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See also:HARRIS, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1709-1780) , See also:English grammarian, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury on the loth of See also:July 1709. He was educated at the See also:grammar school in the See also:Close at Salisbury, and at Wadham 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. On leaving the university he was entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn as a student of See also:law, though not intended for the See also:bar. The See also:death of his See also:father in 1733 placed him in See also:possession of an See also:independent See also:fortune and of the See also:house in Salisbury Close. He became a See also:county See also:magistrate, and represented See also:Christchurch in See also:parliament from 1761 till his death, and was See also:comptroller to the See also:queen from 1774 to 1780. He held 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 under See also:Lord See also:Grenville, retiring with him in 1765. The decided See also:bent of his mind had always been towards the See also:Greek and Latin See also:classics; and to the study of these, especially of See also:Aristotle, he applied himself with unremitting assiduity during a See also:period of fourteen or fifteen
years. He published in 1744 three See also:treatises—on See also:art; on See also:music, See also:painting and See also:poetry; and on happiness. In 1751 appeared the See also:work by which he became best known, See also:Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar. He also published Philosophical Arrangements and Philosophical Inquiries. Harris was a See also:great See also:lover of music, and adapted the words for a selection from See also:Italian and See also:German composers, published by the See also:cathedral organist, James Corfe. He died on the 22nd of See also:December 1780.
His See also:works were collected and published in 18o1, by his son, the first See also:earl of See also:Malmesbury, who prefixed a brief See also:biography.
End of Article: HARRIS, JAMES (1709-1780)
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