Author talk:Solomon Whately

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Whately, Solomon. res. 1686. B.A. 29 Nov. 1682. M.A. 15 May, 1684. He seems to have taken part in the Bentleian Controversy, when the anonymous Pamphlet appeared, entitled, A Short Account of Dr. Bentley's Humanity and Justice to those Authors who have written before him, &c. "This Book," says Bishop Monk, (Life of Bentley, p. 101.) "appears to have been on every account unworthy of a reply, but a reply it immediately met with. Bentley had now placed himself on such an eminence, that people were no longer afraid to be seen combating in his cause. The Advocate, who on this occasion volunteered his services, is said to have been Mr. Solomon Whately, of Magdalen College, Oxford, the same who had lately translated the Epistles of Phalaris into English. His Defence is insufferably long winded and tedious; and although the arguments are correct, yet the Author's plan of spreading over more than two hundred pages a trivial and unfruitful question, is sufficient to surfeit the most determined lover of controversy."

—A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and Other Members of Saint Mary Magdalen College in the University of Oxford, from the Foundation of the College to the Present Time (1857)

13. The Epistles of Phalaris, Translated into English from the Original Greek by J. S. Together with an Appendix of some other Epistles lately discovered in a French MS. London 1699. 8vo. pp. 223, not including Preface, &c.

The following work appears to be either a different edition of the volume just noticed, or the same edition with a new title-page and a few additions:

The Epistles of Phalaris Translated into English from the Original Greek. By S. Whately, late of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, M. A, To which is added Sir W, Temple's Character of the Epistles of Phalaris, Together with an Appendix of some other Epistles lately Discovered in a French MS. London, 1699 8vo. pp. 223.

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13. An Answer to a late Book written against the Learned and Reverend Dr, BentUy ^ relating to some Manuscript Notes on CaUimachus. Together wUh an Examination of Mr, Bennetts Appendix to the said Booh. London 1699. p. 209> not indading Preface.

An adyertisement at the end of the Preface informs us that this piece was by the author of the translation of tbe Epistles of Phalaris. See article 13.

—Richard Bentleys dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides and upon the fables of Aesop (1874)

—Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 20:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The Rev. Solomon Whately

I wonder if this is the same person as the Rev. Solomon Whately (aka Solomon Wheatley) who was was a professor at William and Mary College prior to serving as Rector in the Bruton Parish Church (see [1]).

REV. SOLOMON WHATELY, minister of Bruton parish, Wiliamsburg, 1702-1710. He was licensed for Virginia by the Bishop of London October 11, 1699.

—Papers Relating to the Administration of Governor Nicholson and to the Founding of William and Mary College (1900)

The Rev. Whately died 19 Nov. 1710 according to the parish register. —Beleg Âlt ^BT (talk) 13:23, 8 May 2024 (UTC)