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 TAYLOR 593 " The Virgin Widow, a Play " (1850) ; and " St. Clement's Eve, a Play" (1862). A collective edition of his plays and poems was published in 1863 (3 vols. 8vo). TAYLOR, Isaac, an English author, born at Lavenham, Suffolk, Aug. 17, 1787, died at Stanford Rivers, Essex, June 28, 1865. His father, Isaac Taylor, originally a line engraver, ' came a dissenting minister, and wrote sev- popular books for children. His mother, n Taylor, Wrote "Maternal Solicitude" and .er educational works. The son was trained an artist, but devoted himself to literature, d also displayed much mechanical ingenu- hich was employed in producing the plates r Traill's Josephus, and a machine for engra- _ patterns on rollers for calico printing, now use in Manchester. Some of the designs from his pencil were engraved for Boydell's Bible. Though brought up as a dissenter, he became a member of the established church. In 1862 he received a civil service pension of 100 for his services to literature in the departments of history and philosophy. He published "Elements of Thought" (1822); " History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times" (1827); "The Process of Historical Proof Exemplified and Explained " (1828); "Balance of Criminality, or Mental Error compared with Immoral Conduct " (1828) ; and a translation of Herodotus with notes (1829). In 1829 appeared anonymously his "Natural History of Enthusiasm," which was received with extraordinary favor, and was followed by "A New Model of Chris- tian Missions" (1829); "Saturday Evening" (1832) ; " Fanaticism " (1833) ; " Spiritual Des- potism" (1835); and "Physical Theory of Another Life " (1836), the last leading to the surrender of the author's incognito. His other works are : " Home Education " (1838) ; "An- cient Christianity, and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts 'for the Times" (8 parts, 1839- '40 ; 4th ed., with supplement and indexes, 2 vols. 8vo, 1844); "Man Responsible for his Dispositions, Opinions, and Conduct" (1840); "Lectures on Spiritual Christianity" (1841); " Loyola, and Jesuitism in its Rudiments " (1849); "Wesley and Methodism" (1851); " The Restorations of Belief " (1855) ; " The World of Mind" (1857) ; "Logic in Theology, and other Essays" (1859) ; "The Liturgy and the Dissenters," and " Ultimate Civilization, and other Essays" (1860); "The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry " (1861) ; and " Considerations on the Pentateuch " (1863). His brother JEF- FREYS published a number of popular Books for young people. His sisters ANN (died 1866) and JANE (1783-1824) published "Original Poems " and " Hymns " for children, and "Hymns" for Sunday schools. (See "Auto- biography and other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, formerly Ann Taylor," edited by Josiah Gil- bert, 2 vols., London, 1874.) Jane also pub- lished " Display," a tale (1815), and " Contri- butions of Q. Q." (1824); and her "Memoirs, Correspondence, and Poetical Remains" ap- peared in 1825 (2 vols.). His son ISAAC, a clergyman of the established church, has pub- lished "Words and Places" (1864; enlarged ed., IS^), which attempts to give a complete explanation of the local names of Great Brit- ain; "The Family Pen: Memorials Biograph- ical and Literary of the Taylor Family of On- gar " (2 vols., 1867) ; and "Etruscan Research- es " (1874). TAYLOR, Isidore SeVerin Justin, baron, a French author of English origin, born in Brussels, Aug. 15, 1789. After studying art he served several years in the French army, reaching the rank of major, and afterward travelled in Italy, Greece, and the East, bringing back rich col- lections, which he placed in the galleries and museums of Versailles and Paris. He exerted himself to procure from the French chambers the restoration of the principal monuments of the middle ages in France ; in 1824 was made royal commissary of the Come'die Francaise; and at the direction of the government twice visited Egypt, and negotiated the transfer to France of the obelisks of Luxor and other Egyptian antiquities. He was made a sena- tor in 1869. In connection with 0. Nodier and De Caillieu, he edited the illustrated Voyages pittoresques zt romantiques dans Van- cienne France (fol., 1820-'54) ; Voyage pitto- resque en Espagne, en Portugal et sur la cote tfAfrique de Tanger d Tetouan (4to, 1826 et seq.) ; La Syrie, VEgypte, la Palestine et la Judee (4to, 1837 et seq.) ; Pelerinage d Jerusa- lem (1841); and Voyage en Suisse, en Italic, en Sidle, en Angleterre, en Ecosse, en Alle- magne, en Grece, &c. (1843). TAYLOR, Jeremy, an English theologian, born in Cambridge in 1613, died at Lisburn, Ire- land, Aug. 13, 1667. His father was a barber and surgeon, and he was educated as a sizar at Cambridge, but obtained a fellowship at Oxford in 1636, and in 1638 the rectory of Uppingham in Rutland. In the civil wars he adhered to Charles I., who made him his chap- lain, and for a defence of episcopacy written at the king's request commanded his admission to the degree of D. D. in 1642. The same year his rectory was sequestered by the parliament, but he continued to write for the royal cause till 1645, when he was obliged to retire into Wales, where he maintained himself by teach- ing school, and wrote some of his most im- portant works. His "Liberty of Prophesy- ing " (1647), in behalf of toleration, was pub- lished at the very crisis of the civil struggle. This was followed by his " Holy Living and Dying " (1650-'51), now perhaps the best known of his works, and " The Great Exemplar, or the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus "_(1653). He subsequently preached occasionally in Lon- don, and suffered several short imprisonments on account of his royalist sympathies. He was also censured by his own party for some ex- pressions thought to indicate Romanist views,
 * y in his invention of an engraving machine