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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Melville, James

Melville, James (1556-1614). -- Scottish divine and reformer, s. of the laird of Baldovie, in Forfarshire, and nephew of the great reformer and scholar, Andrew M., by whom, when Principal of the Univ. of Glasgow, he was chosen to assist him as a regent or professor. When, in 1580, Andrew became Principal of St. Mary's Coll., St. Andrews, James accompanied him, and acted as Prof. of Hebrew and Oriental Languages. He wrote many poems, but his chief work was his Diary, an original authority for the period, written with much naïveté, and revealing a singularly attractive personality. M., who for his part in Church matters, had been banished to England, d. at Berwick on his way back to Scotland.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Mayne, John

Mayne, John (1759-1836). -- Poet, was b. in Dumfries. In 1780 he pub. the Siller Gun in its original form in Ruddiman's Magazine. It is a humorous poem descriptive of an ancient custom in Dumfries of shooting for the "Siller Gun." He was continually adding to it, until it grew to 5 cantos. He also wrote a poem on Hallowe'en, and a version of the ballad, Helen of Kirkconnel. His verses were admired by Scott.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Meston, William

Meston, William (1688?-1745). -- S. of a blacksmith, was ed. at Marischal Coll., Aberdeen, took part in the '15, and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk (1723) is an imitation of Hudibras. It has little merit.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Melville, Sir James

Melville, Sir James (1535-1617). -- Historian, s. of Sir John M., of Hallhill, was a page to Mary Queen of Scots at the French Court, and afterwards one of her Privy Council. He also acted as her envoy to Queen Elizabeth and the Elector Palatine. He was the author of an autobiography which is one of the original authorities for the period. The MS., which lay for long hidden in Edin. Castle, was discovered in 1660, and pub. 1683. A later ed. was brought out in 1827 by the Bannatyne Club. The work is page 267written in a lively style, but is not always to be implicitly relied upon in regard either to facts or the characters attributed to individuals.
# A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture

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A PRACTICAL COMMENTARY
ON
HOLY SCRIPTURE.
WITH THE APPROBATION AND RECOMMENDATION OF HIS EMINENCE THE CARDINAL-ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER AND OF THEIR LORDSHIPS THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF ARMIDALE, AUCKLAND, BELLEVILLE, BIRMINGHAM, BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, CASHEL, CHRISTCHURCH, FERNS, GLASGOW, HEXHAM AND NEWCASTLE, LEEDS, MADRAS, MIDDLESBROUGH, NORTHAMPTON, PLYMOUTH, PORTSMOUTH, SHREWSBURY, ST. ANDREWS AND EDINBURGH, WELLINGTON AND THE ARCHBISHOP-COADJUTOR OF ST. LOUIS, MO.
Bishop Knecht
Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. (Phot. Bruno Hentschel, Leipzig.)
A PRACTICAL COMMENTARY
ON
HOLY SCRIPTURE
FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO TEACH BIBLE HISTORY
BY
FREDERICK JUSTUS KNECHT, D. D.
AUXILIARY BISHOP OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF FREIBURG.
TRANSLATED AND ADAPTED FROM THE SIXTEENTH GERMAN EDITION
PREFACE BY VERY REV. CANON M. F. GLANCEY,
CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM
THIRD ENGLISH EDITION REVISED
CONTAINING 100 ILLUSTRATIONS AND FOUR COLOURED MAPS
B. HERDER
PUBLISHER TO THE HOLY APOSTOLIC SEE
LONDON, W. C.1910ST. LOUIS, MO.
FREIBURG IM BREISGAU.
CONTENTS
First Part.
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
HISTORY OF THE PRIMITIVE AGES OF MAN.
THE TIME FROM ADAM TO ABRAHAM.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
I. Epoch : THE TIME OF THE PATRIARCHS.
II. Epoch: THE AGE OF MOSES.
III. Epoch: JOSUE AND THE JUDGES.
IV. Epoch: THE KINGS.
V. Epoch : THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
VI. Epoch : JUDAEA AFTER THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY.
Second Part.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
FIRST SECTION.
HISTORY OF JESUS CHRIST.
SECOND SECTION.
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
APPENDIX:
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece: Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
Map of Egypt and Chanaan (p. 378).
Map of Palestine (p. 378).
Map of Palestine at the time of Christ (p. 378).
Map of the Missionary Journeys of St. Paul (p. 784).
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture/Maps

