See also:MARK PRAGER See also:LINDO (1819-1879)
, Dutch See also:prose writer, of See also:English-Jewish descent, was See also:born in See also:London on the 18th of See also:September 1819
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He went to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland when nineteen years of See also:age, and once established there as a private teacher of the English See also:language, he soon made up his mind to remain
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In 1842 he passed his examination at See also:Arnhem, qualifying him as a See also:professor of English in Holland, subsequently becoming a teacher of the English language and literature at the gymnasium in that See also:town
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In 1853 he was appointed in a similar capacity at the Royal Military See also:Academy in See also:Breda
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Meanwhile See also:Lindo had obtained a thorough grasp of the Dutch language, partly during his student years at See also:Utrecht University, where in 1854 he gained the degree of See also:doctor of literature
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His proficiency in the two See also:languages led him to translate into Dutch several of the See also:works of See also:Dickens, See also:Thackeray and others, and afterwards also of See also:Fielding, See also:Sterne and See also:Walter See also:Scott- some of Lindo's See also:translations See also:bore the imprint of hasty and careless See also:work, and all were very unequal in quality
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His name is much more likely to endure as the writer of humorous See also:original sketches and novelettes in Dutch, which he published under the See also:pseudonym of De Oude Herr Smits (" Old Mr Smits ")
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Among the most popular are: Brieven en Ontboezemingen (" Letters and Confessions," 1853, with three " Continuations ") ; Familie See also:van Ons (" See also:Family of Ours," 1855); Bekentenissen eener Jonge See also:Dame (" Confessions of a See also:Young See also:Lady," 1858); Uittreksels uit het Dagboek van Wijlen den Heer Jasvus Snor (" Extracts from the See also:Diary of the See also:late Mr See also:Janus Snor," 1865); Typen (" Types," '871); and, particularly, Afdrukken van Indrukken (" Impressions from Impressions," 1854, reprinted many times)
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The last-named was written in collaboration with Lodewyk Mulder, who contributed some of its drollest whimsicalities of Dutch See also:life and See also:character, which, for that See also:reason, are almost untranslatable
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Lodewyk Mulder and Lindo also founded together, and carried on, for a considerable 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 alone, the Nederlandsche Spectator (" The Dutch Spectator "), a See also:literary weekly, still published at The See also:Hague, which bears little resemblance to its English prototype, and which perhaps reached its greatest popularity and See also:influence when See also:Vosmaer contributed to it a brilliant weekly See also:letter under the fanciful See also:title of Vlugmaren (" Swifts ")
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Lindo's serious original Dutch writings he published under his own name, the See also:principal one being De Opkomst en Ontwikkeling van het Engelsche See also:Volk (" The Rise and Development of the See also:British See also:People," 2 vols
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1868–1874)—a valuable See also:history
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Lodewyk Mulder published in 1877–1879 a collected edition of Lindo's writings in five volumes, and there has since been a popular reissue
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Lindo was appointed an inspector of See also:primary See also:schools in the See also:province of See also:South Holland in 1865, a See also:post he held until his See also:death at The Hague on the 9th of See also:March 1879
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