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See also:MASSON, See also:DAVID (1822–1907) , Scottish See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the and of See also:December 1822, and educated at the See also:grammar school there and at Marischal See also:College. Intending to enter the 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, he proceeded to See also:Edinburgh University, where he studied See also:theology under Dr See also:Chalmers, whose friendship he enjoyed until the divine's See also:death in 1847. However, abandoning his project of the See also:ministry, he returned to his native See also:city to undertake the editorship of the Banner, a weekly See also:paper devoted to the advocacy of See also:Free See also:Kirk principles. After two years he resigned this See also:post and went back to the See also:capital, See also:bent upon pursuing a purely See also:literary career. There he wrote a See also:great See also:deal, contributing to See also:Fraser's See also:Magazine, See also:Dublin University Magazine (in which appeared his essays on See also:Chatterton) and other See also:periodicals. In 1847 he went to See also:London, where he found wider See also:- SCOPE (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
scope for his See also:energy and knowledge. He was secretary (1851—1852) of the " Society of the See also:Friends of See also:Italy." In a famous interview with Mrs See also:Browning at See also:Florence he contested her admiration for See also:Napoleon III. He had known De Quincey, whose See also:biography he contributed in 1878 to the " See also:English Men of Letters " See also:series, and he was an enthusiastic friend and admirer of See also:Carlyle. In 1852 he was appointed See also:professor of English literature at University College, London, in See also:succession to A. H. See also:Clough, and from 1858 to 1865 he edited the newly established See also:Macmillan's Magazine. In 1865 he was selectedfor the See also:chair of See also:rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh, and during the See also:early years of his professorship actively promoted the See also:movement for the university See also:education of See also:women. In 1879 he became editor of the See also:Register of the Scottish Privy See also:Council, and in 1893 was appointed Historiographer Royal for See also:Scotland. Two years later he resigned his professorship. His magnum See also:opus in his See also:Life of See also:Milton in Connexion with the See also:History of His Own 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 six volumes, the first of which appeared in 1858 and the last in 1880. He also edited the library edition of Milton's Poetical See also:Works (3 vols., 1874), and De Quincey's Collected Works (14 vols., 1889–189o). Among his other publications are Essays, See also:Biographical and See also:Critical (1856, reprinted with additions, 3 vols., 1874), See also:British Novelists and their Styles (1859), See also:Drummond of Hawthornden (1873), Chatterton (1873) and Edinburgh Sketches (1892). He died on the 6th of See also:October 1907. A bust of Masson was presented to the See also:senate of the university of Edinburgh in 1897. Professor Masson had married Rosaline See also:Orme. His son Orme Masson became professor of See also:chemistry in the university of See also:Melbourne, and his daughter Rosaline is known as a writer and novelist.
End of Article: MASSON, DAVID (1822–1907)
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