Mason Sentence Examples

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  • The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his servant.

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  • The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile.

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  • The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this answer.

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  • He was running into more brick walls than an overworked mason.

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  • On the bank of the Potomac is a brick house which was for several years the home of Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"; on Analostan Island in the river was a home of James Murray Mason; Georgetown Heights was the home of the popular novelist, Mrs Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899).

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  • On Alcatraz Island is the United States Prison, and on Goat Island the United States Naval School of the Pacific. The old Spanish " presidio " is now a United States military reservation, and another smaller one, the Fort Mason Government Reservation, is in the vicinity.

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  • In 1909 extensive improvements to the water front were under way, and land has been purchased west of Fort Mason for the construction of wharves and warehouses for the United States Transport Service.

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  • Mason and John Slidell, the envoys of the Confederate States to Great Britain and France respectively, who had been taken by a Federal vessel from the British ship "Trent," were restored by the Federal authorities to H.B.M.S.

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  • George was a stone mason and died at the age of 42 from dust inhalation.

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  • For wherever we find Wykeham building afterwards, we find Wynford as chief mason.

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  • Governors Of Michigan William Hull Territorial.1805-1813Lewis Cass.1813-1831Stevens Thompson Mason (acting) 1831 George Bryan Porter1831-1834Stevens Thompson Mason (acting)1834-1835John Scott Horner (acting).

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  • He received a majority of electoral votes on each side of the Mason and Dixon line and was confirmed in his preconceived opinion that he was to be the president of the whole people.

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  • This latter act was greatly resented by the Abyssinians, for by a treaty concluded with a British and Egyptian mission under Admiral Hewett and Mason Pasha 2 in the previous year, free transit of goods was to be allowed through this port.

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  • The arguments against the marriage were first marshalled by Monck Mason in his History of St Patrick's, and the conjecture, though plausible, has failed to convince Forster, Stephen, Aitken, Hill, Lane Poole and Churton Collins.

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  • In March 1622 Mason obtained from the Council for New England, of which Gorges was the most influential member, a grant of the territory (which he named Mariana) between the Naumkeag or Salem river and the Merrimac, and in the following August he and Gorges together received a grant of the region between the Merrimac and Kennebec rivers, and extending 60 m.

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  • From 1625 to 1629 Mason was engaged as treasurer and paymaster of the English army in the wars which England was waging against Spain and France.

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  • Thinking that the Piscataqua river had its source in Lake Champlain, Mason with Gorges and a few other associates secured, on the 17th of November 1629, a grant of a region which was named Laconia (apparently from the number of lakes it was supposed to contain), and was described as bordering on Lake Champlain, extending so m.

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  • In November 1631 Mason and his associates obtained, under the name of the Pescataway Grant, a tract on both sides of the Piscataqua river, extending 30 m.

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  • Mason became a member of the Council for New England in June 1632, and its vice-president in the following November; and in 1635, when the members decided to divide their territory among themselves and surrender their charter, he was allotted as his share all the region between the Naumkeag and Piscataqua rivers extending 60 m.

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  • Entering politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, Mason was throughout his career a consistent strict constructionist, opposing protective tariffs, internal improvements by the national government, and all attempts to restrict or control the spread of slavery, which he sincerely believed to be essential to the social and political welfare of the South.

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  • Great Britain immediately demanded their release, and war for a time seemed imminent; but owing mainly to the tactful diplomacy of the prince consort, Lincoln acknowledged that the seizure of Mason and Slidell was a violation of the rights of Great Britain as a neutral, and on the 1st of January 1862 released the commissioners.

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  • Mason at once proceeded to London, where, however, he was unable to secure official recognition, and his commission to Great Britain was withdrawn late in 1863.

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  • In the turmoil over the " ` Trent' affair," it was Sumner's word that convinced Lincoln that Mason and Slidell must be given up, and that reconciled the public to that inevitable step. Again and again Sumner used the power incident to his chairmanship to block action which threatened to embroil the United States in war with England and France.

