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See also:JOSHUA See also:BARNES (1654-1712) , See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:January 1654 . Educated at See also:Christ's See also:Hospital and at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen regius See also:professor of See also:Greek, a See also:language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility . One of his first publications was entitled Gerania; a New See also:Discovery of a Little Sort of See also:People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675), a whimsical See also:sketch to which See also:Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something . Among his other See also:works are a See also:History of that Most Victorious Monarch See also:Edward III . (1688), in which he introduces See also:long and elaborate speeches into the narrative; See also:editions of See also:Euripides (1694) and of Hornet (1711), also one of See also:Anacreon (1705) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish . He died on the 3rd of See also:August 1712, at Hemingford, near St Ives, Hunts . |
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