It is one of the most > interesting minute flowers. It is the more beautiful for being small and > unpretending; even flowers must be modest.
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In October 1862, the Commissioners' architect checking on the building declared it unsafe. The roof was too heavy and the walls had bowed out. It was described as a very plain, unpretending structure, an undivided parallelogram, 72 ft long, and 55 ft wide.
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Agassiz Made Fine address. Pres Eliot Commends the Work of the New Institution." The Boston Daily Globe, June 24, 1896, p. 4 In 1904, a popular historian wrote of the College's genesis: "... it set up housekeeping in two unpretending rooms in the Appian Way, Cambridge.
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Beaumont's books were valuable because they documented a period that quickly passed. Her style was simple and unpretending. She was one of the hard-working business women of the day who demonstrated independence, self-sacrifice, and tenacity. She died in England, 6 September 1892 and was buried there.
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This unpretending little shell has for its chief distinctive characters the 8 rounded ribs and fine spiral striation, and the outer lip is thickened within at a little distance from the acute margin. The small aperture is narrow. The columella shows a small callus. The siphonal canal is very short.
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The Emigrant's Quest; or, "Is it our own Church?" was published by "M. E. Beauchamp" (New York general Protestant episcopal Sunday-school union and church book society, 1867, 92 pages). It was characterized as an "unpretending", tiny volume. The publisher, acknowledging that it did not have personal knowledge of the author, stated that Beauchamp could have rendered a much larger work.
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The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This unpretending little species is easily recognized by its black colour and faint sculpture. A row of small tubercles ascends the spire, scarcely discernible on the last whorl, which (as in Crassispira rudis) descends and rises again at the aperture, making the spire-outlines curvilinear. The first three whorls are smooth.
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The doctor, > who for many years enjoyed an enviable medical practice in this community, > was a man of scholarly attainments . . . was a man of exemplary character, > of an even disposltion, quiet in his ways, unpretending, self-sacrificing, > of a very kindly nature. Santa Cruz was made much richer by his presence > amongst us, for he lived a life of service, caring little for pecuniary > emoluments.
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Dundonald railway station was opened on 6 May 1850, but finally closed on 24 April 1950. The old railway line has now been converted to the Comber greenway, a pedestrian path running from East Belfast, through Dundonald to Comber. In the 1960s, Dundonald was deemed a small village.Carr, Peter,'The Most Unpretending of Places, a History of Dundonald, County Down'white Row Press, (Dundonald, 1987), p.
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Carr, P.A. The Most Unpretending Of Places (White Row Press Ltd: Dundonald, 1990) pp.214-215 During The Troubles the estate became a loyalist stronghold. Andy Tyrie, Ulster Army Council leader and commander of the Ulster Defence Association in the 1970s, was from the estate.Young Tigers and Mongrel Foxes, Paddy Harte The estate was named after the nearby townland of Ballybeen, home to the Robb family of farmers and landowners.
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However, unlike contemporaries such as Aldhelm, whose Latin is full of difficulties, Bede's own text is easy to read. In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is "clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style."Plummer, Bedae Opera Historica, vol. I, pp. liii–liv.
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Shaw, unlike Arnold who viewed Philistines as obstacles to human and cultural progress, constructs this type as relatively harmless though it includes the majority of society. Philistine characterization varies widely in Shaw's novels and plays, and becomes less and less frequent in his later works. The Philistine is often likeable, endowed with athletic ability, unpretending and credulous. Examples of this type exhibit a range of social backgrounds, Clod including the aristocracy and professions such as the army, the church, and politics.
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A harbour might be built at Knott End to rival and even outgrow Fleetwood. Their scheme went to Parliament, where it was opposed by the London and North Western Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Facing that danger, the promoters now asserted that their line was "a simple and unpretending line, proposed entirely for the accommodation of the local traffic of the district".Walmsley Accordingly, the Garstang and Knot End Railway was authorised by Act of 30 June 1864.
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In 1883, Bush published a collection of sermons called More Words About the Bible, a response to his colleague Heber Newton's book Uses of the Bible. In 1885, his book Evidence of Faith was reviewed by The Literary World as "clear, simple, and unpretending", and summarized as an argument against supernatural explanations for God. According to the same journal, both works fit into the broad church movement. The Boston Advertiser called the latter work "the best statement of untrammeled spiritual thought" among recent books.
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He said. :"For some time she resided in Westmorland. Not far from the shores of Windermere is “Dove’s Nest” still a pretty yet unpretending cottage. Here she had the frequent companionship of the poet she most honoured and loved; and Wordsworth in return for sweet companionship gave her the wealth of his friendship and accorded to her perhaps greater homage than he paid to any other of his contemporaries."Hall, Samuel Carter 1871 “A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance”, p. 363.
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It was "... an unpretending structure in the similitude of a jelly mould ..."The Chronicle & Directory for China ... 1904 which explains its affectionate nickname The Jelly Mould. Sunday Services were in the late afternoon (4:30 or 5:30 pm). The first three Sundays was a Church of England service, with a Presbyterian service on the fourth.China Mail - 6 Oct 1883 50 years later - in the 1930s, the only regular Anglican service was 7:30 on Thursday, but the church was regularly used by the Scandinavian Mission to Seamen.
