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...riteria of the Antisocial Personality Disorder). But perhaps the most intriguing portraits are those of the victims. Marge insists, in the face o... ... all the same. Consider the James bond movies. They constitute a decades-spanning gallery of human paranoia. Villains change: communists, neo-Nazi... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ...set or the liberating sensation of open spaces. "Green" accounting - adjusting the national accounts to reflect environmental data - is still in it... ...nt manufacture should be tweaked; cap and trade (or tax) schemes implemented on the national, corporate, and individual levels; weather-resistant, ...
...im by his mother, led him also to the study of the Ma- donna. Much of this portrait work has the characteristic of be- ing done in groups, where not o... ...ange of circumstances rendered him despondent. His last great workand best portrait is ' 'The Bur- gomaster. " In paintings of 'h^ own home he was alw... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ...which arethe "HolyFamily"and tlie"Madotiinulel Cardellino. " Be- sides the portrait of Pope Leo X. there is a throe-quarter picture of Pope Julius II,... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, ^50,000 Surplus and Net Profits, 15,000 Usual bankin... ...y true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in the New Hebrides as early as... ...sts, Over one hun- dred and fifty couples danoed, but the onlookers in the gallery were not so numerous as usual. An in- formal tea was given at 5.00 ... ...ropes also stretched from the track to this center. At the east end of the gallery was a commodious oozy corner. The instructor's and man- agers' offi...
...ountry. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the Record. The ...
...ls by the author—interpretations of work by da Vinci. Leonardo’s self-portrait ............................... 225 Rendering of Leonardo’s signa... ...er for fifteen years, he handles chiaroscuro like a master: he is best as portraitist. No woman-chaser, he is dedicated to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Fre... ...r hours a night. There were too many plans, sketches, paintings, bronzes, portraits, models, commissions...three or four hours...that was enough... ... ...jor pieces. I study and admire the King’s Bataille tapestries. My private gallery. My autumn sun, as well. Sometimes Francesco makes the gallery a g... ...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici... ...one’s intellect, guard one’s health. It is also an opportunity to perfect national and international law. Cer- tainly, freedom should not be a code b... ...g room, I face away from it. Carpenter says he will take the picture on a national tour. I believe that is an error. Monday evening Fireplace fir... ...difficult bridge between home and capitol. Crossing it, he is involved in national issues and problems he could not anticipate. About him is a sea o...
... He thought of the large marble mausoleum with “LEE” carved over the lintel, a head portrait of Robert E. Lee in bas relief above it. “I doubt Samm... ...he’d become less interested in lovers. Clay obviously had, also, since his trips to national media or political events hadn’t stretched on for weeks... ...l toward an ornamental pond, a gazebo and acres of azaleas that would rival Augusta National come April. Guy put a hand on her shoulder, squeezing a... ...Georgia, where the wind always blows — hot as a sirocco in summer, and cutting as a Scottish blow-hard in winter.” She breathed in heavily. “Royce... ...ace?” “Yes. Sir. She was there a lot.” A cry went up and Jack whirled toward the gallery. A young black woman had jumped up. “I object.” It w... ...ped her off at the big house. The hell with changing clothes. She ducked into the gallery off the great hall and hid the purloined documents under... ... ***** “They want that codicil,” Laura Kate said, as they walked through the gallery, past ancestral portraits — some excellent paintings, mo... ... that codicil,” Laura Kate said, as they walked through the gallery, past ancestral portraits — some excellent paintings, most not. She stroked Blac...
...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The... ... biology and the human genome was supported in part by a CEER grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy (P5... ... appropriate culture to be produced this year, or turning the entire path of national innovation policy over to the government, intellectual property ... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ... Copyright holders could always lock up the book or restrict entrance to the gallery. In any event, while fair use of DVDs might be cur- tailed, he ar... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ... if the deal was presented to you personally. You hired an artist to paint a portrait. You offered $500. He agreed. You had a deal. He painted the pai...
