See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• SIR THOMAS NORTH (1535?-16o1?)

NORTH (1535?-16o1?)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English translator of See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch, second son of the 1st See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1535 . He is supposed to have been a student of Peterhouse, .See also:

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

Cambridge, and was entered at See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln's See also:

• INN

Inn in 1557 . In 1574 he accompanied his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, 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 North, on a visit to the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French 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 . He served as See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in the See also:

• YEAR

year of the See also:

• ARMADA, THE

Armada, and was knighted about three years later . His name is on the See also:

• ROLL (O. Fr. rolle, roulle, mod. role, Lat. rotulus, dim. of rota, wheel)
• ROLL, ALFRED PHILIPPE (1846– )

roll of justices of the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace for Cambridge in 1592 and again in 1597, and he received a small See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension (l4o a year) from the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen in 16o, . A third edition of his Plutarch was published, in 1603, with a supplement of other translated See also:

• BIOGRAPHIES

biographies . He translated, in 1557, See also:

• GUEVARA, ANTONIO DE (c. 1490-1544)
• GUEVARA, LUIS VELEZ DE (1579-1644)

Guevara's Reloj de Principes (commonly known as Libro Aureo), a compendium of moral counsels chiefly compiled from the Meditations of See also:

• MARCUS

Marcus Aurelius, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Diall of Princes . The English of this See also:

• WORK

work is one of the earliest specimens of the ornate, copious and pointed See also:

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

style for which educated See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Englishmen had acquired a See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste in their See also:

• CONTINENTAL

Continental travels and studies . North translated from a French copy of Guevara, but seems to have been well acquainted with the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish version . The See also:

• BOOK

book had already been translated by Lord See also:

• BERNERS, BARNES
• BERNERS, JOHN BOURCHIER, 2ND BARON (1469-1533)

Berners, but without reproducing the rhetorical artifices of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . North's version, with its mannerisms and its See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant use of See also:

• ANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite ")

antithesis, set the See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion which was to culminate in See also:

• LYLY (LILLY, or LYLIE), JOHN (1553–1606)

Lyly's Euphues . His next work was The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570), a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of an See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian collection of eastern fables .

The first edition of his translation of Plutarch, from the French of Jacques See also:

• AMYOT, JACQUES (1513-1593)

Amyot, appeared in 1579 . The first edition was dedicated to Queen See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth, and was followed by other See also:

• EDITIONS

editions in 1595 and 1603, containing in each See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case fresh Lives . It is almost impossible to over-estimate the See also:

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

influence of North's vigorous English on contemporary writers, and some critics have called him the first See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of English See also:

• PROSE

prose . The book formed the source from which See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew the materials for his See also:

• JULIUS

Julius See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar, See also:

• CORIOLANUS, GAIUS (or GNAEUS)14IARCIUS

Coriolanus and Antony and See also:

• CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra . It is in the last-named See also:

• PLAY

play that he follows the Lives most closely, whole speeches being taken See also:

• DIRECT

direct from North . North's Plutarch was reprinted for the " Tudor See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

Translations " (1895), with an introduction by See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• WYNDHAM, SIR CHARLES (1837— )
• WYNDHAM, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Wyndham .