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was and lifelong
but the old fellow, a lifelong teetotaler, refused it, and no more was thought of the matter.
It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.
De ' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Dürer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Jensen has had a lifelong interest in classical music and was, early in his life, attracted by the idea of becoming a conductor himself.
It was the beginning of their lifelong friendship.
It was the start of a lifelong personal and professional friendship.
The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.
Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.
Bliss had a lifelong interest in the organization, structure and philosophy of knowledge and was very critical of the library classification systems that were available to him.
In past, however, everything was inherited-material possessions, social status, lifelong occupation and a personal sense of value.
In all, the positive view of Soviet lifelong presented to the public by the official media was rapidly fading, and the negative aspects of life in the Soviet Union were brought into the spotlight.
Davis was to be a lifelong friend and confidante, always ready to give sound advice during the important decisions of Elizabeth ’ s career.
He took vows as a canon regular at the canonry of Stein, in South Holland, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at about the age of 25, but he never seemed to have actively worked as a priest for a longer time, and certain tenets of life in Religious Orders were among the chief objects of his attack in his lifelong assault upon Church excesses.
His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.
At the age of eight Armstrong contracted a disease that was known as St. Vitus ' Dance, which left him with a lifelong tic when excited or under stress.
He was a lifelong vegetarian and said he would not eat anything that had a mother.
His lifelong friend and colleague Oskar Adler, who fled the Nazis in 1938, wrote afterwards that Schmidt was never a Nazi and never anti-semitic but was extremely naïve about politics.
His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.
Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
She was curious as a child, a lifelong trait.
After several more years spent in the Mediterranean, in 1891 they went to the Canary Islands, and it was here that Gardner first developed his lifelong interest in weaponry.

was and abolitionist
But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.
He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.
" Alcott was an abolitionist and a friend of the more radical William Lloyd Garrison.
" In the 1830s, the bell was adopted as a symbol by abolitionist societies, who dubbed it the " Liberty Bell ".
One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,
Douglass ' change of position on the Constitution was one of the most notable incidents of the division in the abolitionist movement after the publication of Spooner's book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1846.
Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.
Pitts was the daughter of Gideon Pitts, Jr., an abolitionist colleague and friend of Douglass.
In the decades of 1870 and 1880, was a period referred to as abolitionist and republican.
Though he was always quite hostile to slavery, nearly to be point of being an abolitionist ( although he doubted the abolitionists could successfully end slavery ), he grew even more hostile to it later in life.
He was not an abolitionist, say biographers Nagle and Parsons.
Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).
She was unmarried as her parents had refused to let her marry into a northern abolitionist family.
This impressive work was followed by a series of paintings of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, as well as a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown.
Wedgwood was a prominent slavery abolitionist.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.
In the 1830s and 1840s, physical anthropology was prominent in the debate about slavery, with the scientific, monogenist works of the British abolitionist James Cowles Prichard ( 1786 – 1848 ) opposing those of the American polygenist Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ).
The area, said to have previously been a slave market, was first settled in 1787 by 400 formerly enslaved Black Britons sent from London, England, under the auspices of the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, an organisation set up by the British abolitionist, Granville Sharp.
Anthony's father Daniel was a cotton manufacturer and abolitionist, a stern but open-minded man who was born into the Quaker religion.
Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, a Southerner who would later serve as president of the Confederate States of America, was concerned that the pileus would be taken as an abolitionist symbol.
Sojourner Truth (; – November 26, 1883 ) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
The Age of Reason was largely ignored after 1820, except by radical groups in Britain and freethinkers in America, among them Robert G. Ingersoll and the abolitionist Moncure Daniel Conway, who edited his works and wrote the first biography of Paine, favorably reviewed by The New York Times.
* February 14 – Frederick Douglass ( his day of birth was never established ; he adopted this date ), American abolitionist author and statesman ( d. 1895 )

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