committed religious nonconformist; his father, also Isaac Watts, had been incarcerated twice for his views. Watts had a classical education at King Edward VI...
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Chemical compound (section Isaac Watts)
In his Logick, published in 1724, the English minister and logician Isaac Watts gave an early definition of chemical element, and contrasted element...
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Chemical element (section Isaac Watts)
Logick, the English minister and logician Isaac Watts enumerated the elements then recognized by chemists. Watts' list of elements included two of Paracelsus'...
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mischief still for idle hands to do." ("Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts). The word "sloth" is a translation of the Latin term acedia (Middle...
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Isaac Watts (1797–1876) was an early British naval architect. Together with Chief Engineer Thomas Lloyd, he designed HMS Warrior, the world's first armour-plated...
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poem "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts, which is what Alice was originally trying to recite. Watts' poem begins "How doth the little busy...
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"Joy to the World" is a Christmas carol written by Isaac Watts/George Frideric Handel. Joy to the World may also refer to: Joy to the World (Mormon Tabernacle...
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Metrical psalter (section Isaac Watts ('Imitated'))
and As pants the hart for cooling streams is a setting of Psalm 42. Isaac Watts produced a metrical psalter, in which he breaks out of the ballad metre...
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Joy to the World (category Hymns by Isaac Watts)
minister and hymnist Isaac Watts, based on a Christian interpretation of Psalm 98 and Genesis 3. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection The...
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Joseph Swain)†§ See all creation join (Isaac Watts; alt. William W. Phelps) O happy souls who pray (Isaac Watts; alt. William W. Phelps) From the regions...
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