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See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
TAYLOR, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1765-1836) , See also:English See also:man of letters, son of a See also:Norwich manufacturer, was See also:born in that See also:city on the 7th of See also:November 1765. He belonged to the Unitarian community, and went to a school kept at See also:Palgrave, See also:Suffolk, by Rochemont See also:Barbauld, See also:husband of See also:Anna Letitia Barbauld, where See also:Frank See also:Sayers (1763-1817) was among his schoolmates. He travelled on the See also:Continent for some years to perfect himself in See also:foreign See also:languages. William Taylor and his See also:father were both in sympathy with the See also:French Revolution, and belonged to a " revolution society " at Norwich. In 1791 the disturbed See also:condition of affairs induced the See also:elder Taylor to See also:wind up his business, and from this 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 William devoted himself to letters. He was an enthusiast for See also:German See also:poetry, and did See also:great service to English literature by See also:translations of See also:Burger's Lenore (1790, printed 1796), of See also:Lessing's Nathan the See also:Wise (1790, printed 1805), of See also:Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris (1790, printed 1793), and of four of See also:Wieland's Dialogues of the Gods (1795). He was a prolific writer of See also:review articles, in which his knowledge of foreign literature served as a useful See also:standard of See also:criticism. Much of this material was made use of in his most important See also:work, his Historic Survey of German Poetry (3 vols., 1828-30). He also edited the See also:works of his friend Sayers with a memoir (1823). He died at Norwich on the 5th of See also:March 1836.
See a Memoir of the See also:Life and Writings of the See also:late W. Taylor of Norwich, by See also:John See also:Warden Robberds (2 vols., 1843) ; Georg Herzfeld, William Taylor von Norwich (1897). Taylor is well known to readers of See also:George See also:Borrow by the portrait of him as the " elder individual " in the 23rd See also:chapter of Lavengro.
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