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  John Milton - LoveToKnow Watches
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674), English poet, was born in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, on the 9th of December 1608.
According to the poet's earliest biographer, John Milton senior was disinherited in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign for reading the Bible.
John Phillips, the younger of them, only nine years old, had boarded with him in the St Bride's Churchyard lodgings; and, after the removal to Aldersgate Street, the other brother, Edward Phillips, only a year older, became his boarder also.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: John Silence, Physician Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood
Silence was a free-lance, though, among doctors, having neither consulting-room, bookkeeper, nor professional manner.
Thus it was that John Silence, this singularly developed doctor, was able to select his cases with a clear knowledge of the difference between mere hysterical delusion and the kind of psychical affliction that claimed his special powers.
John Silence leaned forward a moment and took the speaker's hand and held it in his own for a few brief seconds, closing his eyes as he did so.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Life of St. John the Almsgiver
For John's father, Epiphanius* (=Conspicuous) by name, did so many 'conspicuous' and remarkable things in his life in accordance, we may say, with his name that he was chosen by the rulers of that time to be entrusted with the reins of government in the island of the Cyprians.
John once received relics from Jerusalem of Stephen, the first martyr, and of James the brother of our Lord; so he built a chapel in the name of this first great martyr and having made a list of all his belongings he generously dedicated them to this chapel.
John, the all-holy Patriarch (Papas), when he had arrived at Constantia paid reverent worship to the relics of the saints there, namely, Barnabas, the all-praiseworthy apostle, and Epiphanius, the great miracle-worker, and afterwards went on to Amathus and it was from there that he departed to be with his beloved Lord.
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 John Milton
John Milton, the English poet, was born in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, on the 9th of December 1608.
The delay in the publication of the poem may be explained partly by the fact that the official licenser hesitated before granting the necessary imprimatur to a book by a man of such notorious republican antecedents, and partly by the paralysis of all business in London by the Great Fire of September 1666.
A very interesting folio volume, published in 1743 by "John Nickolls, junior", under the title of Original Letters and Papers of State addressed to Oliver Cromwell, consists of a number of intimate Cromwellian documents that had somehow come into Milton's possession immediately after Cromwell's death, and were left by him confidentially to the Quaker Ellwood.
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 BBC NEWS | Magazine | Alien thinking
Professor John E Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner whose clinical work had focused on explorations of dreams, nightmares and adolescent suicide.
John Mack is a nutcase just like all the other alien abductees.
John Mack may have dressed his theories up in academic terms, he may even have been highly intelligent, when it comes down to it however, he was a loony, as is anyone that really believes they were abducted.
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 George John Romanes Family
Reverend George Romanes and Professor George John Romanes, father and son, may not now seem extraordinary men in the light of present day religious philosophy and scientific accomplishments, but in their day they were exceptional, and gave much to the academic life of Canada and Britain.
John, and Hannah Armstrong, the eldest daughter of Walter Armstrong, were married at Elmsley by the Rev. George on November 19th, 1839, in the presence of Robert Romanes of Elmsley, yeoman, and George Graham of Kitley, by authority of a licence from the Lieut.
It is interesting to examine a census sheet from Kent, England, of 1864, recording John Romanes, and his wife Hannah, (nee Armstrong, born in Canada) their son Walter born in Canada, a civil engineer pupil, two daughters born in Canada, four daughters born in Scotland, and one born in Land Lee, England.
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 WashingtonPost.com: John Wayne: American
In the 1950s John Wayne remarked to a Hollywood reporter that he was "just a Scotch-Irish little boy." In the ancient past, the Morrison clan had originated on the island of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, off the coast of Scotland.
Unfortunately for John Wayne, however, it would be possible to be raised in a midwestern culture of confidence and optimism but in a home full of insecurity and self-doubt.
John Wayne remembered a warning she gave to Clyde: "One of these days, mark my words, I'm just going to pack and go back to Des Moines." As usual Clyde saw a sliver of hope.
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 Western North Carolina: A History, Chapter XII
William Hall and John Dickey were tried with Hall as accessories before the fact, and all were convicted of murder at the spring term of the Superior court of Cherokee county in 1893.
John Martin became the purchaser of this land, which is in a neighborhood called Ebenezer, and is within three or four miles of the tavern at Craytonville.
Fannie Marshall, a second cousin of John C. Calhoun, told her and her husband what lie had learned from the Anderson Hankses: and in 1866 Gen. Armistead Burt, under the seal of an inviolable secrecy, told what he knew to a group of lawyers all of whom were his friends.
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 Bibliography: XII. Fiction. Van Vechten, Carl. 1922. The Tiger in the House
John Mortonson’s Funeral, P. 252, is a cat story.
Bierce, Ambrose: Fantastic Fables; G. Putnam’s Sons; New York; 1899; The Cat and the King, P. 27; The Cat and the Youth, P. 159; The Cat and the Birds, P. Blackwood, Algernon: The Empty Sleeve; The London Magazine; January 1911; P. Blackwood, Algernon: John Silence: Physician Extraordinary; John W. Luce and Co.; Boston; 1909.
Seton, Ernest Thompson: Animal Heroes: being the histories of a cat, a dog, a pigeon, a lynx, two wolves, and a reindeer and in elucidation of the same over two hundred drawings by the author; the designs for cover, title-page, and general makeup by Grace Gallatin Seton; Charles Scribner’s Sons; New York; 1905.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | What good friends left behind
In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities "committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United States and its coalition partners after the Taliban fell in 2001" and who have "essentially hijacked the country".
A physician who refused to deny treatment to women during the Taliban years, Samar is a true symbol of resistance, whose appropriation by the unctuous Bush was short-lived.
She says that the current silence in the west over the atrocious nature of the western-backed warlord regime is no different.
www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/story/0,1284,1044925,00.html   (3761 words)

