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  Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Wilson, John (c. 1751 — 1839)
Burns obtained the inspiration for 'Death and Dr Hornbook' upon listening to Wilson airing his medical knowledge at a meeting of Tarbolton Masonic Lodge, of which Wilson was secretary from 1782 to 1787.
Wilson sought employment at a clerk of copyist in an Edinburgh office, possibly with the Excise.
Wilson abandoned his dreams of going to the Capital, and went instead to Glasgow, where he taught for a time in High Street.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/WilsonJohnc17511511839.900.shtml   (638 words)

  
 Wilson_John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Wilson's father was also called John Wilson and he lived at The How in Applethwaite where his son was born.
Before he took his final examinations Wilson had already gained a strong reputation and he had also attracted considerable attention by defending Waring, who was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, from strong attacks which had been made on him as a result of his text Miscellanea analytica.
Almost certainly Wilson's theorem was a guess made by him, based on the evidence of a number of special cases, which neither he nor Waring knew how to prove.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Wilson_John.html   (565 words)

  
 Romanticism On the Net 20 (November 2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson was an immensely popular writer, and the scene Emily Brontë describes of 'Aunt upstairs in her room...reading Blackwood's magazine to papa' (13) must have been repeated in thousands of British and North American homes every month.
Wilson has often been portrayed as a ruthless miscreant who enjoyed inflicting pain on his betters from behind a mask of anonymity, but his work had an enormous impact on both sides of the Atlantic, and he was praised by several of his leading contemporaries.
Wilson was also one of the few contemporary critics to write discerningly of Shelley, and at a time when other members of the Tory press were trying willfully to outdo one another in their abuse of the poet.
www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005951ar.html   (6399 words)

  
 Wilson, John (1785-1854). Novelist and poet.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson joined the literary circle of the publisher William Blackwood (1776-1834), and became friendly with John Gibson Lockhart and James Hogg.
Wilson probably managed to become something of an expert on the subject by the time he retired in 1851; certainly, his powers of oratory went down well with his students.
Wilson was one of Edinburgh's literary lions, though as so often happens with great critics, his own works, and his judgements, have proved much less durable than the works of some he honoured with his damning wit.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/john_wilson.html   (616 words)

  
 SLAINTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Wilson was born in 1785 in Paisley, and received his university education in Glasgow and Oxford before settling in Edinburgh, one of a circle of clever young Tory lawyers which included his close friend and collaborator Lockhart.
Wilson was woefully under-qualified, and there were superb candidates with the wrong politics - Wilson was given the Chair.
Oddly, it was a triumph in a way: Wilson turned out to be a public speaker of rare excellence, and his tenure of the Chair attracted generations of students to the subject.
www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/wilsodsw.htm   (474 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Johnny Wilson
Johnny Wilson, who has died aged 56, came from a long line of Scottish Borders shepherds; a true countryman, he was highly regarded among sheep people and a leading figure in sheep dog trials.
Born on December 27 1948, John Wilson was the son of a shepherd at Ashkirk, near Duns in Berwickshire.
Johnny Wilson always gave full credit to his dogs, and was very proud of the fact that he had bred and trained them all.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/10/15/db1503.xml   (600 words)

  
 John Wilson Scott I family
John's tombstone is a relatively new one (1970), and Nancy's is original- but some time recently it must have fallen over, because today the stone is flush with the ground and set in concrete.
John Wilson Scott I and family have not been found in the 1790 census, but Daniel Keith (Nancy's father) and his family were in 96 district, Pendleton county, S. in 1790.
Wilson was said in one source to have been a minister in the Christian church, but that source was a record that named four brothers as ministers- James, Martin, Andrew, and "Samuel Wilson".
www.bytesizesound.com /jws1/jws1.html   (3188 words)

  
 Romanticism On the Net 20 (November 2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson was elected Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University for purely political reasons and was author of several 'mawkish' novels.
Wilson was rarely interested in the political implications of his literary views but he, like Hogg, was temperamentally on the side of tradition.
Critics of Wilson claim that, evidently unqualified for the job, he was chosen only because of his avowed Tory principles and then had his lectures written for him by his friend Alexander Blair: a surprisingly naïve assessment of history.
www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2000/v/n20/005957ar.html   (1625 words)

  
 theater bibliog
In this time period, Sarah Siddons was recognized by her audiences as the queen of tragedy and her brother was considered to be a grand actor as well as a competent manager.
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera is widely regarded as the first of a new theatrical genre, the ballad opera.
Wilson discusses Beaumont's, Fletcher's, and Shakespeare's comedies and tragicomedies as they are drawn upon or recreated during the Restoration.
web.nwe.ufl.edu /~pcraddoc/biblio.html   (4922 words)

