The figurehead for Britain's campaign to leave the EU, Johnson again urged the government to be confident over Brexit, saying the "direful predictions" for the economy before the 2016 referendum had not turned out to be true.
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In the society's early days, Weiss used his easy access to White House stationery, "an instrument so potent that it could be used in only the most direful circumstances," to wage "letterhead coups" with stunning effectiveness on more than one occasion, securing $10,0073 for an NSA auto-programmable minicomputer here and a million bucks to fund a Civil Technologies program there.
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In 1914, Kautsky published an article on imperialism which subsequently was translated into English and published in the United States. In these, he argued there could be a way out of direful wars among the imperialist powers, a solution now named ultra-imperialism or super-imperialism.Karl Kautsky, Der Imperialismus, in: Die Neue Zeit. 32 (1914), Vol.
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He answered by claiming it was the principles and tenets of Freemasonry that helped Reconstruction to be as successful as it finally turned out to be. In this reply, he said: "... I feel again justified in referring to our beloved institution, by saying that to Freemasonry the people of the country are indebted for many mitigations of the suffering caused by the direful passions of war."Freemasonry in the Civil War .
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He was educated in Bartlett's Academy, near New Castle, Pennsylvania. At the age of 18 he began keeping a diary which bears witness to a religiosity which would remain deeply interwoven with his educational philosophy throughout his career. "Saved" during a serious illness at fourteen, he continued to struggle with his "direful condition" in a search for salvation. He visited the sick and dying and attended the dead.
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In some cases he was "conciliated by ceremonies and invocations". Nonetheless, the devil often plays "some slippery trick". Irving records that "Some would dig so far as to come to an iron chest" only to fall victim to some "baffling circumstance", as when "the earth would fall in" or "some direful noise or apparition would frighten the party from the place". ;A rusted pistol The remainder of the story provides a bridge to the next story, "The Devil and Tom Walker".
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"Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was first published in 1921 according to LibrivoxPoetry, October 1921 and is therefore in the public domain. One reading is that the poem expresses Stevens's distrust of the reason of doleful philosophersThe 1913 Webster defines "funest" as "lamentable, doleful" and refers to Coleridge: "Funest and direful deaths." and "gloomy grammarians", which creates a layer of obfuscation or "clouds" that occludes the illumination of imagination, "the sun and moon". The clouds may be those of Aristophanes' play, The Clouds, which ridiculed Socrates and the intellectual fashions of the time.
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The dreadful pestilence doth now begin To shed its venom in thy chiefest seat— Denouncing judgment for thy heinous sin Except repentance, Mercy do entreat. And lest this punishment should seem too small, Behold, another stroke doth wound they head: Renownéd James, that was admired of all For learnéd skill, thy king of peace, is dead. —Whose gentle nature, though it did decline The sad aspect of war’s most direful look. In future ages shall his valor shine For one brave combat which he undertook: His pen, the weapon was; the Truth, the cause (His proud foe, Rome, the murderer of kings); Whose worthy work, deserving high applause, Hath left the Romanists a deadly sting.
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Uncus and his warriors joined with Nepaupuck (a Quinnipiac War Captain) and entered into several treaties with the English. In the "Direful Swamp Fight," 150 Quinnipiac and Mohegan warriors joined with 350 English troops and, in December 1675, they defeated the powerful Pequotoog. Quinnipiac warriors served in many wars and battles as soldiers and sailors and as subsequent refugees, who migrated to Stockbridge, merged into an alliance to help the Sons of Liberty defeat the English in the American Revolution because of the betrayal by English allies in land dealings. The Sons of Liberty changed their name to the Sons of King Tammany (a Munsee Grand Sachem whose title, Tamanend, means "The Affable One").
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He then sent into Gaul, with the authority of Caesar, his cousin Julian, the brother of Gallus, giving him his sister in marriage, at a time when the barbarians had stormed many towns and were besieging others, when there was everywhere direful devastation, and when the Roman Empire was tottering in evident distress."Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History, Book 10. 1853 translation According to Socrates of Constantinople: "The emperor recalled him [Julian], and after created him Caesar; in addition to this, uniting him in marriage to his own sister Helen, he sent him against the barbarians. For the barbarians whom the Emperor Constantius had engaged as auxiliary forces against the tyrant Magnentius, having proved of no use against the usurper, were beginning to pillage the Roman cities.
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"At the first dawn of light, over at some rocky hills south-westward, where, during the night, we saw their camp fires, a direful moaning chant arose. It was wafted on the hot morning air across the valley, echoed again by the rocks and hills above us, and was the most dreadful sound I think I ever heard; it was no doubt a death-wail. From their camp up in the rocks, the chanters descended to the lower ground, and seemed to be performing a funereal march all round the central mass, as the last tones we heard were from behind the hills, where it first arose." A wax cylinder recording of the death wail of a Torres Strait Islander, made in 1898, exists in the Ethnographic Wax Cylinder collection maintained by the British Library.
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Ambler (1914), p. 78-79 Floyd later wrote: > At this moment [1828] came the direful struggle between the great parties in > Congress founded upon the claim which the majority ... from the north of the > Potomac made to the right to lay any tax upon the importations into the > United States which was intended to act as a protection to northern > manufacturers by excluding foreign fabrics of the same kind. Hence all the > states to the south of the Potomac became dependent upon the Northern States > for a supply of whatever thing they might want, and in this way the South > was compelled to sell its products low and buy from the North all articles > it needed from twenty-five to one hundred and twenty-five per cent higher > than from France to England ... At this juncture the southern party brought > out Jackson.Ambler (1914), p. 96 Floyd worked hard on Jackson's behalf and considered his efforts sufficient for a post in the new cabinet, and so declined to run again for Congress. However, he did not receive this post.Ambler (1914), p.
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