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=Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau.= _S. C._, 1831- ----. A professor of
Greek at Johns Hopkins University from 1876, and editor of the American
Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the author of Essays
and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and editions of Justin
Martyr and the Odes of Pindar. _Gi. Har._
=Giles, Chauncey.= _Ms._, 1813-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman of
Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination. The Nature
of Spirit; The Second Coming of our Lord; Perfect Prayer; Man as a
Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The Magic
Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other
Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual World;
The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. _Lip._
=Giles, Ella Augusta.= _Wis._, 1851- ----. A writer of Madison,
Wisconsin. Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; Flowers
of the Spirit (verse). _See Bibliography of Wisconsin._
=Giles, Henry.= _I._, 1809-1882. A Unitarian minister of Liverpool,
England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States.
Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of
Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; Lectures on the Irish, and Other
Subjects. _See Hart’s American Literature._
=Gill, Theodore Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. A naturalist, professor
of zoölogy in the Columbian University, Washington, District of
Columbia. Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement of the
Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals; Catalogue
of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Scientific and
Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.
=Gill, William Fearing.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. The Martyred Church
(verse); Home Recreations; Life of Poe.
=Gill, William Ireland.= 18-- - ----. Evolution and Progress;
Analytical Processes; Christian Conception and Experience.
=Gillespie, George.= _S._, 1683-1760. A Presbyterian clergyman, once
prominent in Delaware. Treatise Against Deists and Free Thinkers;
Letters to the Presbytery of New-York; Remarks upon Mr. George
Whitefield.
=Gillespie, William Mitchell.= _N. Y._, 1816-1868. A professor of civil
engineering at Union College, 1845-68. Rome as seen by a New Yorker;
Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of
Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; Philosophy
of Mathematics (from Comte). _Ap._
=Gillet, Ransom H----.= _N. Y._, 1800-1876. A lawyer of Ogdensburg, New
York. History of the Democratic Party; The Federal Government; Life of
Silas Wright.
=Gillett= [jĭl-lĕt´], =Ezra Hall.= _Ct._, 1823-1875. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor of political economy in the
University of New York from 1868. History of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral
System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the
Soul’s To-Morrow; Ancient Cities and Empires. _Scr._
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