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See also:MACPHERSON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1736–1796) , Scottish " translator " of the Ossianic poems, was See also:born at See also:Ruthven in the See also:parish of See also:Kingussie, See also:Inverness, on the 27th of See also:October 1736. He was sent in 1753 to 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's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, removing two years later to Marischal College. He also studied at See also:Edinburgh, but took no degree. He is said to have written over 4000 lines of See also:verse while a student, but though some of this was published, notably The Highlander (1758), he afterwards tried to suppress it. On leaving college he taught in the school of his native See also:place. At See also:Moffat he met See also:John See also:Home, the author of See also:Douglas, for whom he recited some Gaelic verses from memory. He also showed him See also:MSS. of Gaelic See also:poetry, supposed to have been picked up in the See also:Highlands, and, encouraged by Home and others, he produced a number of pieces translated from the Gaelic, which he was induced to publish at Edinburgh in 1760 as Fragments of See also:Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of See also:Scotland. Dr See also:Hugh See also:Blair, who was a See also:firm believer in the authenticity of the poems, got up a subscription to allow Macpherson to pursue his Gaelic researches. In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness, the islands of See also:Skye, See also:North and See also:South See also:Uist and Benbecula. He obtained MSS. which he translated with the assistance of See also:Captain See also:Morrison and the Rev. A. Gallie. Later in the See also:year he made an expedition to See also:Mull, when he obtained other MSS. In 1761 he announced the See also:discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal, and in See also:December he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by See also:Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic See also:Language, written in the musical measured See also:prose of which he had made use in his earlier See also:volume. Temora followed in 1763, and a collected edition; The See also:Works of Ossian, in 1765.
The genuineness of these so-called See also:translations from the works of a 3rd-See also:century See also:bard was immediately challenged in See also:England, and Dr 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, after some See also:local investigation, asserted (See also:Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1775) that Macpherson had only found fragments of ancient poems and stories, which he had See also:woven into a See also:romance of his own See also:composition. Macpherson is said to have sent Johnson a See also:challenge, to Which Johnson replied that he was not to be deterred from detecting what he thought a cheat by the menaces of a See also:ruffian. Macpherson never produced his originals, which he refused to publish on the ground of the ex-• pense. In 1764 he was made secretary to See also:General See also:Johnstone at See also:Pensacola, See also:West See also:Florida, and when he returned, two years later, to England, after a See also:quarrel with Johnstone, he was allowed to retain his See also:salary as a See also:pension. He occupied himself with See also:writing several See also:historical works, the most important of which was See also:Original Papers, containing the See also:Secret See also:History of See also:Great See also:Britain from the Restoration to the See also:Accession of the See also:House of See also:Hanover; to which are prefixed Extracts from the See also:Life of James II., as written by himself (1775). He enjoyed a salary for defending the policy of See also:Lord North's See also:government, and held the lucrative See also:post of See also:London See also:agent to Mahommed See also:Ali, See also:nabob of See also:Arcot. He entered See also:parliament in 178o, and continued to sit until his See also:death. In his later years he bought an See also:estate, to which he gave the name of Belville, in his native See also:county of Inverness, where he died on the 17th of See also:February 1796.
After Macpherson's death, See also:Malcolm See also:Laing, in an appendix to his History of Scotland (1800), propounded the extreme view that
See also:industry; manufactures include casks, mats, rope and utensils for the See also:wine-See also:trade. The See also:town has a large trade in wine of the See also:district, known as See also:Macon. It is a railway centre of considerable importance, being the point at which the See also:line from See also:Paris to See also:Marseilles is joined by that from Mont Cenis and See also:Geneva, as well as by a See also:branch from See also:Moulins.
Macon (Matisco).was an important town of the See also:Aedui, but under the See also:Romans it was supplanted by See also:Autun and See also:Lyons. It suffered a See also:succession of disasters at the hands of the Gefmans, Burgundians, See also:Vandals, See also:Huns, Hungarians and even of the Carolingian See also:kings. In the feudal See also:period it was an important countship which in 1228 was sold to the king of See also:France, but more than once afterwards passed into the See also:possession of the See also:dukes of See also:Burgundy, until the ownership of the See also:French See also:crown was established in 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 of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI. In the 16th century Macon became a strong-hold of the See also:Huguenots, but afterwards See also:fell into the hands of the See also:League, and did not yield to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. until 1594. The bishopric, created by King See also:Childebert, was suppressed in 1790.
End of Article: MACPHERSON, JAMES (1736–1796)
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