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  §4. William Henry Drummond. XI. English-Canadian Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...
Drummond’s originality consists in conveying his theme through the medium of a speech not native to the speakers.
Drummond’s sympathy with the habitant and his passion for wild life had been dominant with him to the end.
Drummond’s work is not characterised by the polished perfection of individual lines or stanzas.
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  DRUMMOND, HENRY (18511897) - LoveToKnow Article on DRUMMOND, HENRY (18511897)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
DRUMMOND, HENRY (17861860), English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church, was born at the Grange, near Alresford, Hampshire, on the 5th of December 1786.
DRUMMOND, HENRY (18511897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was horn in Stirling on the 17th of August 1851.
Drummond spent two years at Bourges and Paris in the study of law; and, in i 609, he was again in Scotland, where, by the death of his father in the following year, he became laird of Hawthornden at the early age of twenty-four.
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 Henry Drummond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Drummond (August 17, 1851 - March 11, 1897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was born in Stirling.
Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.
Their object was to vindicate for altruism, or the, disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important part in effecting the survival of the fittest, a thesis previously maintained by Professor John Fiske.
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 William Henry Drummond Summary
If today Drummond's verse seems little more than a literary and historical curiosity, it is mainly because the community spirit that the poet and his audience shared has been diluted over the years.
William Henry Drummond is much more than a literary anachronism, though some recent criticism has seriously questioned the political presumptions that underlie such dialect verse.
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet.
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 Drummond William Henry - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907), Canadian poet, whose verse transcribed the mixture of French and English spoken by French inhabitants of rural...
Drummond, William (1585-1649), Scottish poet, commonly called Drummond of Hawthornden.
Drummond was born in Hawthornden, just south of Edinburgh,...
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 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society: Henry Drummond: A Perpetual Benediction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This series of essays was originally presented at the 1997 Henry Drummond Centenary Symposium held at the University of Edinburgh and at the 1997 conference "Henry Drummond in America" held at Beeson Divinity School.
Drummond studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, but also took courses in science and received a "temporary" appointment as a lecturer in natural science at the Free Church College in Glasgow from 1877-1883.
Drummond was an evangelist in his own right and, in 1885, he continued the Sunday night revival meetings at the University of Edinburgh after the famed Cambridge athletes, Stanley Smith and C. Studd, completed their ministry in Edinburgh.
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 the biography of William Henry Drummond - life story
Drummond was the first significant Scottish poet to write in English rather than Scots.
Jonson admired Drummond's poems but felt that they 'smelled too much of the Schools, and were not after the fancy of the time'.
Drummond was a keen supporter of the monarchy, writing poems on the occasion of James I's visit to Edinburgh in 1617, and for the Scottish coronation of Charles I in 1633.
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 CliffsNotes::Inherit the Wind:Book Summary and Study Guide
Given the portrayal of the townspeople, their initial reaction to the news that Drummond is defending Cates alerts the audience to the fact that Drummond is the antithesis to the values that are entrenched in Hillsboro.
Unfazed at being shunned by the townspeople, Drummond is self-confident and charming in the courtroom.
Drummond is a static character; he does not change during the action of the play.
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Drummond was a scientist, a world traveller, and a great communicator of the Christian faith in five continents especially to students.
Henry senior, a businessman, was an elder and Sunday school teacher in the Free North Church, Stirling.
Drummond went out to Central Africa in the steps of David Livingstone, and was deeply affected by the conditions he saw there.
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Henry Drummond was born at Stirling in 1851.
Drummond was a handsome man, such as you could not match in ten days’ journey, with delicately cut features, rich auburn hair, and a certain carriage of nobility, but the distinctive and commanding feature of his face was his eye.
It was at one time Drummond s opinion that he had made a discovery in that fascinating debatable land between nature and religion, and that he was able to prove that the laws which govern the growth of a plant are the same in essence as those which regulate the culture of a soul.
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 Glimpses #153: Henry Drummond on Love; Christian History Institute
Drummond was greatly beloved by evangelist D. Moody who sought his companionship and help.
Chautauqua's audience found Drummond to be "a worldwide celebrity" whose "modesty was phenomenal." After the first of his Lowell Lectures at Lowell Institute in 1893, he was compelled to a repeat performance of each address in the series, so packed was the hall, and so great was the demand to hear him.
Although only 28 years old at the time, Drummond, while visiting America, was invited to dinner with the famous poets, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but he turned them down, preferring instead to travel 800 miles to visit evangelist D. Moody.
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Drummond was a scientist, a world traveller, and a great communicator of the Christian faith in five continents especially to students.
Henry senior, a businessman, was an elder and Sunday school teacher in the Free North Church, Stirling.
Drummond went out to Central Africa in the steps of David Livingstone, and was deeply affected by the conditions he saw there.
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 Drummond, Henry on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Drummond became an apostle of the church in 1832.
David, Stanley and Norman Drummond: a 'fair deal' for the New South Wales country child in schooling and welfare, 1924-1983.
Falmouth loses first round in bias suit ; Henry Ng says he was discriminated against by the town planner.
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 Henry Drummond
Drummond makes the point that if you have love - if you can feel and express love - you have it all.
Drummond's book is about grace, love, truth, Universal spiritual laws - it's got it all.
Henry Drummond is perhaps best remembered as a gifted evangelist who assisted Dwight L. Moody during his revival campaigns.
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 Living Witness Doctrine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sir Henry Drummond, one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic Church, was the son of a wealthy banker.
Drummond was assigned Scotland and Switzerland, representative of the Tribe of Benjamin.
Drummond was active in the delivery of both documents, which were presented to the representatives of both church leaders and secular rulers.
