" Naudet's sales pitch is as follows: "Look here, I'll make you a proposal; I'll sell it you for five thousand francs, and I'll sign an agreement to take it back in a twelvemonth at six thousand, if you no longer care for it.
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" The unbylined article relied on the expertise of Sir Ernest Hodder Williams, president of the London publishing firm Hodder & Stoughton and vice president of the George H. Doran Company in New York, who declared "the coming twelvemonth" to be "'the biggest year ever' in the reading of books.
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Christopher Rush (born 23 November 1944) is a Scottish writer, born in St Monans and for thirty years a teacher of literature in Edinburgh. His books include A Twelvemonth and a Day (chosen by The List magazine in 2005 as one of the 100 best Scottish books of all time)Nick Holdstock, A Twelvemonth and a Day - Christopher Rush (1985), The List, 1 January 2005 and the highly acclaimed To Travel Hopefully. A Twelvemonth and a Day served as inspiration for the film Venus Peter, released in 1989. The story was also reworked by Rush in a simplified version in 1992 as a children's picture book, Venus Peter Saves the Whale, illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick, which won the Friends of the Earth 1993 Earthworm Award for the book published that year that would most help children to enjoy and care for the Earth.
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Venus Peter is a 1989 British film directed by Ian Sellar and produced by Christopher Young for Young films. The film is an adaptation of the novel A Twelvemonth and a Day by Christopher Rush. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. It was filmed on the Orkney Islands, in the North of Scotland.
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In a letter to her niece Fanny Knight in March 1817, Austen wrote that she had a novel "which may appear about a twelvemonth hence." John Murray published Persuasion together with Northanger Abbey in a four-volume set, printed in December 1817 but dated 1818. The first advertisement appeared on December 17, 1817. The Austen family retained copyright of the 1,750 copies, which sold rapidly.
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Archer's M.D. dissertation was De Rheumatismo. He wrote a note on smallpox for the Journal Britannique for 1755, and an introductory epistle for An Account of Inoculation, presented to the Royal Commissioners of Health in Sweden, by David Schultz, M.D., who attended the Small-pox Hospital in London near a twelvemonth (1758), translated from the Swedish original by Schultz. David Schultz von Schultzenheim was a Prussian who promoted inoculation in Sweden.
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Man of Earth; mortal man) (I, 117) consent to marry her and to accompany her. "Seven tymes by hyr he lay," (I, 124), but she transforms into a hideous hag immediately after lying with him, and declares he shall not see "Medill-erthe" (I,160) for a twelvemonth ("twelmoneth", "xij Mones" vv.152, 159). As in the ballad, the lady points out one way towards heaven and another towards hell during their journey to her dominion (ca.200–220).
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"To most of these excellent men," at Bonn, Tayler wrote afterwards, he was indebted "for the kind attentions and many hours of valuable instruction...". He met many leading theologians, philosophers and historians and he wrote a series of letters addressed to his Mosley-street congregation in Manchester about his on-going studies and travels. On his return he published in the Unitarian The Christian Teacher in six parts, his Retrospect of a Twelvemonth Passed in Germany (1836).
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She tells this to her mother, Mrs. Bridget Credulous, who warns her of what might come of marrying a soldier - "Oh, barbarous! to want a husband that may wed you to-day, and be sent the Lord knows where before night; then in a twelvemonth perhaps to have him come like a Colossus, with one leg at New York, and the other at Chelsea Hospital". She softens, however, when Lauretta says she "heard him say you were the best natured and best looking woman in the world".
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Connolly uses the theme to explore his feelings and review his situation as he approaches the age of forty presenting a very pessimistic and self-deprecating account. Into this he brings quotes from some of his favourite authors: Pascal, De Quincey, Chamfort and Flaubert as well as snatches from the Buddha, Chinese philosophy and Freud. The book's title is taken from an English folk song of the same name: :The twelvemonth and a day being up, :The dead began to speak: :'Oh who sits weeping on my grave, :And will not let me sleep?'"The Unquiet Grave" from Child's Collected Ballads The book is in four parts entitled Ecce Gubernator ("Here is the pilot"), Te Palinure Petens ("Looking for you, Palinurus") and La Clé des Chants ("The key of songs") and Who was Palinurus.
