1758 in literature - 1758 in literature See also: 1757 in literature, other events of 1758, 1759 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events Voltaire buys estate at Ferney Annual Register founded by Edmund Burke and Robert Dodsley New Books Births October 16 - Noah Webster Deaths.
1757 in literature - 1757 in literature See also: 1756 in literature, other events of 1757, 1758 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University. Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais. Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the Gloucester Journal. Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain. Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford New Books Douglas (play) - John Home The Natural History of Religion - David Hume Odes - Thomas Gray Births November 18 - William Blake Deaths.
1759 in literature - 1759 in literature See also: 1758 in literature, other events of 1759, 1760 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths Events New Books Candide - Voltaire Fables - Gotthold Lessing Rasselas - Samuel Johnson Births January 25 : Robert Burns April 27 : Mary Wollstonecraft November 10 : Friedrich Schiller Deaths August 24 : Ewald Christian von Kleist William Collins (poet).
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) - Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 - January 7, 1758), Scottish poet, was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire. He was educated at the parish school of Crawford, and in 1701 was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh. He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances. His first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate. In the society of the members he assumed the name of "Isaac Bickerstaff," and later of "Gawin Douglas," the latter partly in.
List of years in literature - List of years in literature This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - Pre 1710s 2000s 2003 in literature - 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan 2001 in literature - Life of Pi - Yann Martel 2000 in literature - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published, and creator Charles Schulz dies soon.
Literature of Quebec - Literature of Quebec XVIth and XVIIth centuries During this period, the society of New France was being built with great difficulty. The French merchants contracted to transport colonists did not respect their end of the bargain, the French and their Indian allies are at war with the Iroquois, allied to the English until 1701 etc. In spite of this, some notable documents were produced in the early days of the colonization and they were be passed down from generation to generation until today. The Voyage of Jacques Cartier, the Muses de la Nouvelle-France of Marc Lescarbot, the Voyages of Samuel de Champlain are memories of the exploration of North America and the foundation of New France. The Relations des jésuites, Le Grand voyage au pays des.
J. W. L. Gleim - Gleim was the title accorded to him throughout all literary Germany on account of his kind-hearted though inconsiderate and undiscriminating patronage alike of the poets and poetasters of the period. He wrote a large number of feeble imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a dull didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch (1774), and collections of fables and romances. Of higher merit are his Preussische Kriegslieder von einem Grenadier (1758). These, which were inspired by the campaigns of Frederick II., are often distinguished by genuine feeling and vigorous force of expression. They are also noteworthy as being the first of that long series of noble political songs in which later German literature is so rich. With this exception, Gleims writings are for the most part tamely commonplace in thought.
James Macpherson - Edinburgh, but took no degree. He is said to have written over 4000 lines of verse while a student, but though some of this was published, notably The Highlander (1758), he afterwards tried to suppress it. On leaving college, he returned to Ruthven to teach in the school there. At Moffat he met John Home, the author of Douglas, for whom he recited some Gaelic verses from memory. He also showed him manuscripts of Gaelic poetry, supposed to have been picked up in the Highlands, and, encouraged by Home and others, he produced a number of pieces translated from the Gaelic, which he was induced to publish at Edinburgh in 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland. Dr Hugh Blair, who was a firm believer in.
Johann David Michaelis - encouraged by the Lutheranism in which he had been trained. A visit to England in 1741-1742 lifted him out of the narrow groove of his earlier education. In passing through the Netherlands he made the acquaintance of Albert Schultens, whose influence on his philological views became allpowerful a few years later. At Halle Michaelis felt himself out of place, and in 1745 he gladly accepted an invitation to Göttingen as Privatdozent. In 1746 he became professor extraordinarius, in 1750 ordinarius, and in Göttingen he remained till his death in 1791. His intellect was active in many directions; universal learning indeed was perhaps one of his foibles. Literature--modern as well as ancient--occupied his attention; one of his works was a translation of four parts of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; and translations of some.
Johann Jakob Reiske - to the university of Leipzig, and there spent five years. He tried to find his own way in Greek literature, to which German schools then gave little attention; but, as he had not mastered the grammar, he soon found this a sore task and took up Arabic. He was very poor, having almost nothing beyond his allowance, which for the five years was only two hundred thalers. But everything of which he could cheat his appetite was spent on Arabic books, and when he had read all that was then printed he thirsted for manuscripts, and in March 1738 started on foot for Hamburg, joyous though totally unprovided, on his way to Leiden and the treasures of the Warnerianum. At Hamburg he got some money and letters of recommendation from the.
Johann August Ernesti - In 1730 he was made master in the faculty of philosophy. In the following year he accepted the office of conrector in the Thomas school of Leipzig, of which JM Gesner was then rector, an office to which Ernesti succeeded in 1734. He was, in 1742, named professor extraordinarius of ancient literature in the university of Leipzig, and in 1756 professor ordinarius of rhetoric. In the same year he received the degree of doctor of theology, and in 1759 was appointed professor ordinarius in the faculty of theology. Through his learning and his manner of discussion, he co-operated with SJ Baumgarten of Halle (1706-1757) in disengaging the current dogmatic theology from its many scholastic and mystical excrescences, and thus paved a way for a revolution in theology. He died, after a.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann - school at Salzwedel, and in 1738 was induced to go as a student of theology to Halle. But he was no theologian, and he soon devoted himself with enthusiasm to Greek art and literature. With the intention of becoming a physician he attended medical classes at Jena; but means were insufficient and he was obliged to accept a tutorship near Magdeburg. From 1743 to 1748 he was associate-rector of a school at Seehausen in the Altmark. He then went to Nothenitz near Dresden as librarian to Count Henry von Bünau, for whose history of the Holy Roman Empire he collected materials. The treasures in the Dresden gallery awakened an intense interest in art, which was deepened by association with various artists, and especially with AF Oeser, who afterwards exercised so powerful.