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  • These outlets should be faced with mason work, and guarded with iron gratings.

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  • Mason and Pierre Soule, the ministers respectively to Great Britain, France and Spain, met at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle in October 1854 to discuss the Cuban question.

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  • The line derives its name from Charles Mason (1730-1787) and Jeremiah Dixon, two English astronomers, whose survey of to a point about 244 m.

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  • The use of the term " Mason and Dixon Line " to designate the boundary between the free and the slave states (and in general between the North and the South) dates from the debates in Congress over the Missouri Compromise in 1819-1820.

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  • In 1881 she began to study physical science at Mason College, Birmingham.

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  • His Supreme Court decisions may be found in Cranch's, Wheaton's and Peters's Reports, his Circuit Courts decisions in Mason's, Sumner's and Story's Reports.

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  • If Bonchamps and La Rochejacquelin were nobles, Stofflet was a gamekeeper and Cathelineau a mason.

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  • He did not shrink from any of the consequences of thin theory, for he would give the same remuneration to the worst mason as to a Phidias; but he looks forward also to a period in human development when the present inequality in the talent and capacity of men would be reduced to an inappreciable minimum.

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  • Furber he edited Hymns and Choirs (1860), and with Professor Park and Lowell Mason The Sabbath Hymn Book (1859).

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  • Grant and Admiral George Dewey; and Captain John Mason (1600-1672), the friend of Miles Standish, was one of its early citizens.

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  • Ashton political life was particularly bitter in these years with Mason bearing the brunt of the Tory attack.

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  • Wheels on fire The passion of national rally champ Richard Mason.

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  • Mason demonstrated his musical ability at several stages throughout the night by playing drums, guitar and an impressive assortment of percussion contraptions.

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  • On Sunday morning Nathaniel Mason found deceased drowned in a pond by the roadside, Golding said they had parted company in the road.

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  • Hannah MASON, of 27, Charles-street, said she had known deceased for 18 months.

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  • Rita Wright, a traffic warden who likes everything to be organized and here slightly dotty friend Angie Mason.

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  • Several hundred devotees turned out to see the band's former frontman Steve Mason under his other guise, King Cookie Time.

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  • The full article by Paul Mason is in the extended entry for the techno geeks out there.

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  • One 46-year-old Mason who joined the group eight years ago said he was tired of Cuban authorities " imposing ideas " on society.

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  • West Fife Planning Committee - Keith Mason can see nothing improper in the apparent anomalies of above planning decisions.

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  • Jain monolith statue carved by an unknown mason in 980.

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  • But its no use now, thought poor mason jewelry, to pretend to be two people!

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  • Mason Brooks, lettings manager at Hurford Salvi Carr in Limehouse Basin, advises landlords to concentrate on blank spaces.

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  • The stone bears a portrait carved by local mason Walter Skirving which was generally recognized as a faithful likeness of the old worthy.

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  • In July, Mr Mason returned to East Tilbury and became chief manipulator to the leather factory.

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  • The vaulting shows evidence of plank centering, and there is a mason's mark on the doorway.

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  • A medieval rough mason would have been using stones that were a lot larger than standard bricks.

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  • Your memorial mason should be able to offer you further advice.

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  • The original master mason, Mr Stanley Maxwell Moffatt, knew what he was about.

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  • Fleetwood Museum S RM 3. Encourage local entomologists to search for wall mason bee in appropriate season.

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  • Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Anne Mason and soprano Sarah Rhodes will portray Scotland's doomed queen and her royal rival, Elizabeth I respectively.

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  • After neat passing on the right-hand side of the pitch, Nick Mason had a shot which was straight at the keeper.

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  • The Dawkins Ray wasn't on track for as long as it should have been; first Mason, then Radford scored maiden podiums.

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  • Pip Mason Consultancy runs courses on stopping smoking, smoking and pregnancy and relapse prevention and management.

