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See also: British orientalist, was See also: born in 1759 at See also: Carlisle, where his See also: father was a physician
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He went in 1775 to Cambridge, was elected a See also: fellow of Queens' See also: College in 1779, taking the degree of B.D. in 1793
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With the assistance of a native of See also: Bagdad known in See also: England as See also: David Zamio, then See also: resident at Cambridge, he attained See also: great proficiency in Arabic literature; and after succeeding Dr Paley in the chancellorship of Carlisle, he was appointed, in 1795, professor of Arabic in Cambridge University
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His See also: translation from the Arabic of Yusuf See also: ibn Taghri Birdi, the Rerum Egypticarum Annales, appeared in 1792, and in 1796 a See also: volume of Specimens of Arabic See also: Poetry, from the earliest times to the fall of the See also: Caliphate, with some account of the authors
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Carlyle was appointed See also: chap-lain by See also: Lord See also: Elgin to the See also: embassy at Constantinople in 1799, and prosecuted his researches in Eastern literature in a tour through See also: Asia Minor, See also: Palestine, See also: Greece and See also: Italy, See also: collecting in his travels several valuable See also: Greek and See also: Syriac See also: MSS. for a projected critical edition of the New Testament, collated with the Syriac and other versions—a See also: work, however,which he did not live to See also: complete
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On his return to England in 1801 he was presented by the See also: bishop of Carlisle to the living of See also: Newcastle-on-See also: Tyne, where he died on the 12th of See also: April 1804
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After his See also: death there appeared a volume of poems descriptive of the scenes of his travels, with prefaces extracted from his journal
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Among other See also: works which he See also: left unfinished was an edition of the See also: Bible in Arabic, completed by H
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