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  Famous Quotes by Author - The Quotations Page
Smith, Alexander (1) - Scottish essayist & poet (1830 - 1867)
Smith, Ralph J. Smith, Sydney (10) - English essayist (1771 - 1845)
Solon (4) - Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC - 559 BC)
www.quotationspage.com /quotes/S.html   (1448 words)

  
  Adam Smith (1723-1790).
Smith led a quiet and sheltered life; he lived with his mother (she lived to be ninety) and remained a bachelor all his life.
Smith discussed matters with his friend David Hume; and went to London, there to discuss his ideas with the literati of the day, one of whom was Samuel Johnson.
Adam Smith's approach to his work was first to do a historical study of his subject, and then to advance the area, often building on the work of his contemporaries: he was well aware of the work done by Montesquieu and the French Physiocrats.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Smith.htm   (3467 words)

  
 Scottish Philosophy in the 18th Century (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric (London 1776) is a large-scale essay in which he takes a roughly Aristotelian position on the relation between logic and rhetoric, since he holds that convincing an audience, which is the province of rhetoric or eloquence, is a particular application of the logician's art.
Smith attends also to a trilateral relation, between a spectator, an agent who acts on someone, and the person who is acted on, the ‘recipient’ of the act.
Smith's account of justice is built upon his account of the spectator's sympathetic response to the recipient of an agent's act.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/scottish-18th   (6786 words)

  
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George's great concern was that the smoking gun tape called attention to a money-laundering mechanism which he, together with Bill Liedtke of Pennzoil, and Robert Mosbacher, had helped to set up at Nixon's request.
The authors observed George Bush as the Gulf crisis and the war unfolded, and had no doubt that his enraged public outbursts constituted real psychotic episodes, indicative of a deranged mental state that was full of ominous portent for humanity.
George Bush was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1972, when with prodding from Bush and his friends, the United States Agency for International Development first made an official contract with the old Sterilization League of America.
www.kmf.org /williams/bushbook/bush_book.txt   (19776 words)

  
 William Walter Phelps, Congressman, Ambassador, and Judge
William Walter Phelps, the son of a successful New York City merchant and financier, was born in Dundaff, Pa. on Aug. 24, 1839.
PHELPS, William Walter, diplomatist, was born in New York city, Aug. 24,1839; son of John Jay and Rachel B. (Phinney) Phelps, and a descendant of William Phelps, Windsor, Conn., 1635.
William was graduated at Yale, A. 1863, and was married, July 26, 1860, to Ellen, daughter of Joseph E. Sheffield of New Haven, Conn. He was graduated at Columbia, LL.B., 1863; settled in practice in New York City, and became counsel for various banks, trust companies and railroad corporations.
family.phelpsinc.com /bios/william_walter_phelps.html   (2949 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mr Smith Goes to Washington: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Smith Goes to Washington" is the last big screen film in which the Democrat was the bad guy, and even then it is only inferred.
Smith is equal parts civics lesson, romance, tense drama and at its heart: the perfect fish out of water comedy.
Smith is a great movie, full of laughs, drama, and telling satire, a landmark performance by Jimmy Stewart, and well supported by a great cast all around--Claude Rains, Thomas Mitchell, Jean Arthur, Harry Carey, Edward Arnold.
www.amazon.ca /Mr-Smith-Goes-Washington-Stewart/dp/B0000048Q5   (1974 words)

  
 Bermuda's Smiths's Parish
Smith's Parish, one of the nine counties or Parishes of Bermuda of about equal size, is on Main Island.
Smith's Parish, Smith's Island (61 acres, in St. George's Harbour in Bermuda) is also named after him, as are several places in Virginia and Smith's Sound in latitude 75 North to the West of Greenland.
Governor/Captain William Sayles and the Eleutheran Adventurers sailed from Bermuda in 1648 and settled the Bahamas.
www.bermuda-online.org /seesmith.htm   (5457 words)

