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  John Horne Tooke
John Horne, the son of a prosperous poulterer, was born in Westminster in 1736.
On 20th February 1769, a lawyer, John Glynn, organised a meeting at the London Tavern to discuss the refusal of the House of Commons to accept the election of John Wilkes.
John Horne Tooke was strongly influenced by the ideas of Tom Paine and after the publication of The Rights of Man in 1791 he began to work closely with Thomas Hardy and the Corresponding Society.
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  AllRefer.com - John Horne Tooke (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Horne Tooke 1736–1812, English radical politician and philologist.
Born John Horne, he adopted the name Tooke in 1782 after being designated heir to the estate of a rich friend, William Tooke.
He was a strong supporter of John Wilkes until 1771, when he broke with him and founded the Constitutional Society to promote parliamentary reform and support for the American colonists.
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 JOHN HORNE TOOKE (1736... - Online Information article about JOHN HORNE TOOKE (1736...
Lord Mansfield, in Horne's favour, and in the loss by his opponent of his seat in parliament.
Up to this time Horne's fixed income consisted of those scanty emoluments attached to a position which galled him daily.
Many of Horne Tooke's wittiest sayings are preserved in the Table Talk of Samuel Rogers and S.
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 John Horne Tooke - Encyclopedia.com
In 1769 Tooke founded the Society of Supporters of the BILL OF RIGHTS, which was largely designed to pay John WILKES's debts and get him into Parliament.
John Horne Tooke and the Grammar of Political Experience.
Hazlitt, Horne, and the spirit of the age.(Richard Henry Horne, William Hazlitt)
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 John Horne Dance Artist Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Horne believes that his studies in dance allow him to create a synergy between his models, his studies and the works that appear on the canvas.
Horne gravitated from photography to other mediums, including acrylics, charcoal pencils and inks on rice paper as well as the pastels and watercolors that dominate the portraits used in the Dream Chaser series.
Horne is confident that he'll succeed and believes that others in the art world will embrace this 'cross-training.' "People will get comfortable with the process.
www.danceart.com /JohnHorne/Story.htm   (587 words)

  
 John Horne Tooke — FactMonster.com
Born John Horne, he adopted the name Tooke in 1782 after being designated heir to the estate of a rich friend, William Tooke.
John Horne Tooke - Horne Tooke, John: Horne Tooke, John: see Tooke, John Horne.
John - John A contraction of Johannes (Joh'n).
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John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), Radical politician and philologist.
John Raphael Smith (1752-1812), Portrait painter, engraver and pastellist.
This unusual 'sick-bed' portrait shows the radical politician, John Horne Tooke, a year before his death, when he was bed-ridden by chronic illness.
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 glbtq >> literature >> Burns, John Horne
American novelist John Horne Burns used his outsider status as a homosexual to critique America's class-coded heterosexist morality and its ethnocentrism and marketplace mentality.
Burns was born October 7, 1916, in Andover, Massachusetts, the eldest of seven children in a prominent Irish Catholic family.
The multifaceted Gore Vidal is important in the gay literary heritage because of the straightforwardness with which he has pursued gay themes and included gay characters in his work.
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 John Horne Tooke
TOOKE, John Horne, English politician, born in Westminster, England, 25 June, 1736; died in Wimbledon, England, 18 March, 1812.
He was a minister of the established church, a follower of John Wilkes, and in 1768 a founder of the Society for the support of the bill of rights.
He bitterly opposed the coercion of the American colonies, and, after the battles of Lexington and Concord, advertised for a subscription for " the widows and orphans of the American soldiers who were murdered by the king's troops." The ministry prosecuted him for libel, and he was tried at Guilford hall in July, 1777.
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 John Horne
John's "informances" present a variety of guitars and types of music following the guitar from its ancestry as a Spanish folk instrument through its development into American-designed steel-string and electric guitars.
A graduate of Duquesne University of Music in Pittsburgh John now resides in Athens, Ohio performing regularly and running a bustling teaching practice.
John has given lessons and workshops for students at the National Guitar Workshop and Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp and works with several arts organizations to present informances and residencies at area elementary and middle schools.
www.artsbridgeonline.org /johnhorne.htm   (140 words)

  
 Learn to Skydive - Who are we? - John Horne
John made his first parachute jump in 1969 whilst serving in the Army, 35 years on he has now completed over 7000 skydives and reckons he might get the hang of it soon!
Since 1969 John has served 32 years in the army including a tour as the Chief Instructor of the Joint Services Parachute Centre this ultimately made him responsible for all aspects of safety and training on the drop zone.
John readily admits that his days of serious competition parachuting are over, nevertheless he jumps regularly, teaching AFF most weekends and taking part in skydiving trips abroad throughout the year.
www.learntoskydive.co.uk /john.htm   (348 words)

