It stays tolerably warm in winter and tolerably cool in summer and costs $25 a month.
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Our system of checks and balances is working tolerably well.
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Most economies weathered rising costs tolerably well until prices climbed vertiginously in 20103.
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The yellowish Soca Sauce, made with papaya, cauliflower, mustard and cilantro, is chunky and tolerably spiced.
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One cursory Google search will give you a link to the grotesquely minimalist, tolerably well designed G1 homepage.
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Another is that, contrary to the prognosis of Mr Osborne, the economy has performed tolerably well since the referendum.
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Countries are also currency zones and they work tolerably well because of fiscal transfers from rich to poor regions.
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The jury-rigged system that is crumbling still has powerful defenders, and it still works tolerably well for advantaged workers.
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He, I am happy to say, is tolerably well—though more languid than I like—and I fear for his liver.
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Soulful and melodious as the songs may be, they repeatedly break the flow of the narrative each time it becomes tolerably engaging.
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Never a plutocrat, Smith nonetheless argued persuasively that certain arrangements of private wealth enhancement could at least permit the poor to live tolerably.
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The American system worked tolerably well as long as elites maintained a tight grip on party nominations and ideological incoherence left American parties weakly disciplined.
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Apart from his reliable acting, in a paint-splattered white T-shirt and jeans he looks tolerably like Pollock, with a similar pattern of male baldness.
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"This representation, whether tried as between great & small states, or as between North & South, yeilds [sic], in the present instance, a tolerably just result," Jefferson wrote.
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Minimum standards of business practice are required in industries for markets to work tolerably well: think of capital requirements in banking or food-safety in the catering business.
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As one senior official in Brussels puts it, the euro works tolerably well for 16 of its members, but not for three: Greece, Portugal and, most problematically, Italy.
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Nelson's contribution sustained the bloodshed, added some rape, carried off the diction tolerably well and would have been quickly forgotten had it been remembered in the first place.
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It was a matter of faith, more or less, that the distribution of that wealth would be remain as tolerably equitable as it had been in the 1950s and '60s.
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Yet remarkably, savvy investors have bet millions of dollars that Spiegel will manage the company tolerably well in the coming decades, earn big profits, and eventually pay those profits back to shareholders.
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But perhaps this is because the forever war today is in fact distinct from those prior campaigns in which violence spiraled and the condemnation of atrocity worked tolerably well to rein in the state.
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Even "the vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty," John Stuart Mill wrote in 1869.
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Prose that until now has felt tolerably colloquial — a friend emailing you about his crazy year in Moscow ("the distances were unbelievable") — goes fully slack ("It was great"), and what has felt disarmingly garrulous turns, once again, picayune: With great pride, Andrei relates a multi-page chronicle of unclogging a drain.
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It was a matter of faith that the distribution of that wealth would be remain as tolerably equitable as it had been in the 1950s and '60sIf this is mainly a rejection of liberal compromises — an emotional politics otherwise defined by what it negates — well, that may be all that fascism ever was.
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Allow your mind to relax into the possibility that Honnold's climb was not reckless at all — that he really was born with unique neural architecture and physical gifts, and that his years of dedication really did develop those gifts to the point that he could not only make every move on El Capitan without rest, he could do so with a tolerably minuscule chance of falling.
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Pliny's remark about itv. 29 does not help us. Ptolemyv. 2 puts it in the latitude of Mycale, which is tolerably correct.
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The school register read:Shakespeare Head I, Lives and Letters, p. 69 > Maria Brontë, aged 10 ... reads tolerably. Writes pretty well. Ciphers a > little.
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Calendar, p. 1. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film "a misbegotten but tolerably amusing novelty item."Arnold, Gary (June 30, 1976). "Mel Brooks' Silent Treatment".
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An alternate chorus in the song includes the words "Forty kilometres in a leaky old boat . . .", a rare mention of a metric unit in American popular music, and a tolerably accurate conversion (26 miles = 41.8 km).
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Histoi or Isti () was a town of ancient Greece on the north coast of the island of Icaria, with a tolerably good roadstead. Nearby, was a temple of Artemis called Tauropolion. Its site is located near modern Evdilos.
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During the 13th and 14th centuries it was a flourishing Hanseatic town, with important woollen factories. Though a plague carried off 2,000 of the inhabitants in 1376, the town seems to have remained tolerably prosperous until the 16th century.
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His official report from Dunkirk hulk was that he was "tolerably decent and orderly". On 11 March 1787, Martin was placed upon the Charlotte and sent to New South Wales as part of the First Fleet. Martin was a useful tradesman in Sydney.
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"Average under sail, not recording more than 9kts close hauled and 11.5kts off the wind, good sea boat ... tolerably handy in staying and wearing." She received extensions to her gripe and another 4 inches onto her false keel, suggesting a lack of weatherliness as built.
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The breathings and accents are complete and tolerably correct. There is no ι subscriptum but ι adscriptum in Mark 14:14; John 5:22 and in few other places. Itacisms are more frequent than in Codex 470. Erasures and corrections by a later hand exist, but are not very frequent.
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1, p. xcvi. In the 1830s, Fresnel's suggestion was taken up by Cauchy, Powell, and Kelland, and it was indeed found to be tolerably consistent with the variation of refractive indices with wavelength over the visible spectrum, for a variety of transparent media .Whittaker, 1910, pp. 182–3; Whewell, 1857, pp.
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The Southern > and North-Western part gently rolling. Much of the Soil good and adapted to > farming purposes. The timber is small and thrifty - chiefly Maple, Birch > Oak, Elm Ash and some small Pine.- It is tolerably well watered - the banks > of the Streams are generally low and frequently overflow.
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Scarcely has he grown familiar with his new > surroundings, when the subtle attractions of the remoter city begin to tell > upon him. There is no resisting it. It draws him like a magnet. Sooner or > later, it is tolerably certain, he will be sucked into one of the great > centers of life.
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Pliny notices the Curenses as one of the municipal towns of the Sabines; and numerous inscriptions of Imperial date speak of its magistrates, its municipal senate (ordo), etc., whence we may infer that it continued to be a tolerably flourishing town as late as the 4th century.Plin. iii. 12. s. 17; Orelli, Inscr.
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History of Lincolnshire Committee for the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. In 1816, Marrat recorded that Bridge End "consists of a few farm houses, and a tolerably good Inn." The priory had been taken down 45 years previously (c.1770), and its materials used for a large farmhouse virtually on the same site.
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Tagetes argentina responds well to garden soils from acid to neutral. Sandy soils are preferred, but plants did tolerably well in the clay soils of central Texas. In conditions of full sunlight, rich soil, and ample moisture, it forms a compact, rounded plant. Flowering tapered off in the mid-summer as temperatures rose above , but resumed with cooler weather.
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He lived in a time when people commonly devised their own amusements and when singing and recitation were required social skills, and the young Dodgson was well equipped to be an engaging entertainer. He reportedly could sing tolerably well and was not afraid to do so before an audience. He was adept at mimicry and storytelling, and was reputedly quite good at charades.
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His chronology is tolerably exact, but there are mistakes enough to prove that he recorded events at a certain distance of time. Both on foreign affairs and on questions of domestic policy he is unusually well informed. His practical experience as an administrator and his official connections stood him in good stead. He is particularly useful on points of constitutional history.
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Kos Minar #793 at 12-mile on Agra-Fatehpur Sikri Road section of National Highway 21. These were built by Sher Shah Suri along the Grand Trunk Road. The history of the city before the Afghan invasions in the 11th century is unclear. The history from the Afghan invasions to the Mughal times, though tolerably well documented, has been described as being uneventful.
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The winter is tolerably mild; snow melts as it falls, and even on the mountains does not lie long. Three years out of four it does not freeze hard enough for the people to store ice. The eastern reaches of the Hari River, including the rapids, are frozen hard in the winter, and people travel on it as on a road.
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The last are finest on the fasciole and somewhat coarser near the siphonal canal, but tolerably uniform over the entire surface. The notch is rather wide, not very deep, rounded, and half way between the suture and the posterior ends of the peripheral riblets. The outer lip is thin, simple and produced in the middle. The siphonal canal is rather well defined and not very long.
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The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 23.5 mm. The shell has usually a rather high spire with seven or eight tolerably convex whorls, scarcely or not at all shouldered. It shows 13 to 16 sigmoid ribs, fading out about or above the middle of the body whorl. There are numerous, fine, close revolving lines, sometimes not apparent on the ribs.
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The romance is praised for its realism. George Kane writes, "The love affair, made exciting by the risk with which it is conducted, is very close to life in some of its touches. The effects of this romance, supported by skillful construction, a tone perfectly maintained, characters realistically conceived and developed, and a tolerably incisive narrative, is entirely good and persuasive."Kane p. 90.
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He saw the fort at the peak of its success, and described hordes of "happy Indian children shrieking through the rain".Neale, p. 19 Another visitor, Rev. Hugh Jones, reported that the 77 Indian students could read, write and say their catechisms tolerably well, and that the natives adored Griffin so much, they "fain would have chosen him for a King of the Sapony Nation".
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In small-cell lung carcinoma, the TNM classification is often used along with an additional categorization, the Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Study Group system. The VA scheme has two stages. Limited-stage disease is confined to an area that is tolerably treated by one radiotherapy area ("port"), but excludes cancers with pleural and pericardial effusions. All other small-cell lung cancers are extensive-stage in this scheme.
