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In September 1741, a sequel of Pamela called Pamela's Conduct in High Life was published by Ward and Chandler.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson-The Conduct of Life
* The Authentic and Impartial Life of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, Including Numerous Royal and Other Original Letters, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Which Have Escaped Suppression, with a Compendious View of the Whole Proceedings, Illustrative of the Late Important Investigation of the Conduct of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, & C. & C. and a Curious Poem.
* John Kelly-Pamela's Conduct in High Life ( continuation of Pamela )
Twenty years later, Emerson publicly denounced the experiment in his collection of essays titled The Conduct of Life.
He sat on the Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life and in 1976 founded the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, which he chaired for the next 21 years.
A serious defence is undertaken in The Life of Lord George Gordon, with a Philosophical Review of his Political Conduct, by Robert Watson, M. D.
Students must also sign a Life and Conduct Statement agreeing to the standards of behavior that Gordon values.
The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876.
The Conduct of Life has been named as both one of Emerson's best works and one of his worst.
Three years after publishing his English Traits, Boston's Ticknor & Fields announced on 27 December 1859, an early appearance of a new book by Emerson titled The Conduct of Life.
Eventually, The Conduct of Life was translated into at least 13 different languages, including Serbian, Dutch and Chinese.
Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as the writer's best book and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best.
While some critics like Harold Bloom place The Conduct of Life among Emerson's best work — Bloom calls it a crucial last work for Americans ”— it has only been paid little critical attention.
As The Conduct of Life is, in parts, thematically grouped around practical life issues ( e. g. ' Power ', ' Wealth '), it has been discussed as participating in the aspirations of the contemporary conduct-of-life literature while opening up possibilities of gender fluidity.
Also, despite the stronger reconciliation between self and society compared to Emerson s previous, more individualistic works, The Conduct of Life is in no way a one-sided affirmation of American society, especially 19th century capitalism.
More recent readings see Emerson as constructing an ebb and flow within The Conduct of Life that hints at transitionality as the final reality of appearances .”
The following summaries / analyses are attempts to capture the essence of the essays from The Conduct of Life.
In this first essay, Emerson introduces the basic idealist principles of The Conduct of Life and seeks to reconcile the seemingly contradicting ideas of freedom and fate through a unifying Weltgeist-approach.
In accordance with Emerson s increasingly conservative notion of society, The Conduct of Life formulates a critique of the Brook Farm community, a utopist experiment in communal living founded by his colleague and fellow transcendentalist George Ripley in 1841.
Indeed, The Conduct Of Life, written during the political run-up to secession and published after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, finds Emerson embracing the idea of war as a means of national rebirth.
" The Conduct of Life, which Emerson was composing around that time, seems to recall that discussion and puts Emerson s critique of Whitman in a societal and cultural perspective.
Milano: R. Sandron, 330 p. essays from The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude
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The relative uniformity of organisation and practice is undoubtedly due to the influence of a booklet, written early in Christadelphian history, called A Guide to the Formation and Conduct of Christadelphian Ecclesias.
Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.
The Code of Conduct is written and enforced by the International Cricket Council.
Robertson was promoted to lieutenant general on 28 October 1915 and in early November 1915 he clinched his claim as the future CIGS with a lengthy paper ( actually written by Maurice ) The Conduct of the War ”, arguing that all British efforts must be directed at the defeat of Germany.
Zeno's writings have not survived, but among the charred papyrus remains at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, there is an Epitome of Conduct and Character from the Lectures of Zeno written by his pupil Philodemus.
* Conduct of written competition for the teachers