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  • Scott Durant won the J18 single scull medal and also teamed up with brother Mason to win the double sculls medal.

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  • The new streetcars were financed by John Mason, a wealthy banker, and built by an Irish contractor, John Stephenson.

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  • At his side is a mason's trowel, probably nearer 6in than five.

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  • Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848), a lawyer of the first rank, Jeremiah Smith and Webster appeared for the college, and argued that these acts were invalid because they were not within the general scope of the legislature's power, because they violated provisions of the state constitution and because they violated the clause of the Federal Constitution which prohibits a state from impairing the obligation of contracts but the court decided against them.

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  • Thereafter were added sub-statues of Chief-Justice John Marshall and George Mason (1726-1792) by Crawford, and statues of Andrew Lewis (1730-1781) and Thomas Nelson (1738-1789), and six allegorical subjects, by Randolph Rogers (1825-1892), the monument being completed in 1869, at a cost of about $260,000, of which about $47,000 represented private gifts and the interest thereon.

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  • A national organization was planned as early as 1827, when the New York leaders attempted, unsuccessfully, to persuade Henry Clay, though a Mason, to renounce the Order and head the movement.

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  • President Jackson now urged Michigan to discontinue interfering with the re-marking of the Harris line, and requested Ohio to postpone putting into effect the Act of February 1835; but as petty outbreaks continued throughout the summer and an Ohio judge and court officers at Toledo were arrested in September, he peremptorily removed Governor Mason from office.

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  • The name Laconia was first applied in New England to the region granted in 1629 to Mason and Gorges (see Mason, John).

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  • Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

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  • He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him.

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  • After the match Mason quipped, It was always going to be hard work out there.

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  • Education and biography Studied oil painting with Betty Savage in Polson, Mt., with Joan Mason in St. Ignatius, Mt.

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  • At his side is a mason 's trowel, probably nearer 6in than five.

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  • You don't have to be an artist or a mason to create a unique stepping stone.

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  • Stanley Mason took Donovan's design and adapted it into the first curved disposable in 1949.

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  • Used mason jars make great beer glasses.

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  • According to George Mason University there are a few interesting facts about cinnamon and health.

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  • Finally, don't miss out on makeup artist Linda Mason's brilliant book about the art of beautifying the eyes, Eye Candy.

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  • The old Mason jar is always a good standby and is usually found at your local store.

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  • If you go with the Mason jar option, you won't be able to sterilize the lid.

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  • She has one son, Mason Dash Disick, with her on-again off-again boyfriend Scott Disick.

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  • Following her turn on the long-running series in 1989, Yothers all but left acting behind, with the exception of a made-for-TV film about skater Tonya Harding and an appearance on an episode of Perry Mason.

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  • Place the seeds and accompanying liquid into a clean mason jar.

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  • There are two Great Wolf Lodge locations in Ohio, one near Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky and the other near King's Island in Mason, close to Cincinnati.

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  • The second Ohio Great Wolf Lodge location is the official resort of King's Island and is located in Mason, adjacent to the amusement park.

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  • For more information about the Mason Great Wolf Lodge, interested guests can visit the official website or call 1-800-913-WOLF (9653).

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  • Danny and Pilon in Steinback's Tortilla Flats used to drink their rotgut vino out of Mason jars.

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  • Mason is famous for its Sauvignon Blanc in Napa Valley.

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  • They produce many, but my favorite is still the "Mason" (you can't miss the bright green corks they use too!).

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  • Place the sliced beets into your canning jars (you will need two standard mason jars) and pour the liquid over the beets.

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  • If you are using a mason jar, you will only get about 3 eggs in each jar.

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  • The fifth season saw Jeanine Mason crowned the winner.

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  • Dancing since the age of three, Mason grew up in a dancing family and went on to become the youngest winner of the show, winning $250,000 and a feature on the cover of Dance Spirit magazine.

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  • The four remaining members included Kelsey Bourg, a 20 year old from Louisiana; Phillip Bernier, a 24 year old from Virginia; Lacey Mason, a 22 year old from Tennessee; and Zack Wilson, a 25 year old from Utah.