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Several economic experiments were initiated to test Liberman's proposals. These began in 1964 with new policies for two garment factories: the Bolshevichka in Moscow and the Mayak in Gorky.Adam, Economic Reforms (1989), p. 40.Feiwel, Quest for Economic Efficiency (1972), p. 237. When operations at the garment factories proved tolerably successful, the experiment was expanded to about 400 other enterprises, mostly in large cities.
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Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple, Norton Anthology of American Literature, Ed. Nina Baym, New York, London: Norton, 2002, p. 941. The following day, Charlotte seems "tolerably composed" and Mrs. Beauchamp begins "to hope she might recover, and, spite of her former errors, become an useful and respectable member of society", but the doctor tells her that nature is only "making her last effort"Rowson, Susanna.
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Mahoonagh is part of the rich Golden Vale landscape which is ideal for farming. For most of Mahoonagh history, farming was the main employment. It comprises 12,262 statute acres, which are in part very good, though some are cold, wet, being chiefly pasture and meadow, constituting several large and small dairy farms, around the parish. It has some good land tolerably and it is well cultivated.
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94 who gives a tolerably full epitome of the work, mentions only 17.Comp. Phot. Bibl. Cod. 166; Suda A perfect copy of the work in MS. existed down to the year 1671, when it was destroyed by fire. A few fragments of the original work are still extant. The epitome of Photios and the fragments are collected in Chardon de la Rochette's Melanges de Critique et de Philologie, Vol.
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The ground of restitution known as total failure of developed within the action for money had and received. That action was only available in respect of money claims. Where the claimant conferred a non-money benefit upon a defendant, the correct form of action was a quantum meruit (services) or quantum valebat (goods). It is tolerably clear that failure of consideration can now apply to non-money claims.
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The tree is well-represented in cultivation, and is widely planted outside of its native range as an ornamental, and is found in private gardens, arboreta and botanical gardens. It was first imported to grow in Europe in 1840. Large trees were to be found in Germany by the 1860s. It is tolerably hardy, but grows very slowly in Britain, and as such was only recommended for collectors.
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Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao was born to Meherban Shrimant Shriniwasrao Parashuram "Anna Sahib" (7th Raja of Aundh) on 24 October 1868. He studied at Satara High School and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Deccan College of University of Bombay in Pune. He succeeded the Aundh State as the Raja on 4 November 1909. Although Balasaheb was not a scholar, he was avid reader and his Sanskrit was tolerably good.
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Mahomet and Irene opened on 6 February 1749. Elizabeth Johnson was unable to attend the performance because of illness. Johnson arrived at the theatre in the kind of clothing he considered as the "distinction of dress" required of a playwright; he wore "a scarlet waistcoat with gold lace and a gold-laced hat". The Prologue "soothed the audience, and the play went off tolerably, till it came to the conclusion".
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These appear just below the sutural smooth band (sixteen on the body whorl), cross the whorls of the spire with a slight angulation above the middle of those whorls, but on the body whorl disappear at about the periphery . Tolerably evident lines of growth appear here and there, crossing the spiral sculpture. The spire is less than one third of the shell. The aperture measures a little less than half the length of the shell.
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These pass gradually into slightly oblique, rounded riblets, which begin in front of the notch-band with a slight shoulder, then continue across the whorl, and are somewhat attenuated by the time they reach the suture. Of these there are about fifteen on the body whorl, less distinct anteriorly. The lines of growth are tolerably prominent, and especially so on the body whorl. Of the revolving sculpture there is little or none.
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It contains lists of the (lists of contents) before each of the Gospels, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical service), and subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels. It was beautifully written in a clear bold hand. It has breathings and accents, tolerably but not uniformly correct.F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XXVI.
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Coleman and his Eolian Attachment The Cincinnati Miscellany, or Antiquities of the West, and Pioneer History vol. I. Caleb Clark, Cincinnati, 1845 p.98 Spillane wrote that although the Aeolian attachment received some notice as a novelty in the Boston and New York papers, "little came of this…it having been proved that the piano section, at least, required to be tuned every month to keep it in tolerably good condition"Spillane p.
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Tripolis (), formerly Ischopolis (Ἰσχόπολις), was an ancient fortress city in Pontus Polemoniacus (aka the Pontus region), on a river of the same name, and with a tolerably good harbour; it is now the site and namesake of the city of Tirebolu in Giresun Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey. It belonged to the Mossynoeci and was situated at a distance of 18 km east from Cape Zephyrium.Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini 16.4; Anon. Periplus Ponti Euxini p.
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First page of the Euthyphro, from the Clarke Plato (Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39), 895 AD. The text is Greek minuscule. Some 250 known manuscripts of Plato survive. The texts of Plato as received today apparently represent the complete written philosophical work of Plato and are generally good by the standards of textual criticism.. See also : "... primary MSS. together offer a text of tolerably good quality" (this is without the further corrections of other sources).
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The forewings are rather deep ochreous yellow with the costal edge dark fuscous towards the base and with a minute black dot beneath the costa at one-third, and the stigmata minute and black, the plical obliquely before the first discal, but all these apparently sometimes absent. The hindwings are light grey. The larvae are case bearing. The case is tolerably cylindrical, thick, rather curved and composed of withered fragments of leaf superposed in tiers.
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Almost as soon as became mayor, he was obliged to take measures to defend the city against the possibility of a conspiracy by the friends of Aaron Burr, which, however, did not eventuate. In November 1809, through similar measures, he is credited with suppressing an uprising of the black population. Mather attempted to establish a viable police force for the city, but failed. He succeeded, however, in creating a tolerably efficient fire department.
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Memnon's history encompassed an unknown number of books, but Photius had read the ninth through the sixteenth, and made a tolerably copious abstract of that portion. The first eight books he had not read, and he speaks of other books after the sixteenth. The ninth book begins with an account of the tyrant Clearchus, the disciple of Plato and Isocrates. The thirteenth book contains a long account of the rise of Rome.
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She carefully studied astronomy, and the geography of ancient history. She learned to play the spinnet and the German flute, and was fond of dancing in her youth. She drew tolerably well, was acquainted with household economy, loved gardening and growing flowers, and occupied her leisure or social hours with needlework. In the hope of counteracting the bad effects of too much study, she habitually took long walks and attending social parties.
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Adam of Bremen specifically states that Bishop Sigfrid preached to both the Swedes and the Norwegians 'side by side' (Latin 'iuxta').Adam 3.34 The journey from one mission-field to the other, though arduous if undertaken overland, would have been tolerably easy by ship. So, possibly, Sigfrid was still based in Norway at the time of Olaf Haraldsson's defeat by Cnut of Denmark and Anund Jakob of Sweden at the battle of the Holy River (1027).
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Auer's method can only be used with objects with tolerably flat surfaces, such as dried and pressed plants, embroidery and lace, and a few animals. The object is placed between a plate of steel and another of lead, both of which are smooth, and polished. They are then drawn through a pair of rollers under considerable pressure. When the plates are separated, it is found that a perfect impression of the object has been made in the leaden plate.
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Plants of M. scapigera sensu Walsh have no tubers, but roots that are "fleshy, only slightly fibrous, and slightly, but tolerably bitter when eaten raw". Indigenous Australians may have eaten this plant also, but historical sources describe murnong as a sweet tuber. Aboriginal populations in southeastern Australia relied on tubers of the daisy yam as a staple,Beth Gott, ‘Murnong — Microseris scapigera: a study of a staple food of Victorian Aborigines’, Australian Aboriginal Studies, no. 2, 1983, pp.
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His trading operations as a merchant were tolerably extensive, though he did not rank among the wealthiest of the inhabitants. He was probably worth, as near as can be estimated, about ten thousand dollars, which was then, however, considered an independent fortune. Rombout bought his first stone house at Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the Heerestraat, now Broadway in Manhattan. Rombout held several offices of trust among his fellow-citizens. In 1673, 1674, 1676, 1678, 1686, he was an Alderman.
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In September 1827 Tayler contemplated applying as a candidate for the professorship of the English language and literature in the newly founded London University (University College London) that would acquire the nickname 'The Godless Institution of Gower Street'.He wrote to his father that his friend Joseph Hutton, then Minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, thought "I stood a tolerably fair chance." J. J. Tayler to his Father, Manchester, 27 September 1827, Letters (1872), I, 76.
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Like Walter Scott and Landor, Southey connects the events surrounding Napoleon with the Moors' invasion of Spain within his work.Spech 2006 p. 159 In a letter to Landor, Southey described the rape scene: "here you have a part of the poem so difficult to get over even tolerably that I verily believe if I had at first thought of making Roderick any thing more than a sincere penitent this difficulty would have deterred me from attempting the subject."Spech 2006 qtd. p.
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The greater portion of the district consists of a rolling country covered by laterite and alluvium. While metamorphic or gneissose rocks are found to the extreme west, to the east there is a wide plain of recent alluvium. Strong massive runs of hornblendic varieties stretch across the region in tolerably continuous lines, the general strike being nearly east and west. The most characteristic geological feature of the district is the area of laterite and associated rocks of sand and gravel.
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The author wrote a completely new introduction which had to do with Abyssinian history and methods of government at a time of the Abyssinian expedition commanded by Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. In short, Parkyns described the political changes which had occurred after he left the country. He was hoping to offer the Victorian reader "a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and Abyssinians"Parkyns, M. (1853). Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes collected during three years’ Residence and Travels in that country.
