JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 681
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)
, Scottish man of letters, was born on the 30th of December 1785
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In 1816 he became sheriff of Renfrewshire, and retained 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 until his death at Edinburgh, on the 26th of January (according to others, in February) 1842
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The work by which he is best known, and which will always hold an honourable place in English literature, is his History of Fiction (1814; new edition, 1888, with notes by H
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See also: - WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, in Bohn's " Standard Library")
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In spite of the somewhat contemptuous notices in Blackwood's Magazine ( September 1824) and the Quarterly Review ( July 1815), it may be pronounced the best book on the subject in English
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F
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Liebrecht, by whom it was translated into German (1851) with valuable notes, describes it as the only work of its kind
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Dunlop was also the author of A History of Roman Literature (1823—1828), and of Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of See also: - PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip IV. and Charles II
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(1834)
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End of Article: JOHN COLIN DUNLOP (1785-1842)
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