Purchas, Samuel

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• Samuel

  heard of God; asked of God ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Samuel

  Heard of God. The peculiar circumstances connected with his birth are recorded in 1 Sam. 1:20. Hanna...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Samuel

  was the son of Elkanah and Hannah, and was born at Ramathaim-zophim, among the hills of Ephraim. [Ra...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bishop, Samuel

  (1731-1795) Poet, b. in London, and ed. at Merchant Taylor's School and Oxf., took orders and becam...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Butler, Samuel

  1) (1612-1680) Satirist, was the s. of a Worcestershire farmer. In early youth he was page to the C...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Clarke, Samuel

  (1675-1729) Divine and metaphysician, b. at Norwich, was ed. at Camb., where he became the friend a...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Daniel, Samuel

  (1562-1619) Poet, s. of a music master, was b. near Taunton, and ed. at Oxf., but did not graduate....

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Foote, Samuel

  (1720-1777) Actor and dramatist, b. at Truro of a good family, and ed. at Oxf., succeeded by his ex...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Johnson, Samuel

  1) (1649-1703) Political writer, sometimes called "the Whig" to distinguish him from his great name...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Lover, Samuel

  (1797-1868) Song-writer and novelist, was a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He produced a...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Pepys, Samuel

  (1633-1703) Diarist, s. of John P., a London tailor, but of good family and connected with Sir E. M...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Phillips, Samuel

  (1814-1854) Novelist, of Jewish descent, studied for the Church at Göttingen and Camb., but his f. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Pordage, Samuel

  (1633-1691?) Poet, s. of a clergyman in Berks, ed. at Merchant Taylor's School, studied law at Linc...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Richardson, Samuel

  (1689-1761) Novelist, s. of a joiner, was b. at Derby. His f. had intended him for the Church, but ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Rogers, Samuel

  (1763-1855) Poet, s. of a banker in London, received a careful private education, and entered the b...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Rutherford, Samuel

  (1600?-1661) Theologian and controversialist, b. at Nisbet, Roxburghshire, ed. at Edin. Univ., wher...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Smiles, Samuel

  (1812-1904) Biographer and miscellaneous writer, b. at Haddington, ed. at the Grammar School there,...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Warren, Samuel

  (1807-1877) Novelist, b. in Denbighshire, s. of a Nonconformist minister. After studying medicine a...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Samuel, Books of

  The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, wh...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  (1772-1834) Poet, philosopher, and critic, s. of the Rev. John C., vicar and schoolmaster of Ottery...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Ferguson, Sir Samuel

  (1810-1886) Poet and antiquary, b. at Belfast, the s. of parents of Scottish extraction, he was ed....

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

  (1829-1902) Historian, b. at Alresford, Hants, was ed. at Winchester and Oxf. In 1855 he m. Isabell...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Garth, Sir Samuel

  (1661-1719) Physician and poet, b. at Bolam in the county of Durham, and ed. at Camb., he settled a...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Parr, Dr. Samuel

  (1747-1825) Scholar, s. of an apothecary at Harrow, where and at Camb. he was ed. He was successive...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Butcher, Samuel Henry

  LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Scholar. Prose Translation of the Odyssey (1879), with A. Lang, Some Aspects...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

  (see Twain, Mark). ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Crockett, Samuel Rutherford

  (b. 1860) Novelist and poet. The Stickit Minister (1893), The Raiders (1894), Lilac Sunbonnet (1894...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Lilly, William Samuel

  (b. 1840) Philosopher, etc. Ancient Religion and Modern Thought (1884), Chapters in European Histor...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Samuel, Books Of

  are not separated from each other in the Hebrew MSS., and, from a critical point of view, must be re...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Baker, Sir Samuel White

  (1821-1893) Traveller, b. in London, and after being a planter in Ceylon, and superintending the co...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton

  (1762-1837) Bibliographer and genealogist, ed. at Camb., was called to the Bar in 1787. He wrote so...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Sir Samuel Barnardiston's House

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  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.