SECOND PART.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
FIRST SECTION.
HISTORY OF JESUS CHRIST.
His Birth and Infancy.
Chapter I.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
[Luke 1, 5—23 ]
At the time when Herod was king in Judaea, there lived, in a small city in the hill-country, a priest named Zachary, whose wife was called Elizabeth. They were both just before God, and walked blamelessly in all the commandments of the Lord. They had no children; this was a cause of great affliction to them. They often prayed that God would give them a son; but their prayer seemed to remain unanswered, as they were both now advanced in years.
It so happened that Zachary went to Jerusalem, when his turn came to perform the priestly office. He entered the
* ↑ Herod This king, who was referred to in chapter LXXXVI, Old Test., reigned from the year 40 B. C. to A. D. 3.
* ↑ Judaea. This was the name given to the southern portion of Palestine. The centre was called Samaria, and the north, Galilee. The country east of the Jordan was called Persea (see Map).
* ↑ Walked blamelessly, i. e. they were not in a state of sin, and carefully observed all the commandments of God.
* ↑ No children. They grieved over this, for the Jews rightly looked upon children as a precious gift of God.
* ↑ Advanced. They were very old, and therefore entertained, humanly speaking, no hope of having a child. However, they had great faith in the power and goodness of God, with whom nothing is impossible, and who before this had given a son to Sara in her old age and to Anna who was childless.
* ↑ Priestly office. The priests were distributed into twenty-four classes or families or courses; and each class had to attend to the service of the Temple for eight days (Old Test. LIV). When Zachary's turn came round, he went to Jerusalem. The various services of the Temple, such as the offering of the daily sacrifice and incense, the care of the sacred fire and the lamps of the seven-branched candlestick, changing the loaves of proposition &c., were apportioned to the various priests by lot. This time the lot of offering incense in the Sanctuary had fallen to Zachary.
# A Posthumous Poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon in Friendship’s Offering, 1828/The Soldier’s Bride

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE.
BY L. E. L.
The white plume was upon his head,
 The spur upon his heel,
The trumpet rang upon his ear
 With a note the dead might feel.
Before him lay a gallant host,  His own, his bannered line,
Where from a thousand silver shields
 Flashed back the morning's shine.
He sat upon his raven steed
 As a proud ship curbs the deep;
One instant yet he reined his horse—
 He heard his lady weep.
"What, weepest thou, lady mine!" he said,
 "And thou a soldier's bride!
Dearer should be his fame than aught
 In the whole world beside."
"Away!" she cried; "these are not tears
 That fall for thee or me—
I weep our infant boy, too young
 To fight or follow thee!"
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowen, Charles

