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See also:WHISTON, 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 (1667-1752) , See also:English divine and mathematician, was See also:born on the 9th of See also:December 1667 at See also:Norton in See also:Leicestershire, of which See also:village his See also:father was See also:rector. He was educated privately, partly on See also:account of the delicacy of his See also:health, and partly that he might See also:act as See also:amanuensis to his father, who had lost his sight. He afterwards entered at See also:Clare See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he applied himself to mathematical study, and obtained a fellowship in 1693. He next became See also:chaplain to See also:John See also:Moore (1646-1714), the learned See also:bishop of See also:Norwich, from whom he received the living of See also:Lowestoft in 1698. He had already given several proofs of his See also:noble but over-scrupulous conscientiousness, and at the same 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 of a propensity to See also:paradox. His New Theory of the See also:Earth (1696), although destitute of See also:sound scientific See also:foundation, obtained the praise of both See also:Newton and See also:Locke, the latter of whom justly classed the author among those who, if not adding much to our knowledge, " Ft least bring some new things to our thoughts." In 1701 he resigned his living to become See also:deputy at Cambridge to See also:Sir See also:Isaac Newton, whom two years later he succeeded as Lucasian See also:professor of See also:mathematics. In 1707 he was See also:Boyle lecturer. For several years Whiston continued to write and preach both on mathematical and theological subjects with considerable success; but his study of the See also:Apostolical Constitutionshad convinced him that Arianism was the creed of the See also:primitive See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; and with him to See also:form an See also:opinion and to publish it were things almost simultaneous. His heterodoxy soon became notorious, and in 1710 he was deprived of his professorship and expelled from the university. The See also:rest of his See also:life was spent in incessant controversy—theological, mathematical, See also:chronological and See also:miscellaneous. He vindicated his estimate of the Apostolical Constitutions and the Arian views he had derived from them in his Primitive See also:Christianity Revived (5 vols., 1711-1712). In 1713 he produced a reformed See also:liturgy, and soon afterwards founded a society for promoting primitive Christianity, lecturing in support of his theories at See also:London, See also:Bath and See also:Tun-See also:bridge See also:Wells. One of the most valuable of his books, the Life of See also:Samuel See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke, appeared in 1730. While heretical on so many points, he was a See also:firm believer in supernatural Christianity, and frequently took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in See also:defence of prophecy and See also:miracle, including See also:anointing the sick and touching for the 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's evil. His dislike to See also:rationalism in See also:religion also made him one of the numerous opponents of See also:Benjamin See also:Hoadly's See also:Plain Account of the Nature and End of the See also:Sacrament. He proved to his own See also:satisfaction that See also:Canticles was apocryphal and that See also:Baruch was not. He was ever pressing his views of ecclesiastical See also:government and discipline, derived from the Apostolical Constitutions, on ;the ecclesiastical authorities, and marvelled that they could not see the See also:matter in the same See also:light as himself. He assailed the memory of See also:Athanasius with a virulence at least equal to that with which orthodox divines had treated See also:Arius. He attacked Sir Isaac Newton's chronological See also:system with success; but he himself lost not only time but See also:money in an endeavour to discover the See also:longitude. Of all his singular opinions the best known is his advocacy of clerical monogamy, immortalized in the See also:Vicar of See also:Wakefield. Of all his labcurs the most useful is his See also:translation of See also:Josephus (1737), with valuable notes and See also:dissertations, often reprinted. His last " famous See also:discovery, or rather revival of Dr See also:Giles See also:Fletcher's," which he mentions in his autobiography with See also:infinite complacency, was the See also:identification of the See also:Tatars with the lost tribes of See also:Israel. In 1745 he published his Primitive New Testament. About the same time (1747) he finally See also:left the See also:Anglican communion for the Baptist, leaving the church literally as well as figuratively by quitting it as the clergyman began to read the Athanasian creed. He died in London, at the See also:house of his son-in-See also:law, on the 22nd of See also:August 1752, leaving a memoir (3 vols., 1749-1750) which deserves more See also:attention than it has received, both for its characteristic individuality and as a See also:store-house of curious anecdotes and illustrations of the religious and moral tendencies of the See also:age. It does not, however, contain any account of the proceedings taken against him at Cambridge, these having been published separately at the time.
Whiston is a striking example of the association of an entirely paradoxical See also:bent of mind with proficiency in the exact sciences. He also illustrates the possibility of arriving at rationalistic conclusions in See also:theology without the slightest See also:tincture of the rationalistic See also:temper. He was not only paradoxical to the See also:verge of craziness, but intolerant to the verge of bigotry. " I had a mind," he says, " to hear Dr (John) Gill preach. But, being informed that he had written a See also:folio See also:book on the Canticles, I declined to go to hear him." When not engaged in controversy he was not devoid of See also:good sense. He often saw men and things very clearly, and some of his bon mots are admirable.
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