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Lewis and himself
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
Lewis himself furthered these tales.
Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.
Lewis himself later referred to Philidor as a grandmaster, and the term was also applied to a few other players.
Lewis bought a small house and dug a swimming pool, prompting Whale to have his own pool dug, although he did not himself swim in it.
Lewis himself jumped 8. 91m moments before Powell's record-breaking jump with the wind exceeding the maximum allowed ; this jump remains the longest ever to win Olympic or World Championship gold medal, or any competition in general.
Lewis, arguing that Jesus was claiming to be God, uses logic to advance three possibilities: either he really was God, was deliberately lying, or was not God but thought himself to be ( which would make him delusional and likely insane ).
Lewis also explains morality as being composed of three layers: relationships between man and man, the motivations and attitudes of the man himself, and contrasting worldviews.
Allen supported " popular sovereignty " and the presidential candidacy of Lewis Cass, identifying himself as a " Peace Democrat " and opposing the U. S. Civil War.
An Army clerk accidentally transposed his first and middle names, and Willkie did not correct it, thereafter calling himself Wendell Lewis Willkie.
Lewis Hyde remarks in The Gift that Christianity considers the Incarnation and subsequent death of Jesus to be the greatest gift to humankind, and that the Jataka contains a tale of the Buddha in his incarnation as the Wise Hare giving the ultimate alms by offering himself up as a meal for Sakka.
Indeed the candidate Lewis Valentine, the party ’ s first president, offered himself in Caernarvonshire on a platform of demonstrating Welsh people's rejection of English dominion.
* In one episode of the science fiction novel Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, the protagonist ( a philologist from Cambridge transported to the planet Venus ) finds himself " shouting a line out of ' The Battle of Maldon '" as he fights the Un-Man, a demon-possessed scientist.
George was Ludwig's son, his wife Catherine and Ludwig / Lewis ( sic ) himself.
* The Lost World ( 1925 ; Arthur Conan Doyle dinosaur epic in which Beery portrayed Professor Challenger ) with Lewis Stone ( and Doyle himself in a frontispiece )
In the confusion over land ownership after the Hedgcoxe War, Basdeal Lewis purchased Holford's Prairie in 1853 and renamed it after himself.
Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes ( he called himself " the high-hatted tragedian of song ").
Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism.
He also influenced many rock guitarists such as The Rolling Stones ' Brian Jones ( Keith Richards writes in his book that at the time he met Brian Jones, Brian called himself Elmo Lewis, and that he wanted to be Elmore James ) and Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer.
* White Knight, is Lewis Carroll as referred to by himself
In his essay Is Theology Poetry, Lewis himself summarises the argument in a similar fashion when he writes:
After completing almost 30 years within the ranks of the law school, Lewis eventually devoted his powers to founding the American Law Institute, in 1925, which was seated in the law school and was chaired by Lewis himself.
Lewis could be quite deliberately funny, sometimes getting himself in hot water.

Lewis and was
The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.
Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.
Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.
That was all he said, Lewis reports.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
When Breasted insisted that this was impossible for him, Lewis decided to go abroad.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.
Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.
Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.
Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.
It was late, and Blackman was ready to go to sleep, but Lewis was not.

Lewis and strong
Donor number and donor acceptor scale measures polarity in terms of how a solvent interacts with specific substances, like a strong Lewis acid or a strong Lewis base.
Lewis, a self-described " strong monarchist ", wrote " Civilization is more than an abstraction.
His father, Lewis G. Stevenson, never held an elected office, but was appointed Secretary of State of Illinois ( 1914 – 1917 ) and was considered a strong contender for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1928.
The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.
In 1980, he had a memorable role as future Justice Abe Fortas, to whom he bore a strong resemblance, in the made-for-television film version of Anthony Lewis ' Gideon's Trumpet, opposite Henry Fonda in an Emmy-nominated performance as Clarence Earl Gideon.
Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.
" Lewis found the strong structure of Cubist painting appealing, but said it did not seem " alive " compared to Futurist art, which, conversely, lacked structure.
Throughout its modern history Penn Law has been well known for its collegiality and its strong focus on inter-disciplinary studies, a character that was shaped early on by Dean William Draper Lewis.
Macleod grew up with strong personal and cultural ties to Scotland, as his parents bought in 1917 part of the Leverhulme estate on the Isle of Lewis.
The Cowlitz tribe was historically based along the Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, as well as having a strong presence at Fort Vancouver.
The Mine Workers led by Lewis, with a strong pro-Soviet presence, opposed Roosevelt ’ s reelection in 1940 and left the CIO in 1942.
The charismatic and dynamic Lewis ran a strong election campaign that forced the Tories to promise to implement the NDP's rent control policies.
These early works of high fantasy drew strong praise from J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Lewis declares that, " Thucydides, with his strong feeling for the power and glory of Athens, may have seen this differently and regarded the Melians ' heroics as foolish and unrealistic ; and the fact that they had been offered a relatively painless alternative might affect his view of the massacre.
Corporate membership is particularly strong with companies such as Harrods, B & Q, John Lewis Partnership and Homebase all joining in 2012.
After the end of the 8th convention ( August 14, 1951 ) FUDOSI dissolved after strong disagreements between Emile Dantinne and Ralph M. Lewis.
" Lewis characterized himself as a strong and adamant
Lewis got support from numerous national Republican sources and many religious conservative groups, enabling him to run a very strong campaign in a district that had not elected a Republican in 129 years.
Continuing its ethos of helping small independent businesses gain a strong foothold under the " Quiggins " banner, it had long been Quiggins ' intention to acquire the lease to the John Lewis Store ( formerly George Henry-Lee ) on Church Street, and lengthy negotiations took place with Grosvenor and City Council in an attempt to achieve this.
The opposition parties had also undergone leadership changes ; Nixon and Lewis, who had posed a strong challenge to Davis, resigned after the 1975 and 1977 elections, respectively.
Gardiner, characteristically, rushed to her defence and the Vice-Chancellor, Lewis Richard Farnell, notoriously out of touch with the post-war generation, asked Gardiner to leave at the intolerable hour of six in the morning ; any later hour, Farnell knew, would have meant a sympathetic funeral procession several hundred strong.

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