See also:GEORGE See also:PERKINS See also:MARSH (1801-1882)
, See also:American diplomatist and philologist, was See also:born at See also:Woodstock, See also:Vermont, on the 15th of See also:March 18or
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He graduated at See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 182o, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1825, and practised See also:law at See also:Burlington, Vermont, devoting himself also with ardour to philological studies
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In 1835 he was a member of the Supreme Executive See also:Council of Vermont, and from 1843 to 1849 a Whig representative in See also:Congress
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In 1849 he was appointed See also:United States See also:minister See also:resident in See also:Turkey, and in 1852–1853 discharged a See also:mission to See also:Greece in connexion with the imprisonment by the authorities of that See also:country of an American missionary, Dr See also:Jonas 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 (1792–1869)
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He returned to Vermont in 1854, and in 1857 was a member of the See also:state railway See also:commission
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In 1861 he became the first United States minister to the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy, and died in that 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 at See also:Vallombrosa on the 23rd of See also:July 1882
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He was buried in a See also:Protestant See also:cemetery in See also:Rome
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See also:Marsh was an able linguist, See also:writing and speaking with ease the Scandinavian and See also:half a dozen other See also:European See also:languages, a remarkable philologist for his See also:day, and a See also:scholar of See also:great breadth, knowing much of military See also:science, See also:engraving and physics, as well as of Icelandic, which was his specialty
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He wrote many articles for 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's Universal Cyclopaedia, and contributed many reviews and letters to the Nation
.
His See also:chief published See also:works are: A Compendious See also:Grammar of the Old See also:Northern or Icelandic See also:Language (1838), compiled and translated from the grammars of See also:Rask; The See also:Camel, his Organization, Habits, and Uses, with Reference to his Introduction into the United States (1856); Lectures on the See also:English Language (186o) ; The Origin and See also:History of the English Language (1862; revised ed., 1885); and See also:Man and Nature (1865)
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The last-named See also:work was translated into See also:Italian in 1872, and, largely rewritten, was issued in 1874 under the See also:title The See also:Earth as Modified by Human See also:Action; a revised edition was published in 1885
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He also published a work on Mediaeval and See also:Modern See also:Saints and Miracles (1876)
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His valuable library was presented in 1883 by See also:Frederick Billings to the university of Vermont
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His second wife, See also:CAROLINE (See also:CRANE) MARSH (1816-1901), whom he married in 1839, published See also:Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems (186o), and the See also:Life and Letters of See also:George See also:Perkins Marsh (New See also:York, 1888)
.
This last work was See also:left incomplete, the second See also:volume never having been published
.
She also translated from the See also:German of Johann C
.
Biernatzki (1795–1840), The Hallig; or the Sheepfold in the See also:Waters (r856)
.
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