Critical and Historical Essays - Volume 2 - Thomas Babington Macaulay (best book club books txt) 📗
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Vitruvius, contemporary with Julius Caesar and author of a famous work on Architecture
Vossius, Gerard, Dutch philologist and friend of Grotius; the historian of Pelagianism (1577-1649)
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, friend of Pope, and author of the Divine Legation of Moses and other theological and legal works (1698-1779)
Wild, Jonathan, a detective who turned villain and was executed for burglary in 1725; the hero of one of Fielding's stories
Williams, Archbishop of York (and opponent of Laud) in the time of Charles I.; Vernon, Archbishop of York, 1807. The tenure of the See of York seems to be the only parallel
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, Ambassador to Berlin (1746-49). His satires against Walpole's opponents are easy and humorous (d. 1759)
Will's. See Button's
Windham, Rt. Hon. William, Secretary of War under Pitt and again in 1806. In his Diary is an account of Johnson's last days (1750- 1810)
Windsor, poor Knights of, a body of military pensioners who reside within the precincts of Windsor Castle
Witwould, Sir Wilful. Set Congreve's The Way of the World
Wronghead, Sir Francis, Vanbrugh and Cibber's The Provoked Husband
XIMENES, Cardinal, statesman, and regent (1436-1517)
ZADIG, the title-character of a novel by Voltaire, dealing with the fatalistic aspect of human life
Zephon, the cherub sent with Ithuriel by Gabriel to find out the whereabouts of Satan after his flight from hell
Zimri in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel stands for the second Duke of Buckingham (for the original see 3 Kings xvi. 9)
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Vitruvius, contemporary with Julius Caesar and author of a famous work on Architecture
Vossius, Gerard, Dutch philologist and friend of Grotius; the historian of Pelagianism (1577-1649)
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, friend of Pope, and author of the Divine Legation of Moses and other theological and legal works (1698-1779)
Wild, Jonathan, a detective who turned villain and was executed for burglary in 1725; the hero of one of Fielding's stories
Williams, Archbishop of York (and opponent of Laud) in the time of Charles I.; Vernon, Archbishop of York, 1807. The tenure of the See of York seems to be the only parallel
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, Ambassador to Berlin (1746-49). His satires against Walpole's opponents are easy and humorous (d. 1759)
Will's. See Button's
Windham, Rt. Hon. William, Secretary of War under Pitt and again in 1806. In his Diary is an account of Johnson's last days (1750- 1810)
Windsor, poor Knights of, a body of military pensioners who reside within the precincts of Windsor Castle
Witwould, Sir Wilful. Set Congreve's The Way of the World
Wronghead, Sir Francis, Vanbrugh and Cibber's The Provoked Husband
XIMENES, Cardinal, statesman, and regent (1436-1517)
ZADIG, the title-character of a novel by Voltaire, dealing with the fatalistic aspect of human life
Zephon, the cherub sent with Ithuriel by Gabriel to find out the whereabouts of Satan after his flight from hell
Zimri in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel stands for the second Duke of Buckingham (for the original see 3 Kings xvi. 9)
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