  
 SoundStage! - Wilson Audio Specialties Factory Tour (11/2001)
Wilson Audio has found that no one material is ideal for all uses, so a major part of the design process is determining which material to use for each element of a speaker.
Wilson has accelerated the process of burning in the drivers by hitting them with a series of tones for 12 hours, which equals a week of heavy playing.
Wilson Audio's visual standards are higher than those in the automotive industry, and the rationale for this made sense to me: cars move and speakers don't, so it's much easier to see any imperfections on speakers.
www.soundstagelive.com /factorytours/wilson   (2297 words)

  
 SoundStage! Equipment Review - Wilson Audio Specialties WATT/Puppy 7 Loudspeakers (12/2002)
This allowed David Wilson and crew to tune the bass enclosure for deeper and more linear bass that would be more consistent from room to room, which is always a worthy design goal for a loudspeaker.
Wilson Audio is well known for championing the use of advanced materials in its speaker cabinets, and the WATT/Puppy 7 is notable for a major change in this regard.
Wilson Audio claims that the new WATT cabinet is 37dB quieter than that of the series-6 WATT.
www.soundstage.com /revequip/wilson_watt_puppy7.htm   (2980 words)

  
 McKenzie Wark, on John K. Wilson's Myth of Political Correctness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All of the famous cases of alleged 'political correctness' on American campuses are studied in some detail by John K. Wilson in his useful and very readable new book, The Myth of Political Correctness, published by the reputable academic house of Duke University Press.
Wilson's book confirms something I wrote 4 years ago, at the height of the PC myth, in a column that ran along side Paul Johnson's character assassination of Stumhofer.
Wilson does not deny that there are examples of left-wing political correctness.
www.dmc.mq.edu.au /mwark/warchive/cv/columns/cv-oz-wilsonpc.html   (1173 words)

  
 The Literary Gothic | John Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A long-overdue discussion not only of Wilson's "extremes" but of his influence, farther reaching than many have suspected, on many of the more canonical figures of the Romantic and early Victorian periods: Percy Shelley, DeQuincey, the Brontës, and Browning, among others.
Included in the discussion of Wilson's significant impact on the tale of terror is a consideration of "Extracts from Gosschen's Diary," which Morrison identifies as "Wilson's most successful exploration of the psychology of perversion."
"John Wilson Conference (University of Glasgow) - A Report" by Philip Dundass and John Strachan.
www.litgothic.com /Authors/wilson.html   (258 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Wilson Croker (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John Wilson Croker (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Wilson Croker, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
John Wilson Croker[krO´kur] Pronunciation Key, 1780–1857, British Tory politician and author, b.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Croker-J.html   (194 words)

  
 John Wilson's Web page
R.J. Wilson and M.I. Richardson The Martian Atmosphere During the Viking Mission, 2: GCM Simulations of the 1977 Dust Storm Season.
R.J. Wilson and M.I. Richardson, 2000: The martian atmosphere during the Viking Mission,1: Infrared measurements of atmospheric temperatures revisited, Icarus, 145, 555-579.
G.P. Williams and R.J. Wilson, 1988: The Stability and Genesis of Rossby Vortices.
www.gfdl.noaa.gov /~rjw   (1162 words)

  
 Matt Combs's Genealogy Page - WILSON (Soundex W425)
WILSON was about thirty-five years of age, and leaves a young wife, and two small children, he having married several years ago, a Miss BENNINGTON, whose father was pastor of the Southern Methodist Church at Springfield.
WILSON had a stroke of paralysis and was extremely ill for several months.
Nathan WILSON, who was one of the oldest residents of this county, died on Saturday at his farm on the Baltimore pike, a few miles from this city.
home.triad.rr.com /combsfamily/wilson.html   (4013 words)

  
 CANSCAIP Member John Wilson
John Wilson was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 1986, John realized he wasn't travelling enough, so he sold his sports car, took a year's leave of absence and travelled around the world.
Unexpectedly, he also developed a love for the culture and history of that difficult and chaotic land and gained some small understanding of the sense of loss his parents had expressed so often when he was growing up.
www.canscaip.org /bios/wilsonjohn.html   (523 words)

  
 Featured works - John Wilson Room - Central Library - Multnomah County Library
The John Wilson Room owns an original autographed letter from Charles Dickens to a Miss Reynolds dated January 29, 1838.
On display, in blue wrappers, is one of the 19 parts from the John Wilson Room's complete set of the first edition (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849-1850), which contains the print made from the actual steel plate also on display.
This plate was later replaced by the author with a different image (that, uncommonly, also appears in the John Wilson Room's copy).
www.multcolib.org /about/mcl-wilsonfw.html   (688 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Spreading the word
What brings Powell to Boston again is an invitation to deliver the first Axelrod Lecture, funded by a grant from John Axelrod, an MFA overseer and a collector and champion of African-American art, the focus of this lecture series.
Wilson's 1972 fl crayon study for the sculpture "Eternal Presence" is a giant, iconic head that fills the paper top to bottom.
The variations of texture and touch that Wilson coaxes out of this simplest of media is powerful.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/10/15/spreading_the_word   (902 words)

