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  John Aikin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Aikin (January 15, 1747–1822) was an English doctor and writer.
He was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, son of Dr. John Aikin, Unitarian divine, and received his elementary education at the Nonconformist academy at Warrington, where his father was a tutor.
His son, Arthur Aikin, was a prominent scientist and his daughter, Lucy Aikin, was a biographer.
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 JOHN AIKIN - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN AIKIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This was followed by Memoirs of the Court of James I. (1822), Memoirs of the Court of Charles I. (1833) and a Life of Addison (1843).
Miss Aikin died at Hampstead, where she had lived for forty years, on the 29th of January 1864.
See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces (1823), by his daughter; and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin (1864), including her correspondence (1826 1842) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. Le Breton.
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 Lucy Aikin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy Aikin (November 6, 1781- January 29, 1864), daughter of John Aikin and niece of Anna Letitia Barbauld, born at Warrington, England, had some repute as a historical writer.
Miss Aikin died at Hampstead, England, where she had lived for forty years.
See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces (1823); and the Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin (1864), including her correspondence (1826-1842) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. Le Breton.
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 Anna Lætitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825)
Her father, John Aikin, was a Presbyterian minister and schoolteacher.
Aikin moved to Warrington to act as theological tutor at a dissenting academy.
In 1774 Anna Lætitia Aikin married Rochemont Barbauld, a descendant of the French Huguenot refugees.
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 John Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Address at the Tomb of the Blessed John of Dukla Speech by Pope John Paul II, the day before John of Dukla was canonized.
John Ruskin Papers at John Rylands University Library, Manchester The manuscript collection comprises over 2,000 items relating to John Ruskin (1819-1900), his work and his contemporaries.
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 Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her father, the Reverend John Aikin, a Presbyterian minister and schoolmaster, taught his daughter Latin and Greek.
In 1758 Mr Aikin removed his family to Warrington, to act as theological tutor in a dissenting academy there.
In 1773 Anna published a volume of Poems, which was very successful, and collaborated with her brother, Dr John Aikin, in a volume of Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose.
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 John Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Aikin (January 15, 1747 - 1822) was an English doctorand writer.
He was born at Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, and received his elementary education at the Nonconformist academy at Warrington, where his fatherwas a tutor.
In 1798 Dr. Aikin retired from professional life and devoted himself with great industryto various literary undertakings, among which his General Biography (10 vols., 1799 - 1815) holds a conspicuous place.
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 William Enfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Aikin, his biographer, noting his preference for moral rather than doctrinal discourse, admirably summed up his enlightened religious views:
If it was, as John Aikin put it, ‘his peculiar tal-ent to arrange and express other men’s ideas to the greatest advantage’, he also chose those which were broadly in accord with his own sentiments.
Aikin was assisted by many writers, including William Enfield.
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 HOW THE SQUIRREL BECAME A SQUGG:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Both Aikin and Barbauld, and their friends the Edgeworths, believed that children learned better when they were interested in the subject matter, and that short and varied lessons were essential to maintaining interest.
Aikin apologised in her preface for having to leave in one word which was not monosyllabic (King ‘Alfred’).
Aikin and Barbauld had certainly been concerned with catching their reader’s attention, keeping their interest, and providing entertainment, but for them and for many subsequent writers for both children and working men, entertainment had to be mingled with serious material.
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 Aikin - new and used books
First published in 1793, Aikin’s Letters from a Father to his Son, was an immediate success, with a second edition in 1794, as well as a Philadelphia printing.
AIKIN (John): - Letters from a Father to his Son, on Various Topics, relative to Literature and the Conduct of Life.
Aikin (1747-1822) was a prolific author, but this is by far his most important work.
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 BARBAULD - LoveToKnow Article on BARBAULD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Her father, the Rev. John Aikin, a Presbyterian minister and schoolmaster, taught his daughter Latin and Greek.
In 1773 Miss Aikin published a volume of Poems, which was very successful, and co-operated with her brother, Dr John Aikin, in a volume of Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose.
A collected edition of her works, with memoir, was published by her niece, Lucy Aikin, in 2 vols., 1825.
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 sfweekly.com | | Music | Night Crawler | 1997-02-19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Aikin, associate curator for the zoo, settles between two bouquets of Valentine flowers hanging from the roof of the zebra-striped zoo train.
