See also:

• MALLET (or MALLOCH), DAVID (?17o5–1765)
• MALLET, PAUL HENRI (173o–18o7)

MALLET (or MALLOCH), See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID (?17o5–1765)  , Scottish poet more congenial to his tastes led to his accompanying See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord and dramatist, the son of a See also:

• PERTHSHIRE

Perthshire See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

farmer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in that Mountstuart in his travels through See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and thence to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, probably in 1705 . In 1717 he went to the high school where he was presented at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court and commissioned to write the at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, and some three years later to the university, where See also:

• HISTORY

history of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick . He had previously received he made the friendship of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• THOMSON, JAMES (1822-1892)
• THOMSON, JAMES (1834-1882)
• THOMSON, JAMES (r700-1748)
• THOMSON, JOHN (1778-184o)
• THOMSON, JOSEPH (1858-1895)
• THOMSON, SIR CHARLES WYVILLE (1830-1882)
• THOMSON, THOMAS (1773-1852)
• THOMSON, WILLIAM (1819-189o)

Thomson, author of The a similar See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission from the See also:

• LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from Land, " a country" and Graf, "count" )

landgrave of See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse-See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel for the Seasons . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1720 he began to publish See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short poems in preparation of a history of the house of Hesse, and both See also:

• WORKS

works the manner of the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, a number of which appeared during were completed in 1785 . The quietude of a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• LIFE

life was the next few years in collections such as the Edinburgh See also:

• MISCELLANY

Miscellany rudely broken by the See also:

• SHOCK, or COLLAPSE

shock of the Revolution, to which he was and See also:

• ALLAN, DAVID (1744–1796)
• ALLAN, SIR HUGH (1810–1882)
• ALLAN, SIR WILLIAM (1782–1850)

Allan See also:

• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758)
• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1713-1784)
• RAMSAY, ANDREW MICHAEL (1686-1743)
• RAMSAY, DAVID (1749—1815)
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM (1852– )
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL (185r– )

Ramsay's See also:

• TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

Tea Table Miscellany, in which his ballad openly hostile . His leanings to the unpopular See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side were so " See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William and See also:

• MARGARET
• MARGARET (1283–1290)
• MARGARET (1353-1412)
• MARGARET (1489–1541)
• MARGARET, ST (c. 1045–1093)
• MARGARET, ST (SANCTA MARGARITA)

Margaret " was published in 1724 . For some See also:

• OBNOXIOUS (Lat. obnoxiosus, from ob, over, against, and noxa, harm)

obnoxious to his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-citizens that he was obliged to quit his years from 1723 he was private See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• MONTROSE
• MONTROSE, JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUESS OF (1612—1650)
• MONTROSE, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF

Montrose's native See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in 1792, and remained in See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile till 18or . He died sons, with whom he travelled on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

Continent in 1727 . His real at See also:

• GENEVA
• GENEVA (Fr. Geneve, Ger. Genf, Ital. Ginevra, Late Lat. Gebenna, though Genava in good Latin)
• GENEVA, LAKE OF

Geneva, on the 8th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1807 . name was Malloch; but this he changed to See also:

• MALLET (or MALLOCH), DAVID (?17o5–1765)
• MALLET, PAUL HENRI (173o–18o7)

Mallet in 1724 . In A memoir of his life and writings, by See also:

• SISMONDI, JEAN CHARLES LEONARD DE (1773-1842)

Sismondi, was published at 1735 he took the M.A. degree at See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . He had already made the Geneva in 1807 .

Besides the Introduction to the History of See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark, friendship of See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope, whose vanity he flattered in a poem on Verbal his See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal works are: Histoire du Danemarck (3 vols., See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

Criticism, in 1733; and through Pope he became acquainted 1758—1777); Histoire de la maison de Hesse (4 vols., 1767–1785); Histoire de la maison de Brunswick (4 vols., 17671785) ; Histoire de with See also:

• BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST JOHN, VISCOUNT (1678-1751)

Bolingbroke and other Tory politicians, especially those la maison et See also:

• DES

des etats du Mecklenbourg (1796) ; Histoire des Suisses ou attached to the party of the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, who in 1742 ap- Helvetiens (4 vols., Geneva, 1803) (mainly an abridgment of J. von pointed Mallet to be his paid secretary . After Pope's See also:

• DEATH

death, in Miiller's See also:

