Richard Bentley
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 282 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 27,1662 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Oulton |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | July 14,1742 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Fields | Classical Studies |
| Critic | |
| Theologian | |
| Notable students | Roger Cotes |
| James Jurin | |
| Education | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Spalding Grammar School | |
| St John's College, Cambridge | |
| Grandchildren | Richard Cumberland |
| Current partner | Joanna Bernard |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Children | Richard Bentley |
| Johanna Bentley | |
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| ID | 492832 |
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The Correspondence
The Life of Richard Bentley, D. D. : Master of Trinity College, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking
The Works
Eight Boyle Lectures on Atheism
Dr. Bentley's Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the Greek Testament, and St. Hierom's Latin Version: With a Full Answer to All the Remarks of a Late Pamphleteer
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris: With an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle
The Diary (1709-1720) of Edward Rud, Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, and Rector of North Runcton in Norfolk: To which are Added Several Unpublished Letters of Dr Bentley
The Odes of Horace in Latin and English: With a Translation of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To which are Added, Notes Upon Notes ; . . .
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Human Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, & the Origin and Frame of the World : in Eight Sermons, Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, in the First Year MDCXCII
(Collections 1726).
Philodamus. a Tragedy. As It Was Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, the 14th December 1782
A Sermon Preach'd Before His Majesty King George, at His Royal Chapel of St. James's, on Sunday February 3. 1716/17. by Richard Bentley,
The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce
The Present State of Trinity College in Cambridg [sic]: In a Letter from Dr. Bentley, Master of the Said College, to the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Ely
Remark LIV.
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris: With an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle. By Richard Bentley . . . To which are Added, Dr. Bentley's Dissertation on the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others ; and the Fables of Æsop ; . . .
A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion: Being a Collection of the Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq;. . . With the Additions and Amendments of the Several Authors, and General Indexes. In Three Volumes: II.
The Correspondence
The Life of Richard Bentley, D. D. : Master of Trinity College, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
Remarks upon a late discourse of free-thinking
The Works
Eight Boyle Lectures on Atheism
Dr. Bentley's Proposals for Printing a New Edition of the Greek Testament, and St. Hierom's Latin Version: With a Full Answer to All the Remarks of a Late Pamphleteer
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris: With an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle
The Diary (1709-1720) of Edward Rud, Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, and Rector of North Runcton in Norfolk: To which are Added Several Unpublished Letters of Dr Bentley
The Odes of Horace in Latin and English: With a Translation of Dr. Bentley's Notes. To which are Added, Notes Upon Notes ; . . .
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism: Demonstrated from the Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, the Faculties of Human Souls, the Structure of Animate Bodies, & the Origin and Frame of the World : in Eight Sermons, Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire, in the First Year MDCXCII
(Collections 1726).
Philodamus. a Tragedy. As It Was Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, the 14th December 1782
A Sermon Preach'd Before His Majesty King George, at His Royal Chapel of St. James's, on Sunday February 3. 1716/17. by Richard Bentley,
The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce
The Present State of Trinity College in Cambridg [sic]: In a Letter from Dr. Bentley, Master of the Said College, to the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Ely
Remark LIV.
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris: With an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle. By Richard Bentley . . . To which are Added, Dr. Bentley's Dissertation on the Epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others ; and the Fables of Æsop ; . . .
A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion: Being a Collection of the Sermons Preached at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq;. . . With the Additions and Amendments of the Several Authors, and General Indexes. In Three Volumes: II.
Richard Bentley Life story
Richard Bentley FRS was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred".
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