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	Robert Lowth - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT LOWTH (1710-1787), English divine and Orientalist, was born at Winchester on the 27th of November 1710.
		Robert was educated on the foundation of Winchester College, and in 1729 was elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford.
		The principal point in which Lowth's influence has been lasting is his doctrine of poetic parallelism, and even here his somewhat mechanical classification of the forms of Hebrew sense-rhythm, as it should rather be called, is open to serious objections.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Lowth (498 words)

	Robert Lowth
		Robert Lowth (1710 - November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
		Shortly afterwards, in 1753, Lowth was appointed rector of East Woodhay.
		Lowth was appointed a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Göttingen in 1765.
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	Robert Lowth - Definition, explanation
		Robert Lowth (November 27, 1710 – November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
		Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools, and established him as the first of a long line of usage commentators who judge the English language in addition to describing it.
		Lowth was appointed a fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Göttingen in 1765.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ro/robert_lowth.php (624 words)

	Robert Lowth - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Robert Lowth (November 27, 1710 â“ November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
		Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools, and established him as the first of a long line of usage commentators who judge the English language in addition to describing it.
		Lowth's grammar was not written for children; however, within a decade after it appeared, versions of it adapted for the use of schools had appeared, and Lowth's stylistic opinions acquired the force of law in the schoolroom.
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	Science Fair Projects - Robert Lowth
		Robert Lowth (November 27, 1710 – November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
		Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools, and established him as the first of a long line of usage commentators who judge the English language in addition to describing it.
		Lowth's grammar was not written for children; however, within a decade after it appeared, versions of it adapted for the use of schools had appeared, and Lowth's stylistic opinions acquired the force of law in the schoolroom.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Robert_Lowth (729 words)

	The Codifiers and the English Language: Robert Lowth in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
		Lowth further appears to have “materially supported” the biblical scholar Alexander Geddes in his work, and counted the classicist Jonathan Toup, the religious writer Thomas Townson and the orientalist Charles Godfrey Woide among his scholarly acquaintances.
		This search of the ODNB suggests that Lowth’s reputation among the general public was that of a Hebrew scholar and professor of poetry in Oxford, in which capacity he was succeeded by William Hawkins.
		In the entry on Warburton Lowth is said to have been “professor of Hebrew at Oxford”: he was professor of poetry there from 1741 to 1750, and gave lectures on the interpretation of Hebrew poetry.
	weblog.leidenuniv.nl /let/eng/codifiers/archives/2006/03/15/robert_lowth_in_the_oxford_dictionary_of_national_biography.html (775 words)

	Robert Lowth
		Robert Lowth is one of the most influential Biblical exegetes of the eighteenth-century.
		Lowth points out, for instance, that the difference between 'the historical proem' of the Book of Job and Job's speeches is at least as great as that between Herodotus and Homer.
		Lowth discusses and Smart employs antiphonal structure, parallels of meaning and phraseology in successiv lines, and most of all, perhaps, evocative metaphors rather than those that lead to ideal presence.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Lowth
		Robert Lowth (November 27, 1710 – November 3, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
		Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools, and established him as the first of a long line of usage commentators who judge the English language in addition to describing it.
		Lowth's grammar was not written for children; however, within a decade after it appeared, versions of it adapted for the use of schools had appeared, and Lowth's stylistic opinions acquired the force of law in the schoolroom.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Lowth (663 words)

	Robert LOWTH - Encyclopedia.com
		Though he liberally illustrated his grammar rules with errors to be found in the English BIBLE and in STANDARD authors, his approach to correctness was not invariably rigid and, like most grammarians, he described English as well as prescribing its rules.
		Lowth also distinguished between shall and will as the future auxiliary, yet he noted that the pattern is a new one that took hold in the language after ‘the vulgar translation of the Bible’.
		Lowth was convinced that English is rule-governed, and he defended the regularity and simplicity of the language against a tradition which viewed it as too primitive to possess any grammar at all.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O29-LOWTHRobert.html (520 words)

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		Lowth evidently did not agree with this suggestion, for the 1763 contains a note to the effect that y “is always a vowel”, and that it cannot be considered a consonant, not even in the words your, yew and young (1763:4).
		Lowth does not actually proscribe himself, and Merrick seems to advocate that he should allow the thou wert in the indicative similarly, arguing, wrongly as it happens, that thou wast was never used.
		Lowth may have been stubborn at times, adhering to his original arguments at all odds, in the case of his discussion of adverbs he allowed himself to be led by Merrick’s arguments.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/sheffield/ExtendedTieken.doc (5078 words)

	Wikinfo \| Robert Lowth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lowth was born in Hampshire, England on November 27, 1710, the son of Dr William Lowth and his wife, Margaret (nee Pitt).
		His most famous (or infamous) contribution to the study of grammar was his prescription that forbade the use of the split infinitive, a rule that has been a subject of dispute for grammarians ever since.
		Additionally, Lowth originated the antagonism towards sentences ending with a preposition, thus declaring a sentence such as "what did you ask for?" to be invalid.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Robert_Lowth (466 words)

	Lowth, Robert. Letter. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Lowth was born in England on November 27, 1710, the youngest son of Dr. and Mrs.
		Lowth married Mary, daughter of Lawrence Jackson of Christ-Church, Hamptonshire, in 1752.
		The letter, dated February 9, 1781, thanks the addressee for an essay written in response to the controversy created by Joseph Priestley's interpretation of the distinction between the soul and body of man. It is not known for whom the letter was intended.
	www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/mss105.html (354 words)

