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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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" 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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  • 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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    Scripture, Watts wrote metered texts based on New Testament passages that brought the Christian faith into the songs of the church. Isaac Watts has been...
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    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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  • merchant-trader and ambassador Isaac Ukwu (born 1999), American football player Isaac Vorsah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English Christian...
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    Our God, Our Help in Ages Past (category Hymns by Isaac Watts)
    Help in Ages Past" (or "O God, Our Help in Ages Past") is a hymn by Isaac Watts in 1708 that paraphrases the 90th Psalm of the Book of Psalms. It originally...
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    Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (category Hymns by Isaac Watts)
    "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" is a hymn by Isaac Watts, first published in 1707. The words describe the crucifixion of Jesus and reflect on an appropriate...
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    Alice's adventures underground "How Doth the Little Crocodile"—a parody of Isaac Watts' nursery rhyme, "Against Idleness and Mischief" "The Mouse's Tale"—an...
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    When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (category Hymns by Isaac Watts)
    The hymn "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. It is significant for being...
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  • Isaac Watt Boulton (1823–1899) was a British engineer and founder of the locomotive-hire business known as Boulton's Siding. Isaac Boulton was born at...
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  • by the approximately 750 hymns composed by Isaac Watts (1674–1748), followed by the almost tenfold Watts' output[clarification needed] composed a generation...
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  • Clarence A. Walworth Frederick William Orde Ward David Atwood Wasson Isaac Watts Charles Weekes Walt Whitman Oscar Wilde Sarah Williams Walter Leslie...
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    "tourist stops" included the graves of religious leaders John Bunyan, Isaac Watts, and John Wesley. He visited a chapel that Wesley founded, later writing...
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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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    years later to design London's only public statue to Dr Isaac Watts, it was situated in Dr Watts' Walk in front of the Abney Park Chapel. Endorsement of...
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    created by enslaved African Americans, developed from a song written by Isaac Watts in the 18th century which became well known among slaves in the United...
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    the American South. Another theory notes foundations in the works of Isaac Watts and others.[unreliable source?] Moreover, the genre arose during a time...
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  • Islam, W. M. Watt, Ishak Stories of the Prophets, Kisa'i; Ibn Kathir, The Story of Isaac and Jacob Lives of the Prophets, L. Azzam, Isaac and Jacob Stories...
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  • 7 April 2019. Watts, Isaac (1851). Melancthon Worcestor, Samuel (ed.). The Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts: To which are added...
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    man who holds the watering-pot,     And fish with glittering scales. — Isaac Watts The following table compares the Gregorian dates on which the Sun enters...
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  • Isaac Newton Watt (1821–1886) was a soldier, merchant and a Member of Parliament in Taranaki, New Zealand in the mid-to-late 19th century. He was born...
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    Watts, Isaac (1762). Horae lyricae: poems, chiefly of the lyric kind ... /. New York : Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine. "Horae Lyricae (Isaac Watts) –...
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  • including a literal earthly reign of Christ with Israel restored).: 65  Isaac Watts (1674–1748) presented a dispensational view in a forty-page essay titled...
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    result of WW2. West Park, also known as Watts Park, is the western most park. It is named after Isaac Watts, with a statue of him being located in the...
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