CONYERS See also:

• MIDDLETON
• MIDDLETON, ARTHUR (1742–1787)
• CONYERS MIDDLETON (1683–1750)
• MIDDLETON, THOMAS (c. 1570-1627)

MIDDLETON (1683–1750)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English divine, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• RICHMOND
• RICHMOND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• RICHMOND, LEGH (1772-1827)
• RICHMOND, SIR WILLIAM BLAKE (1842– )

Richmond in See also:

• YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire on the 27th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1683 . He graduated at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, took orders, and in 1706 obtained a fellowship, which he soon resigned upon contracting an advantageous See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage . In 1717 a dispute with See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1662-1742)
• BENTLEY, RICHARD (1794-1871)

Bentley, who made an extortionate demand on the occasion of See also:

• MIDDLETON
• MIDDLETON, ARTHUR (1742–1787)
• MIDDLETON, CONYERS (1683–1750)
• MIDDLETON, THOMAS (c. 1570-1627)

Middleton's being created D.D., involved him in an acrimonious controversy . He wrote several trenchant See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets, among them the " Remarks " and " Further Remarks " on Bentley's Proposals for a New Edition of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Testament, an endeavour to visit his grievances upon the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of the New Testament . In 1723 he was involved in a lawsuit by personalities against Bentley, which had found their way into his otherwise judicious See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract on library See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration, written on the occasion of his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as university librarian . In 1726 he offended the medical profession by a dissertation contending that the healing See also:

• ART

art among the ancients was only exercised by slaves or freedmen . Between the See also:

• DATES

dates of these publications he visited See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, and made those observations on the See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan origin of See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church ceremonies and beliefs which he subsequently embodied in his See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

Letter from See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome (1729) . This cogent tract probably contributed to prepare the See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm which See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out against him on his next publication (1731) . In his remonstrance with See also:

• DANIEL
• DANIEL (DANIL)
• DANIEL, BOOK
• DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)

Daniel Waterland on occasion of the latter's reply to See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew See also:

• TINDAL, MATTHEW (d. 1733)

Tindal's See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity as Old as the Creation, Middleton takes a See also:

• LINE

line which in his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day could hardly fail to expose him to the reproach of infidelity . He gives up the literal truth of the primeval See also:

• MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Mosaic narratives; and, in professing to indicate a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and easy method of confuting Tindal, See also:

• LAYS

lays See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal stress on the indispensableness of Christianity as a mainstay of social 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 . This was to resign nearly every-thing that divines of the Waterland See also:

• STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp thought See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth defending . Middleton was warmly assailed from many quarters, and retreated with some difficulty under See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover of a sheaf of apologetic pamphlets and a more See also:

• REGULAR

regular attendance at church .

His next important publication was a See also:

• LIFE

Life of See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (1741), largely told in that statesman's own words . Though Middleton's reputation was much enhanced by this piece of See also:

• WORK

work, there is no doubt that he See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew largely from the scarce See also:

• BOOK

book of 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 See also:

• BELLENDEN (BALLANTYNE Or BANNATYNE), JOHN (fl. 1533-1587)
• BELLENDEN, WILLIAM

Bellenden, De tribes luminibus Romanorum . The work was undertaken at the instance of 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 See also:

• HERVEY, JAMES (1714–1758)

Hervey, in See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with whom also originated his disquisition on The See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate, published in 1747 . The same See also:

• YEAR

year and the following produced the most important of all his writings, the See also:

• INTRODUCTORY

Introductory Discourse and the See also:

• FREE

Free Inquiry " concerning the miraculous See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers which are supposed to have subsisted in the church from the earliest ages." In combating this belief Middleton indirectly established two propositions of See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital importance . He showed that ecclesiastical miracles must be accepted or rejected in the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass; and he distinguished between the authority due to the See also:

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

early fathers' testimony to the beliefs and practices of their times, and their very slender credibility as witnesses to matters of fact . Some individual grudge seems to have prompted him to expose, in 1750, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop See also:

• SHERLOCK, THOMAS (1678-1761)
• SHERLOCK, WILLIAM (c. 1641-1707)

Sherlock's See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric notions of antediluvian prophecy, which had been published 25 years before . On the 28th of See also:

• JULY

July 1750 he died at Hildersham, near Cambridge . Middleton's most ambitious work is obsolete from no See also:

• FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault of his, but his controversial writings retain a permanent See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion . In his more restricted See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere he may not inappropriately be compared with See also:

• LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729–1781)

Lessing . Like Lessing's, the See also:

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

character of his See also:

• INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)

intellect was captious and iconoclastic, but redeemed from See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere negation by a See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion for abstract truth, too See also:

• APT

apt to slumber until called into activity by some merely See also:

• PERSONAL

personal stimulus . His diction is generally masculine and harmonious . 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 thought him and Nathaniel See also:

• HOOKE, ROBERT (1635–1703)

Hooke the younger the only See also:

• PROSE

prose writers of the day who deserved to be cited as authorities on the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language .

See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel See also:

• PARR
• PARR, CATHERINE (1512-1548)
• PARR, SAMUEL (1747-1825)
• PARR, THOMAS (c. 1483—1635)

Parr, while exposing his plagiarisms, heaps encomiums on his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . But his See also:

• BES, or BESAS (Egyp. Bes or Besa)

bes . qualities, his impatience of superstition and disdain of mere See also:

• EXTERNAL

external authority, are rather moral than See also:

• LITERARY

literary . The best See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general view of his intellectual character and See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence is to be found in See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• LESLIE, SIR JOHN (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

Leslie See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen's English Thought in the Eighteenth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century, ch. vi . A handsome edition of his See also:

• WORKS

works, containing several See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous tracts, but not including the Life of Cicero, appeared in 4 vols. in 1952 and in 5 vols. in 1755 .