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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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  • ambassador Isaac Vorsah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician Isaac Yiadom...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • From all that dwell below the skies, a paraphrasing of Psalm 117 by Isaac Watts with the Doxology as the final verse, is commonly sung to the tune. In...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Our God, Our Help in Ages Past (category Hymns by Isaac Watts)
    "Our 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 consisted of nine...
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    multi-volume commentary that is still used and available in the 21st century. Isaac Watts is an equally recognised Nonconformist minister whose hymns are still...
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    Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam...
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    the usual image of poets in a number of ways. A hymnographer such as Isaac Watts who wrote 700 poems in his lifetime, may have their lyrics sung by millions...
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    originally laid out in the early 18th century by Lady Mary Abney, Dr. Isaac Watts and the neighbouring Hartopp family. In 1840 it became a non-denominational...
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