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See also:NEWTON, See also:JOHN (1725-1807) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:London on the 24th of See also:July 1725 (O.S.). His See also:father, who for a See also:long 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 was See also:master of a See also:ship in the Mediterranean See also:trade, became in 1748 See also:governor of See also:York Fort, See also:Hudson See also:Bay, where he died in 1751. The lad had little See also:education and served on his father's ship from 1737 to 1742; shortly afterwards he was impressed on See also:board a See also:man-of-See also:war, the " See also:Harwich," where hewas made a See also:midshipman. For an See also:attempt to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape while his ship See also:lay off See also:Plymouth he was degraded, and treated with so much severity that he gladly exchanged into an See also:African trader. He made many voyages as See also:mate and then as master on slave-trading See also:ships, devoting his leisure to the improvement of his education. The See also:state of his See also:health and perhaps a growing distaste for the slave trade led him to quit the See also:sea in 1755, when he was appointed See also:tide-surveyor at See also:Liverpool. He began to study See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew, and in 1758 applied to the See also:archbishop of York for ordination. This was refused him, but, having had the curacy of See also:Olney offered to him in See also:April 1764 he was ordained by the See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln. In See also:October 1767 See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cowper settled in the See also:parish. An intimate friendship sprang up between the two men, and they published together the Olney See also:Hymns (1779). In 1779 Newton See also:left Olney to become See also:rector of St See also:Mary Woolnoth, London, where he laboured with unceasing See also:diligence and See also:great popularity till his See also:death on the 31st of See also:December 1807.
Like Cowper, Newton held Calvinistic views, although his evangelical fervour allied him closely with the sentiments of See also:Wesley and the Methodists. His fame rests on certain of the Olney Hymns (e.g. " Glorious things of Thee are spoken," " How sweet the name of Jesus sounds," " One there is above all others,") remarkable for vigour, simplicity and directness of devotional utterance.
His See also:prose See also:works include an See also:Authentic Narrative of some Interesting and Remarkable Particulars in the See also:Life of John Newton (1764), a See also:volume of Sermons (1767), Omicron (a See also:series of letters on See also:religion, 1774), See also:Review of Ecclesiastical See also:History (1769) and Cardiphonia (1781). This last was a further selection of religious See also:correspondence, which did much to help the Evangelical revival. 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:Scott, William See also:Wilberforce, See also:Charles See also:Simeon, William See also:Jay and Hannah More all came under his See also:direct See also:influence. His Letters to a Wife (1793) and Letters to Rev. W. See also:Bull (See also:posthumous, 1847) illustrate the frankness with which he exposed his most intimate See also:personal experiences. A Life of Newton by See also:Richard See also:Cecil was prefixed to a collected edition. of his works (6 vols., 1808; vol. 1827). See also T. See also:Wright, The See also:Town of Cowper.
End of Article: NEWTON, JOHN (1725-1807)
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