He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

The government was most anxious that there be a respectable response.

And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.

Alec expected an indignant denial, but there was no response at all.

The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Part of this publication was the famous Five points of Calvinism in response to the five articles of Remonstrance.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

Kennedy, however, was circumspect in his response to the news, refusing to make a commitment on America's response to the Soviets.

One downside was that the new democracy was less capable of rapid response.

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.

He was the author of Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy ( 1849 ), a defence of the clergy of the 17th Century, which received the approval of Gladstone.

In the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Macaulay's criminal law proposal was enacted.

The Liberal historian Lord Acton read Macaulay's History of England four times and later described himself as " a raw English schoolboy, primed to the brim with Whig politics " but " not Whiggism only, but Macaulay in particular that I was so full of ".

He said this about Macaulay's determination to inspect physically the places mentioned in his History: " Much of the success of the famous third chapter of the History which may be said to have introduced the study of social history, and even ... local history, was due to the intense local knowledge acquired on the spot.

W. A. Speck wrote in 1980 that a reason Macaulay's History of England " still commands respect is that it was based upon a prodigious amount of research ".

Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40, 000 copies.

Macaulay's well-known comparison of him with a mole working below " in some foul, crooked labyrinth whenever a heap of dirt was flung up ," which perpetuates the spleen of Horace Walpole, perhaps exceeds the justice of the case ; but his character was rated very low by his contemporaries.

" In Lord Macaulay's history he talks of a score of plaids hanging in a row, but the remains of the Gallows-held in Perth Museum-suggest the maximum capacity was only six.

But his name was immortalized by Macaulay's famous onslaught in the Edinburgh Review for April 1830, " an annihilating so Jove-like that the victim automatically commands the spectator's rueful sympathy.

The history of England, in Macaulay's view, was the story of the struggle of the English to win back their rights that were crushed by the " Norman yoke ".

' Macaulay's cottage, which stood in Ditton Marsh, by the side of the high-road from Kingston to Esher, was called Greenwood Lodge.

Macaulay's cottage, ' Teraulay ' was then situated on an estate named Macaulay's Fields which extended from present day Yonge to Bay ( then known as Teraulay ) Streets, and from today's Albert Street ( then known as Jeremy Street ) to just south of Dundas Street.

Furthermore, Greene claims that the work " began with a well-organized press campaign, by Boswell and his friends, of puffing and of denigration of his rivals ; and was given a boost by one of Macaulay's most memorable pieces of journalistic claptrap ".

Macaulay's critique in the Edinburgh Review was highly influential and established a way of thinking of Boswell and his Life of Johnson which was to prevail for many years.

He shared Macaulay's unfavourable verdict on Croker's efforts: " there is simply no edition of Boswell to which this last would seem preferable ", but argued that to judge Boswell as Macaulay had was to overlook the most important point ; that Boswell had had the great good sense to admire and attach himself to Dr Johnson ; an attachment which had little to offer materially.

Macaulay's view that the book was great because of the baseness of Boswell was brushed aside by Carlyle (" Falser hypothesis, we may venture to say, never rose in human soul "):

Responsibility for the crime lay with the King's Scottish ministers, but King William was guilty of a " great breach of duty " ( Macaulay's words ) in shielding the Master of Stair from any punishment beyond dismissal from the Secretaryship of State.

He also edited and translated John Milton's De doctrina christiana, which was found in the State Paper office in 1823, and formed the text of Macaulay's famous essay on Milton.