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For his account of earlier events he was able to obtain information from his father. His model is Thucydides (according to Bekker, Herodotus), his language is tolerably pure and correct, and his style is simple and clear. The text, however, is in a very corrupt state. The archaic language he used made his texts hard to read in many parts, while the antiquarian names, with which he named people of his time, created confusion (Γέται, Δάκες, Λίγυρες, Μυσοί, Παίονες, Ἕλληνες).
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A series of tolerably easy staircases, broken by intervals of gentle ascent, leads to the summit of the rock. The whole width of this is occupied by the palace. The central part of this group of buildings rises in a vast quadrangular mass above its satellites to a great height, terminating in gilt canopies similar to those on the Jokhang. This central member of Potala is called the "red palace" from its crimson colour, which distinguishes it from the rest.
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In April and May 1869 she appeared in Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday!. A review in The New York Times of 27 April 1869 listed Bessie among the singers. It was lukewarm, saying the pantomime-burlesque was "wrought out of tolerably old material ... [it] will be witnessed with greater pleasure when repeated rehearsals shall have smoothened it." In December 1869 and January 1870 Bessie played at the Tammany Grand Theatre in a burlesque of Richard III called Bad Dickey.
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Broughton had difficulty in obtaining suitable alternative accommodation, and became resigned to the circumstances of Tusculum. Broughton took out another lease on the property for seven years in 1848 at £300 p.a. (letter to Coleridge, 16 February 1848) - 'lt is a sad, imperfect place and anything but episcopal in pretensions: but it is in a cheerful situation and good air, and answers my purposes tolerably well.' By 1843 there was a serious financial crisis in the colony, and the Darlinghurst grantees suffered.
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In towns such as Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Yampil, Bershad and others, ghettos were fenced out, and Jews were settled in. Being deprived of the right to own agricultural land or hold any public positions – often without clean water and having insufficient housing – many became ill from malnutrition and infections. The Jews from Romania who were not affected by the deportation were treated quite tolerably by the Romanian authorities and were even allowed to visit the ghettos to deliver food and clothing.
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Nonetheless, Clark considered the external walls "tolerably perfect" and advised that the castle be conserved, complete with the ivy-covered stonework. In 1871, Bute asked his chief Cardiff engineer, John McConnochie, to excavate and clear the castle ruins. The report on the investigations was produced by William Burges, an architect with an interest in medieval architecture who had met Bute in 1865. The Marquess subsequently employed him to redevelop Cardiff Castle in the late 1860s, and the two men became close collaborators.
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Their country is > tolerably well stocked with beaver, deer, wild-fowl, &c.; and its vegetable > productions are similar to those of Spokan. Some of this tribe occasionally > visited our fort at the latter place with furs to barter, and we made a few > excursions to their lands. We found them uniformly honest in their traffic; > but they did not evince the same warmth of friendship for us as the Spokans, > and expressed no desire for the establishment of a trading post among them.
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It was noted that one of the famous Clasper brothers was a spectator. The boats used by the contestants were stated to be of the most approved modern construction and were within two pounds weight of each other; Campbell's being the heavier at forty pounds. A large number of spectators were on the banks and in boats to watch the proceedings. Although a fresh wind was blowing the water was tolerably smooth as both men made their way to the start.
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We could find nothing to give us any information > as to the quality of land in this farm. There is a considerable extent > enclosed on each side of the vale which is at present singularly divided > into different fields. This we calculated to be about , consisting partly of > woodland, partly of poorish meadow ground, and partly of pasture, all of > which, or nearly all, lies in rapid declivities. Besides the above inclosed > ground, there may be about of barren mountains, forming altogether a > tolerably good sheep farm.
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Le Rossignol's 1901 Monopolies Past and Present, said to "provide an historical introduction to the study of monopolies for the use of busy men", covered ancient monopolies, gilds, exclusive trading companies, patents, municipal monopolies, railways and capitalistic monopolies. A reviewer said that "it seems to be tolerably well adapted to the needs of the larger constituency for which it was designed." The book was criticized for poor coverage of joint stock undertakings and development of the business corporation. It presented the standard arguments for industrial combinations.
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Very little is known of Liber's official and unofficial cults during the early to middle Republican era. Their Dionysiac or Bacchic elements seem to have been regarded as tolerably ancient, home-grown and manageable by Roman authorities until 186 BC, shortly after the end of the Second Punic War. Livy, writing 200 years after the event, gives a highly theatrical account of the Bacchanalia's introduction by a foreign soothsayer, a "Greek of mean condition... a low operator of sacrifices". The cult spreads in secret, "like a plague".
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The early part of the nineteenth century was a hard time for Frome, industry declining over the years as its dependence on the wool trade fell. In 1826 William Cobbett commented on what he found during one of his Rural Rides in his Political Register: > These poor creatures at Frome have pawned all their things, or nearly all. > All their best clothes, their blankets and sheets, their looms; any little > piece of furniture that they had…….all the tolerably good clothes their > children had….
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John Freemantle (1758, probably at Bishop Sutton, Hampshire – 3 August 1831 at Alresford, Hampshire) was an English cricketer who played for the legendary Hambledon Club. John Freemantle was the elder brother of the more famous Andrew Freemantle. He had only a short first-class career from the 1780 season until 1782, playing seven times for Hampshire. It is possible he gave up playing early due to injury.. Freemantle was primarily a bowler and in Scores & Biographies, it is said that he was "tolerably fast".
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Adrian Albert Mole is born 2 April 1967, and grows up with his parents in the city of Leicester; he moves to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England's East Midlands. Adrian's family are largely unskilled working class/lower middle class. He is an only child until the age of 15, when his half-brother Brett and half-sister Rosie are born. Adrian is not gifted academically but does tolerably well at school, though he does sometimes suffer the ire of headmaster "Pop-Eye" Scruton.
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Cassandra, the younger daughter and the first-person narrator of the novel, has literary ambitions and spends a lot of time developing her writing talent by "capturing" everything around her in her journal. Stephen, the handsome, loyal, live-in son of the Mortmain late maid, and Thomas, the youngest Mortmain child, round out the cast of household characters. Stephen, a "noble soul," is in love with Cassandra, which she finds touching but a bit awkward. Thomas, a schoolboy, is, like Cassandra, considered "tolerably bright".
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Luffman Atterbury (died 1796), was an English carpenter, builder and musician. Atterbury studied the harpsichord, composition, and harmony in the leisure time he could spare from his business, which was carried on in Turn Again Lane, Fleet Market. He acquired considerable proficiency in music, and on the death of his father, being left tolerably well off, gave up his business and retired to Teddington. He obtained several prizes from the Catch Club for his glees, and was appointed a musician in ordinary to George III.
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Reprieved, she was then sentenced to seven years' transportation "beyond the seas". Also with the prisoners from Exeter was James Martin who was to join the Bryants on their escape attempt. Martin's behaviour on the Dunkirk was described as "tolerably decent and orderly".Gillen 1989, 238–9 On the Dunkirk the quarters of the men and women were separated by an iron grille and it is unlikely that Bryant was the father of Mary Broad's first child, Charlotte, who was born on the voyage to Australia.
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By this time, his fame had grown enough that he was often invited to lecture and recite poetry, including his presentation to the Linonian Society at Yale on August 17, 1841.Beers, 271 Willis was invited to submit a column to the each weekly issue of Brother Jonathan, a publication from New York with 20,000 subscribers, which he did until September 1841.Beers, 259–260 By 1842, Willis was earning the unusually high salary of $4,800 a year. As a later journalist remarked, this made Willis "the first magazine writer who was tolerably well paid".
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By 1827 Pemberton was in England again, acting, lecturing, and reciting. In February 1828 he played Macbeth at Bath. John Genest wrote "he acted tolerably, but nothing farther; he had an indifferent figure, and a bad face, with no expression in it; he had studied the part with great attention, and understood it thoroughly." During the same year he was acting at Hereford during the assizes; Thomas Talfourd was greatly impressed with his performances, and praised him highly in The New Monthly Magazine for September 1828, especially his rendering of Shylock and Virginius.
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The physiological qualities of planting stock are hidden from the eye and must be revealed by testing. The potential for survival and growth of a batch of planting stock may be estimated from various features, morphological and physiological, of the stock or a sample thereof. The size and shape and general appearance of a seedling can nevertheless give useful indications of PSPP. In low-stress outplanting situations, and with a minimized handling and lifting-planting cycle, a system based on specification for nursery stock and minimum morphological standards for acceptable seedlings works tolerably well.
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Nude per l'assassino has been met with mixed to negative reviews. Martyn Auty of the Monthly Film Bulletin, stated that "For all its clichéd direction (voyeuristic threateningly subjective camerawork) and perfunctory sexual diversions, this routine sex-ploiter is at least tolerably shot and unfussily plotted." Writing for AllMovie, Jason Buchanan rated the film two stars out of five, calling it "unabashedly sadistic". Budd Wilkins, writing for Slant magazine, rated the film three stars out of five, calling it "one of the more sordid examples" of the giallo genre.
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The attendance of the game was reported as being "tolerably fair" but that many spectators arrived to the team's ball park East Portland while the game was concluding. Robert Law, a pitcher, served as the captain of the "fielding nine" and James Steel, a catcher led the "batting nine". The fielders' infield was composed of James B. Upton at shortstop, Ward K. Witherell at first base, George Wheolock at second and Frank Warren at third. In the outfield, the fielders played C. F. Berges in left and A. White in right.