...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... .... Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out last May in favor of... ...al Drugs" discovered immense variations in the prices of medicines among different national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences wer... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ...chines althesame. The series of James bond movies constitutes a decades- spanning gallery of human paranoia. Villains change: communists, neo-Nazi... ...icalized. What is the difference between a two dimensional representation of Kant (portrait), a three dimensional representation of the philosopher...
...tevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a p... ... or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the P... ...................................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE TH... ...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ...E WORDS WILL BE familiar to all students of Skelt’s Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to R... ...reischutz long ere I was to hear of Weber or the mighty Formes; acquired a gallery of scenes and characters with which, in the silent theatre of the b...
...f England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking ...
...ity, Balzac was actually a very good-looking boy and young man, though the portraits of him in later life may not satisfy the more romantic expec- tat... ...anhood either exactly handsome or exactly “distinguished-looking.” But the portraits of the middle of the century are, as a rule, rather wanting in th... ...on Balzac was a typical Frenchman, as indeed he was in most ways. From his portraits there would seem to have been more force and address than distinc... ...It was by discerning this lack of unity, which in no way detracts from the Scottish writer’s greatness, that I perceived at once the scheme which woul... ...een but one religion since the world began). Chris- tianity created modern nationalities, and it will preserve them. Hence, no doubt, the necessity fo... ...importance which historians have hitherto ascribed to the events of public national life. The unknown struggle which goes on in a valley of the Indre ... ...titude of lives, needed a setting—if I may be par- doned the expression, a gallery. Hence the very natural divi- sion, as already known, into the Scen...
...is upon trial for his life, and these are some of the curious for whom the gallery was found too narrow. T owards afternoon, if the prisoner is unpopu... ...e space. The Parliament Close has been the scene of marking inci- dents in Scottish history. Thus, when the Bishops were ejected from the Convention i... ...it was here that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would hav... ...their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would have said, ready for riot- 16 EDINGBURGH PIC... ...nth century, going to pass his trials (examinations as we now say) for the Scottish Bar, beheld the Parliament Close open and had a vision of the mout... ...swing doors gives admittance to a hall with a carved roof, hung with legal portraits, adorned with legal statuary, lighted by windows of painted glass... ...otch is now banished from the bench; but the courts still retain a certain national flavour. We have a solemn enjoyable way of lingering on a case. We... ... which has earned for her so many slighting speeches. It was meant to be a National Monument; and its present state is a very suitable monument to cer... ...net and swiftly writ- ing books, so a city sends abroad an influence and a portrait of herself. There is no Edinburgh emigrant, far or near, from Chin...
...hich a heroine of romance is supposed to have a prescriptive right. If the portrait was received with interest by the public, I am conscious how much ... ...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ..., and those which followed it. But I have always studied to generalize the portraits, so that they should still seem, on the whole, the productions of... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ... worthy gentleman’s reputation for shrewd Scottish sense, knowledge of our national antiquities, and a racy humour peculiar to himself, must be still ... ...n of foreign countries. He it is who has conferred a new reputation on our national character, and bestowed on Scotland an imperishable name, were it ... ...ttle honourable to Scotland. The toast (said he) is also flattering to the national vanity of a Scotchman, as the lady whom I intend to propose is a n... ... and accomplished his task? I persuaded myself the whole was so complete a portrait of the man, that it would not have been a more undutiful act to ha...
...this fear,—all the more because an account of them will complete the moral portrait of the man. The old Marquis de Simeuse transferred the greater par... ...hu’s father was then president. The fine domain of Gondreville was sold as national property. The head-keeper, to the horror of many, was present at t... ...e I bought it I was looking for a place to put my money, and I invested in national property as the best security. But it doesn’t suit me to keep an e... ...used of corresponding with the nation’s enemies, and delivered them to the national guards who took them to prison, the crowd shouted, “Now for the Ci... ...storm, and dreamed only of distinguishing herself. So, she boldly hung the portrait of Charlotte Corday on the walls of her poor salon at Cinq-Cygne, ... ...will serve to make Laurence un- derstood if, to the noble qualities of the Scottish huntress you add the restrained exaltation of Charlotte Corday, su... ...ack without a word. 44 An Historical Mystery CHAPTER V ROYALIST HOMES AND PORTRAITS UNDER THE CONSULATE AT THE MOMENT when Marthe, driven by the immi... ...e judges and against the wall above the entrance, there is always a shabby gallery reserved for officials and for women, to which admittance is grante...
