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  John Rainolds
Gager’s name is destined forever to be linked with that of Dr. John Rainolds, and no account of his literary activities would be complete without any consideration of their...
John Rainolds to Professor Alberico Gentili, June 10, 1593, Th’Overthrow of Stage-Plays edited and translated by John Marcowicz, Latin Correspondence by Alberico Gentili and John Rainolds on...
Reginald Pole, a fellow of the college in the 1520s, was Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Mary, and a candidate for the papacy.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - King James Version of the Bible
According to an eyewitness account, Dr John Rainolds "moved his majesty that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reign of king Henry the Eight and Edward the Sixt were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the original."
John Hayes Gardiner of Harvard University once stated that "in all study of English literature, if there be any one axiom which may be accepted without question, it is that the ultimate standard of English prose style is set by the King James version of the Bible".
John Milton, author of the blank verse epic poem Paradise Lost, was heavily influenced by the King James Version, beginning his day with a reading from that version of the Bible; in his later life, he would then spend an hour meditating in silence.
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Rainolds, an extremely learned man (dubbed “the third University” by Anthony à Wood) is chiefly remembered as one of the translators of the K.
Wood’s statement receives a measure of support from the fact that in 1598 Rainolds was named to a committee of men “in religion knowen to be sound, to the present government loy allie affected” charged with determining wiether a certain candidate for the D. was a loyal conformist (Clark, Register II.ii.157).
In fact, Rainolds had only recommended banning Plautus and Terence from the schoolroom, but Pyrnne’s use of his passage to authorize press censorship is only another step down the road marked out.
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 §13. The Controversy at the Universities. XIV. The Puritan Attack upon the Stage. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When, therefore, William Gager of Christ Church, a well known Latin dramatist, and John Rainolds, an eminent theologian, afterwards president of Corpus Christi, crossed swords, in 1592, on the subject of the propriety of the academic play, they were fighting over old ground.
Unknown to Gager, Rainolds had used many of these very arguments in the letter in which he had refused the invitation, and he naturally supposed that their reproduction was intended as a personal insult to himself.
While valiantly defending himself and his young actors from the aspersions of Rainolds, he admits the worst his opponent has to say about “common playes.” As an occasional recreation for learned gentlemen, acting received his highest praise; as a regular means of livelihood, it was regarded with scorn.
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 The King James Bible Translators
John Rainolds impugned the policies of Bishop Bancroft and urged that " old, curious, deep and intricate questions might be avoided in the fundamental instruction of a people." Oddly, in view of his own historic position, one of Rainolds' complaints was about the role of books.
Rainolds was Bancroft's target because, it may be, Bancroft was loath to gibe at Chaderton, the other effective Puritan, who was his lifelong friend.
Sir John Harington, the genius who invented the privy, was present and wrote to his wife that "the king talked much Latin and disputed with Doctor Rainolds, but he rather used upbraidings than arguments....The Bishops seemed much pleased and said his majesty spoke by the power of inspiration.
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 King James Version of The Bible Encyclopedia Article @ Knelt.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The works of famous authors such as John Bunyan, John Milton, Herman Melville, John Dryden, and William Wordsworth are replete with inspiration derived from the King James Version.
The committee included John Bois, Andrew Downes, John Harmer, and others known only by their initials, including "AL" (who may be Arthur Lake).
Some have claimed that the playwright William Shakespeare was involved in the translation, pointing to Psalms 46 as proof, where, counting 46 words from the beginning, one comes upon the word "shake", and counting 46 words backwards from the end, one comes upon the word "spear".
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 John Rainolds at AllExperts
John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 - May 21, 1607), English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter.
The fellows of Corpus were anxious to replace Cole by Rainolds, and change was effected, Rainolds being elected president in December 1598.
The chief events of his subsequent career were his share in the Hampton Court Conference, where he was the most prominent representative of the Puritan party and received a good deal of favour from the king, and in the Authorized Version of the Bible.
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 John Reynolds
John was re-elected in the June 28, 2004 general election.
John served as co-chair of the successful national Conservative Party campaign for the January 23, 2006 federal election, in which Stephen Harper was elected the Prime Minister of Canada.
In March 2006, John was appointed as a Senior Strategic Advisor to Lang Michener law firm in Vancouver.
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 Mirror - Rare Books Paper - Theodore de Bry
The series ran to fourteen parts, but, when Rainolds died in 1607, no attempt was made to complete the set, the last volume of which was published in 1634, and so the college only has the first nine parts.
Rainolds' books comprised a substantial proportion of the seventeenth century library collection at Corpus and over 130 volumes remain in the library today.
Rainolds was one of the best-known theologians of his day, and rose to particular prominence as a "foreman" of the puritan party at the Hampton Court Conference in 1603/4.
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John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 - May 21, 1607), English divine, was congenital about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, available Exeter.
The fellows of Corpus were anxious to reinstate Cole by Rainolds, & pin greenback was effected, Rainolds animation elected president in December 1598.
The chief muddles of her subsequent artistry were her serving in the Hampton Court Conference, where he was the nose cone candy representative of the Puritan & received a stupendous deal of favour from the king, & in the Authorized Version of the Bible.
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 John Rainolds Summary
Within a month of John Rainolds's death on 21 May 1607 the great Italian scholar Joseph Scaliger bemoaned the loss of not only a profoundly erudite scholar but also a towering pillar of the reformed churches.
John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549- May 21, 1607), English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter.
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 John Reynolds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Douglas Reynolds, the former Conservative MP for the West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country electoral district in the Canadian House of Commons.
John Reynolds, a Repealer MP for the constituency of Dublin City in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
John Reynolds, footballer who scored in the 1892 FA Cup final for West Bromwich Albion F.C. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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 Mirror - Rare Books Paper - Theodore de Bry
The series ran to fourteen parts, but, when Rainolds died in 1607, no attempt was made to complete the set, the last volume of which was published in 1634, and so the college only has the first nine parts.
