See also:FREDERICK APTHORP See also:PALEY (1815-1888)
, See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Easingwold in See also:Yorkshire on the 14th of See also:January 1815
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He was the See also:grandson 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:Paley, and was educated at See also:Shrewsbury school and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge (B.A
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1838)
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His See also:conversion to See also:Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, but he returned in 186o and resumed his See also:work as " See also:coach," until in 1874 he was appointed See also:professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman See also:Catholic University at See also:Kensington
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This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe, where he died on the 8th of See also:December 1888
.
His most important See also:editions are: See also:Aeschylus, with Latin notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted See also:attention; Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879), See also:Euripides (2nd ed., 1872), See also:Hesiod (2nd ed., 1883), See also:Homer's Iliad (2nd ed., 1884), See also:Sophocles, See also:Philoctetes, See also:Electra, Trachiniae, See also:Ajax (188o)—all with English commentary and forming See also:part of the Bibliotheca classica; select private orations of See also:Demosthenes (3rd ed., 1896-1898); See also:Theocritus (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his See also:minor See also:works
.
He possessed considerable knowledge of See also:architecture, and published a See also:Manual of See also:Gothic Architecture (1846) and Manual of Gothic See also:Mouldings (6th ed., 1902)
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