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See also:MOTIEUX, See also:PIERRE See also:ANTOINE (1663-1718) , See also:English translator and dramatist, of See also:French parentage, was See also:born at See also:Rouen on the 25th of See also:February 1663. After the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes he settled in See also:London with his kinsman and godfather, See also:Paul Dominique Motteux. He acted as an auctioneer of pictures, and in 1706 he had a See also:shop in Leadenhall See also:Street for the See also:sale of See also:lace, stuffs, See also:Chinese and See also:Japanese commodities, duly advertised in the Spectator by his friend See also:Richard See also:Steele. He had not been six years in See also:England when he obtained sufficient mastery of the See also:language to edit the monthly The See also:Gentleman's See also:Journal, which contained verses by himself and by the See also:chief wits of the See also:day. In 1693 he edited the third See also:book, hitherto unpublished, of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Urquhart's See also:translation of See also:Rabelais, and in the next See also:year printed the first and second books of Urquhart's translation. In 1694 he completed Urquhart's See also:work by a translation of the See also:fourth and fifth books, which, although not to be compared with the racy, See also:nervous See also:writing of Urquhart, shows a perfect mastery of colloquial English and an intimate and adequate sense of Rabelais's meaning. The See also:complete translation appeared in five volumes in 1693-1694, and was reprinted as The Whole See also:Works of See also:Francis Rabelais, M.D. (2 vols., 1708), described as the work of " Sir T. Urchard, See also:Knight, Mr Motteux and others." His first See also:play, a See also:comedy in five acts entitled Love's Jest, was produced at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn See also:Fields in 1696, and next year followed The Loves of See also:Mars and See also:Venus. He wrote other works for the See also:stage of no See also:great consequence. More important than his dramatic work is his See also:History of the Renowned See also:Don Quixote de la See also:Mancha (4 vols., 1701; 2nd ed., 1712), " translated from the See also:original by many hands and published by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Motteux," one of the most masterly and spirited See also:translations in English. His later years appear to have been given to the shop in Leadenhall Street. He was murdered on the 18th of February 1718 at a See also:house of See also:ill fame in See also:Star See also:Court, near St See also:Clement's 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, London, under circumstances which have never come to See also:light. The manner of his See also:death was no criterion of his See also:life, which appears to have been sober and decent.
An excellent life by See also:Henri See also:van Laun is prefixed to the 1880 reprint (4 vols.) of J. G. See also:Lockhart's edition of Motteux's Don Quixote. See also a prefatory See also:note by See also:Charles Whibley in vol. iii. of Sir T. Urquhart's Rabelais (Tudor Translations, 1900), reprinted from a rare 1693-1694 edition.
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