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1704 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1704. Events *July – '' The Storm: or, a collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land'', a documentary account by Daniel Defoe of the Great Storm of 1703 in England, is published in London by John Nutt. *December – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, arrives back in Britain after his victory at the Battle of Blenheim. The English architect and dramatist Sir John Vanbrugh is commissioned by Queen Anne to begin Blenheim Palace. *''unknown dates'' **''A Tale of a Tub'', the first major satire by Jonathan Swift (written 1694–1697), is published in London by John Nutt with ''The Battle of the Books'' as part of the prolegomena, running through three editions this year. ** Antoine Galland publishes the first volume of ''Les mille et une nuits'', the first translation of '' One Thousand and One Nights'' into a Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1703 In Literature
Events from the year 1703 in literature. Events *July 29– 31 – Daniel Defoe is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, as part of a sentence for seditious libel, after publishing his satirical pamphlet '' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters'' (1702). He is released from Newgate Prison in mid-November. *''unknown date'' – Richard Mead is appointed physician at St Thomas's Hospital, London. New books Prose *Joseph Addison – ''A Letter from Italy'' *Abel Boyer – ''The History of the Reign of Queen Anne'' *Gilbert Burnet – ''A Third Collection of Several Tracts and Discourses'' * Edmund Calamy – ''A Defence of Moderate Non-Conformity'' *Jeremy Collier – ''Mr Collier's Dissuasive from the Play-House'' *William Dampier – ''A Voyage to New Holland, &c. in the Year 1699'' *Daniel Defoe **''A Brief Explanation of a Late Pamphlet, entitled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters'' **''A Dialogue Between a Dissenter and the Observator'' **''A Hymn to the Funeral Sermon'' **''Hym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard De Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for ''The Fable of the Bees''. Life Mandeville was born on 15 November 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his father was a prominent physician of Huguenot origin. On leaving the Erasmus school at Rotterdam he showed his ability by an ''Oratio scholastica de medicina'' (1685), and at Leiden University in 1689 he produced the thesis ''De brutorum operationibus'', in which he advocated the Cartesian theory of automatism among animals. In 1691 he took his medical degree, pronouncing an inaugural disputation, ''De chylosi vitiata''. He moved to England to learn the language, and succeeded so remarkably that many refused to believe he was a foreigner. His father had been banished from Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lucas (traveller)
Paul Lucas (31 August 1664, in Quevilly, near Rouen – 12 May 1737, in Madrid) was a French merchant, naturalist, physician and antiquarian to King Louis XIV. Life Lucas was the son of Centurion Lucas, a well known book printer and publisher in Rouen, and Judith Mauclerc. In 1688, he served with the Venetians at the Siege of Negroponte. In 1696 he returned to France with a large collection of medals and other antiquities which were purchased for the French Royal Cabinet. This brought him to the attention of the court and he then began a series of three voyages to the East: he travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey, the Levant and Egypt, in three major voyages (1699–1703, 1704–1708 and 1714–1717). Lucas is one of the earliest sources of information from Upper Egypt, visiting among other places Thebes (though he does not identify it) and the Nile up to the cataracts. A panegyrical portrayal of Lucas is also afforded in the Arabic autobiography of Hanna Diya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leslie (nonjuror)
Charles Leslie (27 July 1650 – 13 April 1722) was a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobitism, Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 Glorious Revolution. One of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the Stuarts after 1688, he is best remembered today for his role in publicising the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe. Life Charles Leslie was the sixth son and one of eight surviving children of John Leslie (bishop of Raphoe), John Leslie (1571–1671) and Katherine Conyngham (or Cunningham), daughter of Alexander Cunningham (priest), Dr. Alexander Cunningham, Dean of Raphoe. John was originally from Stuartfield, Stuartfield or Crichie, in Scotland; from 1628-1633, he was bishop of the Isles, a diocese in the Church of Scotland and a member of the Privy Council of Scotland, Scottish Privy Council. In 1633, he moved to Ireland and appointed Church of Ireland bishop of Diocese of Derry and Raphoe, Raphoe, then bishop Bishop of Clogher, Clogher from 166 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Kemble Knight
Sarah Kemble Knight (April 19, 1666 – September 25, 1727) was a teacher and businesswoman, who is remembered for a brief diary of a journey from Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to New York City, Province of New York, in 1704–1705, which provides us with one of the few first-hand-accounts of travel conditions in Connecticut during colonial times. Biography Knight was born in Boston to Captain Thomas Kemble, a merchant of Boston, and Elizabeth Trerice. In 1689, she married Richard Knight. They had one child, Elizabeth. Having been left a widow after her husband's death in 1703, Knight assumed the responsibility of managing her household. When she composed the journal, Knight was a 38-year-old married woman and keeper of a boarding house in Boston with some experience as a copier of legal documents. She was on her way to New Haven (and later to New York City) to act on behalf of a friend in the settlement of her deceased husband's estate. Knight kept a journal of her trip, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Kennett
