Lord High Admiral
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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Lord High Admiral, an office first established in England in 1391 when Edward, Earl of Rutland, was appointed Admiral of England, uniting the offices of Admiral of the North and Admiral of the South, instituted some 90 years earlier. Subsequently the titles ‘High Admiral’ and ‘Lord Admiral’ were indiscriminately used in the wording of the letters patent, crystallizing eventually as ‘Lord High Admiral’, ninth of the nine great officers of state of the crown. This title did not originally confer command at sea, but jurisdiction in maritime affairs and the authority to establish courts of
Admiralty. To give the Lord High Admiral military command, however, he was also appointed ‘Captain General of Our Fleets and Seas’.
By the reign of Henry VIII (1509–47) the English Navy had grown too big to be administered by the Lord High Admiral alone, and its civil administration was delegated to a committee later known as the
Navy Board. This board, which had
Samuel Pepys as one of its members during the reign of Charles II (1660–85), ran in parallel with the
Board of Admiralty until it was merged with the Admiralty in 1832. However, the office of Lord High Admiral, which, except for brief periods during its long history, had remained extant, was not abolished until 1964. In that year the three separate service ministries were brought together into a single Ministry of Defence, and the title of Lord High Admiral was then resumed by the crown in the person of Elizabeth II.
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Polite Wisdom: Heathen Rhetoric in Milton's Areopagitica.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...s references to the Athenian orator Isocrates by providing a thorough discussion of the rhetoric of Isocrates's own political oration, his Areopagiticus...Dowling analyzes the relation between Isocrates's undemocratic teaching (which favors...
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John Milton: A Literary Life.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...s references to the Athenian orator Isocrates by providing a thorough discussion of the rhetoric of Isocrates's own political oration, his Areopagiticus...Dowling analyzes the relation between Isocrates's undemocratic teaching (which favors...
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Of Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Hippocratic writers, Sophocles, Gorgias, and Isocrates, and he articulates and enumerates criteria...Protagoras that, similar to the writings of Isocrates, Plato's dialogues depict sophists...technical in other ways. They share with Isocrates the tendency sometimes to claim a techne...
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Der Offene Brief. Geschichte und Funktion einer publizistischen Form von Isokrates bis Gunter Grass
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that the prototype ofthe open letter, Isocrates's Philippos (ca. 346 B.C...letter, the influential rhetorician Isocrates ignored the social hierarchy on account...apart from the official recipient, Isocrates sought to address the Athenian public...
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Eros and Logos.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...ostensibly concerns "the conflict between Isocrates and Plato on the subject of athenian culture...Symposium as staging a battle between Plato and Isocrates over the conception of a common logos. For Isocrates the common logos is rooted in the humanism...
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Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the book (chapter 1: "Plato, Isocrates, and the property of philosophy") Nightingale develops the role of Isocrates as a foil to much of what Plato is...of themes in her exposition around Isocrates; he, along with sophists, merchants...
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The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Athens
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Gorgias of Leontini. In Chapter 10 die work and die nature of the teaching of the Adienian Isocrates receives a fresh treatment, from which Isocrates emerges in a much more positive and favourable light than has been traditional, especially...
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Paraenesis, Identity-defining Norms, or Both? Galatians 5:13-6:10 in the Light of Social Identity Theory
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...distinguished from ... ("paraclesis") (cf. Pseudo Isocrates Demon. 5). Its principal function, among others, is to...regulations to direct the practical ethical lives of the people (Isocrates Ad Nic. 41). Galatians 5:13-6:10 conforms to this...
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/29/2005; ; 572 words
; ...changing their way of life instead. Plato's contemporary Isocrates develops the point. In an address praising the way Athens...up will respect the law, however simple. Consequently, Isocrates continues, 'our forefathers did not make it their first...
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PROFESSOR TO GIVE LECTURE ABOUT GREEK PHILOSOPHER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 10/17/2003; 286 words
; ...Hamilton College on "Cultural Ideals vs. Transcendent Truth: Isocrates, Tradition and Humanistic Rhetoric." The free talk by Michael...Science Building. Leff will talk about the Greek philosopher Isocrates, who ran a school in ancient Athens that competed with Plato...
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Isocrates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Isocrates Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was the fourth of the famous 10 Attic Greek orators...writer and teacher who exerted great influence on his contemporaries. Isocrates was one of five children of Theodorus of Erchia, a flute manufacturer...
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Hippias of Elis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...him three sons; and when she was left a widow, the orator Isocrates in extreme old age took her in marriage and adopted her youngest...son, Aphareus, 6 who achieved some fame as a tragic poet. Isocrates died in 338 These facts would suggest that Hippias had a long...
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Zoilus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and philosopher of Amphipolis. He is called Homeromastix [scourge of Homer], because of his denunciations of Homer as a purveyor of fables. He also criticized Isocrates and Plato, and his name has come to signify a carping critic.
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Gorgias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...caused a great stir with his new rhetorical style. His fame became immense throughout the Greek world, and according to Isocrates, his pupil, he was able to make a handsome fortune through the fees he charged. Noteworthy among the honors he received...
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Philip II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...him as the only man capable of ending their petty, parochial interstate wars. In his Philip (346 B.C.), the Athenian Isocrates urged Philip to unite Greece in a military federation and bring peace and concord to the Greeks by waging war against the...
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