Robert Lowth information

Robert Lowth FRS (/laʊð/ LOWDH; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of...

Colin Lowth (born 1987), English swimmer Edward Lowth Badeley (1803/1804–1868), English lawyer John Lowth (1822–1877), American lawyer Robert Lowth (1710–1787)...

understood to cancel one another and produce a weakened affirmative (see the Robert Lowth citation below): this is known as litotes. However, depending on how...

English-language prescriptivists, including influential 18th-century grammarian Robert Lowth, than is exclusively a conjunction and therefore takes either nominative...

nature of languages evidenced from distribution. For example, a cleric, Robert Lowth, introduced the rule to never end a sentence with a preposition, inspired...

18th century scholar Robert Lowth is cited as the originator of the prescriptive rule, such a rule is not to be found in Lowth's writing, and is not known...

thought[by whom?] to have been based on the norms of Latin grammar. Robert Lowth is frequently cited [by whom?][citation needed] as having done so,[clarification...

several uses of the genitive case. This began to change in 1762 with Robert Lowth, whose use of possessive was copied by subsequent writers. One result...

In Jarick, John (ed.). Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc. T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-02932-4. Newsom, Carol Ann...

English grammars and the first written by a woman.[citation needed] Robert Lowth, Bishop of Oxford and thereafter of London, scholar of Hebrew poetry...

whose date from the late 18th century. In 1764, the English grammarian Robert Lowth disapproved of the inanimate whose except in "the higher Poetry, which...

on 8 May 1731, the youngest of the 19 children of Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Porteus (d. 1758/9), a planter. Although the family was of Scottish ancestry...

Shaftesbury, politician and author William Somervile, poet Edward Young, poet Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian William Whitehead...

(1790–1868), Peninsular War veteran, inventor and North End resident Robert Lowth (1710–1787), Bishop of London Henry Montgomery Campbell (1887–1970),...

Musäus, German author and collector of folk tales (b. 1735) November 3 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (b. 1710) November 4 – Johan Daniel Berlin...

In Jarick, John (ed.). Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc. T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-02932-4. Grieve, Alexander...

William Lowth D.D. (1660–1732) was an English clergyman, known as a Biblical commentator. He was the son of William Lowth, an apothecary, who was burnt...

walls are continually before Me. Biblical translator and commentator Robert Lowth suggests that there was "some practice, common among the Jews at that...

poetry remained unavailable for European Christians until 1754, when Robert Lowth (later made a bishop in the Church of England), kinder to the Hebrew...

Robert de Sigello (died 1150) was a medieval Bishop of London and Lord Chancellor of England. Robert was keeper of the king's seal, usually known as Lord...

prescriptionist usage commentators, Robert Lowth, published A Short Introduction to English Grammar in 1762. Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the...

more than the former; [...] At a period, make a full stop; In 1762, in Robert Lowth's A Short Introduction to English Grammar, a parallel is drawn between...

– John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (b. 1666) 1787 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (b. 1710) 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French...

physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744) 1710 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (d. 1787) 1746 – Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician...

set to the school. Thomas Ken (1637–1711) George Hooper (1640–1727) Robert Lowth (1710–1787) "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics...