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Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail ; thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde ; but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry.
The whole picture serves as a monument to the people of Missolonghi and to the idea of freedom against tyrannical rule.
" The whole monument is surmounted by a cannon in the imitation of " Hancock " or " Adams ,"-one of the guns Gridley served with his own hands at Bunker Hill.
That was the whole reason for the roundabout itself, and those who created it always imagined a monument that went in the center.
Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri, Amir Kabir ’ s successor, sought to persuade Naser-al-din Shah to abrogate the whole project, but the Darolfonun, soon became a posthumous monument to its founder.
The whole monument was covered by an earth barrow with material excavated from two flanking ditches and measured around 20m in length.
Although Britannica stated in 1911 that The whole business seems to have been purely a piece of vindictiveness on the part of Biron., since the erection of the monument, there was controversy over their plans since Volynsky's work General Project of Internal Affairs of the State state that they were conspirators in a plan to overturn the Empress.
The whole ensemble, including two churches ( St. Ansgar and Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche ), is now protected as a historic monument.
It has been suggested that the lower part of the arch is re-used from an older monument, probably from the times of the emperor Hadrian ( Conforto et al., 2001 ; for a defence of the view that the whole arch was constructed in the 4th century, see Pensabene & Panella ).
The whole monument itself resembles a giant stupa, but seen from above it forms a mandala.
The whole area has been recently declared a historic and artistic monument so it cannot be modified, to protect the original houses that still remain.
The fourth ring is decorated with golden garlands and was added in 1938 – 39 as the whole monument has been relocated.
Subsequently more stone was brought in to increase this cairn to about 100 ft ( 30 m ) diameter, enclosing two cremation burials in inverted urns and now covering the original ditch and bank, making the whole site a tomb monument.
" Mr. Miller had the whole town as a monument.
45 years later, on 19 March 1881, the Diário do Governo ( Official Journal ) listed the Guimarães Castle as the most unusual historic monument of the whole region of Minho.
The whole work is a monument for supreme devotion and superb poetry, all in one night ’ s intuition ,-an overnight miracle of one thousand verses!
The whole monument probably had the form of a Roman milestone.
: Even at those hours when the gray Petersburg sky is completely overcast and the whole population of clerks have dined and eaten their fill, each as best he can, according to the salary he receives and his personal tastes ; when they are all resting after the scratching of pens and bustle of the office, their own necessary work and other people's, and all the tasks that an overzealous man voluntarily sets himself even beyond what is necessary ; when the clerks are hastening to devote what is left of their time to pleasure ; some more enterprising are flying to the theater, others to the street to spend their leisure staring at women's hats, some to spend the evening paying compliments to some attractive girl, the star of a little official circle, while some — and this is the most frequent of all — go simply to a fellow clerk's apartment on the third or fourth story, two little rooms with a hall or a kitchen, with some pretensions to style, with a lamp or some such article that has cost many sacrifices of dinners and excursions — at the time when all the clerks are scattered about the apartments of their friends, playing a stormy game of whist, sipping tea out of glasses, eating cheap biscuits, sucking in smoke from long pipes, telling, as the cards are dealt, some scandal that has floated down from higher circles, a pleasure which the Russian do never by any possibility deny himself, or, when there is nothing better to talk about, repeating the everlasting anecdote of the commanding officer who was told that the tail had been cut off the horse on the Falconet monument — in short, even when everyone, was eagerly seeking entertainment, Akaky Akakievich did not indulge in any amusement.
The lower section of the canal, including Weighton Lock, ( also called Humber lock ), which provides access to the River Humber, was abandoned in 1971, but when they heard that the lock was likely to be demolished, the Market Weighton Civic Trust moved quickly to have the whole structure listed as an ancient monument and their action, together with public pressure resulted in the lock being repaired and reopened.

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Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
Reaction is rooted in a perception of tradition as a whole.
Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.
It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.
We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.
The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.
He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.
When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.
Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.
Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.
The whole problem of `` peaceful coexistence and peaceful competition '' with the capitalist world is in the very center of this Congress.
I hear the whole bunch is croakin out in the snow.
I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.
I pray to God that he may be spared to us for many years to come for this is an influence the United States and the whole world can ill afford to lose.
It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.
No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.
It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

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