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  • While expensive, Mason Pearson hair brushes are the perfect option for years of grooming.

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  • Charlotte Mason was a British educator who lived during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries.

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  • In the 1880s, Mason was distressed at the inadequate education provided by governesses who taught the children of the middle class.

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  • Soon influential people of the time asked Mason to establish a school designed to train governesses in Mason's teaching methods.

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  • Mason agreed, and the House of Education at Ambleside was born.

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  • Why were Charlotte Mason's methods so popular?

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  • Mason was convinced that if a teacher developed lessons with these three factors in mind, the student would be successful in all areas of life.

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  • When Mason spoke of atmosphere in regards to education, she believed that children absorb their environment.

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  • Finally, Mason spoke of life as being the final third of a child's education.

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  • Mason believed in teaching students faith, citizenship, good habits, fine arts, and academics.

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  • In the Charlotte Mason method, lessons are brief.

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  • In the Charlotte Mason method, students learn to spell by reviewing passages from great literature.

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  • Foreign language lessons are another important aspect of the Charlotte Mason method, stressing the hearing and speaking of a foreign language before progressing toward reading and writing.

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  • Charlotte Mason's method of teaching eventually faded into obscurity until Susan Schaeffer Macauley wrote the book For the Children's Sake in 1987.

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  • The publication of this book brought back attention to Mason's philosophy of education.

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  • Today, Mason's vision of education lives on through her school, now part of St. Martin's College, and through the millions of parents who homeschool their children by using the methods Mason developed so long ago.

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  • Ambleside Online provides a complete schedule and links to online resources for those families who wish to use the Charlotte Mason method.

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  • From Classical to Charlotte Mason - each philosophy often offers its own version of the idea curriculum guide.

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  • Ambleside Online is one of many Charlotte Mason curriculum guides.

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  • Parents that want a strictly Charlotte Mason education can log in and follow the suggested curriculum - all for free.

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  • This book is noted in particular for taking the ideas of Charlotte Mason and bringing them into the 21st century.

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  • Ambleside Online - fans of the Charlotte Mason method will want to visit this site that offers a free online curriculum and support group.

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  • Narration is a Charlotte Mason inspired learning tool whereby kids offer back to you, in their own words, what's happening with a given piece of literature.

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  • Ambleside Online is a Charlotte Mason style curriculum.

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  • The site serves as a resource to those who wish to implement Mason's ideas on education.

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  • This curriculum would be a great source of project ideas for those following a Charlotte Mason, Waldorf, or similarly nature-inspired curriculum.

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  • If you love the Charlotte Mason method and philosophy, and have used it successfully through elementary school, there is no reason to change during the high school years.

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  • It is imperative that you have an understanding of the Charlotte Mason (CM) philosophy of education or you will not be able to guide your student through the high school years effectively.

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  • This makes it very easy to figure credits for the Charlotte Mason method, or any other, just by keeping a log of how many hours were spent on a subject each day.

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  • With a little determination and some research, you can continue to use the Charlotte Mason method through high school by using living books, journaling and field trips.

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  • You'll need to get off at either Washington and Mason or Powell and California.

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  • The Cable Car Museum proudly showcases its heritage to the public in a historic cable car barn on the corner of Washington and Mason.

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  • Open every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, the cable car museum on Mason Street on Washington is a great way for families to learn more about San Francisco's famous mode of transportation.

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  • Hotel Nikko is located at 222 Mason Street in San Francisco, just steps from Union Square and a few blocks from Market Street.

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  • Take a glass mason jar and place the two sides of the grinder inside of it.

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  • Fill the mason jar with isopropyl alcohol (90 percent or higher) and screw the lid on the jar.

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  • Gently shake the mason jar to help loosen up any debris and then let the grinder sit in the alcohol for ten more minutes.

