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See also:MACDONALD, See also:GEORGE (1824-1905) , Scottish novelist and poet, was See also:born at See also:Huntly, See also:Aberdeenshire. His See also:father, a See also:farmer, was one of the Macdonalds of See also:Glencoe, and a See also:direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the See also:massacre. Macdonald's youth was passed in his native See also:town, under the immediate See also:influence of the Congregational 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, and in' an See also:atmosphere strongly impregnated with Calvinism. He took his degree at See also:Aberdeen University, and migrated thence to See also:London, studying at Highbury See also:College for the Congregational See also:ministry. In 185o he was appointed pastor of Trinity Congregational Church, See also:Arundel, and, after resigning, his cure there, was engaged in ministerial See also:work in See also:Manchester. His See also:health, however, was unequal to the See also:strain, and after a See also:short sojourn in See also:Algiers he settled in London and adopted the profession of literature.. In 1856 he published his first See also:book, Within and Without, a dramatic poem; following it in 1857 with a See also:volume of Poems, and in 1858 by the delightful " faerie See also:romance " Phantastes. His first conspicuous success was achieved in 1862 with See also:David Elginbrod, the forerunner of a number of popular novels, which include Alec See also:Forbes of Howglen (1865), See also:Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1866), See also:Robert See also:Falconer (1868), See also:Malcolm (1875), The See also:Marquis of Lossie (1877), and Donal See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant (1883). He was for a 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 editor of See also:Good Words for the See also:Young, and lectured successfully in See also:America in 1872-1873. He wrote admirable stories for the young, and published some volumes of sermons. In 1877 he was given a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension. He died on the 18th of See also:September 1905.
Both as preacher and as lecturer on See also:literary topics George Macdonald's sincerity and moral See also:enthusiasm exercised See also:great
influence upon thoughtful minds. His See also:verse is homely and direct, and marked by religious fervour and simplicity. As. a portrayer of Scottish See also:peasant-See also:life in fiction he was the precursor of a large school, which has benefited by his example, and surpassed its See also:original See also:leader in popularity. The religious See also:tone of his novels is relieved by tolerance and a broad spirit of See also:humour, and the simpler emotions of humble life are sympathetically treated.
End of Article: MACDONALD, GEORGE (1824-1905)
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