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​BOWEN. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 17; h-p., 31.)
Charles Bowen entered the Navy, 18 Jan. 1799, as a Boy, on board the Achille 74, Capts. Hon. Edwin Henry Stanhope and Geo. Murray, on the Channel station; attained the rating of Midshipman 21 Oct. 1800; and, on removing with the last-mentioned officer to the Edgar 74, was present, under Lord Nelson, in the battle of Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801. He next accompanied Capt. Murray into the London 98, and afterwards, from Nov. 1802, until Feb. 1806, served in the Juno 32, Capt. Henry Richardson, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean. In Nov. 1806, Mr. Bowen rejoined his former Captain, then Rear-Admiral Murray, as Master’s Mate, in the Polyphemus 64, in which ship we find him, from May to Aug. 1807, employed, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, during the hostile operations in the Rio de la Plata. He was confirmed, on 30 of the latter month, into the Hermes sloop-of-war, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, and subsequently appointed – 20 Aug. 1808, to the Thisbe 28, bearing the flag in the Thames of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope – 11 Sept. 1809, to the Nereus 36, Capt. Peter Heywood, in which vessel he returned home from the Mediterranean, with the remains of Lord Collingwood, in April, 1810 – 8 Nov. following to the Northumberland 74, Capt. Henry Hotham, under whom (the Growler gun-brig in company) he assisted at the destruction, with a loss to the Northumberland of 5 killed and 28 wounded, of the two French 40-gun frigates L’Arienne and L’Andromaque, of 450 men each, and Mamelouck brig, of 18 guns and 150 men, defended by numerous galling batteries at the entrance of L’Orient, 22 May, 1812 – and, 5 Feb. 1813, to the Indus 74, Capt. Wm. Hall Gage, employed off the Texel, and also in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Sept. 1814. Being promoted to the command, 19 July, 1822, of the Driver sloop, he served for about two years in that vessel on the coast of Africa, where he acquired great credit, as evinced by the acknowledgments of Commodore Sir Robt. Mends, for his disinterested zeal and active exertions during the Ashantee war, particularly in mounting and equipping the guns of Cape Coast Castle in 1823; and likewise for his co-operation, in May, 1824, with the troops under Lieut.-Col. Sutherland. He was advanced to Post-rank 27 June, 1825, and placed upon retired half-pay 1 Oct. 1846.
Capt. Bowen married Mary Hannah, youngest daughter of the late Geo, Fisher, Esq., of Hillside, co. Gloucester, by whom he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bouverie, Frederick William Pleydell

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​BOUVERIE. (Commander, 1842.)
Frederick William Pleydell Bouverie, born 18 April, 1816, is eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Pleydell Bouverie, Canon of Salisbury, by Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Sir Rich. Joseph Sullivan, Bart.; nephew of Rear-Admiral Bouverie, and of the present Sir Chas. Sullivan, Bart., Capt. R.N.; and first-cousin of the Earl of Radnor.
This officer entered the Navy (from the Royal Naval College) 12 Oct. 1831; passed his examination in 1836; and obtained his first commission 10 May, 1839. He was afterwards appointed – 15 July following, to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, one of the ships employed during the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria – 1 Dec. in the latter year, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, also on the Mediterranean station – and, 8 Sept. 1841, to the Victory 104, as Flag-Lieutenant, at Portsmouth, to his uncle Rear-Admiral Bouverie. He was advanced to his present rank 7 March, 1842; but has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Chippendale.
He married, in 1845, a daughter of the late J. Alexander, Esq.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowden, Philip

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​BOWDEN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Philip Bowden entered the Navy, 12 June, 1805, as A.B., on board the Fisgard 38, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr and Sir Wm. Bolton, under the latter of whom he was present, as Midshipman, at the taking of Curaçoa, 1 Jan. 1807. He afterwards served, in 1808-9, in the Inconstant 36, Capt. E. Dickson, and Barfleur 98, Capt. D. M‘Leod; from 1809 to 1812, as Second Master and Master’s Mate, in the Triumph 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, employed at the defence of Cadiz; in 1813-14, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the San Juan 74, bearing the flag of the latter officer at Gibraltar; and in 1814-15, as Master’s Mate, in the Salvador, Capt. Hall, and Impregnable 104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Josias Rowley. He was placed on half-pay in Aug. 1815, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 22 of the previous February, and has not since been afloat.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowden, Richard Booth

