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Later I learned that Sir Hugh Dalton had expressed a desire to see me, hence their trip to `` No Man's Land ''.
In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.
Sir Ed. Gre. is gonne to Brestowe and from thence to Lond. as I heare, who verie well knoweth our estates and wil be willinge to do us ani good ''.
While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.
`` Sir, I know the cannery helps ''.
Sir -- I hasten to join in praise of the men in the toll booths on the Garden State Parkway.
If so, I would lean to Sir Charles' conception of the man.
At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).
' Denis answered and said: ' Sir, he is not here ; but yield you to me and I shall bring you to him.
' Sir ,' quoth he, ' I am Denis of Morbeke, a knight of Artois ; but I serve the king of England because I am banished from the realm of France and I have forfeited all that I had there.
On 29 May 2007 it was reported that General Sir Mike Jackson, second-in-command of 1 Para on Bloody Sunday, said: " I have no doubt that innocent people were shot ".
In Commentaries on the Laws of England ( Bk I, ch. 4, pp 106 – 108 ), Sir William Blackstone described the process by which English common law followed English colonization:
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
* α CVn ( Asterion, Cor Caroli ) is the constellation's brightest star, named by Sir Charles Scarborough in memory of King Charles I, the deposed king of Britain.
The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Sir and read
She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
Even though, read in the light of later research, much of the first volume must necessarily be relegated to the region of the mythical, nonetheless, the historian was a laborious and accomplished reader and investigator of all available authorities, as well manuscript as printed ; while the roll of names of those who aided him includes every man of note in Scotland at the time, from Sir Thomas Craig and Sir George Mackenzie to Alexander Nisbet and Thomas Ruddiman.
So she pored over every book on mathematics in her father's library, even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler.
The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read again, were The Life of Hannibal and The History of Sir William Wallace modernised version of Blind Harry by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield.
Instead her fury knew no bounds and Elizabeth sent Sir Thomas Heneage to read out her letters of disapproval before the States General, Leicester having to stand nearby.
" Following Stanton, Thomas M ' Clintock read several passages from Sir William Blackstone's laws, to expose for the audience the basis of woman's current legal condition of servitude to man.
In the early years of the 20th century, the Queen of Norway sent gifts to London's crippled children signed " With Tiny Tim's Love "; Sir Squire Bancroft raised £ 20, 000 for the poor by reading the tale aloud publicly ; and Captain Corbett-Smith read the tale to the troops in the trenches of World War I.
In 1997, Derek Fowlds reprised the role of Bernard Woolley to read Antony Jay's How To Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen's Guide To Fighting Officialdom.
" He apparently stopped painting altogether for the length of 1940, and read Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough.
And as Sir Edward Grey suggested a mediation between the Austrians and the Serbs Bethmann-Hollweg is known to have been manipulating the British message-in order to forestall any chance that the Austrians would refrain from attacking Serbia-by deleting the last line of the letter which read:
If Sir George Grey or Sir William Somerville would like to read our correspondence, we make him welcome for the present — only let the letters be forwarded without losing a post.
Koki Hirota listening to his death sentence being read by Sir William Webb ( judge ) | William Webb, 1948
Sir W. Ouseley relates, that Kaikus, the Persian king, was fired with ambition to conquer so fine a country, through the influence of a minstrel, who exhausted all his powers of music and poetry in the praise of its beauties: his strains read thus:
Michael was taught to read before he was four years old, and one of his favourite books was a copy of Sir David Lyndsay's works.
Unfortunately for Smith, the booklet he printed to advertise his new lands was read by the Clandeboye O ’ Neill chief, Sir Brian MacPhelim, who just a few years earlier had been knighted by Elizabeth.
For example, in a poem Ayscough translates as, " Capping Rhymes with Sir Shih Ching From Sun's Root Land " ( 147 ) we read the following:
Sir has Andrew carve more things, and even read books on woodwork.
Porges read the works of such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace.
Sir Syed was taught to read and understand the Qur ' an by a female tutor, which was unusual at the time.
He read some law, and in April 1884 became associate to the chief justice, Sir Samuel James Way.
The original lyrics, written by Sir Walter Scott, read:

Sir and man
Sir -- An old man is kicked to death by muggers.
It submits an enthusiastic, impressionistic conception of Lindemann contributing another aspect of the man, but on no more authoritative basis than Sir Charles' account.
Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.
He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.
If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France where, for any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a ' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.
* 1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales.
Sir, no such man can speak for the North.
Where are his titles ... For my part, I declare, Sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.
Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.
Over his desk, Edison displayed a placard with Sir Joshua Reynolds ' famous quotation: " There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
* April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )
* March 29 – Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private.
Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said that " in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia ".
Moore was noteworthy as a comic foil to Sir Henry and played three other roles: one in drag and one as a one-legged man.
He sent urgent messages to the Governor, Sir Richard Beauchamp, ordering him to bar the gates to Margaret and man the city's defences.
As a young man, Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake in the attack on the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and participated in England ’ s defeat of the Spanish Armada.
The cartoon lambastes Sir Francis Buller, a British judge, for allegedly ruling that a man may legally beat his wife, provided that he used a stick no thicker than his thumb, although it is questionable whether Buller ever made such a pronouncement ( poor record-keeping for trial transcripts in that era makes it difficult to determine whether such a ruling may have existed ).

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