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Life and on
`` Life '' points out that `` everybody uses this path '', and starts to ride on.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).
It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).
Miss Betsy Parker was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security Life Bldg..
The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.
* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life
Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.
* Beyond Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Life after Death edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Christopher Lewis, Pelgrave-MacMillan, 1995
* Homiletic commentaries on the Old Testament: the Hexaemeron ( Six Days of Creation ); De Helia et ieiunio ( On Elijah and Fasting ); De Iacob et vita beata ( On Jacob and the Happy Life ); De Abraham ; De Cain et Abel ; De Ioseph ( Joseph ); De Isaac vel anima ( On Isaac, or The Soul ); De Noe ( Noah ); De interpellatione Iob et David ( On the Prayer of Job and David ); De patriarchis ( On the Patriarchs ); De Tobia ( Tobit ); Explanatio psalmorum ( Explanation of the Psalms ); Explanatio symboli ( Commentary on the Symbol ).
There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.
2754: Winter, J. G., ' A New Fragment on the Life of Homer ' TAPA 56 ( 1925 ) 120 – 129 ).
Life on Earth, by Wilson, E .; Eisner, T .; Briggs, W .; Dickerson, R .; Metzenberg, R .; O ' brien, R.
He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

Life and presented
The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.
* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.
Two of his books, Life of Matteo Ricci, Xitai of the West and Holy images of the Heavenly Lord have been presented to the public by Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana in two separate occasions, on 13 and 25 October 2010.
* Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess of Nivelles ( died 658 ) presented in The Life of St. Geretrude ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )
* Balthild, queen of the Franks ( died ca 680 ), presented in The Life of Lady Bathild, Queen of the Franks ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 )
* Audouin of Rouen, presented in The Life of Audoin, Bishop of Rouen ( in Fouracre and Gerberding 1996 );
Tucker presented an overview of Stevenson's research into reincarnation in Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children ’ s Memories of Previous Lives.
The cladogram presented here illustrates the " family tree " of reptiles, and follows a simplified version of the relationships found by Laurin and Gauthier ( 1996 ), presented as part of the Tree of Life Web Project, with information on the relationships of the most primitive reptiles after Muller and Reisz ( 2006 ).
* Life may have survived ' Snowball Earth ' in ocean pockets BBC News online ( 2010-12-14 ) report on research presented in the journal Geology by Dr Dan Le Heron ( et al.
From 1999 to 2002 the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service presented the traveling exhibit, This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie.
The cladogram presented below is based on studies compiled by Philippe Janvier and others for the Tree of Life Web Project.
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ( 1912 ), presented a theory of religion, comparing the social and cultural lives of aboriginal and modern societies.
He has also written and presented several documentary series including Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, which saw him explore his mental illness and earned an Emmy Award.
The grenadiers bear The King's own Life Company banner which was presented to the unit in 1868 by Karl XV's consort, Queen Louise.
In 1971 the Screen Actors Guild presented Peck with the SAG Life Achievement Award.
At that conference the League presented the City of Opelika with the 2010 " Municipal Quality of Life Award " for the city's new Sportsplex & Aquatics Center.
Union is also the home of Boogaloo Folk Life Productions, an annual community effort wherein recollections of historical events are collected by local residents and presented in a play.
In 1985, The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce presented the Eastside Quality of Life Award to Gilman Village for " the pleasures it gives through its rich discoveries of space and forms.
The latest Total System Life Cycle Cost presented to Congress on July 15, 2008 by Director Sproat is $ 90 billion.
In 2006, McLaren presented the documentary series Malcolm McLaren's Musical Map of London for BBC Radio 2, followed in 2007 by Malcolm McLaren's Life and Times in L. A. Also in 2007, McLaren competed in a reality TV show for ITV titled The Baron, filmed in the small Scottish fishing village of Gardenstown.
: WHEN we stand before the bust of John Hunter, or as we enter the magnificent museum furnished by his labours, and pass slowly, with meditative observation through this august temple, which the genius of one great man has raised and dedicated to the wisdom and uniform working of the Creator, we perceive at every step the guidance, we had almost said, the inspiration, of those profound ideas concerning Life, which dawn upon us, indeed, through his written works, but which he has here presented to us in a more perfect language than that of words the language of God himself, as uttered by Nature.
Truman observed that Life editors had presented other memoirs with great dignity ; he added that Life also made the best offer.

