In his political testament, `` Advice To My Country '', penned just before his death, Madison expressed the wish `` that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Frank had been given about half his legacy to use in a business venture before Papa's death ; ;

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

For before someone takes up an attitude toward death, suffering, or their infliction, they have no moral quality at all.

Even before his death this influence had begun to ebb.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

The opium had disappeared before Emile's death and whoever shot him could not by any stretch of the imagination have foreseen Sarah's own doubts and suspicions -- and questions.

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; ;

Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

He was, however, obliged to surrender and was carried a prisoner before the sultan, who condemned him to death.

Galois showed just before his untimely death that these efforts were largely wasted.

After he left home before the age of eighteen, his main interest in life was his opposition to the death penalty, which he regarded as state-sponsored murder.

Poirot himself noted that he wanted to kill his victim shortly before his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer: viewing himself as entitled to kill those he deemed necessary to eliminate.

George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).

He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898.

The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898.

The name handelshögskola ( roughly " college of commerce ") was a parallel to the German term Handelshochschule, used by a number of German institutions started in the years before, commencing with Handelshochschule Leipzig in 1898.

In 1898, Horace Short patented a design for a loudspeaker driven by compressed air ; he then sold the rights to Charles Parsons, who was issued several additional British patents before 1910.

In 1889, he gained entrance into the School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe before becoming a drawing-instructor in Switzerland from 1892 to 1898, eventually leaving this job to finally pursue his dream of becoming an independent artist.

In 1898 he moved to Belmont, Massachusetts, and took up residence as a patient at McLean Hospital, whose grounds he had designed several years before.

A prominent 19th and early 20th century rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, claimed upon Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to Palestine in 1898, three decades before Hitler's rise to power, he had a tradition from his teachers that the Germans are descended from the ancient Amalekites.

The organ is one of the finest examples of the work of ' Father ' Henry Willis, dating from 1898 ( it was his last cathedral organ before his death in 1901 ).

When the issue was put before the cabinet early in 1898, Salisbury hoped to keep Port Arthur open to trade by cooperating with the Russians in granting a loan to the Chinese government.

The first large-scale irrigation attempts began in 1898, but it would be years before real success.

* George Henry White, attorney, lived in Tarboro when elected in 1898 as last black from the 2nd Congressional District to the U. S. House of Representatives in the late 19th century before the disfranchising constitution was passed in 1899.

Originally known as Glaze, Jones was platted as a townsite on April 22, 1898 by Luther F. Aldrich before the St. Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad constructed a line from Sapulpa to Oklahoma City.

Though he had several bursts of extraordinary productivity, particularly in 1888 and 1889, depression frequently interrupted his creative periods, and his last composition was written in 1898, before he suffered a mental collapse caused by syphilis.

File: World 1898 empires colonies territory. png | The European world empires and their colonies in the late 19th century, before the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), Boxer Rebellion ( 1899 – 1901 ), and the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

Portions of the Iditarod Trail were used by the Native American Inupiaq and Athabaskan peoples hundreds of years before the arrival of Russian fur traders in the 1800s, but the trail reached its peak between the late 1880s and the mid 1920s as miners arrived to dig coal and later gold, especially after the Alaska gold rushes at Nome in 1898, and at the " Inland Empire " along the Kuskokwim Mountains between Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, in 1908.

* before November 1897 – after November 1898, S. Cortes

* before November 1897 – after November 1898, J. Fernandez de Cordoba

All these titles were dropped before publication in 1898.

Stoke spent the next 15 seasons in the First Division and reached the FA Cup Semi-Final in the 1898 – 99 season before being relegated in 1907.

Fernow had been Pinchot's predecessor in the United States Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry before leaving in 1898 to become the first Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell.

Kurt Lewin ( 1898 – 1947 ) is widely recognized as the founding father of OD, although he died before the concept became current in the mid-1950s.

By this treaty, the German January government undertook to allow all children born of Danish optants before the passing of the new Danish Nationality Law of 1898 to acquire Prussian nationality on the usual conditions and on their own application.

The maximum ( recorded ) life span for humans has increased from 103 in 1798 to 110 years in 1898, 115 years in 1990, and 122. 45 years since Calment's death in 1997 ( See List of the verified oldest people and List of verified supercentenarians who died before 1980.