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JAMES HARRIS (1709-1780)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:HARRIS (1709-1780)  , See also:English grammarian, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury on the loth of See also:July 1709 . He was educated at the See also:grammar school in the See also:Close at Salisbury, and at Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford . On leaving the university he was entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn as a student of See also:law, though not intended for the See also:bar . The See also:death of his See also:father in 1733 placed him in See also:possession of an See also:independent See also:fortune and of the See also:house in Salisbury Close . He became a See also:county See also:magistrate, and represented See also:Christchurch in See also:parliament from 1761 till his death, and was See also:comptroller to the See also:queen from 1774 to 1780 . He held See also:office under See also:Lord See also:Grenville, retiring with him in 1765 . The decided See also:bent of his mind had always been towards the See also:Greek and Latin See also:classics; and to the study of these, especially of See also:Aristotle, he applied himself with unremitting assiduity during a See also:period of fourteen or fifteen years . He published in 1744 three See also:treatises—on See also:art; on See also:music, See also:painting and See also:poetry; and on happiness . In 1751 appeared the See also:work by which he became best known, See also:Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar . He also published Philosophical Arrangements and Philosophical Inquiries . See also:Harris was a See also:great See also:lover of music, and adapted the words for a selection from See also:Italian and See also:German composers, published by the See also:cathedral organist, See also:James Corfe . He died on the 22nd of See also:December 1780 .

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works were collected and published in 18o1, by his son, the first See also:earl of See also:Malmesbury, who prefixed a brief See also:biography .

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