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By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
* 1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
* The Parnell family, as well as the family of Richard Brinsley Sheridan were also associated with Glasnevin.
* 1816 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician ( b. 1751 )
Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights ( his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist ).
Image: Thomas Gainsborough 014. jpg | Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( 1785 – 86 )
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright
* July 7 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright ( b. 1751 )
* October 30 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician ( d. 1816 )
While Fox and some younger members of the party such as Charles Grey and Richard Brinsley Sheridan were sympathetic to the French revolutionaries, others, led by Edmund Burke, were strongly opposed.
Robert Baddeley as Moses in Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Sheridan's The School for Scandal by Johann Zoffany c. 1781
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( 1751 – 1816 ), pre-eminent Irish playwright ( The Rivals ), poet and politician
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( MP ) ( born 1806 ), British politician
The terms malapropism and the earlier variant malaprop come from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals, and in particular the character Mrs. Malaprop.
Anglo-Irishmen Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Grattan, Lord Castlereagh, George Macartney, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Edward Carson played major roles in British politics.
This building lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ( 30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816 ) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
In 1825 the Irish writer Thomas Moore published a two-volume sympathetic biography Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan which became a major influence on subsequent perceptions of him.
* David Francis Taylor, Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan ( Oxford University Press, 2012 )
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan Retrieved March 2, 2008
* Full text of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Vol.
Around this time Moore also began working on a biography of the playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, whom he met numerous times, but partly due to legal reasons it was not published until 1825.
In October 1825 Moore's Memoirs of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan was finally published after nine years of work on and off.
He assisted Richard Brinsley Sheridan in his production of The Camp, which he may have co-authored.

Richard and Sheridan
Backus ' historic FORTRAN team consisted of programmers Richard Goldberg, Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Herrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Robert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Lois Haibt, and David Sayre.
Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram's subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a " cute, fluffy puppy " who was given real, albeit harmless, electric shocks.
* 1751 – Richard Sheridan, Irish playwright ( d. 1816 )
The Saint had a band of compatriots, including Roger Conway, Norman Kent, Archie Sheridan, Richard " Dicky " Tremayne ( a name that appeared in the 1990s TV series, Twin Peaks ), Peter Quentin, Monty Hayward, and his ex-military valet, Orace.
A novelization of the film was written by Lee Sheridan adapted from Richard Matheson's screenplay in 1961 and published by Lancer Books in paperback.
Sheridan losses were heavy during normal operations, largely due to land mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President Richard Nixon ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other cavalry squadrons, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( Blackhorse ) was thrown into the fight.
* Sheridan ; Richard B.
After him came the famous playwright Richard Sheridan, who by then had already produced his two masterpieces School for Scandal and The Rivals.
* Richard Sheridan, the dramatist.

Richard and said
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
City Finance Director Richard J. McConnell indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more than a year.
`` You don't understand '', Richard said gloomily.
Through quiet laughter his mother said, `` Don't speak to your father like that, Richard ''.
" Administration spokesman Richard Socarides said, "... the alternatives we knew were going to be far worse, and it was time to move on and get the president re-elected.
This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.
Richard Feynman said that
The " very seductive " moral and ethical rhetoric of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation fails, he said, " not because his principles are wrong, but because that kind of language ... simply does not persuade anybody ".
During a 1961 lecture for undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology, Richard Feynman, a celebrated physics teacher and Nobel Laureate, said this about the concept of energy:
From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.
Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.
" The head of the British army at the time, General Sir Richard Dannatt, first said on 30 April 2007 that he had personally decided that the Prince would serve with his unit in Iraq, and Harry was scheduled for deployment in May or June 2007, to patrol the Maysan province.
Ivanhoe accompanies King Richard on the Crusades, where he is said to have played a notable role in the Siege of Acre.
Richard Bartelot, of the Royal Artillery Institution, said that the bow was of yew, 6 feet ( 1. 83 m ) long, with a 3 foot ( 914 mm ) arrow.
In any event, as Richard Feynman once said, " It is scientific only to say what's more likely or less likely, and not to be proving all the time what's possible or impossible.
Crowther said that Davis " does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief ," while another noted critic, The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Richard L. Coe, said Davis " is splendid as the understanding widow.
“ Fathers and mothers have ‘ disordered and disobedient children ,’” said the Puritan Richard Greenham, “ because they have been disobedient children to the Lord and disordered to their parents when they were young .” Because the duty of early childcare fell almost exclusively on women, a woman's salvation necessarily depended upon the observable goodness of her child.
Philip decided to return to France to settle the issue of succession in Flanders, a decision that displeased Richard, who said, " It is a shame and a disgrace on my lord if he goes away without having finished the business that brought him hither.
Indeed, the renowned physicist Richard Feynman once said, " I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
In their USA Today Magazine article titled " Saluting Pittsburgh's Finest " Richard E. Vatz and Lee S. Weinberg said Clemente was " arguably the best in the history of the game " and stated that " understanding the magnitude of Roberto Clemente requires an appreciation of the gestalt of his presence, which was greater than the sum of his statistics ".
Richard claimed that England was " cold and always raining ," and when he was raising funds for his crusade, he was said to declare, " I would have sold London if I could find a buyer.
At one point, while sick from scurvy, Richard is said to have picked off guards on the walls with a crossbow, while being carried on a stretcher.
Richard died on 6 April 1199 in the arms of his mother ; it was later said that " As the day was closing, he ended his earthly day.

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