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WILLIAM BAXTER (1650-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 553 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BAXTER (1650-1723)  , See also:British antiquarian, critic and grammarian, See also:nephew of See also:Richard See also:Baxter, the divine, was See also:born at Llanllugan, See also:Montgomeryshire . When he went to See also:Harrow school, at the See also:age of eighteen, he was unable to read, and could speak no See also:language except Welsh . His progress must have been remarkable, since he published his Latin See also:grammar about ten years afterwards . During the greater See also:part of his See also:life Baxter was a schoolmaster, and was finally headmaster of the Mercers' school, where he remained till shortly before his See also:death on the 31st of May 1723 . He was an accomplished linguist, and his learning was undoubtedly very See also:great . His published See also:works are: De Analogia (1679), an advanced Latin grammar; Anacreontis Teii Carmina, including two odes of See also:Sappho (1695; reprinted in 1710, " with improvements," which he was accused of having borrowed from, the edition of See also:Joshua See also:Barnes); See also:Horace (1701 and subsequent See also:editions, regarded as remarkable for its abuse of See also:Bentley); Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum (1719) ; and Glossarium Antiquitatum Romanarum (1826) . The last two works were published by the Rev . See also:Moses See also:Williams, the second (which goes no farther than the See also:letter A) under the See also:title of Reliquiae Baxterianae, including an autobiographical fragment . Baxter also contributed to a See also:joint See also:translation of See also:Plutarch's Moralia, and See also:left notes on See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius .

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