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Â Democrats in America - de Tocqueville and Lieber

Lieber joined the Greek liberation war against Turkish occupation because of his passion for the idea of liberty.
Lieber regarded some aspects of the American democracy as exemplary for other nations, because here one could detect first pulsations of "those principles which underly any political society" (Letters to a Gentleman in Germany, 1834, 14).
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Lieber was born into a merchant family in 1798 in Berlin, Germany.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/democrats/print.html

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Â Profile of <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Edwards, SJ, is one of several leading scholars who support the theory that Tresham did not perhaps die in the Tower, and was allowed to escape to Spain, where he travelled under the alias Matthew Brunninge[2].
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham was the first son, and oldest of eleven children of Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton, Northamptonshire and Muriel Throckmorton, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton, Warwickshire.
The young <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham, deprived of parental control, grew up embittered by the treatment meted out to his father; a perpetual malcontent, with none of his father's constancy and forbearance, and so ready to join in any desperate scheme against the government.

http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/people/ftresham.htm (1878 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Lieber on the Sources of Civil Liberty

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Lieber also has much to teach us about the moral requisites of a healthy political community.
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Lieber on the Sources of Civil Liberty
Lieber’s reflections on the differences between the decentralized, highly institutionalized Anglican liberty and the centralized, largely unmediated Gallican liberty of Napoleonic France were deepened by first-hand observation of the aftermath of the revolutions which broke out early in 1848.

http://www.nhinet.org/samson.htm (1878 words)

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Â Gunpowder Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yet a fear for the Catholic lords who would inevitably be killed led to someone (possibly <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham) writing a letter of warning to a prominent Catholic, Lord Monteagle, who received it on Saturday, October 26.
Catesby was killed in the battle of his arrest, but all the other conspirators were soon caught, and were executed or killed during interrogation.
Meanwhile, however, Monteagle showed the letter to Robert Cecil, the Secretary of State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Day (1878 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Atterbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Atterbury's merits were warmly acknowledged, his advice was respectfully received, and he was, as Bolingbroke had been before him, the prime minister of a king without a kingdom.
Had his party continued in power it is not improbable that he would have been raised to the archbishopric of Canterbury.
But his servility was requited with cold contempt; he became the most factious and pertinacious of all the opponents of the government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Atterbury (1792 words)

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Â Anglicans Online The online centre of the Anglican / Episcopal world

His major enemy was <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, a prominent High Church spokesman (and, it appears, prolific ghostwriter for other High Church spokesmen).
Atterbury also seems to have been responsible for the pamphleting campaign that made a martyr out of Sacheverell, and humiliated his prosecutors, the Whigs.
As a prominent Tory, Atterbury could hardly be called a radical, and his tumultuous stand against what he saw as an angry mob of unthinking Whigs was one of the root causes of the changes that gave us both the modern church and the modern British government.

http://morgue.anglicansonline.org/050220 (641 words)

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Â Common-place: How (and Why) to Read <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman

But for Parkman, the title was deliberate and carefully chosen, and one reason why he may have settled on it is the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking in American political culture at the time.
Even Theodore Parker, the radical Boston abolitionist clergyman and Parkman's erstwhile travelling companion in Italy, was hard-pressed to see how the label of conspiracy applied, and Parker was a man who could find conspiracies everywhere.
Parkman paints Edward Braddock, the British general who blundered his way to disastrous defeat at Fort Duquesne in 1755, as the antithesis of Yankee virtue: a gambler, a duelist, a rake, conceited, insolent, bullying, rude, and utterly lacking in family feeling.

http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-01/peterson/peterson-2.shtml (2355 words)

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Â Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.48 (1976)

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>FRANCISb>bb>>bb>bb>>> PEYTON ROUS 277 of somatic cell genetics, a concept that was not part of cancer research in the period of his active work.
These findings seem to have been for Rous the decisive argument for the validity of his conclusions concerning the chicken tumors, since in a mammal cancer could also be trans- mitted by a virus.
These facts should have been convincing evidence that the growths were specific responses of the host, yet this conclusion was not gener- ally accepted.

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309023491/html/274.html (4762 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher), in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon.
Michael Blackwood, for the BBC, broadcast 16 November 1984 (used in interview 9, Interviews with <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon David Sylvester).
Bacon was later to tell Stephen Spender that he had been very impressed by the work of a photographer who had produced striking effects using mirrors and natural light filtered through screens, although he could'nt remember the artist's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter) (7743 words)

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Â Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> ParkmanÂ’s seven-part series France and England in North America, originally published in Boston between 1865 and 1892, has gone through a multitude of editions, the latest of which, prepared by David Levin, was issued in two volumes under the series title (New York, 1983).
La Salle was made to appear great only by dint of ParkmanÂ’s turning much of the historical evidence on its head and ignoring what did not suit him.
They, unfortunately, did not support the Parkman thesis, the supremacy of Anglo-American Protestant objectives and values, hence they were to be ignored.

http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40478 (3484 words)

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Â CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> of Assisi

