All of the staff served us most graciously and when we finished dining, we were presented with a bill for $5.00!
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In 1762 he tried, fruitlessly, to get them printed by subscription. He frequently went to court to present his verses to the royal family, and after he became secretary to the British Herring Fishery, he tendered gifts of pickled herrings. Both poems and herrings, he declared, were ‘most graciously accepted.’ He died in Brownlow Street, Long Acre, on 2 February 1771, leaving a widow, Mary.
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" The Duchess talked to me most graciously, asked me about my Mother > and said "You are too young to begin political life. I assured her I was 18; > she exclaimed "Mais c'est un bebe." Monsieur David the great Artist has > requested Father to allow me to pose to him for Cupid, Father has consented > and I sit tomorrow. James Gallatin succeeded his father as the president of the Gallatin National Bank in 1839.
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That is the main thing I wanted to say. Comics.com, however, will, as > they have announced, no longer be the source. Nothing dramatic happened, > really. I simply came to feel that the editorial needs of comics.com and > those of “Pibgorn” were becoming more and more divergent and incompatible. > For this reason I asked to be released from my contract with United Media in > order to secure a new online home for “Pibgorn.” United Media most > graciously, and reluctantly, agreed. In short order I hope to get Pib back > up and flying.
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The Vita Ædwardi Regis states "[H]e was a very proper figure of a man – of outstanding height, and distinguished by his milky white hair and beard, full face and rosy cheeks, thin white hands, and long translucent fingers; in all the rest of his body he was an unblemished royal person. Pleasant, but always dignified, he walked with eyes downcast, most graciously affable to one and all. If some cause aroused his temper, he seemed as terrible as a lion, but he never revealed his anger by railing.". This, as the historian Richard Mortimer notes, 'contains obvious elements of the ideal king, expressed in flattering terms – tall and distinguished, affable, dignified and just.
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The labouring classes were thrown out of employment, and amongst others the poor Highlanders. With little support from outside their immediate community, and totally ignorant of the English language, the latter became more helpless and destitute than any other group in Glasgow. At this crisis Alexander Macdonell conceived the plan of getting these unfortunate Highlanders embodied as a Catholic corps in the service of the government, with the then young chief Macdonell of Glengarry. Having assembled a meeting of the Catholics at Fort Augustus in February, 1794, a loyal address was drawn up to the king, offering to raise a Catholic corps under the command of the young chieftain, who, together with John Fletcher of Dunans, proceeded as a deputation to London with the address, which was most graciously received by King George III.
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In relation to this, the periodicity in the datings of January and July/August of the years 1775 to 1777, present on the autographs of four of them, is striking. If it is true that the pieces were written as Tafelmusik for the Archbishop of Salzburg, then there must have been specific and regularly recurring events every winter and summer accounting for this pattern; so far, though, none have been found. Even though in the Anstellungsdekret für Joseph Fiala [the decree of appointment for Joseph Fiala, currently in the Landesarchiv Salzburg], issued by the Archbishop on 1 November 1778, one reads > "According to which we most graciously receive and welcome the supplicant > into our service, subject to his good conduct, as first oboist, in order > that the same, both in the Cathedral and at Court or elsewhere as we may > require him, should participate diligently in the music and once again bring > the wind instruments to that condition which they formerly had, so that they > can perform at our command music with wind instruments at table [...]"Neue > Mozart-Ausgabe, Series VII, Volume 1, p. VIII–XIV (1984).
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The Masters and Boys of the School were collectively awarded battle colours by Queen Victoria in 1860 for the defence of the Martiniere post against a huge force at the old Bailey Gate during the 1857 siege of Lucknow. Sir Colin Campbell's report to the East India court of Governors reads "During this six month period many individual acts of valor were performed and young lives sacrificed in the fierce and tenacious defence of the Bailey Gate. The Constantia boys fought off the repeated attacks of a determined and persistent enemy and took their place in the line of battle alongside the regular regiments of the East India army...... The East India Army is honoured that Her Imperial Majesty has most graciously commanded the award of The Royal standard for courage, given to our bravest regiments, to the boys and masters of La Martiniere School..." The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School is distinguished by Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 with Al Gore.M.S Swaminathan, R.K. Pachauri, Ela Bhatt, Father C. Prakash receive French Govt.
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