Melville retired in 1886, after several of his wife's relatives died and left the couple legacies that Mrs. Melville administered with skill and good fortune.

On completing his course, Melville left St Andrews with the reputation of " the best poet, philosopher, and Grecian of any young master in the land.

Billy Budd is a novella begun in November 1888 by American author Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891 and not published until 1924.

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Nigel Melville left the club and was replaced by Dean Ryan for the 2005 – 06 season.

Melville has left ample materials for the history of his time from the Presbyterian standpoint, in ( a ) correspondence with his uncle Andrew Melville ( MS. in the library of the university of Edinburgh ), and ( b ) a diary ( MS. in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh ).

A planned symphony based on the works of Herman Melville, and a comic opera, were left unfinished.

He joined London Wasps in 2002 in a coaching position before taking over as Director of Rugby when Nigel Melville left to join Gloucester.

Herman Melville said " Young Goodman Brown " was " as deep as Dante " and Henry James called it a " magnificent little romance ".

One of Hawthorne's good friends, Herman Melville comments on the underlying depth of the story " you would of course suppose that it was a simple little tale, intended as a supplement to ' Goody Two Shoes ' Whereas it is as deep as Dante.

Melville, though comparatively little known during his lifetime, was one of the most powerful influences in the contemporary art of his day, especially in his broad decorative treatment with water-colour, which influenced the Glasgow Boys.

In the case of some species, in particular the blue whale ( which Melville calls the " sulphur-bottom whale ") very little was known at the time.

Melville states that the whale is little known both by the Nantucket whaling community and by naturalists.

Melville states that little known of the whale, but it has been observed to mount the Folio whale's back as it swims, working its way upwards by flogging the larger whale with its tail.

, Graeber is working on a book for Random House connecting " the story of the Occupy movement to an exploration of the past and future of direct action, participatory democracy, and political transformation ", and another for Melville House combining three essays on bureaucracy ( one of which he delivered as the Malinowski Lecture in 2006 ).

Without this support, he decided to direct his films by his own means, and continued to use Melville as his stage name.

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Melville did not seem to be concerned about repercussions from his desertion from the Acushnet.

From about age 35, Melville ceased to be popular with a broad audience because of his increasingly philosophical, political and experimental tendencies.

A confluence of publishing events in the 1920s brought about a reassessment now commonly called " the Melville Revival ".

The median house price in Melville as of 2007 is about $ 850, 000.

When the ship was struck by a whale on November 20, 1820, he joined the boat of the first mate, Owen Chase, who later wrote about the incident in the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, the book that would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.

From about 1798 on he pleaded frequently to be allowed to resign on health grounds, but Pitt, who relied on him greatly, refused even to consider it In 1802 he was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Melville and Baron Dunira.

In his 1852 novel Pierre, Melville used the term " Timonism " about an artist's contemptuous rejection of both his audience and mankind in general.

In Chapter 32, " Cetology ", concerning the question of whether the whale is a fish or mammal, Melville wrote in about 1851:

They sailed about five miles upstream, reaching a wide section which Stirling named Melville Water.

The speech was a particularly well-received one and led MacDonald to again offer the position of Solicitor General to Birkett, as the current minister James Melville was about to resign.

The City of Melville is a Local Government Area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located east of the port city of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district.

It was to be written about by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick.

Judge Melville decided that he would overrule the objections, giving Bashir the choice to answer or follow his lawyer's advice, and Melville would review the testimony later to decide about charging Bashir with contempt of court.

Melville ruled that she could testify without being questioned about the fraud and perjury allegations.

Melville writes at length about this whale, which at the time was a well-known denizen of the polar seas.

Melville later portrayed himself at this time as being forced to write " with duns all around him, & looking over the back of his chair —& perching on his pen & diving in his inkstand — like the devils about St.

The Jean Pierre Melville film Army of Shadows ( based on a book of the same name ) depicts several famous events in Moulin's war experience, such as his visits to London, his reliance on his female assistant, his decoration by Charles de Gaulle and his parachuting back into France during the war.

" The story may have been based on events onboard USS Somers, an American naval vessel ; one of the defendants in the later investigation was a first cousin of Melville, Lt. Guert Gansevoort.

Later, Melville scholar Harrison Hayford made a detailed study of these sources and, in the introduction to a 1969 edition of Omoo, summed up the author's practice like this: " He had altered facts and dates, elaborated events, assimilated foreign materials, invented episodes, and dramatized the printed experiences of others as his own.

Students place in the top of their competitive events, gaining higher rankings than students from schools such as Ward Melville HS, Brighton HS, Mamaroneck HS, Jericho HS, Shenendehowa HS, and many other schools.

However, Andrew Cook, a noted biographer of Reilly, calls Lockhart's romanticized version of such events doubtful, and counters instead that Reilly was perhaps informing on Voynich's radical, pro-émigré activities to William Melville of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.

Near contemporaries Melville Davisson Post and Anna Katherine Green wrote the earliest known stories that might be described as historical whodunnits, although both also wrote mysteries with contemporary settings as well.

In spite of the candid language and depictions of guerilla war and gory violence, the book feels more like a 19th-century classic along the lines of Melville and Conrad than a modern blood-and-guts thriller, although it serves quite well in the latter capacity.

According to Melville, it swims in herds and is never regularly hunted, although it has considerable oil that is good for producing light.

( Speedboat appears to be slated for reprint by independent publisher Melville House, although this news only appears on Amazon. com, and no future publication date is given.

A fourth form ( known variously as Gray Brant, Intermediate Brant or Grey-bellied Brant Goose ) has been proposed, although no formal subspecies description has been made as yet, for a population of birds breeding in central Arctic Canada ( mainly Melville Island ), and wintering in the Puget Sound on the American west coast around the U. S ./ Canada border.

In 1993 Pearson acted as representative to the traditional owners in the first land claim to the Flinders Island and Cape Melville National Parks, a claim which was successful, although the owners have yet to receive title.

The name Dundas was first used in the area in 1799, taken from a parish of the same name in England, although it is also claimed the area was initially named after Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.