  
 The Vampyre, by John Polidori
In the meantime the guardians and physician, who had heard the whole, and thought this was but a return of his disorder, entered, and forcing him from Miss Aubrey, desired her to leave him.
The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage (in spite of her brother's deranged state), which was to take place the very day before his departure for the continent.
Aubrey, when he was left by the physician and his guardians, attempted to bribe the servants, but in vain.
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 Autobiography of John L. Dagg
When grown to manhood John was a ship-carpenter at Bristol and Robert was captain of a trading vessel which sailed from that port.
The other two, John and Robert, were left orphans in their boyhood by the death of both their parents.
The physician did not advise any cessation of my pulpit labors; and I continued to preach until my voice so failed in the pulpit while I was preaching one cold Sabbath morning, I think in April, 1834, that I was scarcely able to speak loud enough to be heard for many weeks afterwards.
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 Diet and Health: John Wesley - Church Silence Promotes Violence - to humans, to animals, to our environment, to our ...
The only major exceptions to this silence, that we are aware of, have been the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the non-affiliated ministry of George H. Malkmus who founded Hallelujah Acres.
By 'extraordinary strictnesses and severities,' I presume your Lordship means the abstaining from wine and animal food; which, it is sure, Christianity does not require.
Both John Wesley and his physician knew that the eating of animals and their by-products (eggs and dairy) was injurious to health.
www.all-creatures.org /cspv/health-wesley.html   (706 words)

  
 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 20
The book of the Scriptures from which he read the Gospel of John to the dying prior was laid on the altar at Durham in the 13th century on Saint Cuthbert's feast.
After John was professed and ordained as a Franciscan, he taught theology at Bologna and Naples.
The entry in the Roman Martyrology is for John, Sergius, and companions--a group of 20 monks of the laura of Saint Sabas near Jerusalem, who were killed in one of the anti- Christian Arab raids.
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 Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN
0659639212: John Sevier as a commonwealth-builder; a sequel to The rearguard of the revolution
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John Sherman, secretary of the Treasury of the United States
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 Recovering: Chapter 1
The point of saying that man should feel a responsibility to provide for woman is not that the woman should not assist in maintaining support for the family or for society in general.
She always has done this historically because so much of the domestic life required extraordinary labors on her part just to maintain the life of the family.
It is not nonsense to say that a woman who believes she should guide a man into new behavior should do that in a way that signals her support of his leadership.
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 John & Belle Have A Blog: Dead Right
John Holbo from John and Belle Have a Blog has a sequel to his earlier post on David Frum.
I haven't read anything by Frum, but if John's massive attack on the guy's writings is at all accurate, then the very last thing guiding his "philosophy" is natural law, as traditionally understood.
John's second post, addressed to me and baa, is too indefinite to comment upon, really.
examinedlife.typepad.com /johnbelle/2003/11/dead_right.html   (15587 words)

