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Coleridge: At Nether Stowey

The BeginningsThe Rest of the StoryAt Nether Stowey The Stowey period was the blossoming time of Coleridge's genius. All the poems in this volume except the last four, and besides these "…

Women's Suffrage: Conclusion

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The States That Did Not RatifyChronological Record of the Wi...ConclusionWe have brought together the evidence that the answer to our…

Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 7, 1960)

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the 86th Congress: Seven years ago I entered my present office with one long-held resolve overriding all others. I was then, and remain now, determined that…

Brewer's: Ajax (the Greater)

King of Salamis, a man of giant stature, daring, and self-confident. Generally called Telamon Ajax, because he was the son of Telamon. When the armour of Hector was awarded to Ulysses…

Brewer's: Assurance

Audacity, brazen self-confidence. “His assurance is quite unbearable.” To make assurance double sure. To make security doubly secure. But yet I'll make assurance double sure, And take a…

Centinel I

Centinel I5 October 1787by CentinelSee also Federalist No. 47To the Freemen of Pennsylvania.Friends, Countrymen and Fellow Citizens,Permit one of yourselves to put you in mind of certain…

Das, Chitta Ranjan

(Encyclopedia) Das, Chitta RanjanDas, Chitta Ranjanchĭtˈtə rŭnˈjən däs [key], 1870–1925, Indian political leader. A lawyer who opposed British rule and defended many Indian nationalists, he idealized…

Albany, Louisa, countess of

(Encyclopedia) Albany, Louisa, countess ofAlbany, Louisa, countess ofôlˈbənē [key], 1752–1824, wife of Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender), self-styled count of Albany; daughter of a German…