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A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.
In the 3rd century Acts of Thomas, Abaddon is the name of a demon, or the Devil himself.
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
Monsieur Savary himself gave him a strong grounding in drawing and painting and suggested he draw from nature when he returned to St. Thomas, which he did when he was seventeen.
Although the Christadelphian movement originated through the activities of John Thomas, he never saw himself as setting up his own disciples.
For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.
Thomas refused to align himself with them and declined to sign their manifesto.
Ferris in his 1989 biography includes Thomas ' heavy drinking, but is more critical of those around him in his final days and does not draw the conclusion that he drank himself to death.
Although Thomas described himself as the " Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive ", he stated that the phrase " Swansea's Rimbaud " was coined by poet Roy Campbell.
Indeed, it was the thirty years of work done by Thomas Aquinas and himself ( 1245 – 1274 ) that allowed for the inclusion of Aristotelian study in the curriculum of Dominican schools.
Thomas also suggested Sanders make commercials that he appear in himself.
Thomas Fowler ( 1869 ) states the paradox as follows: " Epimenides the Cretan says, ' that all the Cretans are liars ,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan ; therefore he is himself a liar.
However, Thomas Seymour continued scheming to control the royal family and tried to have himself appointed the governor of the King ’ s person.
Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.
For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.
Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared.
Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or even William Shakespeare himself, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and the first version of the story known to incorporate a ghost.
Thomas was himself a gentleman of His Majesty's Chapel, and arranged for Henry to be admitted as a chorister.
Severn was one of seven children ; two of his brothers, Thomas ( 1801 – 1881 ) and Charles ( 1806 – 1894 ), became professional musicians, and Severn himself was an adroit pianist.
Thomas Netter highly esteemed John Kynyngham in that he " so bravely offered himself to the biting speech of the heretic and to words that stung as being without the religion of Christ ".
Thomas was a missionary who had served in the Congo since 1955, gathering much of the earliest evidence and reports, and claiming to have had two close-encounters himself.
The show was produced by Danny Thomas's company, and Thomas himself recommended her.

Thomas and entered
His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.
When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.
Later that year he entered Thomas Morley's Commercial Academy, a private school founded in 1849 following the bankruptcy of Morley's earlier school.
Once an older NOAA ship leaves service, a newer one can be given the same hull number ; for example, " S 222 " was assigned to NOAAS Mount Mitchell ( S 222 ), then assigned to NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ), which entered NOAA service after Mount Mitchell was stricken.
Historian Thomas Goodrich concluded that Booth entered the Confederate Secret Service as a spy and courier.
Two years later, Davis entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas at St. Rose Priory, a school operated by the Dominican Order in Washington County, Kentucky.
In October 1999 Falwell hosted a meeting of 200 evangelicals with 200 homosexuals at Thomas Road Baptist Church for an " Anti-Violence Forum ", during which he acknowledged that some American evangelicals ' comments about homosexuality entered the realm of hate speech that could incite violence.
The concept of natural law entered the mainstream of Western culture through his Aristotelian commentaries, influencing the subsequent Averroist movement and the writings of Thomas Aquinas.
The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 6 October 1621, by Thomas Walkley, and was first published in quarto format by him in 1622:
In his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ( 1821, p. 188 ), it is still about Ottoman, not Chinese, addicts that Thomas de Quincey writes: " I question whether any Turk, of all that ever entered the paradise of opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had.
Before the construction of the North Portico, most public events were entered from the South Lawn, which was graded and planted by Thomas Jefferson.
On leaving the East India Company in 1817, Jardine became an independent trader and entered into partnership with Thomas Weeding and Framjee Cowasjee.
* Thomas Middleton writes The Witch, a tragicomedy that may have entered into the present-day text of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.
The Chronicle History of Henry the fifth was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 14 August 1600 by the bookseller Thomas Pavier ; the first quarto was published before the end of the year — though by Thomas Millington and John Busby rather than Pavier.
In 1524, Cromwell was elected as a member of Gray's Inn and entered the service of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey.
When he was ten years old he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig, where his father had become cantor in 1723.
The gunman, 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton, entered the school armed with four handguns, shooting and killing sixteen children and one adult before committing suicide.
After its first performance in Switzerland in 1935, the Symphony in C entered the concert repertory, and has been recorded by, among many others, Sir Thomas Beecham.
Meanwhile, a Parliamentarian cavalry force under Sir Thomas Fairfax, who had been campaigning in Cheshire and Lancashire during the winter, crossed the Pennines and entered the West Riding of Yorkshire.
During his absence, Regent Christine had gained control of the fortresses granted to Thomas Francis as part of the settlement of the Piedmontese Civil War ( legally, these reverted to ducal control when the Duke came of age, which under Piedmontese law Charles Emmanuel did in 1648, though his mother remained in control of the government ; Christine, accompanied by her son and part of the ducal army, entered Ivrea and dismissed Thomas ' personal garrison ; she appointed Thomas Francis instead as governor or Asti and Alba, positions which sweetened the blow but were entirely under ducal control, not guaranteed by treaty.

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