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Bertie is also acquainted with Lord Emsworth, another of Wodehouse's best-known characters, and mentions having visited Blandings Castle.
Holloway appeared for the first time in a major British television series in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, playing Beach, the butler, to Ralph Richardson's Lord Emsworth.
In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.
Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth ( Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ), home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.
Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.
Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant ( in A Gentleman of Leisure ), and Lord Arthur Hayling ( in The Prince and Betty ).
The name " Lord Emsworth " first appears in Wodehouse's works as a passing mention in a short called " The Matrimonial Sweepstakes ", a version of " The Good Angel " printed in Cosmopolitan in the U. S. in February 1910.
Lord Emsworth has ten sisters ( one deceased ), two brothers ( one deceased ), two sons, at least one daughter, and many in-laws – for a full list of his family members, see the Threepwood family list.
In " Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ", he grows a rather ragged beard, little realising the peril this puts his castle in, but soon realises that it is better to remove it.
Lord Emsworth plays some part in all the novels and short stories in the Blandings canon.
* Horace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a 1933 silent film adaptation of Summer Lightning
* Ralph Richardson played him in adaptations of six Blandings shorts, made by the BBC and broadcast in 1967 ( only the first, adapted from the short " Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ", still remains in the BBC archives ).
* Richard Vernon portrayed Lord Emsworth in BBC Radio 4 adaptations from the 1960s to the 1980s, including series based on Galahad at Blandings and the Blandings short stories.
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Lord and is
And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The biography of Lord Grey is strictly speaking not a biography at all.
Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.
That is why the Bible commands you to `` Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed ( happy ) is the man that trusteth in Him '' ( Psalm 34: 8 ).
`` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;
The Lord is the strength of my life ; ;
In Psalm 27: 1 you read those beautiful words which you must have in your heart if you are to master the fears that surround you, or to drive them out if they have you in their grip: `` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;
The Lord is the strength of my life ; ;
He must learn to say with true faith what the psalmist said in a similar world: `` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;
The Lord is the strength of my life ; ;
First, `` the Lord is my light ''.
This is the faith that moved the psalmist to add his second conception of God: `` The Lord is my salvation ''.
And so the psalmist gives us one more picture of God: `` The Lord is the strength of my life ''.
Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to set you before the presence of his glory, without blemish, in gladness, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, belong glory and majesty, dominion and authority, before all time, and now, and forever.
Allegiance is owed both to the Sovereign as a natural person and to the Sovereign in the political capacity ( Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 ( per Lord Coleridge CJ )).
However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

Lord and consistently
Lord Russell was elected at the top of his party's list of hereditary peers to retain their seats, though he had consistently argued in favour of abolishing the Lords completely, and replacing it with an elected senate.
Witchland has asserted suzerainty over his land, but he is consistently a Demon ally by way of repaying Lord Juss for saving his life.
The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used the nom de plume " Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire ", the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona, which adapted to the first person, as it were, the 17th-century genre of " characters ", as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics ( 1711 ).
It consistently published leading writers of the day, including Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Hazlitt.
( Apparently these expenses consistently exceeded Lord Aberdeen's £ 10, 000 yearly salary, alarming the Edinburgh lawyers who managed their finances.
Later production runs of the toy bore modified statistics-though they were again incorrect as they were consistently two points lower than those revealed by plugging Lord Zarak into the chest meter.
Although the " Guerra de Palmares " consistently calls the king Ganga Zumba, and translates his name as " Great Lord " other documents, including a letter addressed to the king written in 1678 refer to him as " Ganazumba " ( which is consistent with a Kimbundu term ngana meaning " lord ").

Lord and presented
The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.
:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
Judicial decisions and treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries, such at those of Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, presented the common law as a collection of such maxims.
In 1947, Muslim majority districts of Bengal favored the Partition of India after approving the June 3rd Plan presented by the Viceroy of India Lord Earl Mounbatten, and merged with the new province of East Bengal of the Dominion of Pakistan.
The second trophy was a replica of the first, and was last used in 1910 before being presented to the FA's long-serving president Lord Kinnaird.
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.
When Nehru presented Lord Linlithgow with the demands, he chose not to take them seriously.
: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.
* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.
On 1 September 2006, The Seekers were presented with the Key to the City by Melbourne's Lord Mayor, John So.
The first was presented to him by Lord Fitzhardinge at Lord's on 22 July 1879 in the form of a marble clock, two bronze ornaments and a cheque for £ 1, 458.
Especially controversial were the views of the Dor Daim on the Zohar, as presented in Milhamoth Hashem ( Wars of the Lord ), written by Rabbi Qafiḥ A group of Jerusalem rabbis published an attack on Rabbi Qafiḥ under the title of Emunat Hashem ( Faith of the Lord ), and measures were taken to ostracize members of the movement.
The committee presented a draft proposal to Lord Curzon on 31 December 1898.
But the Lord Chancellor wryly notes that Strephon has not presented sufficient evidence that Nature has interested herself in the matter.
Robert Hay Drummond, a native of Perthshire, and commanding officer of the Perthshire Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, was also Lord Lyon King of Arms at the time, and he presented the arms to the county in 1800.
After the series was resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were presented as no longer existing, having been destroyed by the Doctor at some intervening point during the Last Great Time War in which they became corrupted, lead by a tyrannical Lord President Rassilon willing to sacrifice the entirety of time and space for survival.
The soldiers also received visits from Lord Kithchener in July 1915, and King George V in August of the same year who presented several soldiers with military honours.
* Lord George Sanger – circus owner born in Newbury who presented the Queen Victoria statue to the town in 1902
Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.
A story is told that, on the eve of the Battle of Sauchieburn, Sir David Lindsay, son of Sir John, Lord Lindsay of the Byres, presented James III with a " great grey horse " that would carry him faster than any other horse into or away from the battle.
Within the Church of St. Edward is an alabaster reredos inset with carvings in white marble, designed by the famous Victorian architect George Edmund Street R. A., which was presented by Lord Eldon in 1876.
The suit also alleged that Buffett's " blasphemous " rendition presented to the public a distorted impression of Lord Buckley.

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