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When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?
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When she returned east in 1913, she joined Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and others in founding the militant Congressional Union, which became the National Woman's Party.
When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem " The Justice of the Peace " and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns.
Necessary to support his impoverished family, this work was monotonous but taught him persistence, endurance, and a natural empathy with all who labour, as expressed by lines he used to hum from the egalitarian Rabbie Burns song: " When man to man, the world o ' er / Shall brothers be for a ' that ".
" When the Purple Mountain Burns: A Novel " San Francisco: Long River Press, 2005.
When Grampa and Bart retrieved the art from Mr. Burns, the State Department arrived to give the art to their rightful owner.
When Homer loses his temper and punches Burns in the face, Mr. Burns learns to become self-reliant and this results in Smithers being fired.
When it was proven that he had not, Smithers seemingly forgave Burns and demanded that the culprit be brought to justice, offering a reward for the capture of the perpetrator.
The album was not quite as praised as the band's previous few albums ( many felt the album was " rushed " and repetitive ), but still managed sell and maintain popularity quite well, with the singles " When the Sun Burns Red " and " People of the Lie " becoming hits.
When Burns met Marvin Hart for the heavyweight championship of the world on February 23, 1906, Burns was a 2-1 underdog and the betting was 10-7 that he would not last ten rounds.
When Johnson arrived in Vancouver in 1909 he told a crowd of people that Burns deserved credit as the only white heavyweight who ever gave a black man a chance to win the title.
When declaring him the second-scariest character on television ( behind only Mr. Burns of The Simpsons ) in 2005, MSNBC's Brian Bellmont described Cartman as a " bundle of pure, unadulterated evil all wrapped up in a fat — er, big-boned — cartoony package " who " takes a feral delight in his evildoing ".
When Bethlehem announced in 1999 that they would consider selling their sewage treatment plant to the Town of Burns Harbor, the way was clear for the town to begin planning a sewer project.
When illness prevented Chase from doing the movie, Burns and Allen substituted.
When Lombardo switched to NBC, Burns and Allen took over his CBS spot with The Adventures of Gracie beginning September 19, 1934.
When The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, aka The Burns and Allen Show, began on CBS Television October 12, 1950, it was an immediate success.
When the town incorporated, they discovered the official city name of St. Francis was already taken, so they changed the name to Burns, and soon afterward, the train station was moved into the new city of Burns.
When asked by George Burns in 1948 at how many children he planned to adopt, he answered: " I ’ d like to adopt as many children as I have windows in my house.
" In 1997 Burke recalled: " When I did it for Jerry Wexler and Bert Burns ( sic ), they told me that song would never make it.
When awarded the Priestley Medal in 2004, E. J. Corey created a controversy with his claim to have inspired Robert Burns Woodward prior to the development of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.
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When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:
`` When you gotta go, you gotta go '', Mrs. Forsythe said.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.
When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??
One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.
When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.
When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one.
`` When you marry, you want to have things in common '', a girl said, `` and it's hard when you don't marry someone with your own background ''.
When cattle in winter stopped and humped their backs up they were said to `` bow up ''.
When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.
When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.
When she had finished I said:
When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??
When he was answered, he said, `` Albert??
When it was finally pointed east, he said, `` You should never have come out here alone.
When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.
When he protested, the hotel owner said:
When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.
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