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Some of these had what is called > the freedom of the prison, that is, not being confined to a single > apartment. As these people had the liberty of going up and down stairs, they > kept their rooms tolerably clean swept. They had beds belonging to > themselves; and in one room, we observed a pot on the fire. But, wherever we > found the prisoners confined to one apartment, whether on account of their > delinquencies, or that they were unable to pay for a little freedom, the > rooms were destitute of all accommodation, and very nasty.
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"Gold", Geelong Advertiser (Vic.), 10 July > 1849, p.2 The attitude was completely different just a couple of years later in 1853 after the Victorian goldrushes had begun: > Smythe's Creek, a branch of the Wardy Yallock river, is also attracting its > share of the mining population, who are doing tolerably well. One very fine > sample of gold has also been received in town during the week from the Wardy > Yallock itself, found in the locality where the exploring party of last > winter ended their labours. The parcel is small,- only 22 dwts.
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Aretaeus' work consists of eight books, two De causis et signis acutorum morborum, two De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum, two De curatione acutorum morborum, and two De curatione diuturnorum morborum. They are in a tolerably complete state of preservation, though a few chapters are lost. The work was first published in a Latin translation by Junius Paulus Crassus (Giunio Paolo Grassi), Venice 1552, together with Rufus Ephesius. The first Greek edition is that by Jacobus Goupylus, Paris, 1554, which is more complete than the Latin version of Crassus.
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Khaavren of Castlerock is a young Dragaeran gentleman from the House of the Tiassa whose family has fallen onto hard times. Though lacking an inheritance, Khaavren has a long sword and is "tolerably well-acquainted with its use." On his way to the capital city of the Empire, Khaavren befriends Aerich and Tazendra, nobles from the Houses of the Lyorn and Dzur who also lack income. Khaavren tells them of his plan to join the Phoenix Guards, the new Emperor's elite personal troops, and his new friends decide to accompany him.
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The wingspan is about 19 mm. The forewings appear light bluish grey, but the ground color is really dirty white, so evenly and closely overlaid with bluish fuscous scales as to give the impression of an even color to the naked eye. Three complete, broad, blackish fuscous lines run obliquely across the wing, the first from the basal fourth of the costa to the middle of the dorsum, the second from the middle of the costa to just before the tornus. These two are tolerably straight and nearly parallel.
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The retinal receptors are physically situated behind a neural layer carrying the post-retinal processing elements. Light cannot pass through this layer undistorted. In fact, measurements on the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) suggest that the MTF degradations due to the diffusion through that neural layer are of a similar order as those due to the optics. By interplay of these different components it has been found that the overall optical quality, although poor compared to photographic optics, can remain tolerably near constant through a considerable range of pupil diameters and light levels.
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Price established large sawmills in place of MacNider's smaller ones, and timber exports soared. By 1833, Price and MacNider were moving 100 shiploads of lumber a year to Quebec City and overseas markets. This forest industry provided year-long employment for the pioneer settlers of Metis. By 1832, Joseph Bouchette, the Surveyor Generalof Lower Canada, found Metis to have all the trappings of a well-settled community: The river frontage was fully cleared and there were "some tolerably good farms, mills and stores (together with) dwelling houses intended for the reception of travellers".
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On December 5, 1864, prisoners from Confederate General John Bell Hood's army, which had been shattered at the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville, began to arrive at Camp Douglas. These "weak and destitute" prisoners were made to undress and stand outside for a long period of time in ice and snow while guards robbed them of any valuables. One of these prisoners, John Copley, stated that rations were sufficient to keep the men "tolerably hungry." By this time, the new water pipes kept latrines running smoothly.
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The patient was tolerably quiet until preparations were made for > giving 'him' the usual bath. On the attendants attempting to carry out the > programme, violent resistance was made, the reason for which proved to be > that the supposed man was in reality a woman. The most singular part of the > affair is that the woman had been received into Sandhurst Hospital as a male > patient and sent thence to the asylum under the name of Evans. She states > that she has lived at Sandhurst for many years dressed in male attire.
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Nor was he dead to the claims of society. At first he seems to have lived with the Florentine scholars on tolerably good terms; but he was so arrogant that Cosimo de' Medici's friends were not long able to put up with him. Filelfo hereupon broke out into open and violent animosity; and when Cosimo was exiled by the Albizzi party in 1433, he urged the signoria of Florence to pronounce upon him the sentence of death. On the return of Cosimo to Florence, Filelfo's position in that city was no longer tenable.
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Richard Heath (1831–1912) was an English journalist and author. His articles on rural topics were published together in The English Peasant (1893), which was part of T. Fisher Unwin's "The Reformer's Bookshelf" series. The Times selected it as one of its "Books of the Week" and said Heath "was tolerably well known a couple of decades ago as an eloquent and persevering, if not always discriminating, champion of the agricultural labourer". They added that the book was written with a "vein of Christian Socialism".‘Books of the Week’, The Times (3 May 1893), p. 3.
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Ashby suggests that now "British fortunes now seemed to have taken a turn for the better", as around this time they also managed to recapture the Hostess Quickly from the rebels in Marquis and hang those that were found aboard her. Nicols ordered a night march on the rebel base, which in the event was not as successful as it had been hoped. One of those who took part, Lieutenant-Colonel Dyott, later wrote that "although one half of the distance was a tolerably good road, we were near ten hours getting eight miles, and that not without much confusion".
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The explorer Henry Morton Stanley visited the river in October 1876. He said of the people: "They are tolerably hospitable, and permit strangers the free use of their dwellings. The bananas and plantains are very luxuriant, while the Guinea palms supply the people with oil and wine; the forests give them fuel, the rivers fish, and the gardens cassava, groundnuts, and Indian corn". He said of the lower reaches of the river that as far as the Lualaba the current was from three to six knots and the river was about deep, with a shaly bed.
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In fact, "pity and air", two words of the Shakespeare's verses, are also two motifs used by Blake in this picture: a female cherub leans down to snatch the baby from its mother. According to Blake biographer Alexander Gilchrist, the print "is on a tolerably large scale, a woman bending down to succour a man stretched out at length, as if given over to death."Gilchrist wrote "a man" because he looked a version of the print without color. Gilchrist, Alexander (1863). Life of William Blake, "Pictor ignotus": With selections from his poems and other writings Macmillan and Co., p. 253.
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Hunter also argued that the spelling should follow established pronunciation and pointed to the poems, stating that "we possess printed evidence tolerably uniform from the person himself" supporting "Shakespeare". Although Dowden, the most influential voice in Shakespearean criticism in the last quarter of the 19th century,. used the spelling "Shakspere", between 1863 and 1866 the nine-volume The Works of William Shakespeare, edited by William George Clark, John Glover, and William Aldis Wright, all Fellows of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, had been published by the university. This edition (soon generally known as "The Cambridge Shakespeare") spelled the name "Shakespeare".
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This distance agrees tolerably well with that from Agrigento to Licata, though somewhat below the truth. There is indeed no doubt, from existing remains on the hill immediately above Licata, that the site was occupied in ancient times; and, though these have been regarded by local antiquarians as the ruins of ancient Gela, there is little doubt of the correctness of the opinion advanced by Cluverius, that that city is to be placed on the site of then called Terranova since renamed to its ancient form, Gela, and the vestiges which remain at Licata are those of Phintias.Cluverius Sicil. pp. 200, 214.
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Mortimer believed that Mercury was probably the first English vessel to visit the island. He refers to Alexander Dalrymple's Account of the Discoveries Made in the S. Pacific Ocean, (London, 1767), which deals with the island, and states that the account by the Dutchman Willem de Vlamingh, first to land on the island, in 1696, though short, was tolerably accurate. On 8 July Mercury was anchoring in a bay on the east coast of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, for wood and water, and Cox named it Oyster Bay, a name that still holds. He also charted Maria Island and Marion Bay there.
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After a ten-minute chase as Pearl cut off the route to Porto Longone and Pomone manoeuvered into a firing position, Captain Morel- Beaulieu surrendered. Losses on Pomone were limited to two killed and four wounded, two of whom subsequently died; Carrère had suffered "tolerably severe" casualties in the engagement from a complement of 352. The delay caused by the brief chase however had allowed the coastal ships to disperse and flee so that all of them avoided capture and some even reached Porto Longone. Carrère was a modern ship seized from the Republic of Venice after the Treaty of Campo Formio in 1797.
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According to Stanley, "...by taking advantage of the rocks, the natives have been enabled to fix upright heavy poles, 6 inches in diameter, to each of which they attach enormous fish-baskets by means of rattan-cane cable. There are probably sixty or seventy baskets laid in the river on each side, every day; and though some may be brought up empty, in general they seem to be tolerably successful, for out of half-a-dozen baskets...twenty-eight large fish were collected..." The falls are in the bottom center of Stanley's map. His route is indicated by the solid black line. Stanley Falls as seen by Stanley.
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A newspaper's comment on this advertisement was: "We should explain that Cashmore is a real name. If the syllables were transposed it would, of course, be more appropriate, as, like ail true traders, he is tolerably anxious [for a profit]" In 1843 Cashmore, Solomon Benjamin and Asher Hymen Hart were, as trustees, allocated an acre (0.40 ha) of land in Melbourne for a Jewish cemetery and the following year, 76 perches (a little under ½ acre or 0.2 ha) for a synagogue. Hart was, in 1841, the founder of the Jewish Congregational Society, with Cashmore its first President.Suzanne D. Rutland The Jews in Australia Cambridge University Press, 2005 p.