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer - father’s lifetime, was the son of George John, 2nd Earl (1758—1834), grandson of John (1734—1783), created 1st Earl Spencer in 1765, and great-grandson of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. His father served in the ministries of Pitt, Fox and Grenville, and was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1794—1801; and his interest in literature was shown in his attention to the Althorp library, inherited from the 3rd Earl of Sunderland, which he developed into the finest private library in Europe; his wife, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl Lucan, was conspicuous in London society for her gaiety and brightness. Their eldest son, John Charles, was born at Spencer House, London, on 30 May 1782. In 1800 he took up his residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, and for some time.
July 25 - VIII Palaeologus, allowing the re-creation of the Byzantine Empire. 1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. 1758 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. *1759 - French and Indian War: In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. 1799 - At Aboukir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara for General Riall's British and Canadian force, and bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americanss commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie. 1861 - American.
History of anatomy in the 17th and 18th centuries - of the brain more accurate than heretofore, and gave particular accounts of the intestinal tube, the pancreatic duct and the hepatic ligaments (1678). That France might not be without participation in the glory of advancing the progress of anatomical knowledge, the names of Joseph Guichard Duverney and Vieussens are commemorated with distinction. Duverney, born in 1648, and first introduced into public life in 1676 in the Royal Academy of Sciences, decorated with the honorary title of professor of anatomy to the dauphin, and appointed in 1679 professor at the Jardin Royal, distinguished himself by the first accurate account of the organ of hearing, and by his dissections of several animals at the academy supplied valuable materials for the anatomical details of the natural history of animals published by that learned body..
Unitarianism - leading theologian, of Jonas Schlichting (Szlichtyng), their chief commentator, of Sozzini and of Johann Ludwig Wolzogen; the title-page of this collection, bearing the words quos Unitarios vocant, introduced this term to Western Europe. Transylvania and Hungary No distinct trace of anti-Trinitarian opinion precedes the appearance of Biandrata at the Transylvanian court in 1563. His influence was exerted on Francis David (1510 - 1579), who was successively Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist and anti-Trinitarian. In 1564 David was elected by the Calvinists as "bishop of the Hungarian churches in Transylvania," and appointed court preacher to John Sigismund, prince of Transylvania. His discussion of the Trinity began (1565) with doubts of the personality of the Holy Ghost. His antagonist in public disputations was the Calvinist leader, Peter Juhász (Melius); his supporter was Blandrata. John Sigismund,.
Great Apostasy - in these pollutions deceitfully in order to escape detection. Compromise with natural religion Especially in the worship of the Church, the Reformers viewed the Roman Catholic Mass as an amalgam of superstitious inventions more reminiscent of a pagan mystery rite, than of the simple discipline taught by the apostles and practiced by the early church. Protestants tend to think of many of the Catholic Holy days, and most of the rituals, as accommodations to the popular tastes of unconverted people through the centuries, incompatible with biblical faith. Natural tastes for pomp and ceremony, and the sort of natural belief in mana and fetishism that seem universal in unrevealed religions, and the natural man's wish to have sacred places to pray in, and sacred objects that enable mortals to touch the divine,.
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Messias, upon which his fame mainly rests. On September 21 1745 he delivered on quitting school a remarkable "leaving oration" on epic poetry--Abschiedsrede über die epische Poesie, kultur- und literargeschichtlich erläutert--and next proceeded to Jena as a student of theology, where he elaborated the first three cantos of the Messias in prose. The life at this university being uncongenial to him, he removed in the spring of 1746 to Leipzig, and here joined the circle of young men of letters who contributed to the Bremer Beiträge. In this periodical the first three cantos of the Messias in hexameters were anonymously published in 1748. A new era in German literature had commenced, and the name of the author soon became known. In Leipzig he also wrote a number of odes, the best.
Edward Young - way to Nice. Her husband and Lady Elizabeth Young died in 1740. These successive deaths are supposed to be the events referred to in the Night Thoughts as taking place "ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn". In the preface to the poem Young states that the occasion of the poem was real, and Philander and Narcissa have been rather rashly identified with Mr and Mrs Temple. It has also been suggested that Philander represents Thomas Tickell, an old friend of Young's, who died three months after Lady Elizabeth Young. The infidel Lorenzo was thought by some to be a sketch of Young's own son, but he was only eight years old at the time of publication. The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, was published in.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow - degree (1751). He was for some time articled to a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn along with the poet Cowper, but in 1754 was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, and subsequently went on the western circuit, at first with little success. But in the case of Luke Robinson v. The Earl of Winchelsea (1758) Thurlow came into collision with Sir Fletcher Norton, afterwards 1st Baron Grantley (1716-1789), then the terror of solicitors and the tyrant of the bar, and put down his arrogance with dignity and success. From this time his practice increased rapidly. In 1761 he was made a King's Counsel, through the influence of the Duchess of Queensberry. In 1762 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple. Thurlow now with some hesitation entered himself into.
