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See also:HURD, See also:RICHARD (1720-1808) , See also:English divine and writer, See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, was See also:born at See also:Congreve, in the See also:parish of See also:Penkridge, See also:Staffordshire, where his See also:father was a See also:farmer, on the 13th of See also:January 1720. He was educated at the See also:grammar-school of Brewood and at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1739, and in 1742 he proceeded M.A. and became a See also:fellow of his college. In the same See also:year he was ordained See also:deacon, and given See also:charge of the parish of Reymerston, See also:Norfolk, but he returned to Cambridge See also:early in 1743. He was ordained See also:priest in 1744. In 1748 he published some Remarks on an Enquiry into the Rejection of See also:Christian Miracles by the Heathens (1746), by 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:Weston, a fellow of St See also:John's College, Cambridge. He prepared See also:editions, which won the praise of See also:Edward See also:Gibbon,' of the Ars poetica and Epistola ad Pisones (1749), and the Epistola ad Augustum (1751) of See also:Horace. A compliment in the See also:preface to the edition of 1749 was the starting-point of a lasting friendship with William See also:Warburton, through whose See also:influence he was appointed one of the preachers at See also:Whitehall in 1750. In 1765 he was appointed preacher at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and in 1767 he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Gloucester. In 1768 he proceeded D.D. at Cambridge, and delivered at Lincoln's Inn the first Warburton lectures, which were published later (1772) as An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies concerning the Christian 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 became bishop of See also:Lichfield and See also:Coventry in 1774, and two years later was selected to be See also:tutor to the See also:prince of See also:Wales and the See also:duke of See also:York. In 1781 he was translated to the see of Worcester. He lived chiefly at Hartlebury See also:Castle, where he built a See also:fine library, to which he transferred See also:Alexander See also:Pope's and Warburton's books, See also:purchased on the latter's See also:death. He was extremely popular at See also:court, and in 1783, on the death of See also:Arch-bishop See also:Cornwallis, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king pressed him to accept the primacy, but Hurd, who was known, says Madame d'Arblay, as " The Beauty of Holiness," declined it as a charge not suited to his See also:temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain. He died, unmarried, on the 28th of May 1808.
Hurd's Letters on See also:Chivalry and See also:Romance (1762) retain a certain See also:interest for their importance in the See also:history of the romantic See also:movement, which they did something to stimulate. They were written in continuation of a See also:dialogue on the See also:age of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth included in his Moral and See also:Political Dialogues (1759). Two later dialogues On the Uses of See also:Foreign Travel were printed in 1763. Hurd wrote two acrimonious defences of Warburton: On the Delicacy of Friendship (1755), in See also:answer to Dr J. See also:Jortin; and a See also:Letter (1'764) to Dr 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 See also:Leland, who had criticized Warburton's See also:Doctrine of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
Grace. He edited the See also:Works of William Warburton, the Select Works (1772) of See also:Abraham See also:Cowley, and See also:left materials for an edition (6 vols., 18.11) of See also:Addison. His own works appeared in a collected edition in 8 vols. in 1811.
" Examination of Dr Hurd's Commentary on Horace's Epistles " (Misc. Works, ed. John,' See also:Lord See also:Sheffield, 1837, pp. 403-427).
ingenuity, the result being such musical curiosities as the Geigen- See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone and See also:limestone, while the forests are either a tangled growth of u.erk or Geigen-Clavicymbel of Hans See also:Hayden of See also:Nuremberg
(c. 1600), a See also:harpsichord in which the strings, instead of being plucked by quills, were set in vibration by See also:friction of one of the little See also:steel wheels, covered with See also:parchment and well rosined, which were kept rotating by means of a large See also:wheel and a See also:series of cylinders worked by treadles. Other See also:instruments of similar type were the Bogenclavier invented by Joh. Hohlfeld of See also:Berlin in 1751 and the Bogenflugel by C. A. See also:Meyer of See also:Gorlitz in 1794. In See also:Adam See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker's See also:Celestina (1772) the friction was provided by a See also:running See also:band instead of a See also:bow. (K.
End of Article: HURD, RICHARD (1720-1808)
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