EYRE EVANS CROWE (1799-1868)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V07,
Page 514
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
EYRE EVANS CROWE (1799-1868)
, English journalist and historian, was born about the year 1799
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He commenced his work as a writer for the London newspaper press in connexion with the Morning Chronicle, and he afterwards became a leading contributor to the Examiner and the Daily News
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Of the latter journal he was principal editor 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
previous to his death
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The department he specially cultivated was that of continental history and foreign politics
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He published Lives of Foreign Statesmen (183o), The Greek and the Turk (1853), and Reigns of See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
X VIII. and Charles X
.
(1854)
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These were followed by his most important work, the History of France (5 vols., 1858-1868)
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It was founded upon original sources, 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
to consult which the author resided for a considerable time in Paris
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He died in London on the 25th of February 1868
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