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  John Earle - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip, earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, who presented him to the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
During the great plague Earle attended the king and queen at Oxford, and there he died on the 17th of November 1665.
Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work entitled Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.
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 John Earle
Earle was employed by Charles II to make the Latin translation of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1649.
"Dr Earle," says Lord Clarendon in his Life, "was a man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent, and so very facetious, that no man’s company was more desired and loved.
John Earle was also a Premier of Tasmania.
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  John Earle (Australian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Earle (Born Bridgewater, Tasmania November 15, 1865; Died Kettering, Tasmania, February 6, 1932) was an Australian politician.
Earle resigned from the ALP over the conscription debate and was briefly a Senator in the Billy Hughes federal government.
Earle's cousin Alicia O'Shea Petersen was a prominent suffragist in Tasmania.
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 John Earle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to, Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work, Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.
Earle was employed by Charles II to make the Latin translation of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1649.
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 John Earle Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Earle's willingness to forgive and reluctance to condemn human folly and vice reflect the measured and well-balanced personality of the author, who was praised by his friends for his attractive and pleasing manners.
Among Earle's characters of professions and trades are the Student, the Preacher, the Antiquarian, the Fiddler, the Constable, the Attorney, the Cook, and the Baker.
Earle's general distrust of tradesmen and shopkeepers is to be expected in a Royalist clergyman, and his portraits of them tend to be the most stereotypical.
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 §16. John Earle. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North ...
Earle shows how a lack of vigilance in the veriest routine of life ends in selfdeception, error or discontent, and he constantly draws a comparison between the judgment of wise men and that passed by the common herd.
They were followed by a host of imitators, 82 of whom John Cleveland, Samuel Butler and William Law were the greatest; and, from the time of the Civil War, this type of literature became a recognised weapon in party strife.
Earle’s “A Downe-right Schollar” and “A good old man” are answers to Overbury’s “A meere Scholar” and “An olde man.” Earle treats questions of university interest in “A raw young preacher,” and his essay on “A Scepticke in Religion” deals with the difficulties of a student who hesitates between conflicting creeds.
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 JOHN EARLE (c. 16o1-1665) - Online Information article about JOHN EARLE (c. 16o1-1665)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
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Earle went abroad, and was named clerk of the closet and chaplain to Charles II.
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 §16. John Earle. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earle shows how a lack of vigilance in the veriest routine of life ends in selfdeception, error or discontent, and he constantly draws a comparison between the judgment of wise men and that passed by the common herd.
They were followed by a host of imitators, 82 of whom John Cleveland, Samuel Butler and William Law were the greatest; and, from the time of the Civil War, this type of literature became a recognised weapon in party strife.
Earle’s “A Downe-right Schollar” and “A good old man” are answers to Overbury’s “A meere Scholar” and “An olde man.” Earle treats questions of university interest in “A raw young preacher,” and his essay on “A Scepticke in Religion” deals with the difficulties of a student who hesitates between conflicting creeds.
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 John Earle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in (Click link for more info and facts about Wiltshire) Wiltshire.
Earle was employed by Charles II to make the Latin translation of the (Click link for more info and facts about Eikon Basilike) Eikon Basilike, published in 1649.
John Earle was also a (Click link for more info and facts about Premier of Tasmania) Premier of Tasmania.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_earle.htm   (554 words)