  
 MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
William Cuthbert Falkner (as his name was then spelled) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner.
William demonstrated artistic talent at a young age, drawing and writing poetry, but around the sixth grade he began to grow increasingly bored with his studies.
William Faulkner was dead of a heart attack at the age of 64.
www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html   (7140 words)

  
 Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: Transcripts: George Stephanopoulos, President's Forum
In welcoming George Stephanopoulos here it's great fun for Mary and for me. We've known George since 1987 when we were both younger (poor George just turned 40 on Saturday, so you know) and he's been a good friend ever since.
But in welcoming George here—someone who I think really represents to our students what the very best of public service can be about, from his time on Capital Hill as a campaign aide and then a White House staff member.
George, on a more serious note, your thoughts and feelings about the part that the media played or plays in elections as far as exit polls and predictions.
www.hws.edu /news/speakers/transcripts/stephanopoulospresforum.asp?clienttype=visitors   (7536 words)

  
 Mr. Lincoln's White House: Caleb B. Smith (1808-1864)
Smith's capabilities were pedestrian and he was easily recruited for the cabinet intrigues of Salmon Chase and Edwin Stanton.
Smith was a man so conservative in his ideas that he felt that he could not at that time approve of a proposition to emancipate the slave in aid of the suppression of the rebellion, though when the first proclamation was issued Smith had changed his views and favored it.
Smith was similarly ineffective in one of his other responsibilities—western Indian problems, which were badly handled by his agents in Minnesota.
www.mlwh.org /inside.asp?ID=94&subjectID=2   (738 words)

  
 SMU: From George to George - Essay by Hal Williams
Americans have long had doubts about their politicians and political system, doubts we often think of as modern, but which go back in fact to the Founding Fathers and before.
William Henry Harrison had campaigned in 1840, Steven A. Douglas in 1860, Horatio Seymour in 1868, Horace Greeley in 1872, and James G. Blaine in 1884.
George Bush, on the other hand, won more white men, especially in the South, more gun owners, more men and women opposed to abortion, more people who lived in the country, and more religious conservatives.
www.smu.edu /smunews/george/williams-essay.asp   (13432 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Tom Smith
Tom Smith was the Associate Director from August 6, 1984 until his untimely death September 26, 1994 and was instrumental in the founding and establishment of the Institute for the first 10 years.
Tom could speak the language of the Russian historian, the Greek poet, the radical politician, the avant garde playwright.
He was embarrassed by his inability to write his thesis on George Moore at Harvard which would have earned him his Ph.D. This brings us to another side of Tom's character and gifts.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/smith.html   (635 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > George Clinton, 4th Vice President (1805-1812)
George Clinton's parents were Presbyterian immigrants who left Longford County, Ireland, in 1729 to escape an intolerant Anglican regime that imposed severe disabilities on religious dissenters.
George Clinton studied under a Scottish clergyman to prepare for his future responsibilities, interrupting his education at the age of eighteen in 1757 to serve in the French and Indian War.
George Clinton was elected governor by an overwhelming margin, carrying traditionally Federalist New York City and all but six counties.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_George_Clinton.htm   (5031 words)

  
 The Not So Great Communicator:   (Site not responding. Last check: )
George Bush was an heir to the progressive agenda within the Republican Party is traceable to Teddy Roosevelt.
Since he was a politician and not from the CIA, senate Democrats complained that appointing Bush would further damage the Agency which had been kept out of politics.
When George Bush finished the oath of office and began his inaugural on January 20, 1989, he saluted George Washington, who had given the first inaugural 200 years earlier.
www.csulb.edu /~crsmith/bush.html   (4917 words)