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Abraham said of her, "All that I am or hope ever to be I get from my mother". Lincoln developed a modicum of talent as a carpenter and although called "an uneducated man, a plain unpretending plodding man", he was respected for his civil service, storytelling ability and good-nature. He was also known as a "wandering" laborer, shiftless and uneducated. A rover and drifter, he kept floating about from one place to another, taking any kind of job he could get when hunger drove him to it.
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In character he was amiable and unpretending. He published in 1784 a translation from the Greek of the ‘Arenarius’ of Archimedes, with preface, notes, and illustrations of considerable merit; to which he added a version of the Latin Dissertation of Clavius. His only other work was a lucid and accurate statement as to the condition of Indian trade and finance, entitled ‘A General View of the Variations which have been made in the Affairs of the East India Company from the Conclusion of the War in India in 1784 to the Commencement of the present Hostilities,’ 1792.
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Plans were issued and tenders for construction called in March 1880. The front was to face Waterloo Quay.(a few weeks later this was changed to Featherston StreetImportant Change of Plan. The Evening Post page 2, 7 April 1880) The Evening Post described it as "a plain and unpretending" building, of one storey, 150 feet long, 20 feet high and 16 feet wide (or 45 metres long, 6 metres high and 5 metres wide). The main platform was to be of asphalt and extend 400 feet (120 metres) to the rear of the station covered by an overhanging verandah.
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He selected Latiniacum (Lagny), close to Chelles and about six miles from Paris, a spot beside the Marne, at that time covered with shady woods and abounding in fruitful vineyards. Here he built his monastery and three chapels, one dedicated to Jesus Christ the Saviour, one to St Peter, and the third, an unpretending structure, was later dedicated to St Fursey himself. Many of his Irish countrymen were attracted to his rule at Lagny, including Emilian, Eloquius, Mombulus, Adalgisius, Etto, Bertuin, Fredegand, Lactan, and Malguil. His journeys continued and many churches in Picardy are dedicated to him.
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Bergson traveled to London in 1908 and met there with William James, the Harvard philosopher who was Bergson's senior by seventeen years, and who was instrumental in calling the attention of the Anglo-American public to the work of the French professor. The two became great friends. James's impression of Bergson is given in his Letters under date of 4 October 1908: > So modest and unpretending a man but such a genius intellectually! I have > the strongest suspicions that the tendency which he has brought to a focus, > will end by prevailing, and that the present epoch will be a sort of turning > point in the history of philosophy.
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It is said to be the first Methodist Episcopal society organized in the township; when it was the first organized there is no written record. The society is in good working condition, and since 1840 has under its watchcare a Sabbath-school which numbers sixty scholars, which also meets in the district school-house. Bethesda Methodist Episcopal church is an unpretending one-story frame building, located on the N. E. 1/4 of Sec. 23, T. 12, R. 10 W., three and a half miles west of Terre Haute, and a half mile south of the Paris road. It was built in 1849 and completed in 1852.
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It noted, however, that had the piece been written for a less exceptional occasion, it "would be welcomed as a very agreeable work, unambitious in plan, unpretending in style, but at the same time lively, tuneful, fresh, and extremely well-written both for voices and instruments.""Birmingham Musical Festival", The Times review, 12 September 1864, p. 10 After two further performances (at The Crystal Palace on 12 November 1864; and by the Dublin Philharmonic Society in 1868), Sullivan withdrew the piece and refused to allow it to be performed. There were also three known complete performances of the masque around the first anniversary of the composer's death and additional performances in 1903 and 1907.
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At the time, such unornamented objects could have been found in many unpretending workaday items of industrial design, ceramics produced at the Arabia manufactory in Finland, for instance, or the glass insulators of electric lines. This latter approach was described by architect Adolf Loos in his 1908 manifesto, translated into English in 1913 and polemically titled Ornament and Crime, in which he declared that lack of decoration is the sign of an advanced society. His argument was that ornament is economically inefficient and "morally degenerate", and that reducing ornament was a sign of progress. Modernists were eager to point to American architect Louis Sullivan as their godfather in the cause of aesthetic simplification, dismissing the knots of intricately patterned ornament that articulated the skin of his structures.
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23 These gangs included "The Shankill Young Tartan", "Ardcarn Boot Boys", "Ballybeen Riot Squad" and the "Young Newton" from the Ballymacarrett area of East Belfast.The Most Unpretending of Places, A History of Dundonald, County Down by Peter Carr In the Shankill Road area, the Tartan Gang quickly came under UDA control and served as their youth movement, although elsewhere in the city they remained independent and during a series of riots in the east in 1972 they proved notoriously difficult for the UDA leadership to control. In East Belfast, some Tartan Gang members known to John McKeague formed the basis of the Red Hand Commando when he established that group in 1972.Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men, Mainstream Publishing, 2003, p.