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There are no tolerably sure grounds for identifying Alypius with any one of the various persons who bore the name in the times of the later emperors, and of whose history anything is known. Jean-Benjamin de la Borde places him towards the end of the 4th century.Jean-Benjamin de la Borde, Essai sur la Musique, iii. 133 According to the most plausible conjecture, he was that Alypius whom the writer Eunapius, in his Life of Iamblichus, celebrates for his acute intellect () and diminutive stature, and who, being a friend of Iamblichus, probably flourished under the emperor Julian the Apostate and his immediate successors, that is, during the 4th century.
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On average, according to the text, the lunar month equals 27 days 7 hours 39 minutes 12.63 seconds. It states that the lunar month varies over time, and this needs to be factored in for accurate time keeping. According to Whitney, the Surya Siddhanta calculations were tolerably accurate and achieved predictive usefulness. In Chapter 1 of Surya Siddhanta, "the Hindu year is too long by nearly three minutes and a half; but the moon's revolution is right within a second; those of Mercury, Venus and Mars within a few minutes; that of Jupiter within six or seven hours; that of Saturn within six days and a half".
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Yet the terror of discovery disturbed him at several periods of his life, and when Louis XV died in 1774 he showed a strong disposition to take refuge in France, and would have done so if Louis XVI would have given him a promise of employment. His pension was continued. It seems to be tolerably certain that at a later period he made a clean breast to the Emperor Francis II. His services at Constantinople were approved by Prince Kaunitz, who may possibly have been informed of the arrangement with the French secret diplomatic fund. It is never safe to decide whether these treasons were single or double.
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'An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence.' c. 1890. Richard Francis Burton wrote about the Medina slaves, during his 1853 Haj, "a little black boy, perfect in all his points, and tolerably intelligent, costs about a thousand piastres; girls are dearer, and eunuchs fetch double that sum." In Zanzibar, Burton found slaves owning slaves. David Livingstone wrote of the slave trade in the African Great Lakes region, which he visited in the mid-nineteenth century: Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century as many as 50,000 slaves were passing through the city each year.
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Maelzel, who had already experienced some regret at parting with his protégé, requested the favour to be again reinstated in the charge, promising to pay Eugene the interest of the thirty thousand francs Mr. M. had pocketed. This proposition was graciously conceded by the gallant Beauharnois, and Maelzel thus had the satisfaction of finding he had made a tolerably good bargain, getting literally the money for nothing at all! Leaving Bavaria with the Automaton, Maelzel was once more en route, as travelling showman of the wooden genius. Other automata were adopted into the family, and a handsome income was realised by their ingenious proprietor.
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In the 19th century, it was thought by both French and German scholars that Richerus was an ardent supporter of the Carolingians and French supremacy, as opposed to the Ottonians, but this view has since been tempered somewhat. Whatever one makes of Richer's political biases, inaccuracies and his taste for stylistic embellishment, his Historiae has a unique value as giving us the only tolerably full account by a contemporary of the memorable revolution of 987, which placed the Capets on the throne of France. The Historiae, in four books, spans the period from 888 to 995. It begins with Charles the Fat and Eudes, and goes down to the year 995.
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Blanche Baker's father, William Baker, was born in Bristol in about 1820 and in 1840 married Mary Anne Crispin, whose mother was from Devon. They lived in Trenchard Street, in central Bristol. Initially he was a plasterer, then a builder.Ancestry.co.uk, Census 1841 and 1861. Ellen Blanche Baker was their third child and was christened at the Society of Protestant Dissenters in Lewin's Mead, Bristol, on 15 September 1844.Ancestry.co.uk. ‘[William] came into some money from his father and succeeded in amassing a tolerably fair fortune’Western Daily Press, 1 July 1880. – by 1861 he was a successful builder and contractor, employing 160 men,Ancestry.co.uk, Census 1861.
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Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton 1971) p. 172 if one acting through weakness not strengthE. Copeland ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge 1997) p. 71 – the tyranny of invalidism.R. Sale, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England (London 1994) p. 136 and 140 Jane Austen's authorial comments on Mr Woodhouse are very muted: for the most part he is presented in dialogue, where his eccentricities have the best chance to shine. He is introduced by her as "a nervous man, easily depressed... hating change of any kind", while a late vignette shows him under the weather, when "he could only be kept tolerably comfortable by almost ceaseless attention on his daughter's side".
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In its 1946 review, Variety wrote: > Greenstreet overplays to some extent as the attorney who has raided a trust > fund, but he still does a good job. Lorre is tops as a drunk who gets > involved in a murder of which he's innocent, while Fitzgerald rates as the > victim.Variety Staff "Three Strangers review", Variety (1 January 1946) Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote that same year: > [T]he action [...] is full-bodied melodrama of a shrewd and sophisticated > sort. Never so far away from reason that it is wholly incredible but > obviously manufactured fiction, it makes a tolerably tantalizing show, > reaching some points of fascination in a few of its critical scenes.
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His expedition was only partially successful, for he found the country so impracticable that he considered it unwise to proceed further than the village of Mulla which was about over the border. Mulla contained 800 houses and which he surprised and destroyed without opposition, all the male inhabitants being absent on a marauding excursion. The expedition also did manage to free about 400 captives, but Lister was of the opinion that "this robber tribe will not cease to infest the frontier until they shall be most servilely dealt with". This expedition, however, had the effect of keeping the British Assam southern border tolerably free from disturbance up to the beginning of 1862, when raiding recommenced.
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There is a small portion of land near the > river that is tolerably fair but the bottoms on the river are worthless(?) > owing to their being overflowed nearly every year. The West & north parts of > the Town consist of a portion of the great Cranberry Marsh which extends to > & beyond Yellow river. The Marsh is wet & unfit for cultivation & has upon > it small Islands (so called) of hard land with a few trees; Scattering > Pines, Tamarack & Blk Oak are found nearly all over it so much so that we > almost invariably found bearing trees for our corners. The Marsh may be > valuable for the Cranberries which it produces abundantly but otherwise is > entirely(?) worthless(?).
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25 The official record states: :Thanks to the fact that for a long period it was protected by a stone divan built over it for the use of the Moslem guards, the tombstone is in a tolerably good state of preservation. In 1925, during the British Mandate over Palestine, an excavation of the grave for purposes of restoration uncovered Sir Philip’s bones as well as tablets inscribed in Latin describing his family tree. Based on these explorations, Sir Ronald Storrs, the military governor of Jerusalem, authenticated the tomb and Philip’s lineage in a 1925 article published in The Times of London. The restoration of the grave was carried out by the British Pro-Jerusalem Society headed by Storrs.
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He was among the first members of the Reform League and was a > member of the Council and the Executive from the first. He was never a very > effective speaker, but he was able always to put his points forcibly, > because he knew what he wanted and could see tolerably clearly the way in > which it could be obtained. In his earlier days he was thought to be an > implacable Chartist, and nothing else; but he was not the man to oppose > reform because all that he desired was not granted. Lucraft was sternly > devoted to "principles", but he acknowledged the value of compromise when it > was a question of something or nothing.
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Bridge Books reprint, Wrexham, 1990, Vol 2, 381 appears to record an 18th-century excavation of the castle. ‘A little beyond (Offa’s Dyke), near the house of Nantcribba, rises a great conoid rock. A few years ago, on taking away the top, were discovered the remains of a little fort; and on paring away the rubbish, it appeared to have been square, with a round tower probably at each corner: one is tolerably entire, and is only nine feet diameter within; the wall seven feet severn feet seven inches thick. There had been some small square rooms, with door cases of good freestone: the rest of the building is of rough stone, cemented with clay.
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He probed the earth around the standing stone and then removed the turf wherever he encountered a submerged stone. In doing so, he found 22 sarsen stones, all of them of small size, believing that they had once formed parts of the stones in the circle. He related that while "the northern, southern and eastern segments are tolerably well-defined" by this sarsen scatter, he could "find scarcely a single stone on what should be the western segment to complete the circle". In August and September 2002, the archaeologists Mark Gillings, Joshua Pollard, David Wheatley, and Rick Peterson led a four-week archaeological investigation of the circle, as part of which they carried out both geophysical examination and excavation.
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Modern libel and slander laws as implemented in many (but not all) Commonwealth nations as well as in the United States and in the Republic of Ireland, are originally descended from English defamation law. The earlier history of the English law of defamation is somewhat obscure; civil actions for damages seem to have been tolerably frequent as far back as the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). There was no distinction drawn between written and spoken words, and when no pecuniary penalty was involved, such cases fell within the old jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, which were only finally abolished in the eighteenth century. It seems uncertain whether or not any generally applicable criminal process was in place.
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The forewings are bright orange, with purplish black markings and a large basal patch, extending on the costa to two-thirds and on the inner margin to two-fifths, the outer edge is irregular, tolerably straight, with a small transverse spot in the middle of the disc. There is a hind marginal patch, bounded by a sinuate line from four-fifths of the costa to the anal angle. The hindwings are bright orange, with purplish-black markings. There is a short line along the costa beyond the middle, a crescentic inwards-curved spot in the disc beyond the middle and a narrow hind marginal band, somewhat dilated at the apex, with a small irregular prominence at three-fourths.
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In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "the continuity is sometimes choppy" and that "the film has been designed and shot with enough surface gloss to ensure that in this soft-core package tour, at least the packaging looks tolerably fresh" In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers note that the film's plot is a weak construct designed only to give lead actress Kumi Taguchi opportunities to appear nude. They also note that this is not a bad thing. The nude Taguchi seen horseback riding on the beach and riding a porpoise are highlights of this good-looking film, according to the Weissers. The lack of good plotting, however, harms the film.
