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...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ...
...who remained in visible communion with the See of Rome, and many Roman Catholic writers of those periods maintained that no such power belonged eithe... ...hole hand. – From the Cape Breton Advocate. OF MEDICAL HERBS. The old writers on Astrology and Magic give voluminous directions for gatheri... ...her eyes closed.‖ PREVOYANT VISION OF JOHN KNOX. John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer, when upon his death bed, experiences a most remar...
...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ...at it is useful, yea, and of the utmost usefulness. Wherefore all venerable divines and writers of the best times, are ever wont to place the USES o... ...les, and so carried the question into the arcana of Christian antiquities, of classical writers, and the authority of the fathers, whither the great ... ... William Huntingdon, two most able preachers, and, as it seems to me, two of the purest writers after the scriptural type; nor do I mean to say that ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ...
...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp...
...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...
...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...
...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...
...nders had many times beene cloyed with them. Secondly (as said an ancient Writers that I doe not so much remember injuries received. I had need have... ...ng of histories (which is the subject of most men) to consider who are the writers: If they be such as professe nothing but bare learning, the chiefe... ... her, before he have married his daughter, or directe d the course of his childrens bringing up; another bewaileth he must forgo his wives company; ... ...fford, I commonly make use of that which is most rare and memorable. Some writers there are whose end is but to relate the events. Mine, if I could ... ...oning-craft, even in my childish sports (for truly it is to be noted, that Childrens playes are not sports, and should be deemed as their most seriou... ...fruits, according to every mans need: where they howle and weepe at their childrens deaths, and joy and feast at their old mens decease. Where ten o... ...iam Guerenti, who hath commented Aristotele: George Buchanan, that famous Scottish Poet, and Marke-Antonie Muret, whom (while he lived) both FranceI... ...le, when or how we shall make an end. I was not long since reading of two Scottish bookes striving upon this subject. The popular makes the King to ...
...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ... is not against using a lengthened copyright term to give an extra reward to writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What h... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c...
...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici...
...broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson p... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...
...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess. " Anna F reud Towards the end of the 19th...
... I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I was saying, it was one hell of a step, belie... ...ven moment. I’ve seen spooky movies; they now seem so real. I just bet the writers knew things others didn’t and it was their way of telling their st...
...y true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in the New Hebrides as early as... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil...
...wit: ‘an unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of h... ...o cheer his progress; a little to posterity, and to our country. Dozens of writers will be in at yonder yawning breach, if only perusers will rally to... ... capital descriptions. The best English letter- 30 Diana of the Crossways writers are as good as the French— You don’t think so?—in their way, of cou... ...ain wonderful old quarto book in her father’s library, by an eccentric old Scottish nobleman, wherein the wearing of garments and sleeping in houses i... ...nto them. Mr. Dacier was plain, and the state of young Mr. Rhodes; and the Scottish gentleman was at least a vehement admirer. But she pen- etrated th...
...re is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin...
... almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficul... ...ich therefore had the honor of producing perhaps the most char- acteristic writers of the nineteenth century in prose and verse respectively . The fam... ... his sister tells us, enthusiastically, though there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who ... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul...
...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...
...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ...h to say, to say sooth, in sooth, in good sooth, etc., are com- mon in old writers. Cf. the Lay, introd. 57: “the sooth to speak.” 65. T o claim its a... ...e their prey.’” 177. Good faith. In good faith, bona fide; as often in old writers. 192. Bower. See on i. 217 above. 195. This rebel Chieftain, etc. T... ...tion, see Wb. 90. Poule. Paul; an old spelling, found in Chaucer and other writers. The measure of the song is anapestic (that is, with the accent on ...
...ith, and was as great a King as En gland had known for some time. The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his co... ...ere he then was, and where he received him as an honoured guest. Now, some writers tell us that Edward the Confessor, who was by this time old and had... ...d afterwards, where his sis ter, who was young and beautiful, married the Scottish King. Edgar himself was not important enough for anybody to care m... ...committed upon earth than in wretched England in those nineteen years. The writers who were living then describe them fearfully. They say that the cas... ...ng away from Dover, where he happened to be), and went on to Lon don. The Scottish King, with whom many of the Northern English Lords had taken refug... ... Merton Abbey upon these conditions, and journeyed away to see his wife: a Scottish Princess who was then at St. Edmund’s Bury. Almost as soon as he h...
...e space. The Parliament Close has been the scene of marking inci- dents in Scottish history. Thus, when the Bishops were ejected from the Convention i... ...it was here that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would hav... ...nth century, going to pass his trials (examinations as we now say) for the Scottish Bar, beheld the Parliament Close open and had a vision of the mout... ...e the beginning of history. The date is reassuring; for I think cau- tious writers are silent on the General’s exploits. But the stone is connected wi... ...and without exactly casting in one’s lot with that disenchanting school of writers, one cannot help hearing a good deal of the winter wind in the last...
... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq...