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Richard Bentley FRS (/ ˈ b ɛ n t l i /; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology ", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism .
Richard Bentley, 1753 design for Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Bentley made drawings for Gray's poems, and some were published in 1753, as Designs by Mr. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. [6] [7] [8] It was influenced by French style, a rococo work showing also Gothic aspects and traces of chinoiserie. [9]
First page of Dodsley's illustrated edition of Gray's Elegy with illustration by Richard Bentley. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. [1] The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742.
Plato famously opposed democracy, arguing for a 'government of the best qualified'. James Madison extensively studied the historic attempts at and arguments on democracy in his preparation for the Constitutional Convention, and Winston Churchill remarked that "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that ...
Cunningham became a friend of Pieter Burman the Elder.In 1711 he discovered from Thomas Johnson, a Scottish bookseller and publisher at The Hague, that Richard Bentley was the author of the criticism inflicted on his friend Jean Leclerc for his edition of the fragments of Menander.
Richard Bentley (1662–1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic. Richard Bentley may also refer to: Richard Bentley (writer) (1708–1782), son of the classical scholar; playwright and engraver, associate of Thomas Gray and Horace Walpole
Bentley's paradox (named after Richard Bentley) is a cosmological paradox pointing to a problem occurring when Newton's theory of gravitation is applied to cosmology. Namely, if all the stars are drawn to each other by gravitation, they should collapse into a single point.
Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age by Benjamin R. Barber was published by the University of California Press in 1984 and republished in a twentieth anniversary edition in 2004. The book argues that representative or "thin" democracy is rooted in an individualistic "rights" perspective that diminishes the role of citizens in ...