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The poem could not be completed according to its original — line plan as the interruption caused him to forget the lines. He left it unpublished and kept it for private readings for his friends until when, at the prompting of Lord Byron, it was published. Some of Coleridge's contemporaries denounced the poem and questioned his story of its origin. It was not until years later that critics began to openly admire the poem. Most modern critics now view "Kubla David Hume ; born David Home; 7 May NS 26 April OS — 25 August was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passion rather than reason governs human behaviour. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge is founded solely in experience; Hume thus held that genuine knowledge must either be directly traceable to objects perceived in experience, or result from abstract reasoning about relations between ideas which are derived from experience, calli The writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero constitute one of the most famous bodies of historical and philosophical work in all of classical antiquity.

Cicero, a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist, lived from to 43 BC. He was a Roman senator and consul chief-magistrate who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. A contemporary of Julius Caesar, Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher.

An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero probably thought his political career his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. He was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He took an active part in the foundation of Victoria University, of which he was vice-chancellor from to and from to ,[2] and he was a founder of Withington Girls' School in William Minto 10 October — 1 March was a Scottish academic, critic, editor, journalist and novelist. He was son of James Minto, a farmer, and his wife Barbara Copland.

During this period he wrote the book, Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical, which was published in and which was "distinguished by sound judgment and sympathetic appreciation". Letters of Obscure Men was a celebrated collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared — in Hagenau, Germany. They support the German Humanist scholar Johann Reuchlin and they mock the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks, mainly by pretending to be letters from fanatic Christian theologians discussing whether all Jewish books should be burned as un-Christian or not.

Background The work was based upon the real-life public dispute between German humanist Johann Reuchlin and certain Dominican monks, especially the formerly Jewish convert Johannes Pfefferkorn who had obtained Imperial authority from Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to burn all known copies of the Talmud in The title is a reference to Reuchlin's book Epistolae clarorum virorum English: Middle English ME is a period when the English language, spoken after the Norman Conquest until the late 15th century, underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.

Scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of to Middle English developed from Late Old English, and saw significant changes to its grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period varied widely. Examples of writing from this period that have survived show extensive regional variation.

The more standardized Old English language became fragmented, localized, and was for the most part, being improvised. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in letters in Doctor of Letters D. It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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When awarded without an application by the conferee, it is awarded as an honorary degree. Edmund I Old English: His epithets include the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, and the Magnificent. Edmund came to the throne upon the death of his half-brother in , apparently with little opposition. His reign was marked by almost constant warfare, including conquests or reconquests of the Midlands, Northumbria, and Strathclyde the last of which was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland.

Edmund was assassinated after six-and-a-half years as king, while attending Mass in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. He was initially succeeded by his brother Eadred, but his two sons — Eadwig and Edgar the Peaceful — both later came to the throne. Early life and military threats Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder,[3] and This is a list of post-nominal letters used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status.

There are various established orders for giving these, e. Thomas Wentworth Higginson December 22, — May 9, was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the s and s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from — Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disfranchised peoples.

Early life and education Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 22, He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and emigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson born Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, ; died Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, , was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harva The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C.

Lewis and dedicated to J. It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it. First published in February ,[1] the story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, a Junior Tempter.

The uncle's mentorship pertains to the nephew's responsibility in securing the damnation of a British man known only as "the Patient". Summary In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, seen from devils' viewpoints. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy "Lowerarchy" of Hell, and acts as a mentor to his nephew Wormwood, an inexperienced and incompetent tempte An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components of a phrase or a word, usually individual letters as in "NATO" or "laser" and sometimes syllables as in "Benelux".

There are no universal standards for the multiple names for such abbreviations or for their orthographic styling.

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In English and most other languages, such abbreviations historically had limited use, but they became much more common in the 20th century. Acronyms are a type of word formation process, and they are viewed as a subtype of blending. Nomenclature Whereas an abbreviation may be any type of shortened form, such as words with the middle omitted for example, "Rd" for "road" or "Dr" for "Doctor" , an acronym is a word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase such as "sonar", created from "sound navigation and ranging".

Attestations for Akronym in German are known from , and for "acronym" in English from Edward Dowden, by Robinson.

