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The Abbé Cotin
Language; Encyclopedias
A French preacher, born in Paris; a butt of the sarcasm of Molière and Boileau (1604-1682)
William Dampier
Language; Encyclopedias
An English navigator and buccaneer; led a roving and adventurous life, and parting company with his comrades, set off on a cruise in the South Seas; came home and published a "Voyage Round the ...
William Paul Corssen
Language; Encyclopedias
A learned German philologist, born at Bremen; made a special study of the Latin languages, and especially the Etruscan, which he laboured to prove was cognate with that of the Romans and of the races ...
William Henry Mahoney Christie
Language; Encyclopedias
Astronomer-royal, born at Woolwich, of Trinity College, Cambridge; author of "Manual of Elementary Astronomy"; b. 1845.
William John Conybeare
Language; Encyclopedias
Son of the preceding; author, along with Dean Howson, of the "Life and Epistles of St. Paul," and of an "Essay on Church Parties" (1815-1857).
William George Clarke
Language; Encyclopedias
English man of letters; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; edited the "Cambridge Shakespeare," along with Mr. Aldis Wright (1821-1867).
Zerah Colburn
Language; Encyclopedias
An American youth, with an astonishing power of calculation, born in Vermont, and exhibited as such, a faculty which he lost when he grew up to manhood (1804-1840).
