James Adams (Jesuit)
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James Adams (1737 – 7 December 1802) was an English Jesuit and philologist.
Life
[edit]Adams joined the English Jesuits in exile at their novitiate of Watten (France), on 7 September 1756. Afterwards Adams taught belles-lettres at the English College of St. Omer. Having exercised his functions as a missionary for many years, he retired to Dublin, August, 1802, and died there in the following month of December.
Works
[edit]Adams was the author of the following works.
- Early Rules for Taking a Likeness. with plates, London, 1792; translated from Bonamici.
- Oratio Academica Anglice et Latine. London, 1793.
- Euphonologia Linguae Anglicanae, Latine et Gallice, London, 1794; for which he received the thanks of the Royal Society.
- Rule Britannia, or the Flattery of Free Subjects Expounded; to which is added an Academical Discourse. London, 1798.
- A Sermon preached at the Catholic Chapel of St. Patrick, Sutton-street, on Wednesday, March 7, the Day of Public Fast. London, 1798.
- The Pronunciation of the English Language Vindicated. Edinburgh 1799.
References
[edit]- Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Adams, James". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 95.
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- 1737 births
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- English Roman Catholic missionaries
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- English philologists
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- English male non-fiction writers
- 18th-century English non-fiction writers
- 18th-century English male writers
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- English expatriates in France
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