See also:JOHN See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- JOHN HILL (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
HILL (c. 1716-1775)
, called from his See also:Swedish honours, " See also:Sir " See also:John See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, See also:English author, son of the Rev
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See also:Theophilus Hill, is said to have been See also:born in See also:Peterborough in 1.2a6 l He was apprenticed to an See also:apothecary and on the completion of his See also:apprenticeship he set up in a small See also:shop in St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's See also:Lane, See also:Westminster
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He also travelled over the See also:country in See also:search of rare herbs, with a view to See also:publishing a hortus siccus, but the See also:plan failed
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His first publication was a See also:translation of See also:Theophrastus's See also:History of Stones (1746)
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From this 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 forward he was an indefatigable writer
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He edited the See also:British See also:Magazine (1746–1750), and for two years (175–1753) he wrote a daily See also:letter, " The Inspector," for the See also:London Advertiser and See also:Literary See also:Gazette
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He also produced novels, plays and scientific See also:works; and was a- large contributor to the supplement of Ephraim_
See also:Chambers's Cyciopaedia
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His See also:personal and scurrilous writings involved him in many quarrels
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See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Fielding attacked him in the Covent See also:Garden See also:Journal, See also:Christopher See also:Smart wrote a See also:mock-epic, The Hilliad, against him, and See also:David See also:Garrick replied to his strictures against him by two epigrams, one of which runs:
" For physics and farces, his equal there scarce is; His farces are physic, his physic a See also:farce is."
He had other literary passages-at-arms with John See also:Rich, who accused him of plagiarizing his See also:Orpheus, also with See also:Samuel See also:Foote and Henry See also:Woodward
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From 1759 to 1775 he was engaged on a huge botanical See also:work—The See also:Vegetable See also:System (26 vols. fol.)—adorned by 1600 copperplate engravings
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Hill's botanical labours were underaken at the See also:request of his See also:patron, See also:Lord See also:Bute, and he was rewarded by the 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 of See also:Vasa from the 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 of See also:Sweden in 1974
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He had a medical degree from See also:Edinburgh, and he now practised as a See also:quack See also:doctor, making considerable sums by the preparation of vegetable medicines
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He died in London on the 21st of See also:November 1775
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Of the seventy-six See also:separate works with which he is credited in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, the most valuable are those that See also:deal with See also:botany
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He is said to have been the author of the second See also:part of The Oeconomy of Human See also:Life (1751), the first part of which is by Lord See also:Chesterfield, and Hannah Glasse's famous See also:manual of See also:cookery was generally ascribed to him (see See also:Boswell, ed
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Hill, iii
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285)
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Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson said of him that he was " an ingenious See also:man, but had no veracity."
See a See also:Short See also:Account of the Life, Writings and See also:Character of the See also:late Sir John Hill (1779), which is chiefly occupied with a descriptive See also:catalogue of his works; also See also:Temple See also:Bar (1872, See also:xxxv
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261-266)
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