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See also:TENNANT, 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 (1784-1848) , Scottish See also:scholar and poet, was See also:born on the 15th of May 1784 at See also:Anstruther See also:Easter, See also:Fife-See also:shire. He was lame from childhood. His See also:father sent him to the university of St See also:Andrews, where he remained for two years, and on his return he became clerk to one of his See also:brothers, a See also:corn See also:factor. In his leisure 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 he mastered See also:Hebrew as well as See also:German and See also:Italian. His study of Italian See also:verse See also:bore See also:fruit in the See also:mock-heroic poem of Anster See also:Fair (1812), which gave an amusing See also:account of the See also:marriage of " Maggie See also:Lauder," the heroine of the popular Scottish ballad. It was written in the ottava rime adopted a few years later by " the ingenious brothers Whistlecraft " (See also:John Hookham See also:Frere), and turned to such brilliant account by See also:Byron in See also:Don Juan. The poem, unhackneyed in See also:form, full of fantastic classical allusions applied to the See also:simple See also:story, and brimming over with See also:humour, had an immediate success. Tennant's See also:brother, meanwhile, had failed in business, and the poet became in 1812 schoolmaster of the See also:parish of Dunino, near St Andrews. From this he was See also:pro-rated (1816) to the school of Lasswade, near See also:Edinburgh; from that (1819) to a mastership in See also:Dollar See also:academy; from that (1834), by See also:Lord See also:Jeffrey, to the professorship of See also:oriental See also:languages in St Andrews. The Thane of Fife (1822), shows the same humorous See also:imagination as Anster Fair, but the subject was more remote from See also:general See also:interest, and the poem See also:fell See also:flat. He also wrote a poem in the Scottish See also:dialect, Papistry Stormed (1827); two See also:historical dramas, See also:Cardinal See also:Beaton (1823) and John See also:Baliol (1825); and a See also:series of Hebrew Dramas (1845), founded on incidents in See also:Bible See also:history. He died at See also:Devon See also:Grove, on the 14th of See also:February 1848.
A Memoir of Tennant by M. F. Connolly was published in 1861. TENNEMANN, WILHELM GOTTLIEB (1761–1819), German historian of See also:philosophy, was born at See also:Erfurt. Educated at his native See also:town, he became lecturer on the history of philosophy at See also:Jena in 1788. Ten years later he became See also:professor at the same university, where he remained till 1804. His See also:great See also:work is an eleven-See also:volume history of philosophy, which he began at Jena and finished at See also:Marburg, where he was professor of philosophy from 1804 till his See also:death. He was one of the numerous German philosophers who accepted the Kantian theory as a See also:revelation.
In 1812 he published a shorter history of philosophy, which was translated into See also:English in 1852 under the See also:title See also:Manual of the History of Philosophy.
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