Author:James Hampton

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James Hampton
(1721–1778)

English cleric and writer, best known as the translator of the Ancient Greek historian Polybius.

Works

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  • An Essay on Ancient and Modern History, (1746)
  • A Plain and Easy Account of the Fall of Man. In which the distinct agency of an evil spirit is asserted, and the objection, taken from the silence of Moses upon that point, fully answered (1750)

As translator

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  • A Fragment of the 6th Book, containing a Dissertation on Government, translated, with notes, by a Gentleman (1741), by Polybius
  • The General History of Polybius: in Five Books (1756–61), in 2 vols.
  • Two Extracts from the sixth Book of the general history of Polybius, . . . translated from the Greek. To which are prefixed some reflections tending to illustrate the doctrine of the author concerning the natural destruction of mixed governments, with an application of it to the state of Britain (1764)

Works about Hampton

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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