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See also:SANDYS, See also:GEORGE (1578-1644) , See also:English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of See also:Edwin Sandys, See also:archbishop of See also:York, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:March 1578. He studied at St See also:Mary See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, but took no degree. On his travels, which began in 16ro, he first visited See also:France; from See also:North See also:Italy he passed by way of See also:Venice to See also:Constantinople, and thence to See also:Egypt, Mt. See also:Sinai, See also:Palestine, See also:Cyprus, See also:Sicily, See also:Naples and See also:Rome. His narrative, dedicated, like all his other See also:works, to See also:Charles (either as See also:prince or See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king), was published in 1615, and formed a substantial contribution to See also:geography and See also:ethnology. He also took See also:great See also:interest in the earliest English colonization in See also:America. In See also:April 1621 he became colonial treasurer of the See also:Virginia See also:Company and sailed to Virginia with his niece's See also:husband, See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Wyat, the new See also:governor. When Virginia became a See also:crown See also:colony, Sandys was created a member of See also:council in See also:August 1624; he was reappointed to this See also:post in 1626 and 1628. In 1631 he vainly applied for the secretaryship to the new See also:special See also:commission for the better See also:plantation of Virginia; soon after this he returned to See also:England forgood. In 1621 he had already published an English See also:translation of See also:part of See also:Ovid's Metamorphoses; this he completed in 1626; on this mainly his poetic reputation rested in the 17th and 18th centuries. He also began a version of See also:Virgil's Aeneid, but never produced more than the first See also:book. In 1636 he issued his famous See also:Paraphrase upon the See also:Psalms and See also:Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments; in 1640 he translated See also:Christ's See also:Passion from the Latin of See also:Grotius; and in 1641 he brought out his last See also:work, a Paraphrase of the See also:Song of Songs. He died, unmarried, at Boxley, near See also:Maidstone, See also:Kent, in 1644. His See also:verse was deservedly praised by See also:Dryden and See also:Pope; See also:Milton was some-what indebted to Sandys' Hymn to my Redeemer (inserted in his travels at the See also:place of his visit to the See also:Holy See also:Sepulchre) in his See also:Ode on the Passion.
See Sandys' works as quoted above; the travels appeared as The Relation of a See also:Journey begun an. Dom. 161o, in four books (1615) ; also the Rev. See also:Richard See also:Hooper's edition, with memoir, of The Poetical Works of George Sandys; and See also:Alexander See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown's See also:Genesis of the See also:United States, pp. 546, 989, 992, 994-995, 1032, 1063; See also:article, " Sandys, George," in See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography.
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