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Horace and what
On July 3, 1829, Horace Blackman, accompanied by Alexander Laverty, a land surveyor, and an Indian guide forded the Grand River and made camp for the night at what is now Trail and N. Jackson Street.
But the Romans could also relax and allow what Horace called the " Italian vinegar " in their systems to pour forth in wit and satire.
Pope used the model of Horace to satirise life under George II, especially what he regarded as the widespread corruption tainting the country under Walpole's influence and the poor quality of the court's artistic taste.
" Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune wrote " When a sincere republican is asked to say in sober earnest what adequate reason he can give, for refusing the demand of women to an equal participation with men in political rights, he must answer, None at all.
* Dylan's extended taunting of Time Magazines London arts and science correspondent Horace Freeland Judson who was subjected to what he believes to be a contrived tirade of abuse from Dylan.
In 1951 Blue Note issued their first vinyl 10 " releases, and the label was soon recording new talent such as Horace Silver ( who would stay with Blue Note for a quarter of a century ), the Jazz Messengers ( originally a collaboration, but soon to become Art Blakey's group ), Milt Jackson ( as the leader of what became the Modern Jazz Quartet ) and Clifford Brown.
There is little in it that we could not infer from Tibullus himself and from what Horace says about Albius, though it is possible that its compiler may have taken some of his statements from Suetonius's book De Poetis.
Both Art and Horace were very, very aware of what they wanted to do.
The parallels to passages of Horace and Seneca are recorded in the commentaries: in view of what the Life says about Lucan, the verbal resemblance of Sat.
Horace Walpole recorded the joke that " Granville and Bath were met going about the streets, calling ' Odd Man ', as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner ", and a contemporary pamphlet satirically praised him for " the most wise and honest of all administrations, the minister having ... never transacted one rash thing ; and, what is more marvellous, left as much money in the Ty as he found in it.
The first known mention of the term in writing was made by Horace Walpole, in a letter of 1761 to Sir Horace Mann: " Do you know what a Bull and a Bear and Lame Duck are?
Under royal finance and support, American missionary doctor Horace N. Allen introduced Western medicine by establishing Gwanghyewon, what would become Severance Hospital and the oldest Western-style hospital in Korea.
American free-soilers, recently angered by the Fugitive Slave Law ( passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 ), decried what Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune labeled " The Manifesto of the Brigands " as unconstitutional.
The issue of slavery forced antislavery theologians, including William Ellery Channing, Francis Wayland, and Horace Bushnell, to reconcile what they perceived as contradictory loyalties to the Bible and to antislavery reform.
But he was what Horace was not, a thoroughly good hater ; and he lived at a time when the utmost freedom of speech and the most unrestrained indulgence of public and private animosity were the characteristics of men who took a prominent part in affairs.
In 1897, the Van Noy Brothers-who included Ira Clinton, Charles S., and Horace Greeley, founded what was to become the Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company.
Bentley tells Dulness that he and critics like him are her true champions, for he had " made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains " ( 212 ) and, no matter what her enemies do, critics will always serve Dulness, for " Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain ,/ Critics like me shall make it Prose again " ( 213 – 214 ).
Horace Walpole recorded on 11 October that he did not know Fitzwilliam personally but that " from what I have heard of him in the Lords, I have conceived a good opinion of his sense ; of his character I never heard any ill, which is a great testimonial in his favour, when there are so many horrid characters, and when all that are conspicuous have their minutest actions tortured to depose against them ".
Miss Marple guesses correctly that contrary to what Raymond and Horace Bindler were told, Miss Cresswell was not the beneficiary to the will – Miss Greenshaw was playing her along, just like Mr Naysmith used to.

Horace and thought
The use of gripping and exciting narrative and the immediacy gained from the frequent use of direct speech are thought to be among Bacchylides's best qualities, influencing later poets such as Horace ( who imitated him, according to Pomponius Porphyrion, in Carmen I.
In the 1950s, major league owners Calvin Griffith and Horace Stoneham called the stadium the finest facility in the minors ; Stoneham added that " there were not two better " major league stadiums of the time ( although not specifying which specific two he thought were the Met's equal ) Indeed, the Met's primary purpose was to attract a big-league team to the area.
Horace Walpole gave this sketch of his character: " with the greatest dignity in his appearance, he was in private the greatest lover of buffoonery and low company .. he was never thought to have wanted a tendency to power, in whosever hands it was ".
The changing of the first letter " s " to " c " is attributed to Horace Bénédict de Saussure, who thought that the word was related to a deer ( French: cerf and Italian: cervo ).
Posterity is not likely to endorse the verdict of Horace Walpole, who thought Roscoe the best of our historians, but his books on Lorenzo de ' Medici and Pope Leo X remained important contributions to historical literature.
He entered politicis in 1872 serving as a city alderman and alternate elector for the Horace Greeley ticket, although he thought the democrats had erred in supporting Greeley.
Pope draws a parallel between these two critics and his own dunces by quoting John Dennis who thought it likely that Bavius " and Maevius had ( even in Augustus's days ) a very formidable Party at Rome, who thought them much superior to Virgil and Horace: For ( saith he ) I cannot believe they would have fix'd that eternal brand upon them, if they had not been coxcombs in more than ordinary credit " ( Dunciad Variorum ).
" In the Daily Tribune, editor Horace Greeley noted " that several good matter-of-fact citizens " were tricked by it but " whoever thought it a veracious recital must have the bump of Faith large, very large indeed.
In the 1930s " Sir Horace ", after Sir Horace Wilson, a senior official close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, became a soubriquet for a civil servant with delusions of grandeur ; this is thought to have influenced the choice of the name " Sir Humphrey ".