Although success came indeed to <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> and his friars, with it came also opposition, and it was with a view to allaying any prejudices the Curia might have imbibed against their methods that <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>>, at the instance of Cardinal Ugolino, went to Rome and preached before the pope and cardinals in the Lateran.
It is very misleading, however, to portray <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> as living "at a height where dogma ceases to exist", and still further from the truth to represent the trend of his teaching as one in which orthodoxy is made subservient to "humanitarianism".
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> received some elementary instruction from the priests of St. George's at Assisi, though he learned more perhaps in the school of the Troubadours, who were just then making for refinement in Italy.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm (3484 words)

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Â Robert M. Philmus- Murder Most Fowl: Butler's Edition of <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Godwin

Purportedly, too, Godwin cites invented sources of information together with real ones (see 105-06 and McColley's note about them).
Godwin may well have primarily meant his Spaniard to serve precisely the way his name does on the title-page of the first edition: as a pseudonym—<bb>>ib>bb>>.e., a way of disclaiming authorship in the event of trouble over the book.
Godwin, Grant McColley suggests (citing Mark Ridley's A short Treatise of magneticall bodies and motions [1613] as a possible source), "is introducing into literature an analogy drawn from the telescopic observations which proved the axial rotation of the Sun and Jupiter by the appearance and disappearance of their spots" (McColley 72).

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/philm69.htm (3484 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon & Secret Societies

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> fought in Parliament for union with the Scots to increase the strength of England against threats from the continent, and pushed for expansion of colonisation in America, notably Newfoundland and Virginia.
Bacon had a goal to be that Governor - a philospher-king - as <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> 1 of England, until Elizabeth's death ended this dream.
Bacon, aware that his philosophy and schemes were not perfect, nevertheless laid the foundation for a new age of secular wisdom.

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/b/bacon_francis.html (2041 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>FRANCISb>bb>>bb>bb>>> SALVADOR: MARTYR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Rarely do we hear of South Carolina's <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Salvador, the first identified Jew to be elected to an American colonial legislature, the only Jew to serve in a revolutionary colonial congress and the first Jew to die for the cause of American liberty.
He became the first Jew to hold that high an elective office in the English colonies.
Salvador was also part of a special commission established to preserve the peace in the interior parts of South Carolina, where the English Superintendent of Indian Affairs was busily negotiating treaties with the Cherokees to induce the tribe to attack the colonists.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/salvador.asp (2041 words)

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Â CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> of Assisi

Although success came indeed to <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> and his friars, with it came also opposition, and it was with a view to allaying any prejudices the Curia might have imbibed against their methods that <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>>, at the instance of Cardinal Ugolino, went to Rome and preached before the pope and cardinals in the Lateran.
It is very misleading, however, to portray <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> as living "at a height where dogma ceases to exist", and still further from the truth to represent the trend of his teaching as one in which orthodoxy is made subservient to "humanitarianism".
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> received some elementary instruction from the priests of St. George's at Assisi, though he learned more perhaps in the school of the Troubadours, who were just then making for refinement in Italy.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm (8264 words)

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Â Readings Resources

CHAPTER IV <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>>' Devotion to PrayerÂ—His Spirit of Prophecy
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> was only too glad to obey and as soon as he reached the bishop's presence, he made no delay, he never hesitated for a moment, or said or listened to a word from anyone; instead, he tore off all his clothes, including even his trousers, and stood there naked before them all.
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> always had great reverence and affection for this particular sign and he often spoke in its praise; he made it before starting to do anything and the letters charity demanded be should write he signed with it in his own hand.

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mdvl145/resource/hagiography/francis.htm (11841 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Jeffrey

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>>, the subject of our memoir, was the eldest son of a family of five children; and it will be seen, from the foregoing particulars, that the success of his future career, be it what it might, could derive little aid from paternal wealth or interest.
A meeting of Jeffreyâ€™s literary friends was assembled at his dwelling in Buccleugh Place, and there the idea of such a review was started, and the plan of its management deliberated.
But besides these he had, in the Speculative Society, of which he became a member at the end of 1792, a still more effectual spur to progress, as well as better training both for law and criticism.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/jeffrey_francis.htm (6310 words)

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Â The Gunpowder Plot of 1605

There are some who support the government conspiracy line â€“ others think it may simply have been an ambitious plan by a small number of Catholics that went very badly wrong for them all.
Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, having rented out a house right by the Houses of Parliament, managed to get 36 barrels of gunpowder into a cellar of the House of Lords.
Also, if Fawkes and company had been set-up by, why did he not say so at his execution when he could have said something?

