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1904 of the word. The Rev. William Derham, in his Artificial Clockmaker (1696), describes a lantern clock as a ..

... His name is also found in an account of' Money collected in the Parish of Strowde for the redeeming of Christians out of Slavery from the Turks in the yeare of our Lorde God 1670' . .. In 1678, William Holloway was chosen as one of the churchwardens, ...

Published: Thursday 09 December 1982
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2119 | Page: 76 | Tags: none

The authorities had him on their black list because of his public tirades, in which he assailed all who daily

... children. The doctor never married. Marriage, he thundered, is an institution which reduces the fair sex to a condition of slavery. Dr Price was a support of women's lib before women ever heard of it. That he was efficient as a doctor, and a clever surgeon ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1984
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2422 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

Sabbath School prize in 1905. lt gives six pages to details of the board, the game and the moves, and

... farm was given to it by its first owner, a sugarplanter from Guadeloupe, who had given up his plantation on the abolition of slavery and came over to farm in England. Apparently, he had been a great character in the Melton di trict for The beautiful carved ...

Published: Thursday 05 August 1965
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2365 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

LITERATURES OF THE WORLD IN ENGLISH. Edited by Bruce King

... and I feared that perhaps there would or could be few such touches in a life of vVilberforce, hero of the campaign against slavery, and sententious saint of the Clapham Sect. In a way I was right. But then the most fascinating thing about Robert Furneaux's ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1974
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3287 | Page: 185 | Tags: none

3.- LATE-lBth-CENTURY PORTRAIT BY MATH ER BROW OF R E R-ADMIRAL IR HOME BIGGS WEARI G FOB EAL. Fob seal

... The loop finial was fitted with a loose ring for suspension. Negro-bust seals were worn by those who supported abolition of slavery. These might be enriched with small diamonds and rubies, or with an onyx and enamelling. of Hockley, near Birmingham, and ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1958
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2365 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

THE AGE OF THE GREAT PATRICIAN

... feat of reducing all men to a common level, only to find ruthles dictator replacing democratic government and life becoming slavery, and living mere existence. was good, as both parties acted in good faith and in ignorance of the death and, therefore, the ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2347 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Reviews by RICHARD CHURCH-continued

... patient, that saves and not destroys, is the right spirit. Here are sayings by Epictetus and Werner Pelz (both have known slavery) ; by Sir Thomas Browne and Christopher Fry (two birds of a verbal feather); by Marcus Aurelius and Arthur Grimble (comrades ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1965
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1119 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

THE SHAVIAN HARVEST

... equipment.) He could not go back on his life's work, the issue of which, though resulting in tyranny, mendacity, iron curtains, slavery, and every known form of cruelty, he had hailed as the coming of a new world, his world, the civilisation for which he had ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1127 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

A HOPEFUL LOOK AT RURAL BRITAIN T H

... minority, who care and understand, to carry the apathetic multitude with them. As Mr. Christian points out, the abolition of slavery, and of child labour in factories, did not spring from a mass movement. Here is a book that all who love the countryide should ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2564 | Page: 103 | Tags: none

Reviews by GEOFFREY GRIGSON

... Byzantium and The Wild Swans at steamer. Barbara Bodichon and her doctor are going south to New Orleans, into the heart of slavery. 11 Barbara's experiences in Alnerica are a microcosm of the concerns of her life, and her life is dom.inated by She looks ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1972
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 102 | Tags: none

At the expense ofhorseracing? From Mr G. Noel Y OUR leader ('The Race Is On For The Tote', May 20)

... regard to your leader of May 6 ('Why History Needs Its Shackles'), I think we should distinguish between the two forms of slavery-domestic and plantation, which was a much harder way of life. The distinction has been operative since sth century BC Athens ...

Published: Thursday 10 June 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1176 | Page: 130 | Tags: none

544 was weak, suggested that he should take lessons from a professional teacher. H arrison had other ideas. He ..

... Broads. H arrison soon became aware of the way in which he was being exploited by Lemmon, ·but there could be no release from slavery, until he was free of his debt. H e saw salvation in a return to Broadland. Before he could return home, however, there was ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2368 | Page: 60 | Tags: none