The train continues and Aikin relates a number of bizarre sexual facts, stalling occasionally when groups of children and their incredulous parents pass within earshot: 1) The female Giraffe lives separately from the male, except during estrus, when the very sight of a male will cause her to urinate.
When Aikin finally ends his lecture, he has but a moment to grab a glass of bubbly before he is swarmed by folks wanting to ask questions that they were too shy to ask in the group.
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 Weekly Perryville Union - 19 October 1877
John E. Aikin, guardian ad litem for Mary E. Picou, makes settlement and is ordered to pay the balance in his hands, $8.87, to ward and take receipt and is discharged.
John C. Doerr, guardian and curator of Mary G. Cissell and Mary L. Cissell, vs. estate of Joseph Cissell, appeal from probate court, continued by consent to adjourned term.
In the matter of John L. Lhot on petition for writ of ad quod dammum permission is given the petitioner to erect a dam on Cinque Homme creek near the McCauley mill,m in accordance with the prayer of the petition.
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 A Brief Chronology: Anna Laetitia Barbauld - _Poems_ (1773) by Anna Laetitia Aikin - Electronic Editions, Romantic ...
John Aikin takes the position of tutor of languages at the newly opened Dissenting academy, Warrington, Lancashire.
John Aikin becomes tutor in divinity and Joseph Priestley comes to Warrington in September as tutor of languages.
John Aikin moves to Stoke Newington after an illness.
www.rc.umd.edu /editions/contemps/barbauld/poems1773/criticism/chronology.html   (382 words)

  
 Arthur Aikin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Aikin (May 19, 1773 - April 15, 1854), English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, was born at Warrington in Lancashire.
He was the son of Dr. John Aikin.
He studied chemistry under Joseph Priestley and gave attention to the practical applications of the science.
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 Lucy Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucy Aikin (November 6, 1781 - January 29, 1864), born at Warrington, England, had some repute as a historical writer.
After producing various books for the young under the pseudonym Mary Godolphin, and a novel, Lorimer (1814), she published in 1818 her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, which passed through several editions.
John, Lucy Posters Davies, Lucy Posters Willis, Lucy Posters Weigle, Lucy Posters If Lucy Fell Posters
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 Barbauld Bibliography (White)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following her "Memoir," Aikin gives the 1773 Poems, to which she adds: "An Inventory of the Furniture of Dr. Priestley's Study" (follows "Characters"), "On the Deserted Village" (follows "On a Lady's Writing"), "Epithalamium" (follows "Ode to Spring"), and "To a Dog" (follows "Verses on Mrs.
John Guillory, "Gray's 'Elegy,' Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and the Vernacular Canon," in Early Modern Conceptions of Property, ed.
In chapter seven, "Heroics and Mock Heroics: John Milton, Alexander Pope, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld," Messenger discusses at length "The Groans of the Tankard" (pp.
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 SFGov: San Francisco Recreation & Park Department: January 09, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aikin responded that Warthogs are known to be aggressive especially in smaller mixed species exhibits.
Aikin replied that  graphics would explain the dangers represented by thrown objects; the animals in that area are not magnets for public feeding, etc. as other animals such as penguins would be.
Aikin replied that the area would have thousands of shrubs and plantings.
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 Association of Data Processing Managers - September 1982 Newsletter
Question: John Aikin - The State likes to encourage competitive acquisition because we do not want to be seen in the position of favoring one vendor or another.
John Aikin added that the board will be hoping for members to be willing to work on the three tasks: (1) The review of the systems approval methodology, (2) The language standard; and (3) The systems development standard.
John commented, "We really have been given an opportunity here to do what we have said we ought to be doing all along.
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 Aikins Family Bible Records | Aikins Genealogy | Aikins Surname
Included inside this Aikins Bible, are two photos, a post card from Eleanor written to Nancy in Beloit, Kansas, a Certificate of Membership in the United Presbyterian Church of Hopewell dated 1906 for Mrs.
Nancy AIKINS, a note showing F. SHAMBURG, Scottville, Kansas and a newspaper clipping of a casualty list containing Captain Charles W. AIKINS name, who was wounded in action.
