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See also:POLLOK, See also:ROBERT (1798-1827) , Scottish poet, son of a small See also:farmer, was See also:born at See also:North Moorhouse, See also:Renfrewshire, on the , 9th of See also:October 1798. He was trained as a See also:cabinet-maker and after-wards worked on his See also:father's See also:farm, but, having prepared himself for the university, he took his degree at See also:Glasgow, and studied for the See also:ministry of the See also:United See also:Secession 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 published Tales of the See also:Covenanters while he was a divinity student, and planned and completed a strongly Calvinistic poem on the spiritual See also:life and destiny of See also:man. This was the Course of 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 (1827), which passed through many See also:editions and became a favourite in serious households in See also:Scotland. It was written in See also:blank See also:verse, in ten books, in the poetic diction of the 18th See also:century, but with abundance of See also:enthusiasm, impassioned See also:elevation of feeling and copious force of words and images. The poem at once became popular, but within six months of its publication, on the 18th of See also:September 1827, its author died of See also:consumption..
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