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admirers and contrast
As Diderot said of " La Bonne mère ," il a prêché à la population ; and a certain piquancy of contrast is the result which never fails to obtain admirers.
His admirers cite this as an example of his integrity while his critics contrast it with the massacre he ordered at Drogheda the previous year.
Its popularity grew rapidly in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval forms in contrast to the classical styles prevalent at the time.

admirers and connections
Matthew Boulton and Erasmus Darwin met some time between 1757 and 1758, possibly through family connections, as Boulton's mother's family were patients of Darwin ; or possibly though shared friendships, as both were admirers of the printer John Baskerville and friends of the astronomer and geologist John Michell, a regular visitor to Darwin's house in Lichfield.

admirers and with
Charlton was handed his debut as England romped home 4 – 0, with the new player gaining even more admirers after scoring a magnificent thumping volley dispatched with authority after a cross by the left winger Tom Finney.
Many European and American admirers such as Voltaire and H. G. Creel point to the revolutionary idea of replacing nobility of blood with nobility of virtue.
It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind
Many European and American admirers such as Voltaire and H. G. Creel point to the revolutionary idea of replacing nobility of blood with nobility of virtue.
Yet his admirers considered him to be a highly creative individual with a great love for the aesthetic, for nature, and for young girls.
His sentence was commuted to banishment when influential admirers interceded, and he left Naples with the intention of returning to St. Petersburg, but his health was broken and after much suffering he died in Venice on 11 January 1801 of an intestinal intestine inflammation.
From 1814 to 1819 he, or rather his admirers, were engaged in a long and angry controversy with Baggesen, who represented the old didactic school.
As Vice President, Humphrey was controversial for his complete and vocal loyalty to Johnson and the policies of the Johnson Administration, even as many of Humphrey's liberal admirers opposed Johnson with increasing fervor with respect to Johnson's policies during the war in Vietnam.
His detective novel, Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery.
That same year, he struck a deal with Ludwig van Beethoven, one of his greatest admirers, that gave him full publishing rights to all of Beethoven's music in England.
However, he was continually prompted by various friends and admirers to continue to write along with suggested topics.
Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.
Meanwhile, Dorothy has her own admirers to contend with: older cast member John Van Horn ( George Gaynes ) and Julie's widowed father Les ( Charles Durning ).
Twelve thousand people applied for tickets to his funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House at 39th Street and Broadway and the streets were jammed for blocks with a " surging mass " of his admirers.
Nevertheless, his standing with some continental musicians was unaffected ; Beecham records that Bartók and Kodály were admirers of Delius, and the former grew into the habit of sending his compositions to Delius for comment and tried to interest him in both Hungarian and Rumanian popular music.
According to one of Rameau's admirers, Cuthbert Girdlestone, this opera has a distinctive place in his works: " The profane passions of hatred and jealousy are rendered more intensely in his other works and with a strong sense of reality.
Later Lum begins attending the same school as Ataru despite his objections ( he strangled himself with the food he was eating when he heard the news ), and Lum develops a fanbase of admirers among the boys of the school, including Shutaro Mendou, the rich and handsome heir to a large corporation all the girls from Tomobiki are crushing on ( who is in truth not so different from Ataru ).
The subtlety of the new distinctions on the World Teacher issue was lost on many of his admirers, who were already bewildered or distraught because of the changes in Krishnamurti ’ s outlook, vocabulary and pronouncements – among them Besant and Mary Lutyens ' mother Emily, who had a very close relationship with him.
Ironically this act of apparent insubordination is cited by his admirers as further proof of his independence of spirit when dealing with Hitler.
He belonged to the circle of Becket's admirers, and wrote two works dealing with the martyrdom and the miracles of his hero.
Critics and audience members alike were impressed with her strong performance in the role, and her admirers presented her with gifts of flowers and jewellery.

admirers and Whistler
During one of his early stays in Paris, he met the Canadian painter James Morrice, who introduced him to English avant-garde artists Walter Sickert and Aubrey Beardsley, all ardent admirers of James McNeill Whistler.
It contains some of the Carlyles ' books ( many on permanent loan from the London Library, which was established by Carlyle ), pictures and personal possessions, together with collections of portraits by artist such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Helen Allingham and memorabilia assembled by their admirers.

admirers and Albert
* A Forum for all admirers of the Music of Albert W. Ketèlbey, on blogspot. com ( 2009 )
* Forum for all admirers of the Music of Albert W. Ketèlbey
A semi-staged Ring cycle at the Royal Albert Hall gained superlative reviews and won many new admirers for Haitink and the company, whose members included Tomlinson, Anne Evans and Hildegard Behrens.

