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As an essayist he wrote extensively on morals and literature, and as a minister he preached often on behalf of philanthropic causes and against war, arguing that " If the Christian religion in all its purity, and in its full force, were suffered to prevail universally, the sword of offensive war must be sheathed for ever, and the din of arms would at last be silenced in perpetual peace " and that " The total abolition of war, and the establishment of perpetual and universal peace, appear to me to be of more consequence than any thing ever achieved, or even attempted, by mere mortal man, since the creation ".
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He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history.
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George Bernard Shaw wrote of one appearance: " I hope I never again have to endure anything more dismally futile ", and the English essayist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm stated that " Leno does not do himself justice collaborating with the public ".
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Film producer and New York Times essayist Errol Morris wrote in an August 2012 posting, " The conscious awareness of Comic Sans promotes — at least among some people — contempt and summary dismissal.
English essayist and poet Alexander Pope wrote of Bridgeman ’ s creations at Stowe as being the " work to wonder at " ( Batey, et al., 1990, p. 168 ).
In addition to his work as a publisher and essayist, Fields wrote poetry.
English essayist William Cobbett wrote, " This rushlight cost almost nothing to produce and was believed to give a better light than some poorly dipped candles.
As one critic wrote after his death, " The militant path of this essayist, chronicler and novelist has been governed by one obsession: the quest for the dignity of African peoples.
" That King Shakespeare ," the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, " does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest, yet strongest of rallying signs ; indestructible ".
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In 1980, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich expanded upon the political meaning of lesbian by proposing a continuum of lesbian existence based on " woman-identified experience ".
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In his later years, Perutz was a regular reviewer / essayist for The New York Review of Books on biomedical subjects.
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Commenting on this dialog, literary historian and essayist Mircea Iorgulescu objected to the original verdict, indicating his belief that there was no historical evidence to substantiate Culianu's point of view.
Peter Lamborn Wilson ( born 1945 ) ( pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone ( TAZ ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.
* Abraham Hayward ( 1801 – 1884 ), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of ' Westhill ', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.
The enjoyment of Mahler's Ninth Symphony prompted the essayist Lewis Thomas to write the title essay in his Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Early officers included historian and essayist Thomas Macaulay, and many subsequent officers have gone on to become influential leaders in a wide variety of fields and professions.
* Gore Vidal – US-author, essayist, and political activist ; interviewed sparsely on a few occasions.
The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948.
The celebrated essayist Doctor Johnson, himself no fan of Scotland, was moved to comment on the new Inveraray: ' What I admire here is the total defiance of expense ".
Her work as an essayist focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular.
His prolificness as a novelist was legendary, but he was at least as important as an essayist on e. g., literature, art, music and religion.
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She briefly served as an essayist on The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour.
Yet there were others who took the discipline as seriously as Shen did ; the official, historian, poet, and essayist Ouyang Xiu ( 1007 – 1072 ) compiled an analytical catalogue of ancient rubbings on stone and bronze which pioneered ideas in early epigraphy and archaeology.
* Clive James-writer, poet, essayist, critic and commentator on popular culture was raised in Kogarah.
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