Horace and typical
The human characters range from the typical hero-type in Captain Roderick Blaine to the much more ambiguous merchant prince and suspected traitor Horace Bury.

Horace and youth
His wife Jessie ( Fawcett ) has begun a relationship with a youth minister named Horace.
Junior Achievement ( also JA or JA Worldwide ) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.
As former president Dr. Horace Mann Bond noted in his book Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, with the college's founding in 1854, " This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent.
As a youth, he created illustrations for the well-known book Rejected Addresses, written by his uncles James and Horace Smith.

Horace and period
Other than the historian Livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets Vergil, Horace, and Ovid.
Varro, Cicero, and Horace, all men of letters during the subsequent Classical Latin period, considered Livius Andronicus to have been the originator of Latin literature.
Although he had long studied Horace, Bentley wrote his version quickly in the end, publishing it in 1711 to gain public support at a critical period of the Trinity quarrel.
Half a century later, the father-and-son team of Harold Babcock and Horace Babcock showed that the solar surface is magnetized even outside of sunspots ; that this weaker magnetic field is to first order a dipole ; and that this dipole also undergoes polarity reversals with the same period as the sunspot cycle ( see graph below ).
The jubilee of a monk's religious profession was often kept, and probably some vague memory survived of those Roman ludi saeculares which are commemorated in the " Carmen Saeculare " of Horace, even though this last was commonly associated with a period of a hundred years rather than any lesser interval.
One of the most important landmarks in the late Georgian period was the introduction of many new species of trees and flora from around the world, which Horace Walpole described as giving the " richness and colouring so peculiar to the modern landscape ".
On June 1, 2006, Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell formally announced that CSUB is raising $ 6 million over a five year period for the additional costs for the athletics program.
In the immediately following period, Russia made use of its new prerogative forcefully: the deposition of Constantine Ypsilantis ( in Wallachia ) and Alexander Mourousis ( in Moldavia ) by Selim III, called on by the French Empire's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Horace Sébastiani ( whose fears of pro − Russian conspiracies in Bucharest were partly confirmed ), constituted the casus belli for the conflict of 1806 – 1812 ( the Russian general Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich swiftly reinstated Ypsilantis during his military expedition to Wallachia ).
Families living along " Millionaire's Row " included those of John D. Rockefeller ( during the period, 1868-84 ), Sylvester T. Everett, arc light inventor Charles F. Brush, George Worthington, Horace Weddell, Marcus Hanna, Ambrose Swasey, Amasa Stone, John Hay ( personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State under William McKinley ), Jeptha Wade ( Cleveland benefactor and founder of Western Union Telegraph ), Alfred Atmore Pope ( iron industrialist and art collector ), Worthy S. Streator ( railroad baron, coal mine developer, and founder of the city of Streator, Illinois ), and Charles Lathrop Pack.
The antiquary and engraver George Vertue was a figure in the London art scene for most of the period, and his copious notebooks were adapted and published in the 1760s by Horace Walpole as Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, which remains a principal source for the period.
The forms that dominate the poetic production of the period are the Petrarchian sonnet cycle ( developed around an amorous encounter or an idealized woman ) and the Horace / Anacreon ode ( especially of the " carpe diem "-life is short, seize the day-variety ).
The forms that dominate the poetic production of the period are the Petrarchian sonnet cycle ( developed around an amorous encounter or an idealized woman ) and the Horace / Anacreon ode ( especially of the carpe diem — life is short, seize the day — variety ).
" Philodemus ’ On Poems, in particular, opens a window onto a lost age of scholarship — the period between Aristotle ’ s Poetics and Horace ’ s Art of Poetry, the works which define classicism for the ancient and modern worlds ," Janko has written.

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