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See also:JORTIN, See also:JOHN (1698—1770) , See also:English theologian, the son of a See also:Protestant refugee from See also:Brittany, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd of See also:October 1698. He went to See also:Charterhouse School, and in 1715 became a pensioner of Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge; where his reputation as a See also:Greek See also:scholar led to his being selected to translate certain passages from See also:Eustathius for the notes to See also:Pope's See also:Homer. In 722 he published a small See also:volume of Latin See also:verse entitled Lusus poetici. Having taken orders in 1724, he was in 1726 presented by his college to the vicarage of Swavesey in See also:Cambridgeshire, which he resigned in 1730 to become preacher at a See also:chapel-of-ease in New See also:Street, London. In 1731, along with some See also:friends, he began a publication entitled See also:Miscellaneous Observations on Authors See also:Ancient and See also:Modern, which appeared at intervals during two years. He was See also:Boyle lecturer in 1749. Shortly after becoming See also:chaplain to the See also:bishop of London in 1762 he was appointed to a prebendal See also:- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
stall of St See also:Paul's and to the vicarage of See also:Kensington, and in 1764 he was made See also:archdeacon of London. He died at Kensington on the 5th of See also:September 1770.
The See also:principal See also:works of Jortin are: Discussions Concerning the Truth of the See also:Christian See also:Religion (1746); Remarks on Ecclesiastical See also:History (3 vols. 1751—2—4) ; See also:Life of See also:Erasmus (2 vols. 1750, 1760) founded on the Life by See also:Jean Le Clerc; and Tracts Philological See also:Critical and Miscellaneous (1790). A collection of his Various Works appeared in 1805—1810. All his writings display wide learning and acuteness. He writes on theological subjects with the detachment of a thoughtful layman, and is witty without being flippant. See John Disney's Life of Jortin (1792).
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