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...Gosling, Jane Jane Gosling was the wife of the great-nephew (or possibly grandson) of Ralph Gosling (1693–1758), the topographer. She ran a private school for a time, and her Moral Essays, and Reflections was published by subscription...

...Allen, George George Allen is known only by his Some occasional Thoughts on Genius, a pamphlet of eighteen pages in which he apologizes for not having published a book called Observations in the Part of Painting. His subscribers...

...Edwards, Thomas Thomas Edwards died on 3 January 1757 on a visit to Parson’s Green. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and trained for the law, taking chambers in Lincoln’s Inn in 1721. Edwards himself claimed...

...Belsham, William Belsham, Thomas William Belsham, the brother of Thomas Belsham , was born in Bedford on 26 October 1752. He spent most of his life in London and died near Hammersmith on 17 November 1827. His interests were more political...

...Anderson, John John Anderson was born at Roseneath in Dumbartonshire (Scotland) and died on 13 January 1796. He was educated in Stirling and at Glasgow University (MA, 1745). He held professorships at Glasgow in oriental languages (1755–7)...

...Cooper, John Gilbert John Gilbert Cooper was born in Nottinghamshire and died in Mayfair, London, in April 1769. Born of an ancient family whose loyalties to the Crown during the reign of Charles I considerably diminished their fortunes,...

... ecclesiastical training.Bibliography Remarks on Mr. Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion ( Cambridge , 1780; repr. with an Introduction by J.V. Price Bristol, 1992). Other Relevant Works Price J.V. , David Hume , 2nd edn ( Boston , Mass., 1991), pp. 20–21....

...Bysshe, Edward For someone who had so much influence on eighteenth-century prosody and poetics, Edward Bysshe proves to be a shadowy figure. He appears to have been born in Sussex; he may have been one of Shelley’s ancestors; but he has...

...Cooke, William William Cooke was born in Calcutta and died in Kent on 14 September 1832. He attended Harrow School and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1780, but apparently did not graduate. He studied law and was admitted...

...Monro, Thomas Thomas Monro was born on 9 October 1764 in Berkshire and died on 25 September 1815 at Little Eaton, Essex. He was a nephew of Alexander Monro primus. He attended school in Norwich and Colchester, where he studied with Dr...