See also:FREDERICK 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:ROBERTSON (1816-1853)
, See also:English divine, known as See also:Robertson of See also:Brighton, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:February 1816_ The first five years of his See also:life were passed at See also:Leith Fort, where his See also:father, a See also:captain in the Royal See also:Artillery, was then See also:resident
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The military spirit entered into his See also:blood, and throughout life he was characterized by the; qualities of the ideal soldier
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In 1821 Captain Robertson retired to See also:Beverley, where the boy was educated
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At the See also:age of fourteen he spent a See also:year at See also:Tours, from which he returned to See also:Scotland, and continued his See also:education at the See also:Edinburgh See also:Academy. and university
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In 1834 he was articled to a See also:solicitor in See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, but the uncongenial and sedentary employment soon See also:broke down his See also:health
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He was anxious for a military career, and his name was placed upon the See also:list
to return to See also:Cheltenham, but after doing See also:duty for two months at St Ebbe's,.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 entered in See also:August 2847 on his famous See also:ministry at Trinity See also:Chapel, Brighton
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Here he stepped at once into the foremost See also:rank as a preacher, and his 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 was thronged with thoughtful men of all classes in society and of all shades of religious belief
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His See also:fine See also:appearance, his flexible and sympathetic See also:voice, his See also:manifest sincerity, the perfect lucidity and See also:artistic symmetry of his address, and the brilliance with which he illustrated his points would have attracted hearers even had he had little to say
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But he had much to say, He was not, indeed, a scientific theologian; but his in-sight into the principles of the spiritutal life was unrivalled
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As his biographer says, thousands found in his sermons " a living source of impulse, a See also:practical direction of thought, a See also:key to many of the problems of See also:theology, and above all a path to spiritual freedom." His closing years were full of sadness
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His sensitive nature was subjected to extreme suffering, arising mainly from the opposition aroused by ' his sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of the 1848 See also:epoch
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Moreover, he was crippled by incipient: disease of the See also:brain, which at first inflicted unconquerable lassitude and depression, and latterly agonizing See also:pain
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On the 5th of See also:June 1853 he preached for the last See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and on the 15th of August he died
.
Robertson's published See also:works include five volumes of sermons, two volumes of expository lectures, on See also:Genesis and on the epistles to the See also:Corinthians, a See also:volume of See also:miscellaneous addresses, and an
See also:Analysis of " In Memoriam." See Life and Letters by Stopford A
.
See also:Brooke (1865)
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