His draw was such that some facilities were " crowded to suffocation "; an example was his hugely popular London Reception Speech, which Douglass delivered at Alexander Fletcher's Finsbury Chapel in May 1846.

The Bishop of Glasgow, James the Steward, and Sir Alexander Lindsay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his infant daughter Marjorie as a hostage which he never did, and he was soon actively fighting for the Scots again.

After Darius III of Persia had been defeated by Alexander the Great, the satrap of Bactria, Bessus attempted to organize a national resistance but was captured by other warlords and delivered to Alexander.

During a visit to Thessaly in 1896, the late professor Alexander Philadelpheus delivered to us valuable information on the origins of the word " ouzo ", which has come to replace the word " tsipouro ".

It was made and delivered to Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1885.

It was crafted and delivered in 1887 to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III.

It was crafted and delivered in 1888 to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III.

It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1889.

It was crafted and delivered to the then Tsar of Russia, Alexander III who presented it to his wife, Maria Feodorovna on Easter day 1890.

After Darius III of Persia had been defeated by Alexander the Great and killed in the ensuing chaos, his murderer Bessus, the satrap of Bactria, tried to organize a national resistance based on his satrapie but was captured by other warlords and delivered to Alexander.

Lysimachos, one of the generals of Alexander the Great and who had become the sovereign of Anatolia after 301 BC, delivered the war expenditures, at the amount of 9000 talents ( 1 talent is believed to be US $ 7, 500 approx.

Several months earlier, Blok had delivered a celebrated lecture on Alexander Pushkin, the memory of whom he believed to be capable of uniting White and Soviet Russian factions.

*" Past and present of Russian economics " in Russian realities & problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916, by Pavel Milyukov, Peter Struve, Harold Williams, Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky and Roman Dmowski, Cambridge, University press, 1917, 229p.

The society sponsors the Elihu Yale Lecture, the first of which was delivered in 2002 by architect and city planner Alexander Garvin, an Elihu member.

* Elizabeth Alexander, ( honorary ), professor of African American studies, Yale University, delivered Presidential Inaugural Poem, January 2009

An oration condemning the practice of dueling, it was delivered in the wake of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's passing.

Twelve buses of this type, which use battery power with a small Diesel generator, had been delivered by the manufacturers Alexander Dennis in time for the launch date, with a further fourteen to be delivered to Oxford later in the year.

Isaac Leeser and Captain Levy respecting it, delivered several notable speeches in the Senate against it in 1854, and presented a petition on April 19, 1854, which had been signed by Jews of the United States at the instance of a committee of New York Jews, of which Alexander J. Kursheedt was chairman.

* Alexander, Bruce K., ( 2001 ) " The Myth of Drug-Induced Addiction ", a paper delivered to the Canadian Senate, January 2001, retrieved December 12, 2004.

Alexander von Humboldt delivered a series of public lectures at the University of Berlin in the winter of 1827 – 1828, that formed the basis for his later work Kosmos.

In the pages of Infinite Crisis, it was revealed by Alexander Luthor, Jr. that he had sent Superboy-Prime to recover the black diamond and that the Psycho-Pirate delivered it to Loring on Alex's orders and manipulated Eclipso into manipulating the Spectre.

Some Dart SLF buses with Alexander ALX200 body were delivered to North America and sold as Thomas Dennis SLF-series buses.

The bureau was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 ( the design bureau has its own production base at the facility № 115 ), but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP ( Head Agency of Aviation Industry ) under the supervision of A. S. Yakovlev.

Hawthorne co-starred in New York, with Jane Alexander as Joy, who was now given her maiden name of Joy Davidman.

Born Alexander Wasiliev, Lloyd adopted his mother's maiden name " Lloyd " in tribute, following her unexpected death in 1991.

In his maiden speech, Alexander criticised the Liberal Party for abandoning its progressive principles and championed economic theories that were central to the Labour Party's manifesto.

Alexander captained the Panthers to their maiden premiership in 1991, the Panthers reversing the result of the 1990 Grand Final with a 19-12 win over Canberra.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

Further, Alexander observed that many individuals commonly tightened the musculature of the upper torso as he had done, in anticipation of many other activities besides speech.

