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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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someof his earlier productions are distinguished by classicalterseness. The works of Jeremy Bentham are very vo-luminous. What appears to be a full collectionof them is to be found in the edition by Dr. Bow-ring (completed in 1843), i eleven closely printedoctavo volumes. Several of these works origi-nally appeared in French. Among these is theperhaps most notable work of Bentham, entitled,Trnitifs de Legislation Civale et Pi-nale, issued in1802, which purports to have been rendered intoFrench by M. Dumont d^aprh les inanuscritsconfiL^s par rAutciir This work should undoubt-edly be credited to Bentham, Dumont acting aseditor and translator of the rough manuscriptsplaced in his hands by Bentham. This greatw^ork of Bentham first appeared in English in1840, in a translation by Richard Hildreth, a NewYork journalist, who subsequently wrote an ex-cellent History of the United States, in six largevolumes, bringing the history down to the closeof the first administration of President Monroe.
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BENTLEY, Richard, an English divine, clas-sical scholar, and critic, born in humble circum-stances in Yorkshire, January 27, 1662; died July14, 1742. He entered St. Johns College in thealmost menial capacity of a subsizar, but mani-fested such unusual capacity that at the age oftwenty he was made head-master of a grammarschool, and in the following year became do-mestic tutor to the son of Dr. Stillingfleet, Deanof St, Pauls and subsequently Bishop of Wor-cester. In 1692 Bentley was made a prebendaryin Worcester Cathedral, and was chosen to de-liver the first series of the Boyle Lectures. Threeyears later he was made Chaplain in Ordinary tothe King. The next year he received the degreeof D.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge; and in1700 he became Master of that college, and ob-tained some valuable preferments. In 1717 hegained the position of Regius Professor of Divin-ity at Cambridge, retaining that dignity untilhis death, notwithstanding he had made himselfobnoxious to the authoritie

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