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James Boswell
<view this essay>.... the favour of Mr. Joseph Cooper Walker, of the Treasury, Dublin, I have obtained a copy of the following letter from Johnson to the venerable authour of "Dissertations on the History of Ireland."
"TO CHARLES O'CONNOR, ESQ.1
"SIR,
"I HAVE lately, by the favour of Mr. Faulkner, seen your account of Ireland, and cannot forbear to solicit a prosecution of your design. Sir William Temple complains that Ireland is less known than any other country, as to its ancient state. The natives have had little leisure, and little encouragement for enquiry; and strangers, not knowing the language, have had no ability.
"I have long wished that the Irish literature .....
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Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson
<view this essay>.... in that country. I have found it in our early records, but the
first particular information I have of any ancestor was my grandfather who
lived at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne's and ownd. the lands
afterwards the glebe of the parish. He had three sons, Thomas who died
young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous
descendants, and Peter my father, who settled on the lands I still own
called Shadwell adjoining my present residence. He was born Feb. 29, 1707/8,
and intermarried 1739. with Jane Randolph, of the age of 19. daur of Isham
Randolph one of the seven sons of that name & family settled at Dungeoness
in Goochld. They tr .....
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Alexander The Great
<view this essay>.... king of Macedonia. His mother’s name was Olympia’s. Olympia’s was the daughter of King Neoptolemus I. He was known wide to be a great powerful man. Alexander had a younger sister named Cleopatra. The whole family had a lot of very important background. It was a fact that Alexander and Cleopatra’s parents did not get along. At this time it was a Macedonian tradition to have many wives. Philip had several and Olympia’s hated them all. She felt much hate towards them. When one of her rivals gave birth to a retarded son Arridaeus, there were many rumors that Olympia’s poisoned him. Olympia’s told Alexander that Philip wasn't his real father although he was. He m .....
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Julius Caesar And His Accomplishments
<view this essay>.... had
powerful friends. During his times of need, he borrowed money and owed’
many different things to them. He went to Spain by land, passing through
Switzerland on the way. He then stopped at a very poor village and he said
that he should rather choose to be first in such a village as than second
at Rome (Rogers, Bruce, 1870,p.70). Caeser was so successful in the
administration of his province that he returned in a short time with
military glory and with money enough to pay all his debts. Every hero has
its background; Ceaser was a Roman hero by millions and lived through many
important events and accomplished many things that no other person has ever
come cl .....
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John Bates Clark
<view this essay>.... this simplification was the theory of marginal productivity.
First, he assumed that all labor is homogenous, which meant that one labor hour
is a perfect substitute for any other labor hour, but when marginal productivity
was decreasing, the industry found it more profitable to replace labor with
machinery. Clark believed that to make a sound economy wages had to be equal to
the marginal productivity of labor. This was also beneficial to both the
industry and the labor.
Secondly, Clark ignored the distinction between land and capital,
grouping together both kinds of non-human inputs under the general term
"capital," which he then assumed that the bro .....
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Biography Of Arthur Clarke
<view this essay>.... then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in
Math and in Physics in 1948.
After Arthur had finished college, he became a member of the Royal
Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a
science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he
decided to become a full-time science fiction author.
Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a
bachelor.
Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be
one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written
many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to
Space; The .....
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Adam Smith
<view this essay>.... his education during his youth. Smith had a profound passion for books and had an extraordinary memory. He was described as being “[uncommonly to a] degree friendly and generous.” He was habitual in that he spoke to himself whenever he found himself without company, which was frequent. After his attendance of the grammar school Smith entered the University of Glasgow in 1737 and became a student of moral philosophy. He then transferred to Balliol College, Oxford, three years later. He continued to attend the college until 1746. In 1748 Smith began to deliver a series of public lectures in Edinburgh on “the progress of opulence”, or on we .....
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Igor Stravinsky
<view this essay>.... and arbitrary authority, and that he is accorded a position out of all proportion to his real value in the musical, as opposed to the music-business, community," he says in one of such places. It is obvious that Stravinsky holds a personal grudge against the conductors; being a musician, he must have come across them many times. He says, "conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds." Stravinsky uses the word "original" in a different way than it is normally used. In English, "original" means first, or new. In Russian, however, to call a person original means to say that he is smart, that he comes with resourceful ideas. Since Stravinsky was Rus .....
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