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In an essay published that year he acknowledged that he could not understand those British pacifists who were reconciled to " handing over great blocks of the black and coloured races to the Empire to exploit and experiment upon " and that the extent of his own pacifism depended in the first instance upon an armed peace, with " England keep to England and Germany to Germany ".
His first essay in poetry was at the age of fourteen, when a poem written by him appeared in the pages of Young England, December, 1861.
This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.
Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.
An essay in English Gothic architecture # Early English Gothic | Early English Gothic with the tallest spire in England.
Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).
His History of the Revolution in England, breaking off at the point where William of Orange is preparing to intervene in the affairs of England, is chiefly interesting because of Macaulay's admiring essay on it and its author.
In 1738, he visited England, became one of the leading friends and advisers of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who now headed the opposition, and wrote for the occasion The Patriot King, which together with a previous essay, The Spirit of Patriotism, and The State of Parties at the Accession of George I, were entrusted to Pope and not published.
William Hazlitt's essay " Merry England ", appended to his Lectures on the English Comic Writers ( 1819 ), popularised the specific term, introduced in tandem with an allusion to the iconic figure of Robin Hood, under the epigraph " St George for merry England!
Merry England did not really " decline " in the way that Storm Jameson said it did in her book The Decline of Merry England ( 1930 ), which has the significant subtitle an essay on Puritanism in England.
In a short biographical essay on O ' Reilly for the Barclays World of Cricket book, his contemporary, the England cricketer Ian Peebles, wrote that " any scoring-stroke was greeted by a testy demand for the immediate return of the ball rather than a congratulatory word.
In England topiary was all but killed as a fashion by the famous satiric essay on " Verdant Sculpture " that Alexander Pope published in The Guardian, 29 September 1713, with its mock catalogue descriptions of
* The Interest of England considered in an essay upon wool, our woolen manufactures, and the improvement of trade: with some remarks upon the conceptions of Sir Josiah Child.
His published works for that time grouped the political essay Evoluţia ideii de libertate (" The Evolution of Liberty as an Idea "), new historical studies and printed versions of his conferences: Istoria învăţământului (" The History of Education "), Patru conferinţe despre istoria Angliei (" Four Conferences on the History of England "), Ţara latină cea mai îndepărtată din Europa: Portugalia (" The Remotest Latin Country in Europe: Portugal ").
His second novel, Tom's A-Cold: A Tale ( 1933 ) was grim, depicting a barbaric and dystopian future England ; it is mentioned in Joshua Glenn's essay " The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF ( 1904-33 ).
Buffon's Theory of the Earth interested him, and in 1753 he successfully competed for a prize by writing an essay on the ancient connection between England and France.
* Jethro Tull publishes The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry ; or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation in England.
* Robert Plot publishes The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England, in which he describes the fossilised femur of a human giant, now known to be from the dinosaur Megalosaurus.

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Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
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.
These lectures formed the nucleus of a general survey of English development which took form afterward as A History Of England.
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.
The doctor was wearing a long New England greatcoat, hardly necessary in the June weather but a garment which proved well adapted to the sequestration of hens.
Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.
The Company maintained a store at which products of England could be purchased and brought in goods for the new merchants on the understanding that they refrain from trading in furs.
Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.
In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.
An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.
The good feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now well known in England.
Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England: statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; ;
It was indeed a near thing, but somehow the inherent decency of New England ( which we inherit ) did triumph.
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).
Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).
At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.
Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

England and was
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.
Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.
Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.
And in England, after the Restoration, the body of Cromwell was disinterred and hanged at Tyburn.
A replica of two coaches made in England for the Belmont Club in the East, and matchless west of the Rockies, it was the despair of whips on the Santa Cruz run.
First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.
The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.
Hundreds of miles to the north, the route back to England through the `` Furious Overfall '' was again filling with ice.
During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

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