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SHILLETO, RICHARD (18og-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHILLETO, RICHARD (18og-1876)

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RICHARD
RICHARD (d. 1184)
RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
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RICHARD (18og-1876) , See also:

ENGLISH

English classical See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Ulleskelf in See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire on the 25th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1809. He was educated at See also:

REPTON

Repton and See also:

Shrewsbury See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, and Trinity See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Cambridge, and in 1867 was elected a See also:

FELLOW

fellow of See also:

Peter-See also:

house. His whole See also:

LIFE

life was spent in Cambridge, where he died on the 24th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1876. Shilleto was one of the greatest See also:

Greek scholars that See also:

England has produced; in addition, he had an intimate acquaintance with the Latin and English See also:

LANGUAGES

languages and literature. He published little, being obliged to devote the best years of his life to private tuition. He was the most famous classical " See also:

COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

coach " of his See also:

day, and almost all the best men passed through his hands. His edition of the De falsa legatione of See also:

DEMOSTHENES

Demosthenes will always remain a See also:

standard See also:

WORK

work, but his first two books of See also:

THUCYDIDES (OovavMns)

Thucydides (an See also:

INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment of a See also:

long-contemplated edition) hardly came up to expectation. His pamphlet Thucydides or See also:

GROTE, GEORGE (1794–1871)

Grote ? excited a considerable amount of feeling. While it undoubtedly damaged Grote's reputation as a scholar, it was See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt that it showed a want of appreciation of the See also:

SPECIAL

special greatness of the historian. Shilleto's See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers as a translator from English into Greek (especially See also:

PROSE

prose) and Latin were unrivalled; a selection of his versions was published in 1901. See B. H.

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