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Watt preferred engineering design to managing the works: "Nothing is more contrary to my disposition than bustling and bargaining with mankind:--yet that is the life I now constantly lead. ... I am also in a constant fear that my want of experience may betray me into some scrape, or that I shall be imposed upon by the workmen."James Watt, letter to Dr Small, 9 September 1770, quoted in Muirhead, page 164 He experienced severe weather and difficult ground, writing in December 1770: > Notwithstanding the desperate weather I am almost constantly at the canal > ... I have a hundred men at work just now, finishing a great hill we have > wrought at this twelvemonth. The nastiness of our clay grounds is at present > inconceivable; the quantities of rain have been beyond measure.
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The first appearance of the phrase "sick man of Europe" appears in The New York Times (12 May 1860): > The condition of Austria at the present moment is not less threatening in > itself, though less alarming for the peace of the world, than was the > condition of Turkey when the Tsar Nicholas invited England to draw up with > him the last will and testament of the 'sick man of Europe.' It is, indeed, > hardly within the range of probability that another twelvemonth should pass > over the House of Habsburg without bringing upon the Austrian Empire a > catastrophe unmatched in modern history since the downfall of Poland. The author of this article can be seen to be using the term to point to a second "sick man", this one more generally accepted as a European empire, the Habsburg Monarchy."Austria in Extremis", New York Times (12 May 1860), p. 4.
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His 1874 obituary writers summarise his record thus... 'As a jockey Chris Green was one of the best and boldest horsemen of any time' and 'As a cross-country jockey he had few equals, for to the most indomitable pluck he added rare judgment, never being taken aback in a difficulty; he had a firm and at the same time elegant seat, and the finest hands. It mattered not what kind of horse he was put on, for he was equally at home on the puller as on the slug.' Praise for him as a trainer was slightly more muted, but, after the 1871 Grand National victory with The Lamb, a correspondent did comment on him in the following terms: 'Chris Green has not had charge of Lord Poulett's horses more than a twelvemonth, and it is something in the trainer's favour that he was able to win a Grand National on the first time of asking'.
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George Taylor Shillito Farquhar was an Anglican priest and author Amongst others he wrote "The Episcopal History of Perth", 1894; "Our Ancient Scottish Cathedrals", 1897; "The Church’s Year", 1904; "Musicians", 1908; "The History of the Lay Claims under the Scottish Bishops", 1911; "Three Bishops of Dunkeld", 1915; and "A Scottish Twelvemonth and Other Poems", 1923 > British Library web site accessed 19:18 GMT Friday 11 November 2011 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was educated at Keble College, Oxford “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and ordained in 1881.Multiple News Items The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Wednesday, 15 June 1881; Issue 8707 He was Precentor of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark after which he was Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane"The Clergy List" London, Kelly’s, 1913 until his death on 30 July 1927.“Who was Who” (ibid) In 1890 George Farquhar published a book of sonnets.
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Reporting the first anniversary of Peterloo, it wrote > The anniversary of the 16th of August was observed in many places in this > district by Mourning Processions, and by the singing of hymns suited to the > occasion. We trust that before the completion of another twelvemonth, the > stain ,which the melancholy catastrophe of that day last year has impressed > upon the page of our annals, will be effaced, and that THO' LATE, JUSTICE > WILL AT LENGTH OVERTAKE THE AUTHORS OF THE OUTRAGEextract quoted in untitled > editorial material in In 1821, the other members of the first Little Circle, dissatisfied with Cowdroy's politics (which they considered insufficiently radical) helped John Edward Taylor (previously a cotton merchant) set up the Manchester Guardian, which he edited for the rest of his life and for which they all wrote. Shortly afterwards, the Manchester Observer, which had responded to Peterloo in less carefully measured language than the Gazette ceased publication, worn down by repeated prosecutions for seditious libel (and the loss of a number of straightforward libel cases). The Observer recommended its readers to transfer their custom to the Guardian In 1822, the younger Cowdroy died, and ownership of the newspaper passed to his wife.
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