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​BOWDEN. (Commander, 1813. f-p., 20; h-p., 32.)
Richard Booth Bowden entered the Navy, 1 June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Concorde 36, Capt. Anthony Hunt, on the Channel station; attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. following; and, after serving for more than six years in the Caroline 36, Capts. Wm. Luke and Wm. Bowen, employed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the capture of many privateers and other armed vessels, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. His appointments, in the latter capacity, were – in July, 1803, to the Weymouth District of Sea Fencibles – 5 May, 1804, to the Queen 98, Capts. Manley Dixon and Fras. Pender, in the Channel – 4 July, 1805, to the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. Mark Robinson, lying at Portsmouth – 14 Aug. 1805, to the Quebec 32, Capts. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, Geo. M‘Kinley, Lord Viscount Falkland, and Hon. Geo. Paulet, under the third of whom he witnessed the surrender of the Danish island of Heligoland, 5 Sept. 1807 – 16 May, 1810, after an unemployed interval of 13 months, to the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, attached to the fleet in the Channel – and, 22 Nov. 1810, and 8 May, 1811, to the Christian VII. 80, and Caledonia 120, bearing each the flag in the Downs and Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew. Being superseded from the latter ship on advancement to his present rank, 5 Aug. 1813, Commander Bowden, on 15 Oct. following, assumed command of the Gorgon hospital-ship, which for some time bore the flag, at Port Mahon, Minorca, of Vice-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, and subsequently, in 1814-15, after serving on the coast of North America, formed part of the expedition sent against New Orleans. His last appointment was, 16 May, 1815, to the Antelope 50, in which he served at Portsmouth for a period of three months.
Commander Bowden, who has been twice married, wedded first the youngest daughter of the Rev. R. Hawker, D.D., Vicar of Charles, Devon. By his second marriage he has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowen, Augustus Frederick James

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​BOWEN. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Augustus Frederick James Bowen, born in 1812, is son of the late Capt. Wm. Hawkwell Bowen, R.N., by Susannah, sister of the present Capt. Sir Wm. Geo. Parker, Bart., R.N.; and godson and protege of H.R.H. the late Duke of Sussex. He had two uncles of his own name, both Post-Captains, one of whom, the gallant Rich. Bowen, commanded the Terpsichore 32, under Lord Nelson, at Teneriffe, and met a glorious death while spiking the guns at the Mole.
This officer entered the Navy in 1821, and while attached, with Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, to the Leven, Barracouta, and Albatross, assisted in surveying the continent of Africa, the islands of Madagascar and France, the Seychelles, and parts of India and Arabia. He also visited South America, and endured many hardships consequent on the Ashantee war and other causes. He next, in 1825, joined the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom, and, after holding command for some time of her tender, became attached to the Briton 46, Capts. Gordon and Seymour, in which frigate he made a voyage to Russia. He was selected in 1827 to assist Capt. Henry Wolsey Bayfield in the survey of the river St. Lawrence and coast of Labrador; passed his ​examination for seamanship in 1830; was in Canada throughout the whole period of the rebellion; came home, after repeated applications, and passed his examination at the Royal Naval College early in 1836; was promoted, in consequence of the long and arduous nature of his services, on 30 April in the same year; and resumed immediately afterwards the survey of the coast of Labrador and the southern part of the St. Lawrence. He obtained leave in 1840 to return to England, and is at present unemployed. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowden, John

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​BOWDEN. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 18; h-p., 26.)
John Bowden entered the Navy, 26 May, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board La Cheffonne 36, Capt. Chas. Adam, under whom, after contributing to the defeat, in June, 1805, of a division of the French flotilla, which was driven under the batteries at Fécamp, he successively removed, as Midshipman, to the Resistance 38, and Invincible 74, employed off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, and in the Mediterranean. Between Oct. 1810, and Oct. 1813, we find him serving, at the siege of Cadiz and on the Home and West India stations, in the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, Royal William, Capt. Robt. Hall, Norge 74, Capt. John Spratt Rainier, Vestal 28, Capt. Sam. Deckar, and, as Master’s Mate, in the Garland 22, and Shark sloop, Capts. Thos. Huskisson, Rich. Plummer Davies, and John Gore. He was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the latter vessel, bearing the flag at the time of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, 16 March, 1814; and, invaliding home in April, 1815, was afterwards appointed – 5 April, 1831, to a three years’ command in the Coast Guard – and, 26 June, 1837, to the Victory 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Hon. Buncombe Pleydell Bouverie. He has been on half-pay since Feb. 1840.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowden, Richard Bayly

