See also:ANTOINE See also:COURT DE GEBELIN (1728-1784)
, See also:French See also:scholar, son of See also:Antoine See also:Court (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Nimes in 1728
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He received a See also:good See also:education, and became, like his See also:father, a pastor of the Reformed 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
.
This 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, however, he soon relinquished, to devote himself entirely to See also:literary See also:work
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He had conceived the project of a work which should set in a new See also:light the phenomena, especially the See also:languages and mythologies, of the See also:ancient See also:world; and, after his father's See also:death, he went to See also:Paris in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to be near the necessary books
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After See also:long years of See also:research, he published in 1795 the first volumlr of his vast undertaking under the See also:title of Le Monde primitif, analyse et compare avec le monde moderne
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The ninth See also:volume appeared in 1784, leaving the work still unfinished
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The literary world marvelled at the encyclopaedic learning displayed by the author, and supposed that the French See also:Academy, or some other society of scholars, must have combined their See also:powers in its See also:production
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Now, however, the world has well-nigh forgotten the huge quartos
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These learned labours did not prevent Gebelin from See also:pleading earnestly the cause of religious tolerance
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In 1760 he published a work entitled See also:Les Toulousaines, advocating the rights of the Protestants; and he afterwards established at Paris an agency for See also:collecting See also:information as to their sufferings, and for exciting See also:general See also:interest in their cause
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He co-operated with See also:Franklin and others in the periodical work entitled Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Amerique (1776, sqq.), which was devoted to the. support of See also:American See also:independence
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He was also a supporter of the principles of the economists, and See also:Quesnay called him his well-beloved See also:disciple
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In the last See also:year of his See also:life he became acquainted with See also:Mesmer, and published a Lettre sur le magnetisme See also:animal, He was imposed upon by speculators in whom he placed confidence, and was reduced to destitution by the failure of a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme in which they engaged him
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He died at Paris on the Toth of May 1784
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See La See also:France protestante, by the See also:brothers Haag, tome iv
.
; See also:Charles Dardier, Court de Gebelin (Nimes, 1890)
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