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 Apostolic-Prophetic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Henry Drummond was born in Scotland in 1851 and was a man of varied talents.
The addresses that make up this volume were written by Professor Drummond between the years 1876 and 1881, and are now published to meet the wishes of those who heard some of them delivered, and in the hope that they may continue his work.
Henry Drummond, "Turning," from The Ideal Life, by Henry Drummond.
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 William Henry Drummond --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Drummond immigrated to Canada about 1864, left school at the age of 15 to help support his family, but at 30 took a degree in medicine at Bishop's College in Quebec.
The character of the habitant, or French-Canadian farmer and backwoodsman, is reflected in the poems of William Henry Drummond.
The English poet William Henry Davies, who wandered across the United States and Canada for much of his youth as a peddler and a tramp, gained a wide audience for lyrics that have a force, simplicity, and charm uncharacteristic of the poetry of most of his contemporaries.
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 March 11: Henry Drummond passes to his reward
Drummond had been in excruciating pain for two years, suffering from a malignant growth of the bones.
A Scottish free churchman from Stirling, Scotland, Henry Drummond was drawn into evangelical revival during Moody and Sankey's tour of Britain in 1873.
Moody was criticized for maintaining a close friendship with Drummond because of his compromise with evolutionary theory, but Moody continued to find Drummond's Christian character unimpeachable and his personal evangelistic work fruitful.
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 Inherit the Wind - Movie Review and Sounds
Henry Drummond: " 'And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the East of Eden and Cain knew his wife.' Now where the hell did she come from?"
Henry Drummond: "Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."
Henry Drummond: "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart."
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 Henry Drummond --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Drummond was born in Stirling, Scotland, on Aug. 17, 1851.
British biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond served as a professor of biochemistry at the University of London between 1922 and 1945.
Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
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 American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Inherit the Wind - Henry Drummond Questions Mathew Harrison Brady on the Bible
Drummond: If, as they say, the sun stood still, they must have had some kind of an idea that the sun moved around the earth.
Drummond: In other words, all of these folks were conceived and brought forth by the normal biological function known as sex.
Drummond's sneering and his disrespect, for he is pleading the case for the prosecution by his contempt for all that is holy.
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 SparkNotes: Inherit the Wind: Analysis of Major Characters
The infamous criminal-defense attorney Henry Drummond arrives in Hillsboro vilified as an atheist but leaves, after losing the trial, as a hero.
Although Drummond typically exposes the shortcomings of his subjects’ beliefs in gentle fashion, his cross-examination of Matthew Harrison Brady causes humiliation and hysteria.
Drummond’s thorough examination of his witnesses’ beliefs exposes complexities and contradictions in the same way that Cates’s microscopes reveal to his students complexities of life and matter not visible to the naked eye.
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 Henry Drummond the Hun
The Irvingites were led by a Henry Drummond of England, a banker heavily involved in politics, also High Sheriff of Surrey, who in 1826 brought together an assembly of men into his 63-chimney mansion home (in Albury Park) to tackle the question of the end times, or so we are to believe.
The House of York somehow became the "baby" of the Drummonds, exposed as such in that James III, king of Scotland with Drummond blood, made Sir John Drummond his Ambassador to England...whose job it was to marry the king and the king's sons to daughters of the kings of the House of York (http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/drummon2.html).
The Drummonds took a major role in the Jacobite movement, the movement of the Highlanders to get would-be-king James III and IV on the throne of England ("James" in Latin is "Jacobus").
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 HENRY DRUMMOND (1851-1... - Online Information article about HENRY DRUMMOND (1851-1...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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DRUMMOND (1851-1897), Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was See also:
Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students.
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 TCM ~ THE ESSENTIALS
The first aired in 1988, starring Kirk Douglas as Matthew Harrison Brady and Jason Robards as Henry Drummond.
Henry Drummond: Does a man have the same privilege as a sponge?
Henry Drummond: Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!
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 RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
Drummond's sentiments were welcomed by Louis Fréchette, a well-known French-Canadian poet, in an enthusiastic introduction to this book that closes: "le Canadian-français sent que c'est là l'expression d'une âme amie; et, à ce compte, je dois à l'auteur plus que mes bravos, je lui dois en même temps un chaleureux merci" (x).
Drummond went on to publish five more books of poetry, Phil-o-Rum's Canoe (1848), Johnnie Courteau (1901), The Voyager (1905), and The Great Fight (1908), and to become one of the most widely-read and loved poets of his nation.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 and received two honorary degrees, the first from the University of Toronto in 1902, and then from Bishop's University in 1905.
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 The Greatest Thing in the World (0800780183), Book - Paperback
More than a century after the author delivered his meditation on the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, the need for genuine Christian love remains as great as ever.
Drummond writes, "To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever".
In this analysis of the love chapter, he highlights the basic truth that God is love; therefore, "everything that loves is born of God".
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 RPO -- Selected Poetry of William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
An immigrant to Montreal from Ireland, Drummond graduated with an M.D. from McGill University in 1884 and started practising in the eastern townships (along the St. Lawrence River) to which his dialect poems so often refer.
Drummond's sentiments were welcomed by Louis Fréchette, a well-known French-Canadian poet, in an enthusiastic introduction to this book that closes: "le Canadian-français sent que c'est là l'expression d'une âme amie; et, à ce compte, je dois à l'auteur plus que mes bravos, je lui dois en même temps un chaleureux merci" (x).
Drummond went on to publish five more books of poetry, Phil-o-Rum's Canoe (1848), Johnnie Courteau (1901), The Voyager (1905), and The Great Fight (1908), and to become one of the most widely-read and loved poets of his nation.
rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poet/106.html   (362 words)

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