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Edward Dowden ; 3 May — 4 April , was an Irish critic and poet. Biography He was the son of John Wheeler Dowden, a merchant and landowner, and was born at Cork, three years after his brother John, who became Bishop of Edinburgh in Edward's literary tastes emerged early, in a series of essays written at the age of twelve.

His home education continued at Queen's College, Cork and at Trinity College, Dublin; at the latter he had a distinguished career, becoming president of the Philosophical Society, and winning the vice-chancellor's prize for English verse and prose, and the first senior moderatorship in ethics and logic. In he was elected professor of oratory and English literature in Dublin University. Dowden's first book, Shakespeare, his Mind and Art , resulted from a revision of a course of lectures, and made him widely known as a critic: For centuries, there has been a movement to reform the spelling of English.

It seeks to change English spelling so that it is more consistent, matches pronunciation better, and follows the alphabetic principle. Reform proposals vary in terms of the depth of the linguistic changes and by the ways they are implemented.

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In terms of writing systems, most spelling reform proposals are moderate; they use the traditional English alphabet, try to maintain the familiar shapes of words, and try to maintain common conventions such as silent e. More radical proposals involve adding or removing letters or symbols, or even creating new alphabets. Some reformers prefer a gradual change implemented in stages, while others favor an immediate and total reform for all. Some spelling reform proposals have been adopted partially or temporarily. Many of the spellings preferred by Noah Webst Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from Cursive also known as script or longhand, among other names[a] is any style of penmanship in which some characters are written joined together in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster.

Formal cursive is generally joined, but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. The writing style can be further divided as "looped", "italic" or "connected". The cursive method is used with a number of alphabets due to its improved writing speed and infrequent pen lifting. In some alphabets, many or all letters in a word are connected, sometimes making a word one single complex stroke. This writing style is distinct from "printscript" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected The rights of Englishmen are the perceived traditional rights of citizens of England.

In the 18th century, some of the colonists who objected to British rule in the British colonies in North America argued that their traditional[1] rights as Englishmen were being violated. The colonists wanted and expected the rights that they or their forebears had previously enjoyed in England: George Mason, one of the Founding Fathers of the He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Life He was the son of the rector of Hauxwell, Yorkshire, and was privately educated by his father, Mark James Pattison.

After other attempts to obtain a fellowship, he was elected in to a Yorkshire fellowship at Lincoln College, Oxford, an anti-Puseyite College. Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of John Henry Newman, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of Thomas Aquinas's Catena Aurea, and writing in the British Critic and Christian Remembrancer.

He was ordained priest in , and in the same year became tutor of Lincoln College, where he rapidly made a reputation as a clear and stimulating teacher and as a sympathetic Nicholas, helped to create the modern image of Santa Claus The modern portrayal of Santa Claus frequently depicts him listening to children's Christmas wishes. Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved "good" or "nice" children on Christmas Eve 24 December and the early morning hours of Christmas Day 25 December.

Some maintain Santa Claus also absorbed elements of the Germanic god Wodan, who was associated with the pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly process Portrait of Alfred Comyn Lyall. He was educated at Eton College. His elder brother, James Broadwood Lyall, was already serving in India, and this may have influenced him towards a career in that direction.

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He attended Haileybury College with that purpose in mind. In he married Cora Cloete, daughter of Peter Cloete. He landed at Calcutta in January He was there when the Indian Rebellio As of , around million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages, with Russia accounting for about half of them. These additional letters were used for Old Church Slavonic sounds not found in Greek. The script is name The Commonwealth men, Commonwealth's men, or Commonwealth Party were highly outspoken British Protestant religious, political, and economic reformers during the early 18th century.

They were active in the movement called the Country Party. They promoted republicanism and had a great influence on Republicanism in the United States, but little impact in Britain. They condemned corruption and lack of morality in British political life, theorizing that only civic virtue could protect a country from despotism and ruin. Their criticism about enclosure and the general material plight of the poor were particularly notable to early twentieth-century scholars like Richard Tawney who saw in them a valuable though regrettably abortive form of Christian socialism that represented a pref Leslie Stephen , Samuel Johnson , 2.

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