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English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”
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Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.
* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )
* 1787 – Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar ( b. 1710 )
* 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar ( b. 1654 )
Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.
* 1599 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( d. 1671 )
Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".
The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.
Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.
* 1715 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar ( b. 1642 )
* 1584 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar ( d. 1654 )
* 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar ( b. 1695 )
The Countess of Oxford was the half-sister of Arthur Golding, the scholar who translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into English.
The scholar Harvey Wheeler attributed to Bacon, in his work " Francis Bacon's Verulamium-the Common Law Template of The Modern in English Science and Culture ", the creation of these distinguishing features of the modern common law system:
English scholar Chloe Chard ’ s published introduction to The Romance of the Forest refers to the “ promised effect of terror ”.
English scholar Peter Heather called the Huns " the first group of Turkic, as opposed to Iranian, nomads to have intruded into Europe ".
Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).
Henry Ainsworth ( 1571 – 1622 ) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar.
* 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English schoolmaster and scholar ( b. 1575 )
* 1704 – John Taylor, English scholar ( d. 1766 )
* 1776 – Jeremiah Markland, English scholar ( b. 1693 )
English and Russell
The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
* 1980 – Russell Kane English comedian, actor, and writer
* 1947 – Willy Russell, English playwright an composer
* 1971 – Russell Payne, English author
* 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English writer ( d. 1855 )
When talking to FBI interrogators Russell Fincher and Marty Mahon, he seemed " genuinely friendly " and spoke chiefly in English, calling for a translator only when necessary.
* 1946 – Russell Ash, English author
* 1927 – Ken Russell, English director ( d. 2011 )
* 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )
* 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer, and philosopher, Nobel laureate ( d. 1970 )
* 1981 – Russell Lissack, English musician ( Bloc Party, Pin Me Down and Ash )
* 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
* 1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
* 1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor
Although Bismarck hoped to become a diplomat, he started his practical training as a lawyer in Aachen and Potsdam, and soon resigned, having first placed his career in jeopardy by taking unauthorized leave to pursue two English girls, first Laura Russell, niece of the Duke of Cleveland, and then Isabella Loraine-Smith, daughter of a wealthy clergyman.
" Russell uses the word class in a sense that might or might not correspond neatly to any identifiable ordinary English use of the word ; so we might say that he is not using ordinary language, but jargon.
Russell Crowe captained the ' Australian ' Team containing Steve Waugh against an English side in the ' Hollywood Ashes ' Cricket Match.
* 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician ( d. 1771 )
Both English translations of Tractatus include an introduction by Bertrand Russell.
* December 7 – Clive Russell, English actor
* December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( d. 1855 )
* May 18 – Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ( d. 1970 )
* January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )
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