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See also:LANE, See also:EDWARD 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 (1801–1876) , See also:English Arabic See also:scholar, son of Dr See also:Theophilus Lane, See also:prebendary of See also:Hereford, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:September 18o1. He was educated at See also:Bath and Hereford See also:grammar See also:schools, where he showed marked mathematical ability, and was designed for See also:Cambridge and thechurch, but this purpose was abandoned, and 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 he studied the See also:art of See also:engraving. Failure of See also:health compelled him to throw aside the burin, and in 1825 he started for See also:Egypt, where he spent three years, twice ascended the See also:Nile, proceeding as far as the second See also:cataract, and composed a See also:complete description of Egypt, with a See also:portfolio of one See also:hundred and one drawings. This See also:work was never published, but the See also:account of the See also:modern Egyptians, which formed a See also:part of it, was accepted for See also:separate publication by the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. To perfect this work Lane again visited Egypt in 1833–1835, residing mainly in See also:Cairo, but retiring to See also:Luxor during the See also:plague of 1835. Lane took up his See also:residence in the See also:Mahommedan See also:quarter, and under the name of Mansur See also:Effendi lived the See also:life of an See also:Egyptian scholar. He was fortunate in the time when he took up his work, for Cairo had not then become a modern See also:city, and he was thus able to describe aspects of Arabian life that no longer exist there. Perfected by the additional observations collected during these years, the Modern Egyptians appeared in 1836, and at once took the See also:place which it has never lost as the best description of Eastern life and an Eastern See also:country ever written. It was followed from 1838 to 184o by a See also:translation of the Arabian Nights, with notes and illustrations, designed to make the See also:book a sort of See also:encyclopaedia of Eastern See also:manners. The translation itself is an admirable See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of scholarship, but is characterized by a somewhat See also:stilted mannerism, which is not equally appropriate to all parts of the See also:motley-coloured See also:original. The See also:character of some of the tales and the tedious repetitions of the same theme in the Arabic collection induced Lane to leave considerable parts of the work untranslated. The value of his version is increased by the exhaustive notes on Mahommedan life and customs. In 1840 Lane married a See also:Greek See also:lady. A useful See also:volume of Selections from the Kur-an was published in 1843, but before it passed through the See also:press Lane was again in Egypt, where he spent seven years (1842–1849) See also:collecting materials for a See also:great Arabic See also:lexicon, which the munificence of See also:Lord Prudhoe (afterwards See also:duke of See also:Northumberland) enabled him to undertake. The most important of the materials amassed during this sojourn (in which he was accompanied by his wife and by his See also:sister, Mrs See also:Poole, authoress of the Englishwoman in Egypt, with her two sons, afterwards well known in Eastern letters) was a copy in 24 thick See also:quarto volumes of See also:Sheikh Murtada's great lexicon, the Tdj el `See also:Ares, which, though itself a compilation, is so extensive and exact that it formed the See also:main basis of Lane's subsequent work. The author, who lived in Egypt in the 18th See also:century, used more than a hundred See also:sources, interweaving what he learned from them with the al-Qamus of Fairuzabadi in the See also:form of a commentary. By far the larger part of this commentary was derived from the Lisan el `Arab of See also:Ibn Mokarram, a work of the 13th century, which Lane was also able to use while in Cairo.
Returning to See also:England in 1849, Lane devoted the remaining twenty-seven years of his life to digesting and translating his Arabic material in the form of a great See also:thesaurus of the lexicographical knowledge of the See also:Arabs. In spite of weak health he continued this arduous task with unflagging See also:diligence till a few days before his See also:death at See also:Worthing on the loth of See also:August 1876. Five parts appeared during his lifetime (1863–1874), and three See also:posthumous parts were afterwards edited from his papers by S. Lane-Poole. Even in its imperfect See also:state the Lexicon is an enduring See also:monument, the completeness and finished scholarship with which it is executed making each See also:article an exhaustive monograph. Two essays, the one on Arabic lexicography and the other on Arabic See also:pronunciation, contributed to the See also:magazine of the See also:German See also:Oriental Society, complete the See also:record of Lane's publications. His scholarship was recognized by many learned See also:European See also:societies. He was a member of the German Oriental Society, a correspondent of the See also:French See also:Institute, &c. In 1863 he was awarded a small See also:civil See also:list See also:pension, which was after his death continued to his widow. Lane was not an original mind; his See also:powers were those of observation, See also:industry and See also:sound See also:judgment. His See also:personal character was elevated and pure, his strong sense of religious and moral See also:duty being of the type that
characterized the best circles of English evangelicalism in the See also:early part of the 19th century.
A Memoir, by his See also:grand-See also:nephew, S. Lane-Poole, was prefixed to part vi. of the Lexicon. It was published separately in 1897. LANE, See also:GEORGE See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN (1823–1897), See also:American scholar, was born at See also:Charlestown, See also:Massachusetts, on the 24th of See also:December 1823. He graduated in 1846 at Harvard, and in 1847–1851 studied at the See also:universities of See also:Berlin, See also:Bonn, See also:Heidelberg and See also:Gottingen. In 1851 he received his See also:doctor's degree at Gottingen for his dissertation Smyrnaeorum Res Gestae et Antiquitates, and on his return to See also:America he was appointed University See also:Professor of Latin in Harvard See also:College. From 1869 until 1894, when he resigned and became professor See also:emeritus, he was See also:Pope Professor of Latin in the same institution. His Latin Pronunciation, which led to the rejection of the English method of Latin pronunciation in the See also:United States, was published in 1871. He died on the 3oth of See also:June 1897. His Latin Grammar, completed and published by Professor M. H. See also:Morgan in the following See also:year, is of high value. Lane's assistance in the preparation of Harper's Latin lexicons was also invaluable. English See also:light See also:verse he wrote with See also:humour and fluency, and his See also:song See also:Jonah and the Ballad of the Lone Fishball were famous.
End of Article: LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
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