JOHN BROWN (1722-1787)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 659
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOHN See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- JOHN BROWN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
BROWN (1722-1787)
, Scottish divine, was See also:born at Carpow, in See also:Perthshire
.
He was almost entirely self-educated, having acquired a knowledge of Latin, See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew while employed as a shepherd
.
His See also:early career was varied, and he was in See also:succession a packman, a soldier in the See also:Edinburgh See also:garrison in 1745, and a school-See also:master
.
He was, from 1750 till his See also:death, See also:minister of the Burgher See also:branch of the See also:Secession 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 (see See also:UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH) in See also:Haddington
.
From 1786 he was See also:professor of divinity for his See also:denomination, and was mainly responsible for the training of its See also:ministry
.
He gained a just reputation for learning and piety
.
The best of his many See also:works are his Self-Interpreting See also:Bible and See also:Dictionary of the Bible, works that were See also:long very popular
.
The former was translated into Welsh
.
He also wrote an Explication of the See also:Westminster See also:Confession, and a number of See also:biographical and See also:historical sketches
.
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