  
 John K. Horne
Horne, J.K. and P.D. Walline Spatial and temporal variance of walleye pollock in the Eastern Bering Sea.
Horne, J.K. Influence of ontogeny, physiology, and behaviour on target strength of Walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma).
Horne, J.K. 2000 Acoustic approaches to remote species identification: a review.
www.acoustics.washington.edu /hornefac   (479 words)

  
 John Horne Profile - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Horne, age 69, has served as a director since December 2001 and is a member of our Compensation Committee.
Horne served as chairman of Navistar International Corporation, a publicly-traded truck and engine manufacturer, from April 1996 to February 2004 and as Navistar's president and chief executive officer from March 1995 to February 2003.
Horne received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Bradley University in 1964, a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1960, which also awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree in May 1998, and is a graduate of the management program at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
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 Amazon.com: "John Horne": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
whose continued saliency for the history of France and its empire is explored in the chapters by Owen Connelly, John Horne, and Doug Porch.
John Horne served as the chair of the WHCSB, which also included assistant secretaries...
This was John Horne, remembered today as John Horne-Tooke because he later took the name of an admirer who left him his fortune.
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 John Horne Tooke (1736-1812), Radical politician and philologist
Throughout his political career, Horne Tooke had campaigned energetically for public liberty and parliamentary reform.
He was twice imprisoned, once for libel and again under suspicion of treason.
Horne Tooke also achieved widespread acclaim for the Diversions of Purley (1786 and 1805), a major two-volume work of philology, the study of ancient texts and languages.
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 John Horne Tooke Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
John Horne Tooke Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
Language is an art, and a glorious one, whose influence extends over all others, and in which all science whatever must centre; but an art springing from necessity, and originally invented by artless men.
The GIGA name and logo are trademarks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by John C. Shepard.
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 Expansive coverage fuels his indifference - The Boston Globe
John Horne said he is fatigued by the coverage and has little patience on the topic.
John Horne has had enough of this whole gay marriage thing.
He has heard about as much as he needs to hear, from both sides.
www.boston.com /news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2005/05/16/expansive_coverage_fuels_his_indifference   (347 words)

  
 John Horne Burns - NYRB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
John Horne Burns (1916-1953) attended Andover and Harvard and then served in military intelligence during World War II.
He wrote two more novels after The Gallery—Lucifer With a Book and A Cry of Children—but both met with a cold critical reception.
Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.
www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/10192   (86 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Gallery (New York Review Books Classics) by John Horne Burns
John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller.
However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.
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 ALLYN, JOHN
Volume I contains a chapter on Locke's Essay: "Locke, he said, made a happy mistake when he called his book an essay on human understanding, instead of an essay upon grammar.
Horne Tooke, in fact, was a thorough nominalist after the fashion of Hobbes; he ridiculed the 'Hermes' of Harris, and Monboddo, who tried to revive Aristotelian logic...."--DNB.
Please note: There is similar material in the "Old and Rare Philosophy" list on our home page.
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 Publications G-L
John Horne & Wolfram Manzenreiter, London: Routledge, 0-415-27563-6.
Horne, John, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association Publications, 0-906337-85-2.
John Horne and S Fleming, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association Publications, 0-906337-77-1.
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 John Horne: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
John Horne: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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 Western Front Association - U.S. Branch: Len's Bookshelf
, John Dos Passos, Dover Giant Thrift Editions, Mineola, NY, 2004, 309 = ix pages with an introduction by Heywood Broun, ISBN 0 486-43467 21, $5.00 trade paperback; first published in 1921, a grim fictionalized depiction of life in the WWI era America Army by the author who typifies the Lost Generation.
A mostly forgotten episode of WWI involving Turko-German efforts to wage jihad against British interests in the Middle East, Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, and to foment rebellion in India, all elements of the German imperial Drang nach Osten.
Subjects covered are eclectic and include campaigns, weapons, diplomacy, food rations, finance, science and technology, cinema, war literature, the peace treaties, and refugees with emphasis on the Western Front.
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 Cyber Boxing Zone -- Mike Tyson
On Aug. 16, 1994, Tyson signed a contract in a prison visiting room making John Horne and Rory Holloway his official managers.
Then, two weeks before Tyson was to be released from prison, he signed an agreement giving King 30 percent of all his earnings and Horne and Holloway 10 percent each.
In return, Tyson got signing bonuses worth about $35 million from contracts King had negotiated with Showtime and the MGM Grand.
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 John Horne Guitar Studio Quality guitar performance, guitar lessons and more. Live from Athens Ohio »
John Horne Guitar Studio Quality guitar performance, guitar lessons and more.
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