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See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
TALENT (See also:Lat. talentum, See also:adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, See also:balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the See also:Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles See also:weight, from See also:root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to See also:bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three See also:Continental See also:tours in endurin cf. Lat. tollere to lift Skt. tuld balance) the name the vacations of 1841, 1842, and 1843 (2 vols., 1844); and Final of an See also:ancient See also:Greek unit of weight, the heaviest in use both for Memorials of See also:Charles See also:Lamb (1849 50)•
Mr. See also:Justice Coltman as See also:judge of the See also:court of See also:common pleas, he attained these distinctions more perhaps for his laborious care in the conduct of cases than on See also:account of any forensic brilliance. At the See also:general See also:election in 1835 he was returned for See also:Reading. This seat he retained for See also:close upon six years, and he was again returned in 1847. In the See also:House of See also:Commons he introduced an See also:International See also:Copyright See also:Bill; his speech on this subject was considered the most telling made in the House during that session. The bill met with strong opposition, but See also:Talfourd had the See also:satisfaction of seeing it pass into See also:law in 1842, albeit in a greatly modified See also:form. See also:Dickens dedicated the Pickwick Papers to him.
In his See also:early years in See also:London Talfourd was dependent—in See also:great measure, at least—upon his See also:literary exertions. He was at this See also:period on the See also:staff of the London See also:Magazine, and was an occasional contributor to the See also:Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, the New Monthly Magazine, and other See also:periodicals; while, on joining the 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 See also:circuit, he acted as law reporter to The Times. His legal writings on matters germane to literature are excellent expositions, animated by a lucid and telling, if not highly polished, See also:style. Among the best of these are his See also:article " On the Principle of Advocacy in the Practice of the See also:Bar " (in the Law Magazine, See also:January 1846); his Proposed New Law of Copyright of the Highest Importance to Authors (1838); Three Speeches delivered in the House of Commons in Favour of an See also:Extension of Copyright (184o) ; and his famous Speech for the See also:Defendant in the See also:Prosecution, the See also:Queen v. See also:Moxon, for the Publication of See also:Shelley's Poetical See also:Works (1841).
But Talfourd cannot be said to have gained any position among men of letters until the See also:production of his tragedy See also:Ion, which was privately printed in 1835, and produced in the following See also:year at Covent See also:Garden See also:theatre. The tragedy was also well received in See also:America, and was reproduced at See also:Sadler's See also:Wells in See also:December 1861. This dramatic poem, its author's masterpiece, turns upon the voluntary See also:sacrifice of Ion, 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 of See also:Argos, in response to the Delphic See also:oracle, which had declared that only with the extinction of the reigning See also:family could the prevailing pestilence incurred by the deeds of that family be removed.
Two years later, at the Haymarket theatre, The Athenian See also:Captive was acted with moderate success. In 1839 See also:Glencoe, or the See also:Fate of the Macdonalds, was privately printed, and in 184o it was produced at the Haymarket; but this See also:home See also:drama is inferior to his two classic plays. The Castilian (1853) did not excite a tenth See also:part of the See also:interest called forth by Ion. Before this he had produced various other See also:prose writings, among them his " See also:History of Greek Literature," in the See also:Encyclopaedia Metro-
monetary purposes and for commodities (see WEIGHTS AND See also:MEASURES). The weight itself was originally Babylonian, and derivatives were in use in See also:Palestine, See also:Syria and See also:Egypt. In See also:medieval Latin and also in many Romanic See also:languages the word was used figuratively, of will, inclination or See also:desire, derived from the sense of balance, but the general figurative use for natural endowments or gifts, See also:faculty, capacity or ability, is due to the See also:parable of the talents in Matt. See also:xxv.
End of Article: TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
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