	Syntax Issue 2 - Essays - Stranded Prepositions
		In his book, Lowth handed-down some rules that, while are useful in Latin and its relatives, were inappropriate for the Germanic-based language of English.
		Lowth's most famous rule of traditional grammar states that one should "never put a preposition at the end of a sentence".
		Lowth's grammar prescribes that infinitives cannot be split.
	www.denversyntax.com /issue2/essays/bitz/stranded.html (563 words)

	Covenant Worldwide -- Psalms & Wisdom Books
		Others, like Robert Lowth (whom we will talk about in just a minute) refer to the line itself as a "verse," which makes sense, and a portion of the line as a "verse member," which also makes sense, although it is not very convenient to have to say "verse member" each time.
		Lowth felt that meter was the essential characteristic of all poetry and so he assumed that biblical poetry, because it is poetic, must have meter.
		Kugel's criticism of Lowth's attempt and his description is that it tends to obscure this emphatic seconding character of the second phrase in a bi-colon.
	www.covenantseminary.edu /worldwide/en/OT240/OT240_T_04.html (3400 words)

	Amazon.com: "Robert Lowth": Key Phrase page
		For example, Bishop Robert Lowth is well known as the eighteenth-century expounder of the idea of parallelism in Hebrew poetry.
		Dedicating his grammar to Robert Lowth, the then bishop of Oxford and the major supporter of Benjamin Kennicott, Bayly focuses in the introduction to his grammar...
		David's was Robert Lowth (1710-87), a New College man who held the professorship of poetry at Oxford for nearly ten years from 1741, before...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Robert-Lowth (467 words)

	University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology
		Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc
		The year 1753 saw the publication of two major works of Old Testament scholarship, Robert Lowth’s On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews and Jean Astruc’s Conjectures on Genesis, both of which have had repercussions in biblical study down to the present day.
		A. On the context and legacy of Robert Lowth’s Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
	www.theology.ox.ac.uk /news_and_events/sacred_conjectures.htm (402 words)

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		Lowth had invited Merrick, as well as Spence, who were both friends of his, to comment on his grammar, following his idea that the first edition would be a kind of trial version, which he would distribute among ‘friends & critics, to get their remarks’ (Lowth to Robert Dodsley, 9 January 1761; Tierney, p.
		Lowth’s correspondence with Merrick The correspondence as it has come down to us consists of eighteen letters, thirteen written by Lowth and five by Merrick.2 The letters, which are not ordered chronologically in the manuscript, are dated as follows: 1.
		Lowth speaks of his Introduction to English Grammar as being calculated for the Use of the Learner, even of the lowest Class: but a Perusal of it will convince any Person conversant with such Learners, that the Doctor was much mistaken in his Calculation.
	faculty.ed.uiuc.edu /westbury/paradigm/ostade.doc (6171 words)

	History of linguistic prescription in English Information
		Lowth's grammar is the source of many of the prescriptive shibboleths that are studied in schools and was the first of a long line of usage commentators to judge the language in addition to describing it.
		Thus Lowth condemns Addison's sentence "Who should I meet the other night, but my old friend?" on the grounds that the thing acted upon should be in the "Objective Case", corresponding, as he says earlier, to an oblique case in Latin.
		Lowth's grammar was not written for children; nonetheless, within a decade of its appearance, versions of it were adapted for schools, and Lowth's stylistic opinions acquired the force of law in the classroom.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/History_of_linguistic_prescription_in_English (741 words)

	HERALD
		Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, at the close of the eighteenth century, who undertook “to give an exact and faithful representation of the words, and of the sense of the prophet,” remarks concerning it, “this is one of the most obscure prophecies in the whole book of Isaiah.
		Lowth was, perhaps, the most, or one of the most, profound scholars of his day, the reader will no doubt be gratified in presenting to him what the doctor considers an exact and faithful representation of the most obscure and doubtful portion of the sure prophetic word.
		Lowth saw that his “close literal version” had not rendered the prophecy so plain as that he who runs may read: he has, therefore, favoured us with some notes upon the phrases of his version to help us in their interpretation.
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	Robert Lowth at AllExperts
		He was educated at Winchester College and became a scholar of New College, Oxford in 1729.
		In 1735, while still at Oxford, Lowth took orders in the Anglican Church and was appointed vicar of Overton, Hampshire, a position he retained until 1741, when he was appointed professor of poetry at Oxford.
		Lowth's method included criticising "false syntax"; his examples of false syntax were culled from Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Donne, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and other famous writers, raising the question, by what authority did Lowth aspire to judge these writers' syntax?
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	Examples
		Martha Kolln and Robert Funk, the authors of Understanding English Grammar, would have you think that the definition has changed according to a series of varying approaches to usage, one definition replacing the other as time has passed.
		Bishop Robert Lowth published A Short Introduction to English Grammar, in which he attempted to “reduce the language to a system of uniform rules” (8a).
		Lowth, too, was prescriptive, set on improving and correcting rather than describing the language.
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	split infinitives
		Robert Lowth's book of style would be no exception.
		One of the rules Robert Lowth invented, all by himself, was that a person should never split an infinitive.
		Nonetheless, reasoned amateur grammarian Robert Lowth, if you can't split an infinitive in Latin, you shouldn't be able to split an infinitive in English.
	www.cimms.ou.edu /~doswell/peeves/split_infinitives.html (893 words)

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