Like others who would henceforth write about the topic, Dickens begins by disclaiming a belief in the " noble savage ":

Like most of Dickens ' villains, greed is his main motivation.

Like most of Charles Dickens ' novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (" Phiz "), with the last being a double-number:

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

Like many of Dickens novels, Little Dorrit contains numerous subplots.

Like much of Dickens ' late fiction, this novel has seen many reversals of critical fortune.

Like Charles Dickens he was also highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focussed more on a declining rural society.

Like nearly all of Dickens ' novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly instalments.

Like Charles Dickens, Gray had a natural gift for creating characters that are vivid and lifelike.

Like all of Dickens ' Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial.

His theatre acting work includes Peter Dews ' production of As You Like It, Same Time Next Year ( Prince of Wales Theatre ), Macbeth ( RSC ), Rocky Horror Show ( as the Narrator ), The Spider's Web ( UK Tour for Ian Dickens ), Romeo and Juliet ( UK Tour with Sean Maguire ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( English Speaking Theatre, Frankfurt ) and many pantomimes.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.

Like most of Central America, Honduras in the 1990s began to woo foreign investors, mostly Asian clothing assembly firms, and it held high hopes for revenue to be generated by privatizing national industries.

Like many other male genital piercings, it has a history of practice in gay culture in the twentieth century and became known outside that culture at the same time that body piercing began to emerge in popular culture in the late 1970s.

Like most industrialized economies, Korea suffered significant setbacks during the late-2000s recession that began in 2007.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

Like his mother, Borge began piano lessons at the age of two, and it was soon apparent that he was a prodigy.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Like Gesner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, an encyclopedic naturalist began a 14-volume natural history with three volumes on birds, entitled ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII which was published from 1599 to 1603.

Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century.

Like the western genre, the spy-movies and urban-action films were starting to parody themselves, and with the growing revolution in CGI ( computer generated imagery ), the " real-world " settings began to give way to increasingly fantastic environments.

Like Wandervogel, the hippie movement in the United States began as a youth movement.

Like many long-running UK comic strips, The Bash Street Kids is anachronistically frozen in the era in which it began.

Like its Chalcolithic neighbor Uruk, Susa began as a discrete settlement in the Susa I period ( c 4000 BCE ).

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

Like Fichte and Jahn, Arndt began to define a German nation as a society of homogeneous descent, drawing on the history of the Germanic peoples and the " teutonic " Middle Ages.

Like most other Disney-owned cable channels, starting in 2008, Toon Disney began airing in High-Definition ( the only ones which didn't were ESPN Classic & SOAPnet ).

The controversy surrounding her marketing of sexuality began with the video for " Lucky Star ", and amplified over time due to clips such as " Like a Virgin ".

In late 2004, Witherspoon began working alongside Mark Ruffalo on the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Like most immigrants, he began modestly.

Like many other indigenous peoples in North America, it is thought as many as 90 % of the local population were killed by smallpox, malaria, influenza or other European diseases even before the area began to feel the presence of significant European settlement.

Like the Confederates, he immediately began fortifying the city.

Like other nearby towns, Woodinville began as a logging community, became a farming center in the early decades of the 20th century, and developed into a suburb of Seattle after World War II.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system.

Like, for example, a man carrying a twenty-two rifle, probably with a telescopic sight attached??

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.

Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like many of his poems ( e. g. fr. s 38, 326, 338, 347, 350 ), it begins with a verb ( in this case " Let's drink!

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like the harp these instruments do not belong to the violin family and are not homogenous with the string choir.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Like the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change.

Like all metal cations, Cs < sup >+</ sup > forms complexes with Lewis bases in solution.

Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.