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- 1161: John Dryden
- ... fortune. He was given the opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas. After the Restoration Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of kin Charles II. During ...
- 1162: Isaac Asimov
- ... they have to open the air lock hatch there must be air in there or else everyone will die so Mike Shea put his hand to the crack in the door and said' "Thank the Lord, not a sign of a draft' (Asimov 118) On there way to Vesta they had a type of alcohol waiting for this moment. Mike says "Gentlemen, I give you the year's supply of good ...
- 1163: Hobbes
- ... as the Power, so also the Honour of the Sovereign, ought to be greater, than that of any, or all the Subjects. For in the Sovereignty is the fountain of Honour. The dignities of the Lord, Earle, Duke, and Prince are his creatures." (Hobbes, pg.128) As it has already been stated, the sovereign's power is indivisible, which means that his subjects have no absolute rights. However, his subjects do ...
- 1164: Henry Charles Carey
- ... Malthus. He opposed Malthus on several grounds. The first was because the Malthus theory was in contrast to God's intentions. Carey goes on to explain this by saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' said the Lord, 'and replenish the earth and subdue it', and Carey adds "Can such things be? Can it be. That the creator has been inconsistent with himself? Can it be, that after having instituted throughout the material ...
- 1165: Adam Smith
- ... will seem that Smith openly expressed his preference for the old Epicurean theory of life that in ease of body and peace of mind consists of happiness, the goal of all desire. This statement by Lord Bacon concerning Plato may appropriately apply to Smith, The study of human nature in all its branches, more particularly of the political history of mankind, opened a boundless field to his curiosity and ambition; and ...
- 1166: George Washington Carver 3
- ... not just change agriculture for America, but also changed the way that people looked at the African American. Carver received many awards and prizes during his lifetime, but he always gave the credit to the lord.
- 1167: From The Floutings Of The Cooperative Principle To Communica
- ... one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." ¡ª Martin Luther King Dr. King's eloquence is fully evinced by the foregoing parallel sentences. The successful use of the very rhetorical device here ...
- 1168: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... letters, rarely seeing them. The men she corresponded with during her life include Benjamin Newton, a law student; Reverend Charles Wadsworth, a Philadelphia minister; Thomas Higginson, a literary critic and Civil War hero, and Otis Lord, a judge who had been her father s closest friend. She regarded these men as intellectual advisers as well as friends. Although many of them found her poetry to be fascinating, none advised her to ...
- 1169: Edgar Allan Poe 3
- ... the best thing his best friend could do would be to blow out his brains with a pistol he was ready to sink into the earth (Krutch 5-6). On October 7, 1849, Poe whispered, Lord Help my poor soul, and died forty years old (Wright 35). When Poe died he was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard where his grandparents and brother, Henry, were buried. After Poe s death Nathaniel Parker ...
- 1170: De Tocqueville
- ... that aristocrats look only for their ancestors or descendants is a very self-centered act. They are concerned with only their family and it s success. De Tocqueville does not mention the sacrifice an angry lord makes for his serfs and servants by throwing them off his land. It would destroy De Tocqueville s argument to show that lords were hard, if not cruel at times, on their tenets. History has ...
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