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... ROBERT G. KEPSEL , Plaintiff and Appellee , V. MCCREADY AND SONS , No. 46,653 . MICHIGAN MUTUAL LIABILITY COMPANY , Defendants and Appellants . BRIEF OF DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS STATEMENT OF FACTS ( Unless otherwise clearly shown by ...
... ROBERT G. KEPSEL , Plaintiff and Appellee , V. MCCREADY AND SONS , No. 46,653 . MICHIGAN MUTUAL LIABILITY COMPANY , Defendants and Appellants . BRIEF OF DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS STATEMENT OF FACTS ( Unless otherwise clearly shown by ...
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... Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 5: Call of the Wild first published by Random House Australia in 2013 Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 6: Dino champions first published by Random House Australia in 2013 Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 7 ...
... Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 5: Call of the Wild first published by Random House Australia in 2013 Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 6: Dino champions first published by Random House Australia in 2013 Robert Irwin, Dinosaur Hunter 7 ...
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... ROBERT WELCH , INC . , Defendant - Appellee . ELMER GERTZ , Plaintiff - Appellee , VS. ROBERT WELCH , INC . , Defendant - Appellant . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , Eastern Division ...
... ROBERT WELCH , INC . , Defendant - Appellee . ELMER GERTZ , Plaintiff - Appellee , VS. ROBERT WELCH , INC . , Defendant - Appellant . Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , Eastern Division ...
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Robert Baillie David Laing. Page Letter to John Reid ( the Earl of Lauderdaill ) , 4th April , from Mr. James Durhame to George Lockhart , Rector of the University of Glasgow , 31ft March , to Mr. James Durhame , ( without date , ) to Mr ...
Robert Baillie David Laing. Page Letter to John Reid ( the Earl of Lauderdaill ) , 4th April , from Mr. James Durhame to George Lockhart , Rector of the University of Glasgow , 31ft March , to Mr. James Durhame , ( without date , ) to Mr ...
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... Robert didn't let disappointment get in his way. He continued to work and studied hard in school. Robert was a high achiever and was recognized for his good grades throughout elementary and high school. When he wasn't studying or ...
... Robert didn't let disappointment get in his way. He continued to work and studied hard in school. Robert was a high achiever and was recognized for his good grades throughout elementary and high school. When he wasn't studying or ...
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Page 60 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature : had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 111 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 163 - With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 159 - As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a" the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi
Page 163 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our...
Page 165 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 163 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 114 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 103 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he " Should only rule who most resembles me. " Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, " Mature in dulness from his tender years ; " Shadwell alone of all my sons is he " Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. " The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, " But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Page 256 - Thence what the lofty grave Tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions and high passions best describing. Thence to the famous Orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...