  
 Elizebeth S. Friedman
Elizebeth Smith Friedman--wife, mother, writer, Shakespeare enthusiast, cryptanalyst, and pioneer in U.S. cryptology--died on 31 October 1980 in Plainfield, New Jersey, at the age of 88.
Although she is often referred to as the wife of William Friedman, she enjoyed many successes in cryptology in her own right and has been dubbed "America's first female cryptanalyst." In fact, although her husband is credited with numerous contributions to cryptology, it was Mrs.
He told Miss Smith she would assist a Boston woman, Elizabeth Wells Gallup, and her sister with Gallup's attempt to prove that Sir Francis Bacon had authored Shakespeare's plays and sonnets using a cipher that was supposed to have been contained within.
www.nsa.gov /honor/honor00005.cfm   (1793 words)

  
 Bryan’s Downfall: Evolution and the Scopes Monkey Trial
William Jennings Bryan, quoted in, Lawrence W. Levine, Defender of the Faith:  William Jennings Bryan:  The Last Decade, 1915-1925 (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1965), 261.
Willard H. Smith, “William Jennings Bryan and the Social Gospel,” The Journal of American History 53 (June 1966):  60.
George M. Mardsen, Fundamentalism and American Culture:  The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925 (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1980), 214.
spider.georgetowncollege.edu /htallant/courses/his338/students/kowens/bryanff.htm   (939 words)

  
 smith Coat of Arms, Family Crest
Although smith appears to be an occupational name for a flsmith, it has been suggested that when surnames came into use in Scotland, several different families simply 'took on' the name whether they had been flsmiths or not.
Thus, smith is a classic example of a polygenetic surname that was developed in a number of different locations and adopted by various families independently.
Andrew M. and O.S. Smith, Sons of Maine and Nebraska Homesteaders by Claude R. Wiegers, Kinfolk of Henry Smith (1846-1887), Pioneer Heritage: the Smith Family by Marguerite Esther Smith.
www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=smith   (1318 words)

  
 George Custer's oldest 1/2 Brother
Both of George A. Custer's parents were married for the 2nd time and both brought in children from their previous marriage.
George Custer would visit her and went to school in Monroe and while in Monroe, Michigan he met Eliabeth Bacon his future wife.
Bingo he lived at 68 Smith Pl Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, whats more using map quest I was able to determine that the house he was living in was built in 1880 and still is in existence.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/civil_war/106744   (648 words)

  
 The Newberry Library: Smith Center Publications
This virtual slide set was produced by a participant in "Popular Cartography and Society" a summer institute organized by the Hermon Dunap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in 2001.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, travelers, scientists and tourist guides could finally rely on standardized maps for geography, and defined Central America in their own maps in a fashion more literary and schematic than geographical.
George Thompson, the first British diplomat to visit newly independent Central America, brought an outdated map of colonial Central America from the Arrowsmith atlas with him, and, as the diary
www.newberry.org /smith/slidesets/vs2.html   (2677 words)

  
 Smith, Liberty and Liberalism (1888): The Online Library of Liberty
This arose from their continuing to class themselves under political party names, to which a new generation, or the leaders of that generation, were endeavouring to attach significations alike novel and historically incorrect.
A perusal of that volume will show how numerous and various, and how conflicting even, in their fundamental principles, are the definitions, offered by prominent statesmen and politicians in the present day, of the term "Liberalism" as a word of political classification.
Statesmen, politicians, newspaper writers must all mean something when they use the expression so frequently and so glibly.
oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Smith0361/Liberalism/0306_Bk.html   (8343 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mr Smith Goes to Washington: Video: Jean Arthur,James Stewart,Claude Rains,Edward Arnold,Guy Kibbee,Thomas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor.
Smith could go on talking for 23 hours 16 minutes without going to the toilet puzzles me.) The movie also lucidly explains how a bill is written, submitted for consideration, debated, compromised, and finally sent for vote, in the House and the Senate.
Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is a young youth leader, elected senator in Washington D.C. He is viewed as a hapless pawn, and naive at that.
www.amazon.com /Smith-Goes-Washington-Jean-Arthur/dp/6304481691   (2401 words)