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Edward Robinson and Eli Smith visited in 1852 and noted a massive Roman temple had once been located near the village that has been grouped by George Taylor amongst the Temples of Mount Hermon. Robinson suggested the temple was bigger than Nebi Safa and spoke of it having been constructed of stones that were "tolerably large, well hewn, but not bevelled". Fragments of architrave, mouldings and blocks from the temple had been re-used by the villagers making their homes and farmsteads and had been left lying all over the fields, covered in rubbish. Sir Charles Warren also later visited and documented the area as part of an archaeological survey in 1869.
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French losses have not been calculated, but apart from General Des Bruslys were probably a similar figure to the British. In contrast, the damage to the morale of the French defenders of Île Bonaparte was severe: the death of Des Bruslys and the failure to properly defend the town undermined their efforts to such a degree that the eventual invasion of the island in 1810 was carried out without significant fighting or loss. This invasion force was similar in size to the raiding party and was once again led by Rowley and Keating. Caroline was a "tolerably fine frigate" and her capture was a blow to the French squadron based on Île de France under Hamelin.
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Wolin cites phenomena such as the lack of involvement of citizens in a narrow political framework (due to the influence of money), the privatization of social security, and massive increases in military spending and spending on surveillance as examples of the push away from public and towards private- controlled government. Corporate influence is explicit through the media, and implicit through the privatization of the university. Furthermore, many political think-tanks have abetted this process by spreading conservative ideology. Wolin states: "[With] the elements all in place...what is at stake, then, is nothing less than the attempted transformation of a tolerably free society into a variant of the extreme regimes of the past century"Wolin, 2003.
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It was nearly four miles and the river Urr formed its south-western limit. The surface is extremely irregular, and is so broken into detached portions by intervening masses of rock and impenetrable copses of furze and briars, as to render it unpracticable to ascertain, with any degree of correctness, the probable number of acres under cultivation. The ground in some parts rises into numerous hills of moderate height, and in other parts, especially towards the north, into mountainous elevation forming a chain of heights skirting the lofty and conspicuous mountain of Criffel. For nearly two miles along the eastern coast the surface is tolerably level, and divided into several fields of good arable land.
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J. Leicester Warren M.A.) in 1880 (published in London by John Pearson of 46 Pall Mall). This work, highly interesting from many points of view, established what is now accepted as the general classification of styles of British ex-libris: early armorial (i.e., previous to Restoration, exemplified by the Nicholas Bacon plate); Jacobean, a somewhat misleading term, but distinctly understood to include the heavy decorative manner of the Restoration, Queen Anne and early Georgian days (the Lansanor plate is Jacobean); Chippendale (the style above described as rococo, tolerably well represented by the French plate of Convers); wreath and ribbon, belonging to the period described as that of the urn, etc. Since then the literature on the subject has grown considerably.
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These two forms can only be directly entered from a keyboard on which the ligature appears. As a result, a practice is developing where pasekh tsvey yudn are indicated by enclosing a pasekh between the elements of a two- character digraph. The pasekh aligns correctly only with the first yud (subject to conditions described in the next section) but the display is tolerably that of a fully marked digraph יַי and in some display environments may be indistinguishable from one or both of the previous alternatives. However, this option requires the storage of three separate characters (U+05D9 U+05B7 U+05D9). As a fourth alternative, albeit the least stable typographically, the second of two consecutive yudn may be pointed ייַ (U+05D9 U+05D9 U+05B7).
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In the House of Commons, he voted against the civil list, and then sponsored a "very short and tolerably mild" against a repeal of the Acts of Union 1800, later pushing for the reintroduction of the acts to suppress seditious meetings. He noted that popular meetings could "not be held without the permission of the local authorities". He presented petitions for the abolition of slavery and voted for reform, going into the 1831 general election as a reformer, where he was returned unopposed. In the latter year, he joined Brooks's, sponsored by Lords Charlemont and Gosford, and continued to vote for the reform bill, including granting the franchise to all persons rated to the poor at £10 and giving two members of parliament to .
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195 James Finn wrote in 1868 that the bridge was "in tolerably good condition, with one large and several smaller arches in two rows, and a dilapidated khan at the western end... The khan has been a strong edifice, but the stones of the massive gateway, especially the great keystone, are split across, as if from the effects of gunpowder." Finn noted a story of "the wandering minstrels, even now among the Bedaween, sing the songs of the forty orphan youths who competed in poetic compositions under the influence of love for an Arab maiden at the bridge of Mejama'a."Byeways in Palestine, 1868, p.104-105 The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted that the name was related to the "Bridge of the Gatherer", which became the As-Sirāt.
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121, has not identified itToledano, 1984, p. 293, has Dayr Diwan at location 35°15′50″E 31°54′45″N.Ben-Arieh, 1985, p. 90 Potsherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found. In 1838, Edward Robinson described Deir Dibwan as being "tolerably wealthy", and reportedly the producer of great quantities of figs.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 2, p. 118 ff, 312 It was noted as a Muslim village, located in the area immediately north of Jerusalem.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. 122 The Victor Guérin visited the village in July 1863, and described it as having five hundred inhabitants, situated on a rocky plateau. The highest point of the plateau was occupied by the remains of an old construction, which people referred to as Ed-Deir (the Monastery).
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Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already > much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. > Rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed > it among themselves, as they have lately done. If a lock, let it have been > made in whatever country, or by whatever maker, is not so inviolable as it > has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest > persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are tolerably certain to > apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of the knowledge is > necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It > cannot be too earnestly urged that an acquaintance with real facts will, in > the end, be better for all parties.
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Alleyn is on tolerably good terms with his older brother, Sir George Alleyn, the current baronet, who throughout most of the series is an unseen character. In Artists in Crime (1938), their mother indicates that Sir George is more conventional and less intelligent than his detective younger brother. The novel Death in a White Tie features Sarah Alleyn, a daughter of Sir George, and mentions that Sir George's wife (Alleyn's sister-in-law) is named Grace and that the elder Lady Alleyn is called Helena (at least, she is addressed as such by Lady Lorrimer). Like his younger brother, Sir George entered the Foreign Service: Death in a White Tie implies that Sir George is the Governor of Fiji in the late 1930s, as he writes to Alleyn from Government House in Suva.
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He visited all the larger islands, and ascertained that there was no organised opposition to the cession; but he found that the representations made to government as to the value of the islands were in many substantial particulars incorrect, while Thakombau was in no sense king of Fiji. Foreseeing a tolerably long detention in the islands, Smythe brought with him to Levuka materials for a small house, which was erected, and part of it was fitted as an observatory. Here, from 12 Jan to 30 April 1861, he made regular magnetical and meteorological observations, including very careful determinations of magnetic declination, inclination, and force. Although not the first good observations made at Fiji, Smythe's are the most extensive and complete, and will probably long remain the standard of comparison.
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He showed early academic promise, as testified by Bishop Hildesley, although the Bishop was disappointed upon first meeting him: > Young Christian got to me the day before the snow... I find he is almost a > blank paper, notwithstanding the vast cries up of his vehement scholarship. > His uncle sent me a list of books he had read, enough to frighten a learned > Jew. He is tolerably versed in Greek Testament. But it is time he should > know things as well as wordsLetter to the Revd. Philip Moore, January 19th, > 1769, printed in the "Manx Sun" Dec. 3rd, 1904, quoted in Pargys Caillit: > The Revd Thomas Christian's Manks Paraphrase of Paradise Lost, by C. I. > Paton, Douglas, 1947 Marown Old Church, Isle of Man In 1768 or 1769 he was appointed Vicar of Peel.
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Some idea of the depth and range of his linguistic erudition may be gained from a letter of application he wrote to Thomas Watts, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, in which he claimed an 'intimate acquaintance' with Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish and Latin, and 'to a lesser degree' Portuguese, Vaudois, Provençal & various dialects'. In addition, he was 'tolerably familiar' with Dutch, German and Danish. His studies of Anglo-Saxon and Mœso-Gothic had been 'much closer', he knew 'a little of the Celtic' and was at the time 'engaged with the Slavonic, having obtained a useful knowledge of the Russian'. He had 'sufficient knowledge of Hebrew and Syriac to read at sight the Old Testament and Peshito' and to a lesser degree he knew Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic and Phoenician.
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These two objects are generally identified today (as by the NGC/IC Project and Uranometria) with two brighter knots of nebulosity in a cloud at the northern edge of the loop, to the east of the northern edge of Pickering's Triangle. NGC 6979 was reported by William Herschel, and while the coordinates he recorded for Veil objects were somewhat imprecise, his position for this one is tolerably close to the knot at J2000 RA Dec . The identifier NGC 6979 is sometimes taken to refer to Pickering's Triangle,See, for example, this photo posted by Astronomy Magazine (accessed 2010-12-01). but the Triangle is probably not what Herschel saw or what the Catalogue intended for this entry: it was discovered only photographically, after the Catalogue was published, and long after Herschel's observation.
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Arvid Horn, President of the Privy Council Chancellery There was no room in the Swedish republican constitution for a constitutional monarch in the modern sense of the word. The crowned puppet who possessed two casting votes in the Privy Council, of which he was the nominal president, and who was allowed to create peers once in his life, at his coronation, was rather a state decoration than a sovereignty. At first this cumbrous and complicated instrument of government worked tolerably well under the firm but cautious control of the Chancery President, Count Arvid Horn. In his anxiety to avoid embroiling his country abroad, Horn reversed the traditional policy of Sweden by keeping France at a distance and drawing Sweden nearer to the Kingdom of Great Britain, for whose liberal institutions he professed the highest admiration.
