| 词条 | John Carey (classical scholar) |
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John Carey LL.D. (1756–1826) was an Irish classical scholar. LifeHe was a brother of Mathew Carey and William Paulet Carey. At the age of 12 he was sent to finish his education in a French university. He spent some time in the United States about 1789, and then spent passed many years in London as a teacher of the classics, French, and shorthand. He died at Prospect Place, Lambeth, after a period of illness, on 8 December 1826, from a bladder stone.[1] WorksCarey was editor of the early numbers of the School Magazine, published by Richard Phillips, and a contributor to the Monthly Magazine and Gentleman's Magazine. He brought out:[1]
Carey edited over fifty volumes of the Regent Latin Classics published by Baldwin. He was the compiler of the General Index to the Monthly Review from 1790 to 1816 (2 vols. 1818), and translated Paul Jérémie Bitaubé's Batavians, Madame de Staël's Young Emigrants, Lehman's Letters on Switzerland, and others. In 1810 he published a story for children called Learning better than House and Land, which went through several editions. His school-books were popular in their day and generally praised for accuracy and scholarly qualities. Among them are:[1]
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