• GREAT

great history) ; Histoire de la ligue hanseatique (1805) . 1744, Mallet, at the instigation of Bolingbroke and forgetful of MALLET, See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT (1810–1881), Irish engineer, physicist and past favours and friendship, vilified the poet's memory, thereby geologist, was born in See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, on the 3rd of See also:

• JUNE

June ,81o . He was incurring the resentment of Pope's See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . For his services as educated at Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, and graduated B.A. in a party pamphleteer, in which See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character he published an attack 183o . Trained as an engineer, he was elected M.Inst.C.E. in on See also:

• ADMIRAL

Admiral Byng, Mallet received from Lord See also:

• BUTE
• BUTE, JOHN STUART, 3RD EARL OF (1713-1792)

Bute a lucrative 1842; he built in 1848–1849 the Fastnet See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

Rock lighthouse, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• SINECURE (Lat. sine cura, without care)

sinecure in 1760 . He died on the 21st of See also:

• APRIL

April 1765 . Mallet See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of Cape Clear, and was engaged in other important works. was a small See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, in his younger days something of a See also:

• DANDY

dandy and Devoting much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to pure See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, he became especially inordinately vain . He was twice married; by his first wife he distinguished for his researches on earthquakes, and from 1852–had a daughter, Dorothy, who married Pietro See also:

• PAOLO (GIROLAMO GASPARE)5 (1532-1600)

Paolo Celesia, a 1858 he was engaged (with his son See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John William Mallet) in the Genoese See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman, and was the author of several poems and preparation of his great See also:

• WORK

work, The See also:

• EARTHQUAKE

Earthquake See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

Catalogue of the plays, notably Almida, produced by See also:

• GARRICK, DAVID (1717-1779)

Garrick at See also:

• DRURY, SIR WILLIAM (1527-1579)

Drury See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane in See also:

• BRITISH

British Association (1858) . In 1862 he published two volumes, 1771. dealing with the Great Neapolitan Earthquake of x857 and The Mallet's own worksincluded several plays, some of which were First Principles of Observational Seismology . He then brought produced by Garrick, who was Mallet's See also:

• PERSONAL

personal friend . Eury- forward See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence to show that the See also:

• DEPTH

depth below the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth's See also:

• DICE (plural of die, O. Fr. de, derived from Lat. dare, to give)

dice, a tragedy, with See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

prologue and See also:

• EPILOGUE

epilogue by See also:

• AARON

Aaron 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, was See also:

• SURFACE

surface, whence came the impulse of the Neapolitan earthquake, produced at Drury Lane in 1731; Mustapha, also a tragedy, had was about 8 or 9 See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles .

One of his most important considerable success at the same See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre in 1739; in 1740, in essays was that communicated to the Royal Society (Phil . Trans. collaboration with Thomson, he produced the masque See also:

• ALFRED

Alfred, clxiii . 147; 1874), entitled Volcanic See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

Energy: an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

Attempt to develop of which he published a new version in 1751, after Thomson's its True Origin and Cosmical Relations . He sought to show that death, claiming it to be almost entirely his own work . This volcanic See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat may be attributed to the effects of crushing, See also:

• CON

con-masque is notable as containing the well-known patriotic See also:

• SONG

song, tortion and other disturbances in the crust of the earth; the " See also:

• RULE

Rule Britannia," the authorship of which has been attributed disturbances leading to the formation of lines of fracture, more to Mallet, although he allowed it to appear without protest in his or less See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical, down which See also:

• WATER

water would find its way, and if the lifetime with Thomson's name attached . His other writings temperature generated be sufficient volcanic eruptions of See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam include Poems on Several Occasions (1743); Amyntor and See also:

• THEODORA
• THEODORA (d. 1057)

Theodora, or See also:

• LAVA

lava would follow . He was elected F.R.S. in 1854, and he or the See also:

• HERMIT

Hermit (,747); another See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Poems (1762). was awarded the See also:

• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM (1659--1724)
• WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE (1766-1828)

Wollaston See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal by the See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

Geological Society of In 1759 a collected edition of Mallet's Works was published in three See also:

• LONDON

London in 1877 . He died at Clapham, London, on the 5th of volumes; and in 1857 his See also:

• BALLADS

Ballads and Songs were edited by F . See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1881 . Dinsdale with notes, and a See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical memoir of the author .