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See also:PERCIVAL, 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 See also:GATES 0795-1856), See also:American poet, philologist and geologist, was See also:born in See also:Kensington See also:parish, See also:Berlin, See also:Connecticut, on the 15th of See also:September 1795. He graduatedat Yale in 1815, and in 182o took the degree of M.D., and started practice in Berlin. He contributed See also:verse to the See also:Microscope, a semi-weekly See also:paper, founded at New Haven in 1820. In this first appeared his best-known poem," " The See also:Suicide," which reflects his chronic See also:melancholy, due doubtless to See also:ill-See also:health; it was begun in 1816 and finished in 1820, after he had actually made two attempts on his own See also:life. In 1823 Percival became an editor of the Connecticut See also:Herald at New Haven; and in 1824 he was in turn an assistant-surgeon and lecturer on See also:chemistry at See also:West Point, and an inspector of recruits at the See also:Charlestown (See also:Mass.) See also:Navy Yard. He prepared (1826-1831) an See also:English edition of Malte-Brun's See also:Geography (published 1834); and in 1827-1829 read the See also:manuscripts and See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof-sheets of See also:Webster's See also:Dictionary, giving See also:special See also:attention to scientific words. In 1835-1840, with See also:Professor See also:Charles U. Shepard (1804-1886), he made a See also:geological survey of Connecticut; his See also:Report (1842) showed See also:great learning and much patient See also:research. In 1854 he became See also:state geologist of See also:Wisconsin, and in 1855 published one See also:volume of his Report; the second he had nearly completed 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 of his See also:death, on the 22nd of May 1856, at See also:Hazel See also:Green, Wisconsin.
See his Poetical See also:Works (2 vols., See also:Boston, 1839), with a See also:biographical See also:sketch by L. W. See also:Fitch; and See also:Julius H. See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, Life and Letters of James Gates Percival (Boston, 1866).
End of Article: PERCIVAL, JAMES GATES
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