Life and novels
* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.
He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy ; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
* Tree of Life appears in Larry Niven's Known Space novels
" Examples include " The Tales from Two Pockets ", and the first book of the trilogy of novels Hordubal, Meteor, and An Ordinary Life.
During the 1990s, various American and Scottish publishers ( most notably Rebel Inc .) reissued his originally pseudonymous Olympia Press novels and a retrospective of his articles for Merlin and others, A Life in Pieces ( 1997 ), was issued in response to revived interest in his life and work by a younger generation.
Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).
Farmer himself penned a number of crossover fiction stories and novels set in what is now termed the Wold Newton Universe ; not all characters in Farmer's Wold Newton fiction are core members of the Wold Newton Family, but all are linked into the larger WNU via connections with Farmer's primary Wold Newton Family works, Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
The two became friends, worked together in the civil service and wrote versions of each other into their novels: Snow was the model for the college dean, Robert, in Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life sequence.
* Mike Stewart ( novelist )-Author of mystery / suspense novels set primarily in the South, including: Sins of the Brother, Dog Island, A Clean Kill, and A Perfect Life.
By 1715, this African pidgin had made its way into novels by Daniel Defoe, in particular, The Life of Colonel Jacque.
* L. Frank Baum wrote four novels for adults that were never published and disappeared: Our Marred Life and Johnson ( 1912 ), The Mystery of Bonita ( 1914 ), and Molly Oodle ( 1915 ).
Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and novels such as Robbery under Arms and For the Term of his Natural Life ; an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte.
One of the most influential novels of the immediate post-war period was William Cooper's ( 1910-2002 ) naturalistic Scenes from Provincial Life ( 1950 ), which was a conscious rejection of the modernist tradition.
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel ( in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel ) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.
Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, Martin Delany's Blake ; or, The Huts of America and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig as early African American novels, and John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, which is considered the first Native American novel but which also is an early story about Mexican American issues.
His regional masterpieces were the memoir Life on the Mississippi and the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Before this, Wilson had contributed to Blackwood's prose tales and sketches, and novels, some of which were afterwards published separately in Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life ( 1822 ), The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay ( 1823 ) and The Foresters ( 1825 ); later appeared essays on Edmund Spenser, Homer and all sorts of modern subjects and authors.
Four novels followed: Valerius in 1821, Some passages in the Life of Adam Blair, Minister of Gospel at Cross Meikle in 1822, Reginald Dalton in 1823 and Matthew Wald in 1824.
Author of numerous flagellation novels published in London and Paris including: Two Lascivious Adventures of Mr. Howard – A continuation of Maud Cameron and her Guardian ( 1907 ), The Amazing Chastisements of Miss Bostock ( 1908 ), Three Chapters in the Life of Mr. Howard ( 1908 ), Whipping as a Fine Art – Being an Account of Exquisite and Refined Chastisement Inflicted by Mr. Howard on Grown-up Schoolgirls ( 1909 ), et al.
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, Cornwall, had an exhibition devoted to his life and works ( Poldark's Cornwall: The Life and Times of Winston Graham ) from mid-June to mid-September 2008, coinciding with re-publication of the Poldark novels by Pan Macmillan.
This was helped by the popular novels For the Term of His Natural Life ( 1874 ) by Marcus Clarke and The Broad Arrow ( 1859 ) by Caroline Leakey, which concerned themselves about convicts in Port Arthur.
Glasgow produced two more " novels of character ", The Sheltered Life ( 1932 ) and Vein of Iron ( 1935 ), in which she continued to explore female independence.
It appears in the novels Life, the Universe and Everything and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish.
His writing ranges from essay, stories and novels, and among the books he has written are Working Through, ( 1972 ) " Falling Into Life " ( 1991 ) and " Flying Solo.

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