  
 Lawrence Carmichael Earle - Genealogy
John is aged 59 in the 1860 census and 69 in the 1870 census.
John E. Earle and Mary M. (wife) are noted "of Grand Rapids, formerly of New York City" in the record.
John Henry Earle was born in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co, NJ January 13, 1832.
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 John Earle, led Marines in WWII - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Most of the Marines under John Earle's new command aboard the USS Arizona died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and for years Earle felt lucky to have been on shore on Dec. 7, 1941.
John Earle, who went on to a 20-year career in the Marines, retired at the rank of colonel and later taught history at the University of Hawai'i, died Tuesday night at The Queen's Medical Center.
John Horatio Earle was born in Reading, Pa., in 1915, graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1936 when he was commissioned a second lieutenant, and was one of five brothers who fought in World War II and survived.
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 John Earle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Earle, John (1601?-1665), English prelate, best known for his humorous fictional work Microcosmographie.
Cage, John Milton, Jr.: colleague, composer Earle Brown
Brown was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and studied mathematics and...
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 John Earle, senior economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earle received his MA and PhD in economics from Stanford University and undergraduate degrees in economics and music from Oberlin College and Conservatory.
In addition to his position as senior economist at the Upjohn Institute, he is professor of economics and director of the Labor Project at the Central European University.
Earle’s policy experience includes stints at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the Congressional Budget Office, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, DC, and policy advising and consulting with the World Bank, OECD, USAID, and the European Commission.
www.upjohninst.org /staff/earle.html   (239 words)

  
 John Earle Summary
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral, but he was soon deprived of this position as a "malignant." After the final Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester, Earle went abroad, and was made Clerk of the Closet and chaplain to his former student Charles II.
Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work, Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.
www.bookrags.com /John_Earle   (1813 words)

  
 Edited Committee Evidence * Table of Contents * Number 037 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John is from British Columbia has been, at different times, secretary treasurer and vice-president of the council for a number of years.
John Sutcliffe: Between the UFAWU and the Native Brotherhood, I think you'd half to assume that over half of both the licence holders and the crewmen are in those two organizations.
Earle, on the east coast, we now notice the FPI Clearwater situation, in which that corporate control of a public resource is becoming concentrated into even fewer and fewer hands.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/FOPO/Meetings/Evidence/fopoev37-e.htm   (12082 words)