  
 John Wilson Online
John Wilson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
John Wilson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Dialogue, Etching, 1974
All images and text on this John Wilson page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/wilson_john.html   (125 words)

  
 Wilson, John on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Q. Hammons Hotels Receives Four of Top Five Connie Awards from Embassy Suites Hotels; Brand Also Presents Six John Q. Hammons Hotels' Properties With Top Quality Awards and Names Patrick Wilson General Manager of...
The Wilson presidency, the U.S. Navy, and homeland defense.(Scholarship)
Nancy Wilson, Cameron Crowe and John Mellencamp arrive at the 2004 Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York City on Monday, March 15, 2004.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wilson-J1n.asp   (658 words)

  
 RollingStone.com: Brian Wilson : McCartney, John Join Wilson : News
Also included is a duet with late brother and fellow Beach Boy Carl Wilson on the song "Soul Searchin'," with Brian adding vocals to an existing track, to complete the tune.
In February, Wilson took to a London stage to perform the lost Beach Boys album Smile in its entirety.
Wilson will be honored with the BMI Icon award on May 11th at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
www.rollingstone.com /news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19615   (263 words)

  
 Sri Lankan Attorneys-at-Law, Notaries Public, Trademark and Patent Attorneys JOHN WILSON PARTNERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Founded in 1920 by the late Senator John Wilson, the Firm is an established legal practice in Sri Lanka, providing service in the areas of civil litigation, commercial law and notarial practice to corporations, financial institutions and individuals.
John Wilson Partners does not accept liability that might arise as a result of reliance on the contents of this web site.
Copyright © 2001, 2002 and 2003 John Wilson and John Wilson (Jr.) practicing in partnership under the name style and firm of 'John Wilson Partners'.
www.srilankalaw.com   (125 words)

  
 John Wilson - Faculty in MSU Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
John Wilson - Faculty in MSU Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Sui, D., and Wilson, J.E. (2001) Purification of the Type II and Type III isozymes of rat hexokinase, expressed in yeast.
Sebastian, S., Edassery, S., and Wilson, J.E. (2001) The human gene for the Type III isozyme of hexokinase: Structure, basal promoter, and evolution.
www.bch.msu.edu /faculty/wilson.htm   (411 words)

  
 WILSON, John A.
WILSON, John A. - The best husband, father, Papa and friend anyone could have.
A native of San Francisco, John passed away August 18, 2004 at Stanford Univ. Hospital; age 68.
Donations in John's memory may be made to the Lung Transplant Fund at Stanford Hospital or the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis, 1685 Branham Lane, Ste.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/22/MNWILSONJO12.DTL   (128 words)

  
 Lineage of Gov. John Sevier
John Sevier was among the foremost in the defense of the
A son of John and Sidney Redding, Isaac Reddin, was born in Franklin County, Georgia in 1792.
John, Valentine, Valentine, Don DE XAVIER) was born Jan 6, 1900.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/4200/sevier.htm   (10230 words)

  
 John Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Wilson was born in Scotland and worked as a research geologist there, in Zimbabwe, and in Alberta.
A fulltime freelance writer since 1989, John has published hundreds of feature articles, essays, poems, book reviews and stories.
John now also writes young adult non-fiction and adult fiction.
www.writersunion.ca /w/wilson_j.htm   (99 words)

  
 How the Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People by John K. Wilson
At the level of high-priced "star" journalism-the John McLaughlins, the George Wills, the David Brinkleys, the Ted Koppels-no one believes that the conservatives are suffering.
There is no liberal counterpart to John McLaughlin or William F. Buckley with a weekly program on PBS, nor a left-wing news network to counter the explicitly conservative Fox News Network, nor a leftist critiquing society with the freedom that John Stossel of 20/20 has on ABC.
All that extra money (about $1 trillion per decade) could be used for debt reduction and investment in education to increase the long-term military security of the United States.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Political_Reform/HowLeftCanWinArguments.html   (7872 words)

  
 Corporate gifts and promotional products UK and Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Wilson Advertising supplies corporate gifts and promotional products throughout the UK and Ireland.
Throughout the year we have special offers on certain products, these can be seen by clicking on business corporate gifts special offers.
If your questions are not answered here try our promotional merchandise FAQ page or feel free to contact John Wilson Advertising.
www.promotionalitemsni.com   (189 words)

  
 ANGLO-ISRAELISM; BRITISH ISRAELISM; WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
However, it was not until 1840 that John Wilson published "Lectures on our Israelitish Origin" and first proclaimed that the British people were the actual genetic descendants of God's chosen people.
In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Parham and John Allen were the main teachers of British-Israelism in the United States.
Parham later went on to be a major influence in the Pentecostal movement.
www.religioustolerance.org /anglo_is.htm   (454 words)

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