See also:COLLATION (See also:Lat. collatio, from conferre, to bring together or compare)
, the bringing together of things for the See also:special purpose of comparison, and thus, particularly, the See also:critical examination of the texts of documents or See also:MSS. and the result of such comparison
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The word is also a See also:term in See also:printing and See also:bookbinding for the See also:register of the " signatures," the number of quires and leaves in each See also:quire of a See also:book or MS
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In See also:Roman and Scots See also:law " See also:collation " answers to the See also:English law term "hotch-pot" (q.v.)
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From another meaning of the Latin word, a consultation or See also:conference, and so a See also:treatise or See also:homily, comes the See also:title of a See also:work of Johannes See also:Cassianus (q.v.), the Conferences of the Fathers (Collationes Patrum)
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Readings from this and similar See also:works were customary in monasteries; by the See also:regula of St See also:Benedict it is ordered that on rising from supper there should be read collationes, passages from the lives of the Fathers and other edifying works; the word is then applied to the discussions arising from such readings
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On fast days it was usual in monasteries to have a very See also:light See also:meal after the Collatio, and hence the meal itself came to be called " collation," a meaning which survives in the See also:modern use of the word for any light or quickly prepared repast
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See also:COLL$, See also:CHARLES (1709–1783), See also:French dramatist and See also:song-writer, the son of a See also:notary, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 1709
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He was See also:early interested in the rhymes of See also:Jean Heguanier, then the most famous maker of couplets in Paris
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From a notary's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office Colle was transferred to that of M. de Neulan, the See also:receiver-See also:general of See also:finance, and remained there for nearly twenty years
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When about seventeen, however, he made the acquaintance of See also:Alexis See also:Piron, and afterwards, through Gallet (d
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1757), of Panard
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The example of these three masters of the See also:vaudeville, while determining his vocation, made him diffident; and for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he composed nothing but amphigouris—verses whose merit was measured by their unintelligibility
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The friendship of the younger See also:Crebillon, however, diverted him from this by-way of See also:art, and the See also:establishment in 1729 of the famous "Caveau " gave him a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for the display of his See also:fine See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for popular song
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In 1739 the Society of the Caveau, which numbered among its members Helvetius, Charles See also:Duclos, See also:Pierre See also:Joseph See also:Bernard, called Gentil-Bernard, Jean Philippe See also:Rameau, Alexis Piron, and the two Crebillons, was dissolved, and was not reconstituted till twenty years afterwards
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His first and his best See also:comedy, La Verite clans le vin, appeared in 1747
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Meanwhile, the See also:Regent See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, who was an excellent comic actor, particularly in representations of See also:low See also:life, and had been looking out for an author to write suitable parts for him, made Colle his reader
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It was for the See also:duke and his associates that Colle composed the greater See also:part of his See also:Theatre de societe
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In 1763 Colle produced at the Theatre See also:Francais See also:Dupuis et Desronais, a successful sentimental comedy, which was followed in 1771 by La Veuve, which was a See also:complete failure
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In 1774 appeared La Partie de See also:chasse de See also:Henri Quatre (partly taken from See also:Dodsley's See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King and the See also:Miller of See also:Mansfield), Colle's last and best See also:play
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From 1748 to 1772, besides these and a multitude of songs, Colle was See also:writing his See also:Journal, a curious collection of See also:literary and See also:personal strictures on his boon companions as well as on their enemies, on Piron as on See also:Voltaire, on La Harpe as on See also:Corneille
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Colle died on the 3rd of See also:November 1783
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His lyrics are See also:frank and jovial, though often licentious
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The subjects are love and See also:wine; occasionally, however, as in the famous lyric (1756) on the See also:capture of See also:Port Mahon, for which the author received a See also:pension of 600 livres, the See also:note of patriotism is struck with no unskilful hang, while in many others Colle shows himself possessed of considerable epigrammatic force
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See also H
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Bonhomme's edition (1868) of his Journal et Mimoires (1748–1772); See also:Grimm's Correspondance; and C
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A
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Sainte-Beuve, Nouveaux lundis, vol. vii
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