Bible Encyclopedias

Bentham, George
botanist, born near plymouth, nephew of jeremy and editor of his works, besides a writer on botany (1800-1884).

Bertin, Pierre
introduced stenography into france, invented by taylor in england (1751-1819).

Blackstone, Sir William
An eminent jurist and judge, born in London, the son of a silk-mercer; was fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 1746 called to the bar; became

Coleridge, Hartley
An English man of letters, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born at Clevedon, Somerset; lived with his father in the Lake District, and grew up

Coleridge, Henry Nelson
nephew of samuel taylor coleridge, and a great admirer; editor of many of his works, his "table talk" in especial (1800-1843).

Dromore
a cathedral town in co. down, ireland, 17 m. sw. of belfast, of which jeremy taylor was bishop.

Dumont, Louis
a french publicist, born at geneva, a friend of mirabeau, memoirs of whom he wrote, and who, coming to england, formed a close intimacy with jeremy bentham, and became his disciple and expounder (1759-1829).

Hadleigh
An interesting old market-town of Suffolk, on the Bret, 9½ m. W. of Ipswich; its cloth trade dates back to 1331; Guthrum, the Danish king, died

Mill, James
Economist, born in Logie Pert, near Montrose, the son of a shoemaker, bred for the Church; was a disciple of Locke and Jeremy Bentham; wrote a "History

Mill, John Stuart
Logician and economist, born in London, son of the preceding; was edu cated pedantically by his father; began to learn Greek at 3, could read it and

Oxford University
Oxford is spoken of as a seat of learning as early as the 11th century. Cloistral schools existed before that. Schools of divinity, law, and topography

Philips, Katherine
Poetess, born in London; was the daughter of a London merchant and the wife of a Welsh squire, a highly sentimental but worthy woman; the Society of

Shakespeare of Divines
an epithet sometimes applied to jeremy taylor (q. v .) on account of his poetic style.

Sothern, Edward Askew
Comedian, born in Liverpool; at 23 went on the stage, and for some time was a member of the stock company of the Theatre Royal, Birmingham; afterwards

United States, Presidents of
George Washington (1789-1797); John Adams (1797-1801); Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809); James Maddison (1809-1817); James Munroe (1817-1825); John Quincy

Utilitarianism
The theory which makes happiness the end of life and the test of virtue, and maintains that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote