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ALEXANDER CHALMERS (1759-1834)

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ALEXANDER
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CHALMERS (1759-1834)  , Scottish writer, was
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born in
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Aberdeen on the 29th of
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March 1759 . He was educated as a
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doctor, but gave up this profession for journalism, and he was for some
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time editor of the
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Morning
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Herald . Besides
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editions of the
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works of
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Shakespeare,
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Beattie,
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Fielding,
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Johnson,
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Warton,
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Pope,
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Gibbon,
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Bolingbroke, he published A
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General
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Biographical
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Dictionary in 32 vols.(1812-1817); a Glossary to Shakspeare (1797); an edition of
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Steevens's Shakespeare (18c9); and the
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British Essayists, beginning with the Taller and ending with the Observer, with biographical and
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historical prefaces and a general
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index . He died in
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London on the 19th of
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December 1834 .

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