British writer and editor whose works include The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1876) and biographies of Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, and others. |
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Christian protomartyr who, according to the New Testament, was stoned to death after his defense of Christianity before the Sanhedrin. |
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