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​BOWDEN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 17; h-p., 27.)
Richard Bayly Bowden entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Britannia 100, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, with whom, when Rear-Admiral, he was present, as Midshipman, in the same ship, at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. He was next employed for some time in the Illustrious 74, Capt. Wm. Shields, and also in the Minotaur 74, flag-ship, during the hostilities of 1807 against Copenhagen, of Rear-Admiral Wm. Essington. After an attachment of a few months, in the early part of 1808, to the Hibernia 110, bearing the flag, off Lisbon, of Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Bowden joined the Nautilus sloop, Capt. Thos. Dench, under whom, during a continuance of more than four years on the Portuguese and Mediterranean stations, he contributed to the capture of several privatetrs, and of one of them while serving in the boats. From the Nautilus he removed, in July, 1814, to the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, employed in Chesapeake Bay. He was made Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1815, into the Dauntless 18, Capt. Dan. Barker; returned home from Rio Janeiro, in July of the same year, on board the Achille 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis; and since 25 Apnl, 1842, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
He married, 19 Dec. 1825, Jane, daughter of the late Rev. Jas. Stanley, Vicar of Ormskirk, Lancashire, and sister of Capt. Edw. Stanley Stanley, R.N. Agents – Messrs. Chard.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bourne, Richard

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​BOURNE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 13; h-p., 47.)
Richard Bourne entered the Navy, 30 Sept. 1787, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Druid 32, Capt. Joseph Ellison, on the Channel station; became Midshipman, in 1789, of the Carnatic 74, commanded by Hon. Capt. Bertie; and, having joined the Crescent, of 42 guns and 257 men, Capt. Jas. Saumarez, was, we believe, present at the capture, 20 Oct. 1793, after a close action of two hours, of the French frigate La Réunion, of 36 guns and 320 men, 120 of whom were either killed or wounded, without any casualty whatever to the British. He next served in the Musquito and Sandfly gun-vessels, Lieut.-Commanders W. M‘Carthy and John Chilcott, and Diamond frigate, Capt. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith; was then appointed Acting-Lieutenant of the Syren 32, Capt. Graham Moore; and, on rejoining the Diamond, was placed in command, 12 Feb. 1796, of the Sandfly, while in which vessel he was confirmed a Lieutenant, 4 Aug. 1797. On 26 Feb. 1798, we find Mr. Bourne capturing, in company with the Badger gun-vessel, La Souris chasse-marée, of 16 guns; and, at the successful defence, 7 May following, of the small island of St. Marcouf, in the Channel, against the attack of a considerable division of the French flotilla, commanding most effectively the fort on the eastern island. On 24 March, 1804, after five years of half-pay, he obtained command of the Felix schooner, of 12 guns. In that vessel Mr. Bourne, in Jan. 1805, conveyed to Sir Thos. Graves the intelligence, which he was the first to acquire, of the escape of the squadron under M. Missiessy from Aix Road. He subsequently fought an action of great gallantry with a privateer of far superior force; and, in 1806, was severely wounded in an attack on the town of Hea, on the coast of Spain. For the latter service the Patriotic Society appears to have voted him rewards both honorary and pecuniary. He was, however, placed on half-pay on 14 Oct. in the same year; and, unable afterwards to procure employment, accepted, 10 Dec. 1840, the rank of Retired Commander under order in Council of 1816.
Commander Bourne has a daughter, Louisa Blake, who married, 7 Dec. 1841, M. H. Mahon, Esq., of the 86th Regt.
* ↑ This was the exploit which procured Sir James Saumarez his knighthood.
* ↑ Vide Gaz. 1798, p. 390.