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Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.
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Before 1830, writing ( except in higher education ) equated to rote drills in the rules of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, penmanship and transcription of adult texts.
Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.
Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.
Before Sima, histories were written as certain events or certain periods of history of states ; his idea of a general history affected later historiographers like Zheng Qiao ( 鄭樵 ) in writing Tongshi ( 通史 ) and Sima Guang ( 司馬光 ) in writing Zizhi Tongjian ( 資治通鑑 ).
Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency.
Before writing Carmina Burana, Orff also edited 17th-century operas.
Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.
Before Asimov began writing, the majority of artificial intelligence in fiction followed the Frankenstein pattern.
Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry.
Before and during his time as archbishop, he wrote a number of works on optics, philosophy, and theology, as well as writing hymns.
Before the introduction of kanji from China, Japanese had no writing system.
Black started writing his autobiography with the tentative title " Before the ferry docked ".
Before writing, they took the form of instruction in oral tradition.
The criticism relates to Friedman's substantive views as well as his writing style " Driving Drunk in Jerusalem " ( March 2010 ), " B. E., Before Egypt.
Before them, Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music, with Stasov as their artistic adviser and Dargomyzhsky as an elder statesman to the group, so to speak.
Before this, McCoy had written most of the song's by himself, but for this album Bob Ezrin helped McCoy with the writing, along with Monroe.
Before entering on his duties, College President Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce pointed Mahan in the direction of writing his future studies on the influence of sea power.
Before a vote is taken at a Council meeting, though, all proposals are circulated in writing to the heads of departments, who commission the senior career officials of their department – the heads of the Federal Offices – to prepare a written response to offer criticism and suggestions.
Pure Mania, Home's first novel from 1989, took the recipe of the Richard Allen parodies from SMILE and turned them into a recipe for much of his subsequent novel writing of the 1990s ( there are exceptions such as the non-linear " Come Before Christ & Murder Love ").
Before the 1986 Masters Tournament, Tom McCollister, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said that Nicklaus was " done, washed up, through ," and this spurred him on.
Before presenting his argument, Milton defends the very idea of writing a treatise such as Areopagitica.
Before and Dictionary
Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
* British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.
The ' Dictionary of Literary Biography: African-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance ', states, " In several poems and in her diaries Grimké expressed the frustration that her lesbianism created ; thwarted longing is a theme in several poems ".
* British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
* British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, New York, The H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England Before 1642.
* American Writers Before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary ( 1984 ), v. 3, 1283 – 1285.
A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated With the Public Presentation of Plays in England Before 1642.
Before and Modern
Sandi Simcha Dubowski's movie Trembling Before G-d ( 2001 ) documented the experiences of several homosexual Modern Orthodox and Haredi Jews.
*" Before and After Internet Radio "- Medieval, Renaissance, Modern Classical music
Before then, the distinctions that are now commonly made between Haredi and Modern Orthodox Jews were moot at best ; dividing lines between the two camps can now be drawn, though it is important to recognize that there is a substantial overlap between the two communities.
Hogarth's other works in the 1730s include A Midnight Modern Conversation ( 1733 ), Southwark Fair ( 1733 ), The Sleeping Congregation ( 1736 ), Before and After ( 1736 ), Scholars at a Lecture ( 1736 ), The Company of Undertakers ( Consultation of Quacks ) ( 1736 ), The Distrest Poet ( 1736 ), The Four Times of the Day ( 1738 ), and Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn ( 1738 ).
Searle, Country Before Party: Coalition and the Idea of ' National Government ' in Modern Britain ( Studies in Modern History, Longman, 1995 )
Before Highfields School was founded in 1982, when the tripartite education system in Matlock ended, there were two secondary schools in Matlock ; Charles White Secondary Modern School ( founded in 1956, and named after two local MPs, father and son, the latter of who died in 1956 ) and Ernest Bailey's Grammar School ( founded in 1924 and named after its wealthy founder ).
Before signing with WWE, Hardy, with his brother Jeff, founded a wrestling organization called Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts ( OMEGA ).
Before gaining prominence in WWE, Hardy performed for the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts ( OMEGA ), a promotion he ran with his brother Matt.
Before arriving in the WWF, Matt formed his own wrestling promotion, the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts ( OMEGA ) with Thomas Simpson.
* Michelakis, P. ( 1999 ) " The Spring Before It Is Sprung: visual and non-verbal aspects of power struggle in Aeschylus ' Myrmidons ", conference paper delivered at the January 1999 conference Theatre: Ancient and Modern at the Open University.
Before long it became the gathering place for many others in the area and, by 1913, Vassilieff's canteen was so widely-known that painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Fernand Léger, gave two lectures there on the topic of Modern art.
Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 in Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South ( 2004 book ), 68-95.
• Burns, Susan L., 2003 Before the Nation-Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, Duke University Press, Durham, London.
Before going on to the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, he held the Professorship of French Language and Literature at Queen Mary College ( 1976 – 92 ).
Before beginning the tour, King performed with some of these instruments at the opening of an exhibit of Picasso's guitar paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Before his arrest in New Zealand, he was the world's number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player.
Before the screening of the film, Kevin Costner and his band ( unnamed at the time, now known as Kevin Costner and Modern West ) performed for two hours for the attending crowd of close to 1, 000 people.
Before 1910 Picasso was already being recognized as one of the important leaders of Modern art alongside Henri Matisse who had been the undisputed leader of Fauvism and who was more than ten years older than he was and his contemporaries the Fauvist André Derain and the former Fauvist and fellow Cubist, Georges Braque.
* Ileana-Rodica Dinculescu, " Teme în pictura unor artişti evrei din Europa Modernă ( până la mişcarea de avangardă )" (" Themes in the Art of Jewish Painters in Modern Europe – Before the Avant-Garde Movement "), at the University of Bucharest site
Before, now in Modern central, southern and Ulster varieties and in northern varieties, for example: ane ( one ), ance ( once ), bane ( bone ), gane ( gone ), nane ( none ) and stane ( stone ) from án, ánes, bán, gán, nán and stán.
Before + consonant, depending on dialect, now or in Modern Scots, for example: airm ( arm ), airae ( arrow ), bairn ( child ), dairn ( darn ), hairm ( harm ), hairst ( harvest ), wairm ( warm ) and shairp ( sharp ) from earm, arwe, derne, hearm, hærfest, wearm and scearp.
Before and + consonant, Middle Scots also became or in Modern Scots, for example: caunle ( candle ), draucht ( draught ), haund ( hand ), lauch ( laugh ), saund ( sand ) and slauchter ( slaughter ) from candel, draht, hand, hæhhan, sand and slæ.
Before alveolars Old English æ became in Early Scots, remaining so, for example Modern Scots: bress ( brass ), clesp ( clasp ), ess ( ash ), fest ( fast ), gled ( glad ), gless ( glass ), gress ( grass ) and hesp ( hasp ) from bræs, claspe, æsce, fæst, glæd, glæs, gæs and hæpse.
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