$ ERNEST MODESTE (1741–1813), See also:French composer, was See also:born at See also:Liege on the 8th of See also:February 1741, his See also:father being a poor musician. He was a See also:choir boy at 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 of St See also:Denis. In 1753 he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Leclerc and later of Renekin and See also:Moreau. But of greater importance was the See also:practical tuition he received by attending the performance of an See also:Italian See also:opera See also:company. Here he heard the operas of See also:Galuppi, See also:Pergolesi and other masters; and the See also:desire of completing his own studies in See also:Italy was the immediate result. To find the necessary means he composed in 1759 a See also:mass which he dedicated to the canons of the Liege See also:cathedral, and it was at the cost of See also:Canon Hurley that he went to Italy in the See also:March of 1759. In See also:Rome he went to the See also:College de Liege. Here Gretry resided for five years, studiously employed in completing his musical See also:education under Casali. His proficiency in See also:harmony and See also:counter-point was, however, according to his own See also:confession, at all times very moderate. His first See also:great success was achieved by La Vendemmiatrice, an Italian intermezzo or operetta, composed for the Aliberti See also:theatre in Rome and received with universal
statesman and jurist, was born near Lanesville, See also:Harrison See also:county, See also:Indiana, on the 17th of March 1832. He spent two years in an See also:academy at See also:Corydon, Indiana, and one See also:year at the Indiana See also:State University at See also:Bloomington, then studied See also:law, and in 1854 was admitted to the See also:bar. He was active as a See also:campaign See also:speaker for the Republican See also:ticket in 1856, and in 186o was elected to the State See also:House of Representatives as a Republican in a strong Democratic See also:district. In the House, as chairman of the See also:committee on military affairs, he did much to prepare the Indiana troops for service in the Federal See also:army; in 1861 he became See also:colonel of the 53rd Indiana Volunteer See also:Infantry, and subsequently took See also:part in See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's See also:Tennessee campaign of 1862, and in the operations against See also:Corinth and See also:Vicksburg, where he commanded a See also:brigade. In See also:August 1863 he was appointed brigadier-See also:general of See also:volunteers, and was placed in command of the Federal forces at See also:Natchez. In 1864 he commanded a See also:division of the 17th Army See also:Corps in See also:Sherman's See also:Atlanta campaign, and before Atlanta, on the loth of See also:July, he received a See also:wound which forced him to retire from active service, and See also:left him lame for See also:life. In 1865 he was brevetted See also:major-general of volunteers. After the See also:war he practised law at New See also:Albany, Indiana, and in 1869 was appointed by See also:President Grant See also:United States District See also:Judge for Indiana. In See also:April 1883 he succeeded See also:Timothy O. See also:Howe. (1816–1883) as postmaster-general in President See also:Arthur's See also:cabinet, taking an active part in the suppression of the See also:Louisiana Lottery, and in See also:September 1884 succeeded See also:Charles J. Folger as secretary of the See also:treasury. In the following See also:month he resigned to accept an See also:appointment as United States Judge for the Seventh Judicial See also:Circuit., See also:Gresham was a See also:candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. in 1884 and 1888, in the latter year leading for some 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 the balloting. Gradually, however, he See also:grew out of sympathy with the Republican leaders and policy, and in 1892 advocated the See also:election of the Democratic candidate, Grover See also:Cleveland, for the See also:presidency. From the 7th of March 1893 until his See also:death at See also:Washington on the 28th of May 1895, he was secretary of state in President Cleveland's cabinet.
GRESHAM'S LAW, in See also:economics, the name suggested in 18J7 by H. D. See also:Macleod for the principle of currency which may be briefly summarized—" See also:bad See also:money drives out See also:good." Macleod gave it this name, which has been universally adopted, under the impression that the principle was first explained by See also:Sir 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 Gresham in 1558. In reality it had been well set forth by earlier economic writers, notably See also:Oresme and See also:Copernicus. Macleod states the law in these terms: the worst See also:form of currency in circulation regulates the value of the whole currency and drives all other forms of currency out of circulation. Gresham's law applies where there is under-See also:weight or debased See also:coin in circulation with full-weight coin of the same See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal; where there are two metals in circulation, and one is undervalued as compared with the other, and where inconvertible See also:paper money is put into circulation See also:side by side with a metallic currency. See further
See also:BIMETALLISM; MONEY.
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