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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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  • "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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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