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The father was a linguist and theologian who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale Divinity School from 1824 until his death in 1861.
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When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
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In Beijing he attended the school organized by a friend of his father, Wu Chih-hui ( 吳稚暉 ), a renowned scholar and linguist.
In 1912, his father, who was a noted traveller, adventurer and linguist, lost all of his money and his wife's in an investment that failed.
Born 19 March 1963, in Edmonton, Canada, to a ballerina mother and linguist father, Cox was educated locally, except for periods when his father's work led the family to postings in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
Landowska was born in Warsaw, where her father was a lawyer, and her mother a linguist who translated Mark Twain into Polish.
His father was a farmer and his mother a highly intellectual woman who was a painter, linguist, and philosophy student with a large collection of books on literature and history.
His father is Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire.
Max Weinreich ( 22 April 1894, Kuldīga, Russian Empire, now Latvia – 29 January 1969, New York City, USA ) was a linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (; born September 12, 1934, Kiev ; died August 22, 1966, near Moscow ) was a linguist and accentologist, also a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics.
Born in Russia, his father was a noted linguist and translator, and Yakov grew up speaking four languages: English, French, German and Russian.
In her autobiography, Palestinian author Ghada Karmi describes growing up in Katamon, from which she and her father, linguist Hasan Karmi, and the rest of the family, fled in 1948 after fierce fighting broke out.
His father was the more renowned minister and linguist Hans Conon von der Gabelentz, an authority of the Manchu language.
Her father was a professor and a linguist, and the family moved to Cleveland, where he was hired by what was then called the Western Reserve University and is today called Case Western Reserve University.
But according to the Matagalpan linguist father Guillermo Kiene, a Catholic priest and missionary who lived from 1898 to 1959, the word Matagalpa comes from the Sumo language, and means " let's go where the rocks are.
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