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" Conduct falls within the scope of this prohibition only if some form of agreement or concerted action can be proven.
In December, the Congress formed a Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, which became a thorn in the side of many generals throughout the war, accusing them of incompetence and, in some cases, treason.
Conduct money is money paid in some legal systems to a person under the compulsion of a summons to witness ( subpoena ) to pay for their expenses to attend in court.
He translated some of the Confucian classics into English, notably The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius and The Universal Order or Conduct of Life ; and rendered William Cowper's narrative poem The Diverting History of John Gilpin into classical Chinese verse ( known as 癡漢騎馬歌 ).
There are six articles of the Code of Conduct that address situations and decision areas that, to some degree, may be encountered by all personnel.
: In short, Poems make some Military Act, or Politick Conduct, their Theme, and only descant upon Love at Pleasure ; whereas Romances, on the contrary, have Love for their Principal Subject, and don't concern themselves in War or Politicks, but by Accident.
* A Letter to Mr. Wilberforce, containing some Reflections on a late Address of Lord John Russell s and the Past and Present Conduct of the Whigs, Dublin, 1820.

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However, defense attorneys defended Feldman, and two ethics experts said there is absolutely no evidence Westerfield's attorneys committed any violations of the California Rules of Professional Conduct.
He has played the father of sons Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen in various projects: he played Emilio's father in The War at Home, In the Custody of Strangers and The Way, and Charlie's father in Wall Street, No Code of Conduct and two episodes of Spin City.
He was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, his character being described as excellent during his two years as a Marine.
The two academic bodies of thought on the assessment of competitiveness are the Structure Conduct Performance Paradigm and the more contemporary New Empirical Industrial Organisation model.
For this remarkable feat of arms the HAC was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders, five Military Crosses, three Distinguished Conduct Medals and 29 Military Medals.
Several investigations were conducted – two by the military, and one by the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
In the Second World War, two Distinguished Service Orders and eight Distinguished Conduct Medals, along with a large number of lesser awards, were awarded to servicemen from the town.
Undeterred by the Whips criticism, Marsden then spoke out against the press officer Jo Moore who had said, that 9 / 11 was " a very good day to get out anything we want to bury "; he and Tam Dalyell were the only two Labour MPs to vote against the Government .< ref >< i > Hansard Ministerial Conduct 23 / 10 / 01
For McNab's conduct during the patrol, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, whilst Ryan, and two other patrol members ( Steven Lane and Robert Consiglio ) were awarded the Military Medal.
The report from the Privileges Committee, and the suspension, followed investigations and recommendations set out in two reports by the independent Lords Commissioner for Standards and the Sub-Committee on Lords Conduct.
Hennen has been awarded many special honors, including the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Defense Superior Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster, NASA Space Flight Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal ; and the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with oak leaf cluster.
Silver Rose Award: In 2005, two staff members of the FIAN Section Germany received the Silver Rose Award for their commitment for the rights of workers in the flower industry, the participation in the development of the International Code of Conduct for the Production of Cut flowers ( ICC ) and its successful implementation in the framework of the Flower Label Programm ( FLP ).
Also won by the battalion were two Military Crosses ( MC ), two Distinguished Conduct Medals ( DCM ) and two Military Medals ( MM ).
The ribbon is nearly identical to that worn for the Navy Good Conduct Medal, and there were recorded instances of Navy enlisted personnel, who received both the Specially Meritorious Service Medal and the Navy Good Conduct Medal, wearing two identical ribbons for separate decorations.
The second award of a Good Conduct Medal would display a bronze clasp with two loops, the third would show a bronze clasp with three loops, and so on.
Thus, a silver loop with two knots would denote the seventh award of the Good Conduct Medal while a gold loop with four knots would indicate the fourteenth award of the Good Conduct Medal.
In addition, there were recorded cases of Navy enlisted personnel, who had received the Good Conduct Medal, also receiving the Specially Meritorious Service Medal and thus displaying two identical award ribbons, for two separate awards, on a Navy uniform.
This is one of the few times in the history of U. S. military awards that two awards have shared an identical award ribbon, although the ribbon for the Order of the Bath is also nearly identical to the Navy Good Conduct Medal but is a foreign award of the United Kingdom.
Military decorations: the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross, two Distinguished Service Crosses, three Navy Distinguished Service Medals, two Silver Stars, two Legion of Merits with Combat V, two Purple Hearts, three Combat Action Ribbons, the French Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Conduct Star.

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