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To the diarist and writer Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), "She dwelt" gave "the powerful effect of the loss of a very obscure object upon one tenderly attached to it—the opposition between the apparent strength of the passion and the insignificance of the object is delightfully conceived."Robinson 1938, 191 Besides word of mouth and opinions in letters, there were only a few published contemporary reviews. The writer and journalist John Stoddart (1773–1856), in a review of Lyrical Ballads, described "Strange fits" and "She dwelt" as "the most singular specimens of unpretending, yet irresistible pathos".quoted in Jones 1995, 56 An anonymous review of Poems in Two Volumes in 1807 had a less positive opinion about "I travell'd": "Another string of flat lines about Lucy is succeeded by an ode to Duty".
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Duff was the son of Colonel James Duff, a retired army officer living in Aberdeenshire, and Jane Bracken Dunlop. He and his twin brother Alan were among the first boys at Fettes College, Edinburgh; he came as a scholar to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1878 and was elected a Classical Fellow in 1883, a post he held until his death. > Teaching Latin and Greek at Trinity, and also at Girton, was the main work > of his life; and he is best known to classical scholars for what A. E. > Housman praised as his 'unpretending school edition' of Juvenal. He was over > forty years old when he taught himself Russian, in order to read in the > original the novels of Tolstoy and especially Turgenev, which he had greatly > admired in French translations.
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11, p. 134. Jeffrey is a man "of strict integrity ... is firm without violence, friendly without weakness—a critic and even-tempered, a casuist and an honest man—and amidst the toils of his profession and the distractions of the world, retains the gaiety, the unpretending carelessness and simplicity of youth." Again anticipating modern journalistic practise, Hazlitt records the immediate appearance of his subject, "in his person ... slight, with a countenance of much expression, and a voice of great flexibility and acuteness of tone."Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 134; Paulin 1998, p. 230. Later critics have judged this sketch of Jeffrey as largely positive—Paulin emphasises that Hazlitt's characterisation of his personality as "electric" and constantly in motion generally signified high praise from Hazlitt, valuing life over mechanism—but also incorporating serious criticism.Paulin 1998, pp.
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Despite the simplicity of its early design, the house was the grandest private residence in Charters Towers when built, something easily forgotten when far more ostentatious houses were built during the boom years of the 1890s and which, at the time of Pfeiffer's death, was considered "unpretending" for a man of his position. Its placement near the mine suggests that ready access to it was considered more important than any inconvenience caused by noise or dust. Pfeiffer, as was the case with other major mine owners or investors, became a prominent figure in Charters Towers society. He served as chairman of the hospital board for fifteen years, was a founder and benefactor of the Lutheran church, honorary Major of the Kennedy Regiment and was well known for his generosity towards community organisations and those in need.
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Reverend Walsh became a leader among the colonial Tractarians, which explains his promotion of Carpenter's Gothic Revival inspired church design to Bishop Broughton. The Church of St John the Baptist, Cookham Dean, had been described and lauded in the societies' journal "The Ecclesiologist" when it was completed in 1845, to which Bishop Broughton and other members of the colonial clergy subscribed. In this article it was described as a fourteenth century style church of "a very simple" and "most satisfactory design" but "not mean or starved" and "of unpretending but solemn character". It is highly likely that it was these properties of the design that brought it to Broughton's attention and inspired him to acquire copies of the drawings. Previously a copy of this design had been acquired by Bishop Nixon of Tasmania and it was used to construct a church at Buckland, Tasmania between August 1846 and January 1849.
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Manitoba's Government house is a structure of solid masonry walls and timber floor framing, the original block being square and four storeys in height, counting the basement level, covering a total of approximately , including the tower. The volume and its facade composition was at first symmetrical along an east-west axis through the centre of the building, though this arrangement was later altered by the addition of new wings; this is clad in brick, trimmed with cut stone and ornate wood cornices at the roof line, and iron cresting tops the tower. The overall design was described in 1883 as "Italian, modified to suit the requirements of the climate," though the same year an early visitor noted in the guest book: "It is an unpretending looking structure, of nondescript architecture and with no outside ornamentation." Similarly, in 1953, the provincial architect said that Government House was the one "jarring note" on the grounds of the Legislative Building.
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Lord Holland said of Fitzwilliam: > With little talent and less acquirements, he was, throughout his life, one > of the most considerable men in the country and a striking instance of that > most agreeable truth—that courage and honesty in great situations more than > supply the place of policy or talent. It was not his relationship to Lord > Rockingham, though no doubt an advantage, nor his princely fortune, though a > yet greater, which conferred the sort of importance he enjoyed for half a > century in this country. He derived it more directly and more certainly from > his goodness and generosity, and from the combination of gentleness and > courage which distinguished his amiable and unpretending character. Such > unblemished purity and such unobtrusive intrepidity, such generosity of > feeling, firmness of purpose, and tenderness of heart, meeting in one of > high station and princely fortune, commanded the affection and confidence of > the public; and Lord Fitzwilliam enjoyed them, beyond even those of his own > class who united much greater reach of understanding and more assiduity of > business to superior personal accomplishments and advantages.
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