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/gunpowder_plot_of_1605.htm (6310 words)

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Â CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oklahoma

Of these lands the Oklahoma that was opened to settlement in 1889, by proclamation of the President of the United States, embraced 1,392,611 acres ceded by the Creeks, and 495,094 acres ceded by the Seminoles in 1866.
The last great opening in Oklahoma occurred in December, 1906, when 505,000 acres of land, which had been reserved from the Comanche and Apache lands for pasturage, were sold in tracts of 160 acres to the highest bidders by the Government.
Oklahoma has deposits of Portland cement-stone that are said to be inexhaustible.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11230c.htm (3513 words)

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Â Guy Fawkes attempt

It is interesting to note that Monteagle was the brother in law of <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham.
Tresham denied any involvement, although it remains a point of contention over who did send the letter, and he has to be a prime suspect.
Indeed, when all is told, only Bates and Guy Fawkes were members of the plot not related by blood or marriage.

http://il.essortment.com/guyfawkesattem_rkdl.htm (1102 words)

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Â The Devilfinder Search Engine - <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Higginson - Finding Stuff Since 1979.

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Higginson, on leaving England, in 1629, is reported to have said: â€œWe will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England:...
Letter from <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Higginson to Lionel de Rothschild, 22 January 1848, enclosing pamphlet entitled A free inquiry into the policy of admitting Jews into...
HIGGINSON Descendants of the Rev. <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Higginson, by TW Higginson.

http://www.devilfinder.com/find.php?q=Francis+Higginson (1102 words)

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Â Classic Images: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Lederer

Lulu is murdered in a loft apartment by Jack the Ripper, while <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> waits in the street for Lulu to come down.
This was a stretch for Lederer, but he manages to suppress any trace of accent in the role, perhaps the only time he appears as a straight American.
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> and Marion Lederer settled on a large ranch atop a hill in the San Fernando Valley.

http://www.classicimages.com/1997/june/lederer.html (6609 words)

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Â Alibris: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman

Parkman believed "Montcalm and Wolfe," the story of the struggle between France and England for control of North America, to be his masterpiece.
Parkman writes in the preface that the events recounted in this book group themselves in the main about a single figure, that of Count Frontenac, the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World.
Parkman: The Oregon Trail and the Conspiracy of Pontiac

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Parkman,Francis (1178 words)

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Â The Treshams of Canada are really Chapmans

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham, as eldest son, had fallen heir to Rushton Hall, the family estate, upon the death of his father only three months earlier.
Indeed Alfredâ€™s eldest daughter, Ella Agnes (Tresham) Manewell (1893-1971), my maternal grandmother, maintained that her father was directly descended from the notorious <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Tresham, a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Alfred Tresham and his siblings were all adamant, some would say boastful, in claiming descent from the medieval Tresham family of Northamptonshire (Northants), England.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/o/r/John-B-Lord/FILE/0001page.html (1646 words)

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Â Guy Fawkes attempt

Indeed, when all is told, only Bates and Guy Fawkes were members of the plot not related by blood or marriage.
Consequently, the Kingâ€™s men began their torture of Fawkes, and after two days he confessed his real name, the nature of the plot and the names of his fellow conspirators.
Fawkes travelled back to Flanders to acquire some fresh powder, and possibly to tell Spanish connections of the groups progress.

http://ks.essortment.com/guyfawkesattem_rkdl.htm (1646 words)

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Â Amazon.com: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 2: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV, A Half-Century of Conflict, Montcalm and Wolfe (Library of America): Books: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman was apparently a real workhorse, and something of a fixture in Boston society also.
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman : The Oregon Trail/ The Conspiracy of Pontiac (The Library of America) by <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman is one of those titans of history writing, with a stature equal to that of Gibbon, Carlyle, Prescott, Herodotus, Thucydides and Churchill.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940450119?v=glance (2655 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon

<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era.
<<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Bacon was born January, 22, 1561, the second child of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Seal) and his second wife Lady Anne Coke Bacon, daughter of Sir Anthony Coke, tutor to Edward VI and one of the leading humanists of the age.
Bacon's speculative cosmology and matter theory had been planned to constitute Part 5 of Instauratio Magna.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon (8594 words)

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Â introduction

When sailing to the Kei Islands near New Guinea, he is believed to have been murdered by one of the crew of his schooner, and the boat scuttled with the body still aboard.
Born in Scotland in 1822, at 14 years of age, Cadell went to sea in the East Indiaman ship Minerva.
He subsequently returned to the sea and after a number of adventurous voyages he arrived in Adelaide in 1852.

http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/murray/content/riverAsHighway/cadellIntro.htm (557 words)

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Â Library of America: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac

Library of America: <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Conspiracy of Pontiac, Parkman's first work of history, was the product of several years of research and travel devoted to collecting necessary documents and inspecting the sites of the events to be described.
The text itself was stylistically revised and shortened: colloquial expressions were made more formal; all of the epigraphs were dropped; some passages of personal biography were removed, as well as descriptions of other people, including Shaw, Chatillon, and the English travelers.

http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=112§ion=notes (1183 words)

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Â <<bb>>bb>bb>>>Francisb>bb>>bb>bb>>> Younghusband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Royal Geographic Society photograph of Younghusband's Mission to Tibet
Younghusband's religious upbringing had a profound influence on his later life.
In 1889, Younghusband was dispatched with a small escort of Gurkha soldiers to survey an uncharted region of the Hunza valley and the Khunjerab Pass through the Karakoram mountain range.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Younghusband (721 words)

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