See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN See also:FARQUHAR See also:TUPPER (1810--1889)
, See also:English writer, the author of Proverbial See also:Philosophy, was See also:born in See also:London on the 17th of See also:July 181o
.
He was the son of See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin See also:Tupper, a See also:doctor, who came of an old Huguenot See also:family
.
He was educated at See also:Charterhouse and at See also:Christ 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, 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, where he gained a See also:prize for a theological See also:essay, See also:Gladstone being second to him
.
He was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, but never practised
.
He began a See also:long career of authorship in 1832 with Sacra Poesis, and in 1838 he published Geraldine, and other Poems, and for fifty years was fertile in producing both See also:verse and See also:prose; but his name is indissolubly connected with his long See also:series of didactic moralisings in See also:blank verse, the Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1867), which for about twenty-five years enjoyed an extraordinary popularity that has ever since been the cause of persistent See also:satire
.
The first See also:part was, however, a See also:comparative failure, and N
.
P
.
See also:Willis, the See also:American author, took it to be a forgotten See also:work of the 17th See also:century
.
The See also:commonplace See also:character of Tupper's reflections is indubitable, and his blank verse is only prose cut up into suitable lengths; but the Proverbial Philosophy was full of a perfectly genuine moral and religious feeling, and contained many See also:apt and striking expressions
.
By these qualities it appealed to a large and uncritical See also:section of the public
.
A genial, warm-hearted See also:man, Tupper's humane instincts prompted him to espouse many reforming movements; he was an See also:early supporter of the Volunteer See also:movement, and did much to promote See also:good relations with See also:America
.
He was also a See also:mechanical inventor in a small way
.
In 1886 he published My See also:Life as an Author; and on the 29th of See also:November 1889 he died at See also:Albury, See also:Surrey
.
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