John AIKINS, son, age 12, born IA, at school, parents left blank.
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 A L Barbauld, Biography
Born in 1743, Anna Letitia Aikin, later Barbauld, was one of the most visible and respected literary figures of the late eighteenth century.
Born at Kibworth, Leicestershire, Barbauld was the eldest child of Rev. John and Jane Jennings Aikin.
In 1787, the Barbaulds moved to Hampstead to be closer to John Aikin, and here Anna wrote and published several politically charged essays, including An Appeal to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (March 1790), and Sins of the Government, Sins of the Nation (1793).
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 Daily Llama - NEWS 2002_06_05 - John Cleese Visits Lemurs at San Francisco Zoo
John was all too happy to oblige but had remarked that, while parrots are fine, he really liked lemurs and besides, "parrots tend to bite a lot."
John was smartly dressed in a navy blazer and tie -- not at all what you would call jungle gear, but ever the perfect example of English style and grace.
John gave several interviews and while it was certainly fulfilling my fantasy to hang out with Cleese and listen to his every word, I couldn't keep my eyes off Robo.
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 Chapter &AElig;lfric <i>to</i> Akenside of A by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Aikin, John (1747-1822).—Miscellaneous writer, son of Dr. John Aikin, Unitarian divine, born at Kibworth, studied medicine at Edinburgh and London, and received degree of M.D. at Leyden.
Aikin, Lucy (1781-1864).—Historical and miscellaneous writer, daughter of above and niece of Mrs.
John Ebers, publisher, and at that time manager of the Opera House, by whom he was introduced to literary and dramatic circles, and whose daughter he afterwards married.
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 Association of Data Processing Managers - July 1982 Newsletter
NOTE: Dr. Aikin indicated that on behalf of the Managers Association, he had sent a letter to Lieuntenant Governor Cherberg indicating that the Data Processing Managers Association would like to playa constructive role in the process of the planning committee.
John Aikin complimented all of the officers and members of the Association for making his year a very pleasant one.
John Aikin for the fine job he did as Chairman this past year.
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 John Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karl O. Mills referenced the first clarion notes sung by Laura Aikin, in the...
There is no racial profiling in Bloomington, Aikin said.
John H. Elliott won the Roy Wilkins Jr.
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 John Aikin Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Two notable new appointments were John Ferriar, a medical man influential in the field of public health and Mr.
By 1793, John Ferriar was a Vice President together with Charles White, Thomas Henry and the Rev. John Radcliffe, A.M., Fellow of Brazenose College, Oxford and Keeper of the Chetham Library at Manchester.
Here will be considered the elementary principles of bodies, the nature of fire, air, acids and etc. and the whole will have reference to the arts of dyeing and bleaching, which, depending on chemical principles, might probably, by the knowledge of these principles, be very greatly extended and improved.
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 barbauld
Anna Laetitia Aikin was born on June 20, 1743, in Leicestershire, England, the eldest daughter of John Aikin, a Dissenting clergyman and tutor of classical studies, and his wife, Jane Aikin.
Anna was praised by her parents for her remarkable intellect; her mother claimed that at the age of twenty months Anna could already read quite well.
In a letter she wrote to her brother, John, in 1785, Anna further attested to her keen eye and the workings of her naturalist's mind: "the fields are full of lavender, thyme, mint, rosemary.
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 Lucy Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lucy Aikin (November 6, 1781 - January 29, 1864), bornat Warrington, England, had some repute as a historicalwriter.
After producing various books for the young under the pseudonym Mary Godolphin, and a novel, Lorimer (1814), she published in 1818 her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, which passed through severaleditions.
See a Memoir of John Aikin, with selections of his miscellaneous pieces (1823), by his daughter; and the Memoirs,Miscellanies and Letters of Lucy Aikin (1864), including her correspondence (1826-1842) with William Ellery Channing, edited by P. Le Breton.
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 John Aikin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1798 Dr. Aikin retired from professional life devoted himself with great industry to various undertakings among which his General Biography (10 vols.
His son Arthur Aikin was a prominent scientist and his Lucy Aikin was a biographer.
In 1974, when this album was produced, it must have stirred romantic feelings about home for its listeners, how much more thirty years later.
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