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In these works the forward thrust of the classical sonata allegro is replaced by a new fragmentation using the juxtaposition of strongly contrasting blocks of material. Another distinct change is the increased use of polytonality and non-tonal harmony: the chord on C referred to in the article above is a clear example of this, consisting of a compression of the chords of C, D and A in one vertical alignment. Here is Tippett's own description of the work: > One of the vital matters to be decided in the period of gestation before > composition, is the overall length; and then the kind of proportions that > best fit this length. The Symphony takes about 35 minutes to play and its > four movements are tolerably equal, though the slow movement is somewhat > longer than the others.
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The area surrounding what would become Sturgis was first settled by American Revolutionary War officers, mostly from Virginia, who had received bounty land for their service. The History of Union County, published in 1886 by The Courier Co., says, "The county had its aristocrats but the [Civil] War had a decidedly leveling tendency yet, there is a tolerably well defined line still marking the society of the county into different sets." Sturgis was founded the same year as a company town by the Cumberland Land and Iron Company within its coal-mining development. The name derives from either Samuel P. Sturgis, who originally owned the townsite, or for Alida Livingston Sturgis (Samuel's sister), who was married to the president and general manager of the Ohio Valley Railroad Company.
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Dr. Maguire's will and testament, which is dated 20 May 1798, was proved on 3 January 1799, by his brother and nephew, Philip and Denis Maguire, in the Diocesan Court of Clogher and is kept in the Public Records Office in Dublin. It reads as follows: In the Name of God. Amen. Being perfectly sound in mind, and tolerably well in body, to guard against a surprise, death being certain and the hour unknown, I make this my last will and testament, and dispose of all my worldly substance in the following manner. 1\. I order my body to be interred in Devenish along with those of my brothers Bryan and James; and I order that a decent tombstone, not a very expensive one, be placed over me, and that moderate expense be made at my funeral.
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Some 1,500 of them did so- not because of 'Ala's offer, but because of an even better offer from one of his officers, who wanted to use them to depose 'Ala'. Learning of this plot soon after his combined forces had persuaded Abu Sahl to submit in Jumada I 429 H (February–March 1038 CE), 'Ala' had the officer imprisoned at Tabarak, so the Oghuz went on the rampage again. While 'Ala' set about dealing with the new problem and taking control of Ray, the arrival of the new Oghuz in Azerbaijan completely upset the tolerably successful balance which had been struck with the earlier immigrants. Vicious Oghuz raiding, affecting both the dominant population group and the Kurdish minority, led to an alliance between Wahsudan, the Rawadid ruler of Azerbaijan, and the Kurdish leader Abu'l-Hayja ibn Rabib al-Daula.
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His reputation does not rest on his numerous editions, often hasty or even made to booksellers' orders, but in his remarks, especially his conjectures. He himself designates the Animadversiones in scriptores Graecos as flos ingenii sui, and in truth these thin booklets outweigh his big editions. Closely following the author's thought he removes obstacles whenever he meets them, but he is so steeped in the language and thinks so truly like a Greek that the difficulties he feels often seem to us to lie in mere points of style. His criticism is empirical and unmethodical, based on immense and careful reading, and applied only when he feels a difficulty; and he is most successful when he has a large mass of tolerably homogeneous literature to lean on, whilst on isolated points he is often at a loss.
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Jessel's earnings during his first three years at the bar were 52, 346, and 795 guineas, from which it will be seen that his rise to a tolerably large practice was rapid. His work, however, was mainly conveyancing, and for long his income remained almost stationary. By degrees, however, he got more work, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1865, becoming a bencher of his Inn in the same year and practising in the Court of Chancery. Jessel entered Parliament as Liberal Party member for Dover in 1868, and although neither his intellect nor his oratory was of a class likely to commend itself to his fellow-members, he attracted William Ewart Gladstone's attention by two learned speeches on the Bankruptcy Bill which was before the house in 1869, with the result that in 1871 he was appointed Solicitor General.
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The United Kingdom had to wait nearly three years for the Samara to go on sale, after its launch in the USSR, but sales were reasonably strong when the first versions of the car left forecourts, in November 1987. In a road test conducted by The Motor magazine, it scored more than 5 points out of 10 in most aspects and was praised for having a remarkably extensive list of standard equipment, “impressive” engine, good visibility and performance for its price segment, lowered fuel consumption, being good at cornering and “tolerably quiet”, but also received criticism for having a cheap-looking interior and plastic mouldings and being “very turbulent” on poor roads.The Motor, December 5, 1987, pp. 40–41 The £4,795 price at introduction "was much less expensive" than the competing Peugeot 309 or Ford Escort 1300.
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The position initially provided Wheeler with an annual salary of £600, which resulted in a decline in living standards for his family, who moved into a flat near to Victoria Station. Tessa's biographer L. C. Carr later commented that together, the Wheelers "professionalized the London Museum". Wheeler expressed his opinion that the museum "had to be cleaned, expurgated, and catalogued; in general, turned from a junk shop into a tolerably rational institution". Focusing on reorganising the exhibits and developing a more efficient method of cataloguing the artefacts, he also authored A Short Guide to the Collections, before using the items in the museum to write three books: London and the Vikings, London and the Saxons, and London and the Romans. Upon his arrival, the Treasury allocated the museum an annual budget of £5,000, which Wheeler deemed insufficient for its needs.
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The arable lands, which are chiefly along the banks of the Ken, are tolerably level, and interspersed with copses of oak and birch. The lower grounds are watered by numerous rivulets, which intersect the parish in various directions, and form tributaries to the Dee and to the Ken. The Ken has its source on the confines of Dumfriesshire, and, after entering the parish on the north-east, receives the waters of the Deuch, and at the southern extremity unites with the Dee. There are also many lakes, of which those of Loch Dungeon and Loch Harrow, in the north, are of considerable extent, but both inferior to Loch Ken, on the eastern border of the parish, which is about five miles in length and three quarters of a mile in breadth, and by far the most eminent for the beauty of its scenery.
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But I can find out no such case." In a section on "organs of little apparent importance", Darwin discusses the difficulty of explaining various seemingly trivial traits with no evident adaptive function, and outlines some possibilities such as correlation with useful features. He accepts that we "are profoundly ignorant of the causes producing slight and unimportant variations" which distinguish domesticated breeds of animals, , Quote: "We are profoundly ignorant of the causes producing slight and unimportant variations; and we are immediately made conscious of this by reflecting on the differences in the breeds of our domesticated animals in different countries" and human races. He suggests that sexual selection might explain these variations: , Quote: "… I gave, however, a tolerably clear sketch of this principle in the first edition of the 'Origin of Species,' and I there stated that it was applicable to man.
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"João António Júdice (1981) In the reports of Manoel Correa Branco (1776), the fort is "...the last situated in the bay, and the main one defending [the bay] crossing fire with the many forts that defend the bay", noting the need for its repairs, including grout in the guardhouse, garrison cots, the wooden ceiling, and the roof of the small house that served as a powder magazine, which lacks door and stored the artillery during the winter. At this time, the fort had an irregular polygonal plan, with the walls protected by six cannon emplacements towards the sea and one towards the town. The 1805 plan of the town of Praia also includes the design of the Fort at that time. Twenty years later (around 1822), Sousa (1995) records that the port of Praia was "...tolerably defended by the fort...of the Holy Spirit.
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The Convention issued a pamphlet entitled Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh, believed to have been authored by the classical scholar Sir Gilbert Elliot and heavily influenced by the ideas of Lord Provost George Drummond. Elliot described the existing town as follows, > Placed upon a ridge of a hill, it admits but of one good street, running > from east to west, and even this is tolerably accessible only from one > quarter. The narrow lanes leading to the north and south, by reason of their > steepness, narrowness and dirtiness, can only be considered as so many > unavoidable nuisances. Confined by the small compass of the walls, and the > narrow limits of the royalty, which scarcely extends beyond the walls, the > houses stand more crowded than in any other town in Europe, and are built to > a height that is almost incredible.
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During the 29 June, as the Coalition forces approached Paris it had also been tolerably well ascertained that, although fortified works had been thrown up on the right bank of the Seine, the defence of the left bank had been comparatively neglected. A further inducement towards the adoption of this plan arose from a report which was now received from Major Colomb, stating that although he had found the bridge of Chatou, leading to Château de Malmaison, destroyed: he had hastened to that of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on hearing that it had not been damaged; and succeeded in gaining possession of it at the very moment the French were on the point of blowing it up. The bridge of Maisons, still lower down stream, was also taken and occupied. No time was lost by the Prussian Commander in taking advantage of the captured bridges across the Seine.
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In his desire to find some universal principle, he assumed, like traditional religion, the existence of a cosmic order; and his ideas on this used the old language of myths which ascribed divine control to various spheres of reality. This was a common practice for the Greek philosophers in a society which saw gods everywhere, and therefore could fit their ideas into a tolerably elastic system.C. M. Bowra (1957) The Greek experience. World publishing Company. Cleveland and New York. p168,169. Some scholars see a gap between the existing mythical and the new rational way of thought which is the main characteristic of the archaic period (8th to 6th century BC) in the Greek city-states.Herbert Ernest Cushman claims Anaximander has "the first European philosophical conception of god", A beginner's history of philosophy, Volume 1 pg. 24 This has given rise to the phrase "Greek miracle".
