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 See also:LINDSAY See also:ALEXANDER (1808—1884)
, Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Leith on the 24th of See also:August 18o8
.
He was educated at the See also:universities of St See also:Andrews and See also:Edinburgh, where he gained a lasting reputation for classical scholarship
.
He entered See also:Glasgow Theological See also:Academy under See also:Ralph See also:Wardlaw in See also:September 1827, but in See also:December of the same See also:year he See also:left to become classical See also:tutor at the See also:Blackburn Theological Academy (afterwards the See also:Lancashire See also:Independent See also:College)
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At Blackburn he stayed till 1831, lecturing on biblical literature, See also:metaphysics, See also:Greek and Latin
.
After See also:short visits to See also:Germany and See also:London he was invited in See also:November 1834 to become See also:minister of See also:North College See also:Street 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 (afterwards Argyle Square), Edinburgh, an independent church which had arisen out of the evangelical See also:movement associated with the Haldanes
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He deliberately put aside the ambition to become a See also:pulpit orator in favour of the practice of biblical exposition, which he invested with a singular See also:charm and impressiveness
.
In 1836 he became one of the editors of the Congregational See also:Magazine, to which he contributed articles on biblical literature and See also:theology and on the " voluntary " controversy
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In 184o he delivered the Congregational Lecture in London on the " Connexion and See also:Harmony of the Old and New Testaments."
See also:Alexander took an active See also:part in the " voluntary " controversy which ended in the Disruption, but he also maintained broad and See also:catholic views of the spiritual relations between different sections of the See also:Christian church
.
In 1845 he visited See also:Switzerland with the See also:special See also:object of inquiring into the religious See also:life of the churches there
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He published an See also:account of his See also:journey in a See also:book, Switzerland and the' Swiss Churches, which led to an inter-See also:change of See also:correspondence between the Swiss and Scottish churches
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In 1845 he received the degree of D.D. from the university of St Andrews
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In 1861 he undertook the editorship of the third edition of See also:Kitto's Biblical See also:Encyclopaedia with the understanding that the whole See also:work should be thoroughly revised and brought up to date
.
In See also:January 187o he became one of the See also:committee of Old Testament revisers, and by his thorough biblical scholarship rendered exceptional service to the See also:board; he enjoyed the work and devoted much 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 to it for the next fourteen years
.
In 1877 he became See also:principal of the Edinburgh Theological See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, a position which he held, in spite of many tempting offers of preferment elsewhere, until his See also:death on the loth of December 1884
.
See his Life and Work by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Ross (1887)
.
(D
.
Mn.) ALEXANDER AETOLUS, of Pleuron in See also:Aetolia, Greek poet and See also:man of letters, the only representative of Aetolian See also:poetry, flourished about 280 B.C
.
When living in See also:Alexandria he was commissioned by See also:Ptolemy Philadelphus to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later he took up his See also:residence at the See also:court of Antigonus Gonatas, 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:Macedonia
.
His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a See also:place in the Alexandrian tragic See also:Pleiad; we only know the See also:title of one See also:play (Astragalistae)
.
He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence
.
See also:Meineke, Analecta Alexandrina (1853); See also:Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci; Couat, La Poesie alexandrine (1882)
.
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