  
 John Earle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Dorsey, a Navy ROTC college senior, arrives on a military training exercise in Corpus Christi, Texas, in June, 1966.
During his three week visit to South Texas he meets and is swept away by Carol Glenn, a girl with whom he could spend the rest of his life, only to learn that she is pinned to David, her “perfect” man.
All the while John’s moods and attitudes are shaped by the music of the 50s and 60s that's always running through his head.
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 Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Steve Earle embraces a view of the promise of American democracy which I don't share, but to his credit, he is bravely unrepentant about this track and the whole CD, "Jerusalem," which hits other provocative notes on its highly contemporary journey.
Earle has appeared at many concerts and events against the death penalty, including a couple performances of "The Exonerated," a play based on interviews with people on death row who were later found innocent.
Earleâs first two albums, Guitar Town and Exit 0, were among the best and most influential country records of the eighties; his lyrics had the literary virtues of plot and character, and his music combined the ache of country with the energy of rock.
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 Union Church Hires Familiar Associate Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Earle is a familiar face to the LaHarpe community and to the youth of LaHarpe and surrounding areas.
John is an Assistant football coach with the West Praire/LaHarpe Cyclones and is a frequent speaker in area schools.
John currently works for (and will continue to work for) Sportsworld which sends former athletes into schools around the country to talk to young people about making wise choices and to share their conviction that following Jesus Christ is the wisest choice of all.
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 Memorial Obituaries Earle, John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Earle is from a family with long ties to the state of Michigan and its lumber industry.
Earle’s grandfather, George Washington Earle, was president of the Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company, which was founded by his wife’s father, C.J.L. Meyer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
John Earle, born in 1928, grew up in the family lumbering town of Hermansville, and spent his summers working as a bellhop at the resort.
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 CNN.com - 'John Walker's Blues' meets the boos - July 23, 2002
Taken from Earle's album "Jerusalem," due out in late September, "John Walker's Blues" is a stately ballad sung from Walker Lindh's perspective referring to his interest in music videos, boy bands and religious fanaticism.
The furor over "John Walker's Blues" marks a return to the political spotlight for Earle, who has courted controversy in the past by calling himself a Marxist and supporting the movement to abolish the death penalty.
Earle is on vacation in Europe and was unavailable for comment.
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 The Kansas Territorial Experience - John Brown: The Legend Revisited
John Brown was a free-state military leader in Kansas and a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
The average abolitionist—which John Brown was not—was also deeply religious, came from an American evangelical protestant tradition, did not believe in violence, believed that the way slavery would and should be stopped was to convince slaveholders to realize that they were sinning and to manumit their slaves.
He went to his grave saying that John Brown had nothing to do with the Pottawatomie massacre, and that he was a good God-fearing man. He gave portions of his profits from his books to Mary Brown.
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 John Earle - Encyclopedia.com
It seems outspoken alt-country rocker Steve Earle has yet again ruffled some feathers in the Nashville community and beyond.
There are no yuppies on Death Row Steve Earle is famous for his laments to blue-collar America.
Rocking the vote; Steve Earle, musician and firebrand of the left, is doing all he can to put John Kerry in the White House.
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 Bio, Earle, John S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John S. Earle was a pilot assigned to Attack Squadron 172 onboard the aircraft carrier USS SHANGRI-LA. He launched in his A4C Skyhawk attack aircraft as part of a two plane strike mission into South Vietnam.
Earle was placed in a missing status on June 22, 1970, which was changed the next day to Reported Dead/Body Not Recovered.
While Lt. Earle may not be one of them, one can imagine him proudly taking one more flight order from the Air Boss to bring them home.
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 An Outport Revisited
John Pike and Sons hands in England together with the use of the plantation during her life and then to fall to her sons of her first husband.
Item: I give and bequeath one silver spoon to Frances Gallashue and one each(?) for John Earles sons that is to say the two eldest, and one silver spoon for Mary Merser.
John Earle lived and died and was buried on Little Belle Isle.
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 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | From MTV to the Taliban
At issue is "John Walker's Blues," a song Earle wrote and sings from the perspective of John Walker Lindh, the 21-year-old California native who last week pled guilty in federal court to taking up arms with the Taliban.
Earle's Lindh discovers Islam, and the first chorus swells over chiming electric guitar chords: "A shadu la ilaha illa Allah/There is no God but God," Earle sings.
Earle is a loud, proud heir to the protest-folk tradition of Woody Guthrie, the Okie icon who penned songs about shady souls like Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bob Dylan, who famously venerated Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer wrongfully convicted of murder.
www.salon.com /ent/music/feature/2002/07/25/earle   (1201 words)

  
 Poker Forum - John Earle Wins the Caribbean Poker Classic
After 100 hands of heads-up play John was still in the lead and at 6:05 the ante and blind increase for the last time.
The board came J-2-4-5-3 and John's ace high won the pot and the tournament.
John Earle from England was declared the winner of the first Caribbean Poker Classic and awarded $213,205 for his 1st place finish.
www.pokerforum.com /content/PokerForum/article2555.html   (599 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN EARLE: Seize the Night
John Earle began his ascent into the musical world with classical training on voice and piano, while also learning drums, bass and especially guitar.
After years of successfully performing in Jacksonville, John Earle was called to play bigger and better with an acoustic under his arm to an audience he related to in every way.
John Earle understands what issues are compatible with most listeners.
cdbaby.com /cd/earle   (272 words)

  
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- Earle, John, Izumi and Intern Justin Luecke spend the morning picking up oxygen and acetylene tanks for the torch, misc welding accessories, 35 cans of paint, some tools for the maint bays, wheels for the torso rotation and sway control platforms, and metal for the sway rails; some of which will be delivered Monday.
John cleans up the wood scavenged form this weekend, and Earle affixes the first 6 roof beams, completing the roof superstructure for the first maint bay.
The B network is a physically separate, unhackable network, that will be used for internal development as well as hosting the test networks that will be used on the mech.
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