Authority Cited: West
Author name and dates: Gilbert West (1703-1756)
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Author name and dates: Gilbert West (1703-1756)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; translator; minor Govt. official; Oxford LLD for work supporting Christianity; translation of Pindar standard version
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary)
- Observations on the Resurrection: Observations on the history and evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. By Gilbert West, Esq. 1747, London : printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall; forger (p.347); [houseless (p.349)]; paramount (p.441); rancourous (p.417); [servileness/servility (p.441)]; [supputation (p. 395, in a West translation of Principles de la Foy Critienne by Jacques Joseph Duguet)]; vain (p.xvi); wittingly (same quote as forger);
- Pindar: Odes of Pindar, with several other pieces in prose and verse, translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed a Dissertation on the Olympick games. By Gilbert West. 1749, London. Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in PallMall; therefore; [BKG Note: there is only a related discussion of contestants using sand and mud in West's Pindar. SJ appears to have confused this with the actural source of his quotation, likely from memory, which is The letters of Pliny the Younger, with observations on each letter; and an essay on Pliny's life, Addressed To Charles Lord Boyle. By John Earl of Orrery. 1752 (and perhaps 1751), London : printed by James Bettenham, for Paul Vaillan, p.XVIII. (See Orrery, John]
- The Institution of the Order of the Garter, a Dramatick Poem, 1742, London : printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall; [signiory]
- West (no work cited);