  
 WILLIAMS, SAMUEL MSS.
Also included are letters to Samuel Williams from his brother, William Williams, and other members of the family resident in Tennessee, one of these being Edward T. Williams, son of Samuel Williams, who was working as a carpenter at Dover, Tennessee, in the 1840's.
There are also a number of letters to Williams from his sons-in-law, Stephen Widney, farmer, of Piqua, Ohio, who married Samuel Williams' daughter, Eliza, and William J. Ellsworth, Methodist clergyman, who held charges in various towns of Ohio and Kentucky, and was the husband of Williams' daughter, Margaret.
Samuel Wesley Williams, 1827-1928, son of Samuel Williams, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1848, taught at the Worthington [Ohio] Female Seminary, 1848- 1849, at Baldwin Institute, Berea, Ohio, 1849-1850, and later at Ohio Wesleyan University, which he left in 1857 to teach at McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, for the school year 1857-1858.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/williamssamuel.html   (686 words)

  
 Lost Warrior: Al Smith and the Fall of Tammany (Copyright KcM 2002-2006)
Perhaps most importantly, Smith was still Tammany’s main horse in the national arena, and they stood by him throughout his failed bid for the Presidency in 1932.
Smith devoted so much time to these to escape discussion of topics that might be a great deal closer to the heart of Tammany at this particular juncture.
Yet, despite these innumerable and unavoidable ties to the Tammany Tiger, Smith was widely regarded, even by his political opponents and even during these years of intense scrutiny into the workings of the political machine, to be a true standard bearer for reform.
www.kevincmurphy.com /alsmith.htm   (766 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:   (Site not responding. Last check: )
TODD, GEORGE T. George T. Todd, lawyer, soldier, and politician, was born in Matthews County, Virginia, on May 6, 1839, the son of Eliza Ann (Hudgins) and William Smith Todd.
He was elected district attorney of the Eighth Judicial District and held the office until he was removed as an "impediment to Reconstruction." In February 1869 he was practicing law in partnership with J. Todd, and on May 6 of that year he married Edwina Van Dyke of Clarksville; they had one child.
George Todd was one of a number of defense lawyers in the famous Stockade Case,
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/TT/fto7.html   (560 words)

  
 A British politician turns the page - The Boston Globe
Yet only four years after becoming his nation's second-most-important politician, he meets with crushing defeat and gives up his post.
If the man is William Hague, the former head of Britain's Conservative Party, he writes a biography of an 18th-century prime minister.
She made the comparison because Pitt, who made the move to 10 Downing Street at 24, was the youngest prime minister in British history.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/03/07/a_british_politician_turns_the_page   (1055 words)

  
 Biography: Florence Smith
Smith, the former Florence Pritchett, died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Earl Smith II (father of the insurance underwriter) and his wife Florence did know the Kennedys, but all we know is that they socialized formally.
Earl Smith III really would like it if people stopped fantasizing that his mother held dangerous secrets at the time of her "homicide." As for Kilgallen's family, they never reply to letters about Dorothy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKsmithF.htm   (4981 words)

  
 The Mystical George Washington
The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.
To my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other.
He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis and the cause of the country, of humanity and of the world.
www.reversespins.com /mysticalwashington.html   (1058 words)

  
 Lemelson Center: Archives: Western Union Collection
The Presidential Letterbooks document the tenure of William Orton (November 3, 1865 to April 20, 1878) and Norvin Green (July 20, 1877 to January 12, 1893).
The correspondence of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), a lawyer, politician and former U.S. Postmaster General and Samuel F. Morse (1791-1872) is arranged chronologically and is primarily outgoing correspondence from Kendall to Morse.
The certified copies of articles of association and incorporation, 1851-1970, were maintained and certified by William G. Acheson and are true and corrected copies together with all amendments.
invention.smithsonian.org /resources/fa_wu_index.aspx   (9437 words)

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