  
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John Osborn, a physician from Spokane, Wash., had a special reason for standing in front of the James J. Hill House on Summit Av.
To ensure that this extraordinary about-face from decades of public lands management is not promptly thrown out by the courts, due process is also suspended.
John Roberts, forest resource manager for the state department of lands, agrees that the company and the state didn't do everything they could to leave more dead trees on logged land.
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 QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands, by John Lothrop Motley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
These quotations were collected from John Lothrop Motley's nine volumes of The History of the Netherlands by David Widger while preparing etexts for Project Gutenberg.
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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 john-joan
John had suffered a burn to his penis.
John, with a catheter where his penis used to be remained in the hospital for the next several weeks,
John Money was one of those folks who, years ago, before this was even talked about, was
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 St. Chrysostum, Homilies on Genesis
For this reason, you see, the loving Lord from on high, in forming human beings right from the be ginning, implanted conscience in them as a tireless accuser, proof against dissuasion and deception at ally time.
Like a skillful physician it does not cease from applying its remedies; and should it find itself rebuffed, it does not take no for an answer but continues its ministrations unremittingly.
This, after all, is its role, to make memory proof against dissuasion and not permit us to lay our sins to rest but keep them in focus so that even by this means it may make us reluctant to fall into the same ones again.
www3.iath.virginia.edu /anderson/commentaries/ChrGen.html   (13438 words)

  
 Ghost Story Writers
John Berwick Harwood contributed many (usually anonymous) stories and articles, some of them about his experiences in China, to Blackwoods and the Cornhill Magazine.
John Cecil Moore was one of Britain's most popular and successful country writers with novels such as Portrait of Elmbury (1945) and Brensham Village (1946).
Dinah Maria Mulock was a prolific writer of novels, fairy tales, essays poems and short stories and is perhaps best remembered for her novel John Halifax — Gentleman (1856).
www.jb.man.ac.uk /~agg/ghosts   (4170 words)

  
 Nesheim Online
So far, he has had enthusiastic reception from a world-class VC and also from an experienced venture law firm, but he is frustrated at how slow the VCs have been in getting to an offer (term sheet).
The leader will emerge when that company decides to focus on doing something extraordinary and then creates proprietary names for the otherwise general words that are claims to fame, such as special features, outstanding benefits to customers, and so on.
And they know the price of people who are locals that can launch your products with success in local markets as well as produce them at a fraction of what it costs in other countries.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary [MultiFormat] by Algernon Blackwood
John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things.
That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines
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 Algernon Blackwood
Sent away to Canada at the age of twenty, his attempts at making a living were wholly unsuccessful and shortly after his return to England, he began to write.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, published in 1906, was followed by a series of psychic detective stories, featuring John Silence, 'physician extraordinary'.
His reputation as one of the greatest exponents of supernatural fiction began to grow.Chiefly known for his ghost stories, Blackwood wrote in many different forms within the genre.
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 Chapter 3
The answer is ready; the serpent was not eloquent by nature, but when Satan, by divine permission, procured it as a fit instrument for his use, he uttered words also by its tongue, which God himself permitted.
Nor do I doubt that Eve perceived it to be extraordinary, and on that account received with the greater avidity what she admired.
But I rather incline to a different conjecture, namely, that being covered with their garment, they passed the night in silence and quiet, the darkness aiding their hypocrisy; then, about sunrise, being again thoroughly awakened, they recollected themselves.
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 John Derbyshire on National Review Online
It was the same with John Rocker a year or two back, when he uttered — sorry, "spouted" — his opinion of the kinds of people one was liable to find oneself sitting next to on the New York subway.
If you desire a man to change a piece of silver, he informs you wherein the Son differs from the Father...
and if you inquire whether the bath is ready, the answer is, that the Son was made out of nothing." Gibbon, of course, could not let that pass without a skeptical footnote on Gregory: "Every physician is prone to exaggerate the inveterate nature of the disease which he has cured," sniffs the historian.
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