In his speech at the presentation of the medal, Alexander Graham Bell said:

Modern phonetics begins with attempts — such as those of Joshua Steele ( in Prosodia Rationalis, 1779 ) and Alexander Melville Bell ( in Visible Speech, 1867 ) — to introduce systems of precise notation for speech sounds.

However, the early dialect researcher Alexander John Ellis believed that Cockney developed due to the influence of Essex dialect on London speech.

Alexander Graham Bell patented his first electric loudspeaker ( capable of reproducing intelligible speech ) as part of his telephone in 1876, which was followed in 1877 by an improved version from Ernst Siemens.

* Dinarchus, a professional speech writer in Athens, comes to prominence in the scandal that follows the flight to Athens of Alexander the Great's treasurer, Harpalus.

Prior to the speech the Armada had been driven from the Strait of Dover in the Battle of Gravelines eleven days earlier, and had by now rounded Scotland on its way home, but troops were still held at ready in case the Spanish army of Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, might yet attempt to invade from Dunkirk ; two days later they were discharged.

Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard wrote, " So precisely nuanced is the speech, so subtle the behaviour of a group of friends, lovers, mistresses and cuckolds who keep splitting up and pairing off like unstable molecules ".

In one famous speech Alexander H. Stephen, after the war with Mexico, denounced the President's interpretation of America's future as " mendacious " of the United States was only to serve as virtuous example to the rest of the world.

The speech was clearly intended as a rebuttal of a speech given by the Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev the previous day, who had demanded obedience on the part of everyone to Joseph Stalin.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell achieved the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech.

He received a Huguenot education and the usual training of a young noble of the time, but physical infirmity, and particularly an impediment of speech ( which he never lost ), hampered his progress, though he showed a marked partiality for history and geography, and especial admiration of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Caesar.

" Philip's speech strikes the only false note in the anecdote, according to AR Anderson, who noted his words as the embryo of the legend fully developed in the History of Alexander the Great I. 15, 17.

Alexander Hamilton argued in a long speech before the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the President of the United States should be an elective monarch, ruling for " good behavior " ( i. e., for life, unless impeached ) and with extensive powers.

The " American System " was the name given by Henry Clay in a speech before Congress advocating an economic program based on the economic philosophy derived from Alexander Hamilton's economic theories ( see Report on Manufactures, Report on Public Credit I and II ).

Although there are earlier hints ( such as a fragmentary speech by St George from Exeter, Devon, which may date from 1737, although published in 1770 ), the earliest complete text appears to be an undated chapbook of Alexander and the King of Egypt, published by John White ( d. 1769 ) in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1746 and 1769.

Alexander made a speech at the University of Edinburgh on St Andrew's Day 2007 in which she set out the case for a wide-ranging review of the devolution settlement, with a view to identifying possible areas for reform.

In her valedictory speech on the Scotland Bill, Alexander said: " This initiative has from beginning to end been cross-party, consensual and co-operative among the participating parties.

Thaïs was present at the party and gave a speech which convinced Alexander to burn the palace.

The allusions from Classical Antiquity included in the speech are to the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Persian Immortals — elite units of, respectively, the city state of Thebes and the Achaemenid Kings of Persia ; and to the Battle of Issus where Alexander the Great decisively defeated the latter.

Heinrich Mann gave a speech, Fritz Kortner, Peter Lorre, and Alexander Granach read aloud from Döblin's works, and he was presented with notes of congratulation and praise from Brecht, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Polgar, among others.

In 1901, the royal home played host to the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George V and Queen Mary ), as well as the Duchess ' brother, Prince Alexander of Teck ( who would later become Governor General of Canada ); Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1919 and 1941 ; and King George VI was the first reigning monarch to reside at Government House when he and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, stopped in Winnipeg during their cross-country tour of Canada in 1939 ; from Government House, the King broadcast over the radio a speech to the British Commonwealth, the table at which he sat still in the residence.