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Samuel Wesley (poet)

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Samuel Wesley (baptised 17 December 1662 – 25 April 1735) was a clergyman of the Church of England, as well as a poet and a writer of controversial prose. [1]

70 relations: Anglicanism, Aristotle, Athanasius Kircher, Augustan Reprint Society, Charles Morton (educator), Charles Wesley, Church of England, Copyright, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Daniel Defoe, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dissenting academies, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorset, Edmund Spenser, Edward Veel, English Dissenters, Epworth, Lincolnshire, Exeter College, Oxford, Friedrich Spanheim, Grammar school, Henry Hammond, Henry Sacheverell, Horace, Hudibras, Hugo Grotius, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, John Dryden, John Dunton, John Milton, John Norris (philosopher), John Tillotson, John Wesley, John Westley, John White (colonist priest), Joseph Mede, Josephus, Juvenal, Kingdom of Great Britain, List of people with the most children, Mary II of England, Mehetabel Wesley Wright, Methodism, Newington Green, Newington Green Unitarian Church, Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, On the Sublime, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, ..., Philo, Pindar, Public domain, Ralph Cudworth, René Le Bossu, René Rapin, Richard Sault, Robert Boyle, Samuel Bochart, Samuel Butler (poet), Samuel Wesley (the Younger), South Ormsby, Stepney, Susanna Wesley, The Dunciad, The Faerie Queene, Theophilus Gale, Thomas Fuller, William Camden, Winterborne Whitechurch. Expand index (20 more) »

Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.

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Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner; Athanasius Kircherus, 2 May 1602 – 28 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

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Augustan Reprint Society

The Augustan Reprint Society was a book publisher founded in 1946, based in Los Angeles, California.

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Charles Morton (educator)

Charles Morton (born 15 February 1627 in Cornwall - died 11 April 1698 in Charlestown) was a Cornish nonconformist minister and founder of an early dissenting academy, later in life associated in New England with Harvard College.

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Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was an English leader of the Methodist movement, most widely known for writing more than 6,000 hymns.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus", or previously "The Body") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, Dionysios Alexandrou Halikarnasseus, "Dionysios son of Alexandros of Halikarnassos"; c. 60 BCafter 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus.

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Dissenting academies

The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, those who did not conform to the Church of England.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

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Edward Veel

Edward Veel or Veal (1632?–1708) was an English academic, ejected minister and dissenting tutor.

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English Dissenters

English Dissenters or English Separatists were Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

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Epworth, Lincolnshire

Epworth is a small town and civil parish in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, England.

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Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University.

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Friedrich Spanheim

Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Henry Hammond

Henry Hammond (18 August 1605 – 25 April 1660) was an English churchman, who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.

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Henry Sacheverell

Henry Sacheverell (8 February 1674 – 5 June 1724) was an English High Church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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Hudibras

Hudibras is an English mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.

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Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot, was a Dutch jurist.

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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (31 May 1597 – 18 February 1654) was a French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Dunton

John Dunton (4 May 1659 – 1733) was an English bookseller and author.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Norris (philosopher)

John Norris, sometimes called John Norris of Bemerton, (1657–1712) was an English theologian, philosopher and poet associated with the Cambridge Platonists.

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John Tillotson

John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism.

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John Westley

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John White (colonist priest)

John White (1575 – 21 July 1648) was the rector of a parish in Dorchester, Dorset, England.

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Joseph Mede

Joseph Mede (1586 in Berden – 1639) was an English scholar with a wide range of interests.

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Josephus

Titus Flavius Josephus (Φλάβιος Ἰώσηπος; 37 – 100), born Yosef ben Matityahu (יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu; Ἰώσηπος Ματθίου παῖς), was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

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Juvenal

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England.

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List of people with the most children

This article lists people who are known to have parented the most number of children.

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Mary II of England

Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband and first cousin, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death; popular histories usually refer to their joint reign as that of William and Mary.

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Mehetabel Wesley Wright

Mehetabel Wesley Wright (nicknames, "Hetty" and "Kitty"; 1697 – 21 March 1750) was an English poet.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Newington Green

Newington Green is an open space in north London that straddles the border between Islington and Hackney.

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Newington Green Unitarian Church

Newington Green Unitarian Church (NGUC) in north London is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches.

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Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder

Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder (Nicolaus Heinsius; 20 July 1620 – 7 October 1681) was a Dutch classical scholar and poet, son of Daniel Heinsius.

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic.

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On the Sublime

On the Sublime (Περì Ὕψους Perì Hýpsous) is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century AD.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).

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Paradise Regained

Paradise Regained is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671 by John Milton.

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Philo

Philo of Alexandria (Phílōn; Yedidia (Jedediah) HaCohen), also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.

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Pindar

Pindar (Πίνδαρος Pindaros,; Pindarus; c. 522 – c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Ralph Cudworth

Ralph Cudworth (1617 – 26 June 1688) was a famed English classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists.

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René Le Bossu

René Le Bossu or (16 March 163114 March 1680) was a French critic.

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René Rapin

René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer.

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Richard Sault

Richard Sault (died 1702) was an English mathematician, editor and translator, one of The Athenian Society.

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Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor.

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Samuel Bochart

Samuel Bochart (30 May 1599 – 16 May 1667) was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet.

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Samuel Butler (poet)

Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist.

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Samuel Wesley (the Younger)

Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet and a Church of England cleric.

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South Ormsby

South Ormsby, sometimes called South Ormesby, is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Stepney

Stepney is a district in London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets that grew out of a medieval village around St Dunstan's church and the 15th century ribbon development of Mile End Road called Stepney Green.

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Susanna Wesley

Susanna Wesley (née Annesley; 20 January 1669 – 23 July 1742) was the daughter of Dr Samuel Annesley and Mary White, and the mother of John and Charles Wesley.

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The Dunciad

The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743.

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The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.

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Theophilus Gale

Theophilus Gale (1628–1678) was an English educationalist, nonconformist and theologian of dissent.

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Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian.

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William Camden

William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

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Winterborne Whitechurch

Winterborne Whitechurch, also Winterborne Whitchurch, is a village and civil parish in central Dorset, England, situated in a winterbourne valley on the A354 road on the Dorset Downs south-west of Blandford Forum.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wesley_(poet)

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