... and delight. And I have only now, in passport wise, to sketch my reader’s portrait, which I hope may be thus supposititiously traced for either sex: ... ... awfully shading their warlike eyes, and very big sticks clenched in their National grasp. Also the Malle Poste, with only a couple of passen gers, t... ... old chairs, ghostly tables, saints, virgins, angels, and staring daubs of portraits, being exposed for sale beneath, it was very quaint and lively. A... ...way, lustily, and a full band did the like; while a conductor, in a little gallery opposite to the band, hammered away on the desk before him, with a ... ... as much nicety as on a billiard table. But the most favourite game is the national one of Mora, which they pur sue with surprising ardour, and at wh... ...e of Goldoni’ s comedies, the staple of the Drama is French. Anything like nationality is dangerous to despotic gov ernments, and Jesuit beleaguered ... ..., just where the roofs begin, a solitary convent parapet, fashioned like a gallery, with an iron across at the end, where sometimes early in the morn ... ... the functionary in broken English: while the unfortunate man’s face was a portrait of mental agony framed in the coach window, from his perfect ignor... ...becoming bleaker and wilder, until it be came as bare and desolate as any Scottish moors. Soon after dark, we halted for the night, at the osteria of...
...nd the expan- sion of horror attending them, had risen to the dignity of a national interest. I may add that this interest benefited also by the myste... ...ontier), and still more when it is fought simply as a gladiator’s trial of national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our Br... ...ren of Israel. In the case of one memorable outrage by a Hebrew tribe, the national ven- geance which overtook it was complete and tearful beyond all ... ...n all reflec- tive readers’ thoughts—namely, does there anywhere survive a portrait of Kate? I answer—and it would be both mortify- ing and perplexing... ...it would be both mortify- ing and perplexing if I could not—Ye s. One such portrait there is confessedly; and seven years ago this was to be found at ... ...stances of a case so extraordinary, it will occur that beyond a doubt many portraits of the adventurous nun must have been ex- 17 Thomas de Quincey e... ..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near...
...such evi dence alone. Each ward in this institution is shaped like a long gallery or hall, with the dormitories of the patients opening from it on ei... ...s of cells, one above the other; each tier having be fore it a light iron gallery, attainable by stairs of the same construction and material: except... ...s there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We hav... ...of obtaining it, I suppose?’ ‘Well, I don’t know:’ which, by the bye, is a national answer. ‘Her friends mistrust her.’ ‘What have they to do with it... ...pic tures by the dozen: of partings between sailors and their lady loves, portraits of William, of the ballad, and his Black Eyed Susan; of Will Watc... ...here is a very characteristic and American Notes – Dickens 105 life like portrait by Mr. Sully, a distinguished American artist. My stay in Philadel... ...heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about the bases of the marble columns. But in s... ...ry strong with their green scarves; carrying their national Harp and their Portrait of Father Mathew, high above the people’s heads. They looked as jo... ... interest. I felt little of that sense of freedom and exhilaration which a Scottish heath in spires, or even our English downs awaken. It was lonely ...
...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...g these ancient authorities, I must not forget the more modern sketch of a Scottish soldier of the old fashion, by a masterhand, in the character of L... ...ssess- ing many and powerful friends even north of the Forth and T ay,—the Scottish Convention of Estates saw no danger suf- ficient to induce them to... ... Charles and his subjects of Scotland had been carefully observed; but the Scottish rulers were well aware that this peace had been ex- torted from th... ...ong liquors. Their landlord ushered them in person to a sort of sleep- ing gallery, in which there was a four-post bed, with tartan curtains, and a nu... ...rom a contented people,—after all this, and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally ... ...inion even of his external form, more enthusiastically favourable than the portraits which still survive would entitle us to ascribe to it. Such, at l... ...f Captain Dalgetty, was a long gallery, decorated with tapestry and family portraits, and having a vaulted ceiling of open wood-work, the extreme proj...