White Kennett (10 August 166019 December 1728) was an English bishop and antiquarian. He was educated at Westminster School and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several translations of Latin works, including Erasmus' ''In Praise of Folly''. Kennett was vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire from 1685 until 1708. During his incumbency he returned to Oxford as tutor and vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, where he gave considerable impetus to the study of antiquities. George Hickes gave him lessons in Old English. In 1695 he published ''Parochial Antiquities''. In 1700 he became rector of St Botolph's Aldgate, London, and in 1701 Archdeacon of Huntingdon. For a eulogistic sermon on the recently deceased William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, Kennett was in 1707 recommended to the deanery of Peterborough. He afterwards joined the Low Church party, strenuously opposed the Sacheverell movement, and in the Bangorian controversy supported with great z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Jurieu
Pierre Jurieu (24 December 1637 – 11 January 1713) was a French Protestant leader. Life He was born at Mer, in Orléanais, where his father was a Protestant pastor. He studied at the Academy of Saumur and the Academy of Sedan under his grandfather, Pierre Du Moulin, and under Leblanc de Beaulieu. After completing his studies in the Netherlands and England, Jurieu was ordained as an Anglican priest; returning to France he was ordained again and succeeded his father as pastor of the church at Mer. Soon after this he published his first work, ''Examen de livre de la reunion du Christianisme'' (1671). In 1674 his ''Traité de la dévotion'' led to his appointment as professor of theology and Hebrew at Sedan, where he soon became pastor. A year later he published his ''Apologie pour la morale des Reformés''. His reputation was damaged by his argumentative nature, which sometimes descended into fanaticism, despite his sincerity. He was called by his adversaries "the Goliath of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Fletcher (politician)
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655 – September 1716) was a Scottish writer and politician, remembered as an advocate for the non-incorporation of Scotland, and an opponent of the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. Fletcher became an exile in 1683 after being accused of promoting insurrection. He was appointed the cavalry commander of the Monmouth Rebellion, but shortly after landing in England he killed another leading figure. He again went into exile, this time as a fugitive and with his estates forfeit. He returned with William of Orange, becoming Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland. Fletcher was a defender of the Darién scheme, although suspicious of the effect of conventional commerce on traditional virtues. He also deplored the effect of London's relative size, which he said would inevitably draw an accelerating proportion of wealth and decision making to the south-east corner of Britain. Early life and political career Andrew Fletcher was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictionnaire De Trévoux
The ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'', as the ''Dictionnaire universel françois et latin'' was unofficially and then officially nicknamed because of its original publication in the town of Trévoux (near Lyon, France), appeared in several editions from 1704 to 1771. Throughout the 18th century, it was widely assumed to be directed by the Jesuits, a supposition supported by at least some modern scholars. The first edition (1704) of the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' was close to being a reprint of the 1701 edition of Antoine Furetière´s ''Dictionnaire universel'' (1690), with a small number of revisions and added articles as well as a Latin-French dictionary in the last volume. A few decades later, the ''Dictionnaire de Trévoux'' was pirated in its own turn: The publisher Pierre Antoine, from Nancy, brought out two editions in competition with the original series before agreeing to cooperate on the 1752 edition. From its much expanded second edition (1721) onward, the ''Dictionnaire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dennis (dramatist)
John Dennis (16 September 1658 – 6 January 1734) was an English critic and dramatist. Life He was born in the parish of St Andrew Holborn, London, in 1658. He was educated at Harrow School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1679. In the next year he was fined and dismissed from his college for having wounded a fellow student with a sword. He was, however, received at Trinity Hall, where he took his M.A. degree in 1683. After travelling in France and Italy, he settled in London, where he became acquainted with Dryden, and close to Wycherley, Congreve and the leading literary figures of his day; and being made temporarily independent by inheriting a small fortune, he devoted himself to literature. The Duke of Marlborough procured him a place as one of the queen's waiters in the customs with a salary of £20 a year. This he afterwards disposed of for a small sum, retaining, at the suggestion of Lord Halifax, a yearly charge upon it for a long term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Storm (Daniel Defoe)
''The Storm'' (1704) is a work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe.John J. Miller"Writing Up a Storm" ''The Wall Street Journal''. 13 August 2011. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703 (7/8 December 1703 in the Gregorian Calendar. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time." The book was published by John Nutt in mid-1704. It was not a best seller, and a planned sequel never materialised. Within a week of the storm Defoe placed newspaper ads asking readers to submit personal accounts, of which about sixty were selected and edited by Defoe for the book. This w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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