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See also:JENYNS, SOAME (1704-1787) , See also:English author, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:January 1704, and was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. In 1742 he was chosen M.P. for See also:Cambridgeshire, in which his See also:property See also:lay, and he afterwards sat for the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Dunwich and the See also:town of Cambridge. From 1755 to 1780 he was one of the commissioners of the See also:board of See also:trade. He died on the 18th of See also:December 1787.
For the measure of See also:literary repute which he enjoyed during his See also:life Jenyns was indebted as much to his See also:wealth and social See also:standing as to his accomplishments and talents, though both were considerable. His poetical See also:works, the See also:Art of Dancing (1727) and Miscellanies (1770), contain many passages graceful and lively though occasionally verging on See also:licence. The first of his See also:prose works was his See also:Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1756). This See also:essay was severely criticized on its See also:appearance, especially by See also:Samuel See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson in the Literary See also:Magazine. John-son, in a slashing See also:review—the best See also:paper of the See also:kind he ever wrote—condemned the See also:book as a slight and shallow See also:attempt to solve one of the most difficult of moral problems. Jenyns, a See also:gentle and amiable See also:man in the See also:main, was extremely irritated by his failure. He put forth a second edition of his See also:work, prefaced by a vindication, and tried to take vengeance on Johnson after his See also:death by a sarcastic See also:epitaph.' In 1776 Jenyns published his View of the See also:Internal See also:Evidence of the See also:Christian See also:Religion. Though at one See also:period of his life he had affected a kind of deistic See also:scepticism, he had now returned to orthodoxy, and there seems no See also:reason to doubt his sincerity, questioned at the 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 defending See also:Christianity on the ground of its See also:total variance with the principles of human reason. The work was deservedly praised in its See also:day for its literary merits, but is so plainly the See also:production of an See also:amateur in See also:theology that as a scientific See also:treatise it is valueless.
A collected edition of the works of Jenyns appeared in 1790, with a See also:biography by See also:Charles Nalson See also:Cole. There are several references to him in See also:Boswell's Johnson.
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