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A translation of Plutarch's "Banquet of the Seven Sages," revised for this work, London, 1833. The preface is signed "Job Crithannah", an anagram of the author's name. The Crown Prince of Prussia accepted a copy, and renewed the friendship formed at
46:; John Birch had known George Bagster (1739–1819), Samuel's father, from a group of evangelical young men to which they both belonged. Jonathan's younger brother Augustus Birch (1786–1840) was a British Army Commissariat Officer who settled in 111:, London, 1838; Dublin, 1839. The pseudonym is another anagram of Jonathan Birch. On sending the crown prince a copy he received in return a gold medal, of which only thirty were struck, and given by the prince to his particular friends. 633: 675: 118:, the first in English covering also some of Part II. The first Part was published in 1839, and dedicated to the crown prince, who, on coming to the throne in 1840 as 64:. Birch remained there until Argelander's death in 1812; much of his time was spent travelling in Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. In 1807 the three eldest sons of 665: 42:, London, on 4 July 1783, the son of John Birch (1738–1815) and his wife Charlotte Henrietta Johnson Willdon. His elder sister Eunice Birch married 109:
Divine Emblems; embellished with etchings on copper , after the fashion of Master Francis Quarles. Designed and written by Johann Albricht, A.M.
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Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard; Marché, Jordan D.; Ragep, F. Jamil (2007).
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When Birch was young, he wished to become a sculptor, but in October 1798 he was apprenticed to an uncle in the city.
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In 1812 Birch returned to England and became a writer. In 1841 he was elected a foreign honorary member of the
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In 1846 the King of Prussia offered Birch a choice of apartments in three of his palaces. He chose
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In 1823 Birch married Esther Brooke, of Lancaster. They had five children, of whom a son
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work was in the press, he was taken ill, and he died at Bellevue on 8 September 1847.
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In 1803 Birch entered the house of Johann Gottfried Argelander, a timber-merchant at
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took refuge with Argelander for 18 months. They struck up a friendship with Birch.
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Jellinek, M. H.; Schultz, Franz; Pollak, Valentin; Meyer, Richard M. (1906).
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen
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Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's
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Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur
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Fifty-one Original Fables, with Morals and Ethical Index
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Samuel Bagster of London, 1772-1851: An Autobiography
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Samuel Bagster of London, 1772-1851: An Autobiography
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Open Book Publishers. p. 355. 520:"Walt Whitman and the Nibelungenlied" 352: 350: 348: 346: 344: 342: 340: 338: 7: 187:A.R.A. and a daughter survived him. 62:Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander 14: 666:19th-century English translators 639:Dictionary of National Biography 618: 369:Dictionary of National Biography 134:in 1840, from Henrietta Street, 66:Frederick William III of Prussia 174:, appeared shortly afterwards. 148:An English translation of the 1: 307:UK public library membership 224:UK public library membership 518:Little, William A. (1965). 329:North Queensland Naturalist 692: 410:Benson, Adolph B. (1922). 320:Dowe, John Leslie (2016). 114:A translation of Goethe's 73:Literary Society of Berlin 143:Rulemann Friedrich Eylert 573:Blamires, David (2009). 266:. Bagster. p. 130. 262:Bagster, Samuel (1972). 241:. Bagster. p. 162. 237:Bagster, Samuel (1972). 156:. 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Index

Goethe's Faust dramas
Holborn
Samuel Bagster the Elder
New South Wales
Memel
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Frederick William III of Prussia
Literary Society of Berlin
Bellevue Palace
Frederick William IV
bowdlerised
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Brunswick Square
Rulemann Friedrich Eylert
Munich
Carl Lachmann
Grimm brothers
Nibelungenlied
William Nanson Lettsom
Charles Bell Birch
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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10.1093/ref:odnb/2431
UK public library membership
ISBN
978-0-85150-000-3
ISBN
978-0-85150-000-3
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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