...elp her,’ would Mrs. Rachel continue, fix- ing her eyes upon the heroine’s portrait as she spoke, ‘full dearly did she purchase the safety of her prin... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...em- blance between the round, smooth, red-checked, staring vis- age in the portrait, and the gaunt, bearded, hollow-eyed, swar- thy features, which tr... ...the room in silent indigna- tion, and at length fixing his eye upon an old portrait, whose person was clad in armour, and whose features glared grimly... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ...
...e only thing we could save from a wreck off the Spurn,” said her husband. “Scottish as I take it. The rogues seem to have taken to their boats, leavin... ...owever, it enabled him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all di... ... I would not desire to be a shipwrecked man in these parts, and if I had a Scottish or a French tongue in my head so much the worse for me.” “Ah, Mast... ...d under the broad staircase that led to the upper rooms, which opened on a gallery running round three sides of the hall. Outside, on the southern sid... ...onducted from the hall up the broad staircase, and along the great western gallery to the south front, where for many days her properties had been in ... ...ke all their families, except one black-a-vised T albot grandmother, whose portrait had been discovered on a pedigree. Much did Susan marvel what impr... ...visit town, and above all such travellers as these, bringing news of grand national achievements. V ery soon after Gilbert’s accession to the heirship... ...prudence and absurdity 248 Unknown To History of having portraits taken of six assassins before the blow was struck seemed to contr... ...o aid him in the enterprise, and then what must they do but have all their portraits taken in one picture with a Latin motto around them. What! Thou h...
...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ...ispered hope and cheer; Her faltering steps half led, half stayed, Through gallery fair and high arcade, Till at his touch its wings of pride A portal... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ...ty (in 1542), 134 The Lady of the Lake this is not strictly true, but the portrait in other respects is quite accurate. He was fond of going about di... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and...
...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...royes, the victim of his devotion to the Simeuse family, whose full-length portrait always hung in her salon, whether in Paris or at Cinq-Cygne. Until... ... A painter could scarcely have found a better moment in which to seize the portrait of a man who, in his way, was truly extraordinary. Does it not req... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... ...ther pretty speculation—with the rest of the money he bought stock in the ‘National,’ where I meet him every time I want to have a laugh over the repu... ...e contrary, thinks him ugly, which is undeniable; he says he resembles the portraits of Danton which he has seen in the illustrated histories of the R... ... heard amid the hubbub,— that of a pretty little blonde, saying to a small Scottish youth with whom she had danced the whole evening,— “How odd of Nai... ...is to invite little boys of that age!” “That’s easily explained,” said the Scottish youth; “he’s a boy of the Treasury department. Nais had to ask him... ...d that he was, Ernest pounced upon the note and took possession of it. The Scottish youth, furious, flung himself upon the treacherous French boy; on ...
...rt the Bruce and of his son David. He was one of the chief of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The... ...Spain, and was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Holy Land with such Scottish knights as had escaped the fate of their leader and assisted for s... ..., and the Saracen matron testified so much haste to recover it as gave the Scottish knight a high idea of its value, when compared with gold or silver... ...imes put to shame those who owned a better religion. Their truces, whether national or betwixt individuals, were faithfully observed; and thus it was ... ...his own exertions. The countenance of the Saracen naturally bore a general national resemblance to the Eastern tribe from whom he descended, and was a... ...ristians, as well as Moslemah, had private feelings of personal pique, and national quarrels, which were not entirely reconcilable. But the Saracens w... ..., is our only place of refuge for the night. You are the leopard, from the portrait on your shield; I am the lion, as my name imports; and by the goat... ...e combatants were expected to meet in mid encounter. Opposed to this was a gallery with closed casements, so contrived that the ladies, for whose ac- ... ...e Queen, with Edith and her attendants, to pass from the pa- vilion to the gallery intended for them. Fifty guards of Saladin’s seraglio escorted them...