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With rating scales, it is not possible to explore the informant's responses and subjective experiences, nor is it possible to observe behavior directly. Because the GRS is administered by laypeople, critics aver that in a large school system, such as New York City, problems with measurement consistency can be tolerably contained within Regions; but it can be injurious to students wrongly admitted to more rigorous citywide schools for intellectually gifted. In the case of the New York City public schools, the implementation of the GRS and the OLSAT, together, essentially represent a shift away from using IQ as the prime criteria for identifying special needs. It also removes the assessment duties from the erstwhile used tightly-controlled NYC DOE process that uses pre-approved, independent child psychologists (who had, until 2007, administered the Stanford Binet), and gives most of the duties, instead, to a publishing company and laypeople.
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He was assisted by his two sons, Henry and Frederick. Frederick, along with another potter called William Watson, developed a style of applied relief decoration, which was to become characteristic of the firm's production. In 1869, Frederick Mitchell moved production of the decorative ware to new premises in Ferry Road Rye, called the Belle Vue pottery, while more functional products continued to be made at Cadborough, by William Mitchell, and after his death in 1870 by Frederick’s brother Henry. The products of the Belle Vue Pottery were sold under the name the trade name of "Sussex Rustic Ware". Llewellynn Jewitt, in his Ceramic Art of Great Britain described this ware as "of peculiar, but highly pleasing character", and said that “The clay is peculiarly light, and of tolerably close texture, and it is capable of working into any form. The glaze … is of exceedingly good quality, and it has a rich effect over the mottling or splashing which characterizes this ware“.
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Warren did point out that the film was made at a time when reincarnation was a "hot topic" because of the publicity surrounding the then-current "Bridey Murphy business" and that reincarnation was "dropped into the film", which was otherwise "science fiction because that's what audiences of 1958 were buying". While Senn wrote that Anderson's performance "creates one of the dullest and least appealing heroes" of the 1950s, he also said that cinematographer Kenneth Peach's "moody lighting" produced shadows which highlighted "the alien-ness of [Quintillus'] hardened crust appearance". He described the film as being "saddled with an unsteady script [and] occasional dull stretches" and called the direction "pedestrian". British film critic Phil Hardy wrote that although "the plot is little more than an ingenuous reworking of The Mummy (1932)" the film is "tolerably gripping thanks to a lucidly economical script by [Jerome] Bixby (a short story writer of uncommon wit, oddly neglected by Hollywood)" and has "a neat twist at the end" when Quintillus dissolves.
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This parish, which comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 27,367¼: statute acres, of which 627¾ are water, is situated on the north-western coast; it comprehends the greater part of the peninsular district of Fannet, or Fanad, extending northward into the ocean, and terminating in the points called Maheranguna and Pollacheeny. The surface is for the most part occupied by mountains of considerable altitude, among which Knockalla is 1196 feet above the level of the sea: these are separated by deep and narrow vales, of which the soil is tolerably good, consisting of a brown gravelly mould, sometimes inclining to clay, on a basis of white gravel, brownish or reddish clay, slate of various colours, and sometimes soft freestone rock. The parish contains about 60 quarter lands of good arable and bad pasture, with much waste and barren land: many acres have been covered and destroyed by the shifting sands. The point of Fannet is in lat.
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Likewise with CATV, although many broadcast TV installations and CATV headends use 300 Ω folded dipole antennas to receive off-the-air signals, 75 Ω coax makes a convenient 4:1 balun transformer for these as well as possessing low attenuation. The arithmetic mean between 30 Ω and 77 Ω is 53.5 Ω; the geometric mean is 48 Ω. The selection of 50 Ω as a compromise between power- handling capability and attenuation is in general cited as the reason for the number. 50 Ω also works out tolerably well because it corresponds approximately to the feedpoint impedance of a half-wave dipole, mounted approximately a half-wave above "normal" ground (ideally 73 Ω, but reduced for low-hanging horizontal wires). RG-62 is a 93 Ω coaxial cable originally used in mainframe computer networks in the 1970s and early 1980s (it was the cable used to connect IBM 3270 terminals to IBM 3274/3174 terminal cluster controllers).
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and > moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long > as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. But... when some event > or leader of opinion has aroused the people to a state of high emotion, our > puritan spirit has tended to break through, leading us to look at the world > through the distorting prism of a harsh and angry moralism. Fulbright also related his opposition to any American tendencies to intervene in the affairs of other nations: > Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly > susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring > upon it a special responsibility for other nations—to make them richer and > happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power > confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Sir John Strachey (left) pictured in 1876 Writers have described the line as infringement of the principles of free trade and the freedom of the people of India. Sir John Strachey, the minister whose tax review led to the abolition of the line, was quoted in 1893 describing the line as "a monstrous system, to which it would be almost impossible to find a parallel in any tolerably civilised country". This has been echoed by modern writers such as journalist Madeleine Bunting, who wrote in The Guardian in February 2001 that the line was "one of the most grotesque and least well known achievements of the British in India". M. E. Grant Duff The massive scale of the undertaking has also been commented upon, with both Hume, the customs commissioner, and M. E. Grant Duff, who was Under- Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1874, comparing the hedge to the Great Wall of China.
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The Architects Act 1997 had resulted from the policy of allowing certain restrictions to apply (for well over 60 years, in the United Kingdom) to the use of the simple word "architect" in connection with a statutory Register of Architects operated under Westminster primary legislation by which the executant body was renamed as the Architects Registration Board from 1997 (previously the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom). The amendment (under the European Communities Act 1972) has introduced pages of complicated text to a piece of legislation which was otherwise tolerably trim, neat and comprehensible in its consolidated form in the 1997 Act. But the amendment has been made pursuant to a European Directive made in 2005Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and the treaty obligations binding upon the United Kingdom and other states of the European Union, and in that respect an amendment under the European Directive was inevitable.
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The Battle of Manlian Pass took place between Romans under Q. Fulvius Flaccus and Celtiberi in 181 BC. Fulvius had arrived as praetor assigned to the province of Hispania Ulterior in 180, and continued as proconsul for the following two years. The fullest account of the battle is given by Livy (40.39-40): > As his successor was somewhat late in reaching Spain, Fulvius Flaccus led > out his army from winter quarters and began to devastate the more distant > parts of Celtiberia, where the inhabitants had not come in to surrender. By > this action he irritated the natives more than he intimidated them, and > secretly collecting a force they beset the Manlian Pass, through which they > were tolerably certain that the Romans would march. Gracchus had instructed > his colleague, L. Postumius Albinus, who was on his way to Further Spain, to > inform Q. Fulvius that he was to bring his army to Tarraco, where he > intended to disband the old soldiers, incorporate the reinforcements into > the various corps and reorganise the whole army.
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Wriothesley's gatehouse - a vital symbol of seigneurial power for an early 16th-century courtier's house, cuts through the nave of the Premonstratensian canons' church, seen left and right of the tower. The choir, transepts and altar - now lost - were on the right of the picture The internal affairs of the abbey seem to have been largely quiet. It was generally well run over its history and maintained a good reputation for the life led by its canons. As with other Premonstratensian houses, Titchfield Abbey was visited once a year by the father-abbot from the parent house (in this case Halesowen Abbey); or instead, in certain years, by a commission of the General Chapter of Prémontré, the headquarters of the Premonstratensian Order. The abbey remained tolerably solvent for most of its existence, however, in common with many religious houses and secular lords it experienced severe financial difficulties in the latter half of the 14th century and the early 15th century due to the economic and social crisis resulting from the effects of the Black Death.
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It was first translated into English in 1899 by Robert B. Douglas, though an edition was edited in French by an English scholar Thomas Wright in 1858. It can hardly have been the coarseness of some of the stories that prevented the Nouvelles from being presented to English readers when there were by that time half a dozen versions of the Heptameron, which is as coarse as the Nouvelles. In addition to this, there is the history of the book itself, and its connection with one of the most important personages in French history — Louis XI. Indeed, in many older French and English works of reference, the authorship of the Nouvelles has been attributed to him, and though in recent years, the writer is now believed — and no doubt correctly — to have been Antoine de la Salle, it is tolerably certain that Prince Louis heard all the stories related, and very possibly contributed several of them. The circumstances under which these stories came to be narrated involve the period from 1456 to 1461, when Louis was estranged from his father, Charles VII of France, and was being kept by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy.
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Frost & Co., of Chester, and > some extensive salt-works; and in the village is a tanyard. > The fishery, since the withdrawing of the bounty, has very much diminished: > there are at present only 10 wherries or small fishing boats belonging to > the port. The village carries on a tolerably brisk coasting trade: in 1833, > 134 coal vessels, of the aggregate burden of 11,566 tons, and 29 coasting > vessels of 1,795 tons, entered inwards, and 17 coasters of 1,034 tons > cleared outwards, from and to ports in Great Britain. The harbour is > rendered safe for vessels of 150 tons' burden by an excellent pier, > completed in 1763, principally by Baron Hamilton, aided by a parliamentary > grant, and is a place of refuge for vessels of that burden at 3/4 tide. A > jetty or pier, 420 feet (128 metres) long from the N. W. part of the > harbour, with a curve of 105 feet (32 metres) in a western direction, > forming an inner harbour in which at high tide is 14 feet (4 metres) of > water, and affording complete shelter from all winds, was commenced in 1826 > and completed in 1829, at an expense of £2,912–7s–9d, of which the late > Fishery Board gave £1,569, the Marquess of Lansdowne £100, and the remainder > was subscribed by the late Rev. Geo.
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