Rainolds' books comprised a substantial proportion of the seventeenth century library collection at Corpus and over 130 volumes remain in the library today.
Rainolds was one of the best-known theologians of his day, and rose to particular prominence as a "foreman" of the puritan party at the Hampton Court Conference in 1603/4.
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 John Reynolds — FactMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Rainolds - Rainolds or Reynolds, John, 1549–1607, English clergyman and biblical scholar.
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 The University of Delaware Press
This volume celebrates the work of John Dryden and reassesses his position in the literary tradition three hundred years after his death.
Moore positions the work of American artist John White Alexander at the intersection of the shifting discourse of nationalism in American art at the turn of the twentieth century.
John O'Donovan, Irish playwright, journalist, scholar, and broadcaster, has been depicted as "the despair of his enemies, the delight of his friends, and sometimes vice versa." The four plays in this work present him at his most thoughtful, ribald, and moving.
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 Chapter 5: The English Jewel
John Rainolds had been addressing the newly crowned king of England, James I. Various concerns among the Puritans had arisen, and now was an opportunity to present them before the king.
Rainolds was well aware of the concerns that had risen within the Church and the nation.
Although one cannot prove that this error is the fault of Dr. John Fell in his 1675 Oxford edition, we can state that considerable time had passed before the error was introduced, and that the error was limited to the editions published by Oxford or those based on the Oxford edition.
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  The Summe of the Conference Betwene John Rainoldes and John Hart: Touching the Head and the Faith of the Church.
  Penned by John Rainoldes, according to the notes setdowne in writing by them both: perused by John Hart, and (after things supplied, and altered, as he thought good) allowed for the faithfull report of that which past in conference between them.
Gregory: who though he use not the wordes of this distinction, yet he hath the sense of it: saying, that Andrewe, James, and John were heads of severall congregations, and all, members of the Church, under one head Peter.
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 “There is None Like It, Give It Me”
John Whitgift, the aging Archbishop of Canterbury, with eight bishops of the Church, eight deans of the Church's principal cathedrals, and two doctors of divinity represented the traditionalists of the Church of England at that meeting.
James and his advisers had invited only four representatives of the reform-minded Puritan element of the Church: the learned John Rainolds, President of Corpus Christi College at Oxford, who was to become the father of the King James Bible, Laurence Chaderton of Oxford, John Knewstubs, and Thomas Sparke.
Rainolds spoke firmly of the Puritan concerns, questioning some of the procedures of the Church.
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 KJV King James Bible   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After his mother was imprisoned in London for sedition against her half-sister, Elizabeth, Queen of England, James came to the throne and was crowned James VI of Scotland (1567-1603).
"Rainolds was a Puritan, and the Bishop of London felt it his duty to disagree.
Rainolds cited as the reason for a new translation was that the official Prayer Book, based on the Great Bible and Bishops’ Bible, had translation errors in it.
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 John Fulton Reynolds Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One of the most highly esteemed of Union corps commanders, John F. Reynolds was destined to fall in the defense of his native state.
With his command heavily outnumbered on the field, he realized that he had to reinforce the position being held by John Buford's troopers.
As the ambulance carrying his body passed by the troops advancing to the victory-which he had done so much to make possible it cast a pall of sadness over the regiments.
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 The Enthymeme Bibliography
Nolt, John E. "Entailment, Enthymemes, and Formalization." The Journal of Philosophy 83:10 (1986): 572-573.
"John Corigliano's 'Symphony No. 1' as a Communicative Medium for the AIDS Crisis." Communication Studies 44:2 (1993): 87-101.
Moores, John D. Wrestling with Rationality in Paul: Romans 1-8 in a New Perspective.
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 King James Translators
The Puritan, Dr. Rainolds, proposed that a new translation of the Bible be undertaken.
According to the “official” account: “After that he [Rainolds] moved his majesty that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reign of king Henry the Eighth and Edward the Sixth were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the original.”
Although other translators besides Edes had died before the Bible was published in 1611 (Edward Lively in 1605, Ralph Hutchinson and William Dakins in 1606, John Rainolds in 1607, Thomas Ravis and John Aglionhy in 1609), it appears that once the work of translation was in progress, translators who died were not replaced.
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 AllRefer.com - John Rainolds (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John Rainolds (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Rainolds[both: ren´uldz] Pronunciation Key, 1549–1607, English clergyman and biblical scholar.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003011037   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Northbrooke, A Treatise Against Dicing, Dancing, Plays, and Interludes, with Other Idle Pastimes (1577) p.60 2.
John Rainolds, The Overthrow of Stage Plays (1599) p.287 13.
[John Greene], A Refutation of the Apology for Actors (1615) p.412 18.
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 KJV Preservation Page - Lesson Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Shortly after James became King of England, he was approached by Dr. John Rainolds concerning various issues facing the English Church.
Rainolds, a Puritan and later one of the translators, made the following proposal within his address to the king.
It is true that several of the translators did advance within the Church after the translation was complete, but this was due to their ability, not as a reward for their effort.
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 RAINOLDS (or REYNOLDS)... - Online Information article about RAINOLDS (or REYNOLDS)...
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 KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE : Encyclopedia Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The English translations made by John Wycliffe's followers, and later by William Tyndale, were the opening salvos of the Protestant Reformation in England and Scotland.
Some English Protestant leaders, fleeing the "fires of Smithfield" instituted by Queen Mary in co-operation with Roman Catholic policy, established an English-speaking Protestant colony at Geneva.
Milton, who cast two Psalms into meter at the age of 15 while an undergraduate at Cambridge, filled his works with images obviously taken from the Bible.
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