There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

While Jane remained a devout Presbyterian her entire life, Samuel ( whose father, Ezekiel Polk, was a deist ) rejected dogmatic Presbyterianism.

In the 1980s, Samuel K. Doe's government increasingly adopted an ethnic outlook as members of his Krahn ethnic group soon dominated political and military life in Liberia.

The soothing waters of the hotel's hot spring and the lively social life on Nevis attracted many famous Europeans, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Antigua-based Admiral Nelson, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, ( future William IV of the United Kingdom ), who attended balls and private parties at the Bath Hotel.

The main account of Saul's life and reign is found in the Books of Samuel.

Samuel then told Saul that he will lose the battle and his life.

The Deuteronomistic Historians, who redacted the Former Prophets ( Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings ), idealized Samuel as a figure who is larger than life like Joshua.

Foscari's life was the subject of a play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron ( 1821 ) and an episode in Samuel Rogers ' long poem Italy.

Samuel Johnson and a Mr Serle, who visited the barracks, compiled a report on behalf of the British government, stating that the proportion of food allowance was fully sufficient to maintain both life and health, but added: " provided it is not shamefully lost by gambling.

* Mark Twain's angelfish, a group of young women that served as surrogate grand-daughters to author Mark Twain ( aka Samuel Clemens ) during the last years of his life

Samuel Pepys spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, protégé at the Admiralty and former servant William Hewer, until his death in 1703.

The Reverend Samuel Lloyd describes his " capacity to see into the heart of every day ," an ability that reflects the significance of daily events onto the reader's life as well.

As life had it, Samuel Serrano was destined to become a world champion in front of his fans.

The area that is now the village of Dansville was originally settled by Samuel Crossman in 1844, who like many settlers at the time, had come from the state of New York in search of a new life.

The name " Gilboa " is from Mount Gilboa, a biblical site in Israel, where King Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines, and Saul took his own life ( 1 Samuel 31: 4 )

Samuel A. J. Cockayne lived out the rest of his life unmarried in the farmhouse until his death in 2001.

For the first three years of his life Bundy lived in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, who raised him as their son to avoid the social stigma that accompanied illegitimate birth at the time.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a key figure in Romantic thought, science and medicine, was also knowledgeable about Hunter's work and writings and saw in him the seeds of Romantic medicine, namely as regards his principle of life, which he felt had come from the mind of genius.

In his autobiography, written between 1865 and 1870, he declared that his acquaintance with the Jew Samuel Lehrs whom he knew in Paris in the early 1840s was ‘ one of the most beautiful friendships of my life ’.

In 1960, work was announced on a musical production based on the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Moore attended several Dublin schools including Samuel Whyte's English Grammar School in Grafton Street where he learned the English accent with which he spoke for the rest of his life.

An observer, Sir Samuel Luke, who was one of the officers discharged from the Earl of Essex's Army, wrote on 9 June 1645 that the Army was " the bravest for bodies of men, horse and arms so far as the common soldiers as ever I saw in my life ".

* Early Baroque composer and organist Samuel Scheidt ( 1587 – 1654 ) was both born and spent the majority of his life and career in Halle.

Soon after Abner's death, Ish-bosheth was assassinated as he slept ( 2 Samuel 4 ), and David became king of the reunited kingdoms ( 2 Samuel 5 ).

He was deeply affected by the death of Artaban ( 226 ) and the downfall of the Arsacid dynasty, and does not appear to have sought the friendship of Ardeshir, founder of the Sassanian dynasty, although Samuel of Nehardea probably did so.

Abigail (, spelled Abigal in ) was the wife of Nabal ; she became a wife of David after Nabal's death ( 1 Samuel ).

After her death, Josiah was married to Abiah Folger on July 9, 1689, in the Old South Meeting House by Samuel Willard.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

" By various stratagems the jealous king seeks his death, but the plots only endear David the more to the people, and especially to Saul's son Jonathan, who loves David ( 1 Samuel 18: 1, 2 Samuel 1: 25 – 26 ).

Quainoo led the force from July 1990 to September 1990, before being superseded by a Nigerian officer in the aftermath of Liberian President Samuel Doe's death.

Upon Elizabeth's death in 1830, Monroe moved to New York City to live with his daughter Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur who had married Samuel L. Gouverneur in the White House.

The original patent went to the Breese side of the family after the death of Samuel Morse.

Apart from being the individual who anoints David as king, a role Samuel is abruptly summoned to take, he does not appear any further in the text until his own death at his hometown Ramah (, ), where he is buried ( cf.

Eli, who was viewed negatively by many Classical Rabbis, is said to have reacted to this logic of Samuel by arguing that it was technically true, but Samuel should be put to death for making legal statements while Eli ( his mentor ) was present.

Following Stephen's death, his nephew Peter Urseolo ( his appointed heir ) and his brother-in-law Samuel Aba contended for the crown.

According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".

Harding's biographer, Samuel H. Adams, concluded that " Warren G. Harding died a natural death which, in any case, could not have been long postponed ".

** A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson.

He was taught French by Samuel Chappuzeau ( who was dismissed by William's grandmother after the death of his mother ).

The Samuel J. Tilden House at 15 Gramercy Park South, which he owned from 1860 until his death, is now used by the National Arts Club.

Samuel put Agag to death at Gilgal saying that " s your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.

According to some authorities, the death of Agag, described in the Bible by the unusual word va-yeshassef (" hewed in pieces ," I Samuel 25. 33 ), was brought about in a much more cruel way than the word denotes.

" ( Samuel 1: 15: 33 ) were quoted by Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi in his handwriting in response to a telegram sent by Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's wife pleading for clemency after he was taken to Israel and sentenced to death.

The kings were taken alive and brought back across the Jordan ; and confessing that they had personally taken part in the killing of Gideon's brothers, they were put to death ( compare 1 Samuel 12: 11 ; Isaiah 10: 26 ; Psalms 83: 11 ).

Samuel Pitt, who served as a private in B Company during the battle, told The Western Mail in 1914 that the official enemy death toll was too low: " We reckon we had accounted for 875, but the books will tell you 400 or 500 ".