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Newton had been examined by the Duke of Newcastle about the 40,000 louis d'or buried at Loch Arkaig in 1740, but had given no information. On June 26 Charles again asks Bulkeley, 'What CAN a bird do that has found no right nest? On June 30 the Prince was probably in Paris, whither we have seen that he meant to go. He had 'found a right nest, and a very curious nest he had found.
They used to try 'em all, big and little, wild and domesticated, mammals and invertebrates." "Oh, come!" exclaimed Tutt. "I may not know much law, but " "Between 1120 and 1740 they prosecuted in France alone no less than ninety-two animals. The last one was a cow." "A cow hasn't much intelligence," observed Tutt. "And they tried fleas," added Mr. Tutt.
Between 1740 and 1780 certain romantic influences were at work in opposition to the teaching of the great classical writer, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who was almost the literary dictator of the age. The best short definition of romanticism is that of Victor Hugo, who calls it "liberalism in literature." This has the merit of covering all kinds of romantic movements.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hambright was born in Germany in 1727, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1740, and after remaining there a short time removed to Virginia about 1755, where he married Sarah Hardin, with whom he lived happily until her death during the Revolution.
Edward lived till 1740, leaving a son; Frances married one Welsted, or Welstead, and died in 1724. Her daughter died two years later. Before the end of the eighteenth century the line of Purcell's descendants seems to have terminated. In 1682 Purcell became an organist of the Chapel Royal, whilst remaining organist of Westminster Abbey.
In 1740 we find him assisting Frederick the Great to get up a refutation of Machiavelli; again, he is appointed historiographer of France, Gentleman of the Bed-chamber, and Member of the Academy; then he accepts an invitation to reside at the Court of Prussia, where he soon quarrels with the king.
The inscription adds that Fielding "hunted from East Stour Farm in 1718." He would then be eleven years old! From the hitherto unpublished original, in the library of Alfred Huth, Esq. "Cro: Eliz." is the legal abbreviation for Justice Croke's law reports for the reign of Elizabeth. Champion, February 26, 1740. The Tryal of Colley Cibber, Comedian etc. 1740. Those of April 22, and April 29, 1740.
From references to Walter in the Champion for May 31, 1740, as well as in the Essay on Conversation, it is clear that Fielding knew him personally, and disliked him. He may, indeed, have been among those county magnates whose criticism was so objectionable to Captain Booth during his brief residence in Dorsetshire. Parson Trulliber, also, according to Murphy, was Fielding's first tutor Mr.
It should be remembered that when this essay was first printed, Stevenson was only twenty-four years old. The appreciation of nature is a quite modern taste, for although people have always loved the scenery which reminds them of home, it was not at all fashionable in England to love nature for its own sake before 1740. "For, don't you mark?
For the river trade the Piedmont planter once again relied upon his ingenuity. Around 1740 a rather unique water carrier was perfected by the Reverend Robert Rose, then living in Albemarle County. Two canoes fifty or sixty feet long were lashed together with cords and eight or nine hogsheads of tobacco were rolled on their gunwales crossways for the trip to Richmond.
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