Roberts (MORLEY an English novelist)
MORLEY, an English novelist and journalist, born in London in 1857. He was educated in the public schools and at Owens College, Manchester. In 1874 he removed to Australia and was engaged in various employments. He traveled also in the United States and in the South Seas, Samoa, South Africa, and other parts of the world. He was a prolific writer and his stories of adventure attained wide popularity. They include "Red Earth" (1894); "The Colossus" (1899); "The Way of a Man" (1902); "The Private Life of Henry Maitland" (1912); "Gloomy Fanny" (1913); and "Sweet Herbs and Bitter" (1914).
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ARCHIBALD THOS., an American Baptist theologian, born near Chatham, Va., in 1863. He was educated at Wake Forest (N. C.) College, and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. In 1888 he was assistant instructor of New Testament interpretation; in 1892 professor of Biblical Introduction; and since 1895 professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. In 1904 he became business manager of the " Review and Expositor." He wrote "Life and Letters of John A. Broadus " (1900); "Syllabus for New Testament Study" (1903); "The Students' Chronological New Testament" (1904); “Keywords in the Teaching of Jesus" (1905); " Epochs in the Life of Jesus" (1908); "Commentary on Matthew" (1910); "John the Loyal" (1911); "The Glory of the Ministry" (1911); "Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research" (1914); "Studies in New Testament" (1915); "Training for Citizenship" (1918). His "Short Grammar of Greek New Testament" (1908) was translated into the Italian, German, French, and Dutch languages. He also contributed to many biblical dictionaries and encyclopedias.
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Robertson (II)
FREDERICK WILL- IAM, an English preacher; born in London , Feb. 3, 1816. He attended the grambecame a pupil of the Edinburgh Acadschool of Beverley, in 1830 emy, and afterward attended the university of that city. Failing to obtain a commission in the army, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford , in 1837, with a view to enter the Church. He was ordained in 1840, and took priest's orders a year later. He then went abroad, and at Geneva married the daughter of Sir George William Denys. From 1842 to 1846 he was curate at Christ Church, Cheltenham. He became incumbent Trinity Chapel, Brighton, in 1847; and ent continued in this charge with increasing fame as a preacher till his death. His views on the Sabbath, the atonement, baptism, and inspiration were assailed as unorthodox, and he was accused of preach ing democracy and socialism. His published works embrace "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics" (8vo, London, 1858 ), "Analysis of Tenny- Memoriam" (1862), and sermons and lectures . He died in Brighton, August 15, 1853.
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Robertson (THOMAS American economist born)
THOMAS American economist, born in Alamance M., an school. From 1893 to 1895 he was a memco., N. C., in 1857. Until 1887 he taught ber of the N. C. house of representatives; from 1895 to 1897 he was connected with the United States Treasury Department, ment of Labor. From 1904 to 1915 he was and from 1897 to 1903 with the Departspecial examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, in charge of investigations of water power, cotton and lumber. From mist and a member of the Joint Board of Review of the Federal Trade Commission, becoming in 1917 chief economist. 1915 to 1917 he was assistant chief econo- ERT), a British military officer. He
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Robertson, William
William (1721-1793), a Scottish historian. He was educated as a Presbyterian minister and became the president of the University of Edinburgh. His History of Scotland was long a standard. He wrote a History of Charles V, for which his publishers paid him the hitherto unequaled price of $25,000. A History of America has little merit. The first two are still valuable works of reference.
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Robin Goodfellow
the same as nection he was known as far N. as Aberdeen.
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Robinson
EDWIN ARLINGTON, an American author and poet, born at Head Tide, Me., in 1869. He studied at Harvard University and became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters through the general recognition of intellectual sincerity sincerity and positive American spirit and theme that appeared alike in his plays and published poems. His first publication was "The Torrent of the Night Before," brought out in 1896. Since then he has published "The Children of the Night"; "Captain Craig"; "Van Zorn," a play, and "The Man against the Sky," and "Merlin," both poems.
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Robinson (EDWARD an American writer)
EDWARD, an American writer and authority o on art, born in Boston in 1858. He graduated from Harvard in 1879, and spent the following five years in study, especially in Greece and in Berlin, devoting his attention chiefly to archæology. From 1895 to 1902 he was curator of classical antiquities in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and was for three years following the latter date director of the museum. He became assistant director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, succeeding Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke as director in 1910. He prepared catalogues and contributed many articles on art and archæological subjects for magazines. He was a member of many learned societies.
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Robinson (II)
JAMES HARVEY, an American writer and lecturer, born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1863. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and took post-graduate studies in Germany, ROBINS, RAYMOND, an American He was lecturer on European history at and from 1892 to 1919 he was associate professor and professor of history at Columbia University. From 1919 he acted as organizer and lecturer of the New School for Social Research. He was the editor of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and an associate editor of the "American Historical Review." His historical writings include "Readings in European History" (1904-5); "The Development of Modern Europe" (1907); "The New History" (1911); and "Mediæval and Modern Times" (1915).
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JOSEPH TAYLOR, an American lawyer and legislator. He was born at Lonoke, Ark., in 1872, and was educated in the public schools and the University of Arkansas. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1895, beginning to practice at Lonoke. In 1895 he became a member of the General As- JOSEPH TAYLOR ROBINSON sembly and in 1896 was nominated presidential elector on the Democratic ticket, but retired at the request of the Democratic National Committee in the interest of fusion to make room for Populists. He was presidential elector in 1900 and electoral messenger in 1901. He represented the sixth Arkansas district in Congress 1903-13, resigning in the last year, to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas, to which he had been elected in 1912. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1913 to succeed the Hon. Jeff Davis and was re-elected in 1918.
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