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See also:MOORE, See also:JOHN (1729-1802) , Scottish physician and writer, was See also:born at See also:Stirling in 1729, the son of a clergyman. After taking his medical degree at See also:Glasgow, he served with the See also:army in See also:Flanders, then proceeded to See also:London to continue his studies, and eventually to See also:Paris, where he was attached to the See also:household of the See also:British See also:ambassador. His novel Zeluco (1789), a See also:close See also:analysis of the motives of a selfish profligate, produced a See also:great impression at 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, and indirectly, through the See also:poetry of See also:Byron, has See also:left an abiding See also:mark on literature. Byron said that he intended Childe Harold to be " a poetical Zeluco," and the most striking features of the portrait were undoubtedly taken from that See also:character. Moore's other See also:works have a less marked individuality, but his sketches of society and See also:manners in See also:France, See also:Germany, See also:Switzerland, See also:Italy and See also:England furnish valuable materials for the social historian. In 1792 he accompanied See also:Lord See also:Lauderdale to Paris, and witnessed some of the See also:principal scenes of the Revolution. His See also:Journal during a See also:Residence in France (1793) is the careful See also:record of an See also:eye-See also:witness, and is frequently referred to by See also:Carlyle. He died in London on the 21st of See also:January 1802, leaving five sons, the eldest of whom was See also:General See also:Sir John Moore. 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 Moore (1763-1834), who wrote Sir John's See also:Life, was also the author of some important medical works, and Sir See also:Graham Moore (1764-1843), saw much active See also:naval service and became an See also:admiral.
End of Article: MOORE, JOHN (1729-1802)
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