admirers and Moore
Exposed to the debt of £ 6, 000 following the ruling of the Admiralty Court against him in 1819, Moore rejected numerous offers of financial aid from his friends and admirers and was forced to leave Britain.
Dolmetsch was active in the cultural life of London, and his friends and admirers included William Morris, Selwyn Image, Roger Fry, Gabriele d ' Annunzio, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, George Moore, whose novel Evelyn Innes celebrates Dolmetsch's life and work, and W. B. Yeats.

admirers and influence
In 19th century England the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood explicitly reacted against his influence ( and that of his admirers such as " Sir Sploshua "), seeking to return to styles before what they saw as his baneful influence.
Journalist Denis Warner remarked: " he will be remembered by many as one of the more remarkable agents of influence of the times but by his Australian and other admirers as a folk hero ".
After he finally got over his guilt, they on occasions had spiritual conversations, which left a personality influence and disrupted Amuro's relationships with other female admirers such as Beltorchika Irma, Chan Agi and Quess Paraya.
And although she numbered among her admirers the duc de Montmorency, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Augustus of Prussia, Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Jean-Jacques Ampère and Constant, none of them obtained over her so great an influence as did Chateaubriand, though she suffered much from his imperious temper.
It may help U. S. readers to understand not only the Gita itself, but also its influence on American letters through one of its greatest U. S. admirers, Ralph Waldo Emerson " ( pp. 98, 100 ).
These poems are characteristic of the transition through which the German lyric was passing between 1840 and 1848 ; the old Romantic strain is still dominant, especially in his ballads, which are unquestionably his finest productions ; but, side by side with it, there is to be seen the influence of Platen, to whose warmest admirers Strachwitz belonged, as well as echoes of the restless political spirit of those eventful years.
The Graphic's influence within the art world was immense, its many admirers included Vincent Van Gogh, and Hubert von Herkomer.
She was a celebrated dancer and courtesan, who, in the full flower of her beauty and guilty sovereignty over the youth of Antioch, was suddenly converted by the influence of the holy bishop Saint Nonnus, whom she had heard preaching in front of a church which she was passing with her attendants and admirers.

admirers and on
In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.
Rousseau was initially buried at Ermenonville on the Ile des Peupliers, which became a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers.
Living mainly on bhiksha ( alms ), Vivekananda travelled on foot and railway tickets bought by his admirers whom he met during the travels.
A later biographer wrote of her " Though Wallis's jaw was too heavy for her to be counted beautiful, her fine violet-blue eyes and petite figure, quick wits, vitality, and capacity for total concentration on her interlocutor ensured that she had many admirers.
Patel's decisiveness on the partition of Punjab and Bengal had won him many supporters and admirers amongst the Indian public, which had tired of the League's tactics, but he was criticised by Gandhi, Nehru, secular Muslims and socialists for a perceived eagerness to do so.
Thus a sanctuary to Archilochus ( the Archilocheion ) was established on his home island Paros sometime in the third century BC, where his admirers offered him sacrifices, as well as to gods such as Apollo, Dionysus and the Muses.
It has never lacked admirers, however, and copies of the image are still sold on postcards and reproductive prints.
However, Perpich's activist vision of the governor's role was later cited as an important contribution to the Minnesota economy even by unlikely admirers like his 1990 rival and successor Arne Carlson, who said in 2005 that Perpich " was the first person that I was aware of to focus on the international role that states are going to have to play.
A sobering caveat of the power of television and romance in combination came when a popular dating variant of the talk show, inviting secret admirers to meet on the stage, backfired on the Jenny Jones show.
His letters to Tiberius Hemsterhuis on his edition of Julius Pollux made the latter one of Bentley's most devoted admirers.
One of Anker's greatest admirers and collectors is former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, since the 1980s Switzerland's most influential conservative politician, who also published an apologetic essay on Anker.
The work is an allegory of Courbet's life as a painter, seen as an heroic venture, in which he is flanked by friends and admirers on the right, and challenges and opposition to the left.
In his essay " Bookburning and Censorship in Ancient Rome ", Frederick H. Cramer talks about the "... spineless schoolmaster Quintilian grudgingly admitted that ' the bold utterances of Cremutius also have their admirers and deserve their fame, but he went on to assure readers that ' the passages that brought him to his ruin have been expurgated.
George Steiner ( 1979 ) is one of many in a long line of admirers who cite Levitt's famous example on transportation.
Apart from dozens of new songs being introduced into the Afrikaans music market, it became popular for modern young artists to sing old Afrikaans songs on a stage or in a pub, with crowds of young admirers singing along.
After a successful season in Vienna, where she was mobbed by admirers and feted by the Imperial Family, Lind travelled to London in 1847, where her first performance, at Her Majesty's Theatre on 4 May, was attended by Queen Victoria.
In some cases, admirers of these criminals have gone on to marry the object of their affections in prison.

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