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  • Mason jars or glass votive candle holders are good containers to start with, but you can really use any heat-resistant glass or other material.

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  • If you shop online you can find wick that is suited to the width of your candle (HTP 105 is ideal for a mason jar candle).

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  • A number of shops offer hand poured candles in mason or apothecary jars.

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  • Mason jars are fun containers to use, or try ceramic mugs, cocktail glasses, or any other glassware that would be appropriate for the candle and the presentation.

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  • She holds a bachelor's degree from George Mason University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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  • Over the course of 60 years, Hall became a 33rd degree mason, and authored a large volume of over 200 books.

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  • Journal Jar-Place topics in a Mason jar and have each family draw a slip of paper and write about the topic for ten minutes.

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  • Perhaps the best image ever captured on video is that of the mason or soldier filmed in the Crescent Hotel in Arkansas.

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  • For men's styles, you can check out the parent company Mason Comfort Footwear, which offers both men's and women's shoes.

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  • Flats like the Mason or Kenya can be dressed up or down.

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  • Bad Moon Rising - Werewolves, vampires and curses were central to this episode as Mason Lockwood's return to Mystic Falls includes the Lockwood family curse.

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  • It even includes a hint to potential cheerleaders that the official hair care Mecca of a Colts cheerleader is the Tyler Mason salon.

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  • Candidates are encouraged to schedule a consultation at Tyler Mason in order to don the look of a Colts cheerleader.

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  • Glass canning jars, such as the ones made by Ball, Kerr and Mason, are excellent choices for storing homemade preserves, salsa, sauces, pickles and other items.

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  • You can use everything from a fancy jar from the craft store to a Mason jar.

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  • Mason jars are big and easy to make holiday-worthy with the help of a red bow.

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  • Scoop the mixture into a glass jar such as a mason jar or old, well cleaned mayonnaise jar, and seal until ready to use.

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  • Syd Barrett(guitar), Nick Mason(drums), Roger Waters(bass; formerly George Waters) and Rick Wright(keyboards) played for 5 hours for a meager £15!

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  • A reformation of the band was discussed by David Gilmour and Nick Mason, which was promptly followed by a major lawsuit, filed by Roger Waters, for the rights to the music and the name of the band.

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  • David Gilmour and Nick Mason went on to release 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason' under the name Pink Floyd in 1986, while Roger continued his solo career.

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  • Ian Curtis formed Warsaw with Bernard Summer, Terry Mason and Peter Hook after witnessing one of the legendary Sex Pistols gigs at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in the summer of 1976.

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  • Terry Mason was the original drummer, but was soon reallocated to band manager.

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  • What exactly it turned into, the tabloids reported, was Mason Dash Disick, Kourtney and Disick's son, who was born December 14, 2009.

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  • Stolze has shown that in some cases even the mason's rubbish has not been removed.'

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  • His large estates and high social standing, together with his personal ability, gave Mason great influence among the Virginia planters, and he became identified with many enterprises, such as the organization of the Ohio Company and the founding of Alexandria (1749).

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  • See Kate Mason Rowland, Life and Writings of George Mason (2 vols., New York, 1892).

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  • In 1880 he was appointed librarian in Mason College, a post which he relinquished on account of ill-health in 1887.

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  • During November tlfe British West India steamer "Trent" was boarded by a vessel of the Federal Navy, the "San Jacinto," and Messrs Slidell and Mason, commissioners for the Confederate States, who were on their way to England, were seized.

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  • The principal points on the shores are Glengyle, formerly a fastness of the Macgregors, the Trossachs, the Goblins' Cave on Ben Venue, and Stronachlachar (Gaelic, "the mason's nose"), from which there is a ferry to Coilachra on the opposite side.

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  • The commission appointed by the king in 1664 to hear and determine complaints in New England decided that Mason's lands were not within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and made an attempt to set up a government under which his claims could be tried, but this was a failure.

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  • This was the principal outcome of Mason's persistent efforts to establish his rights to the land; for although he succeeded in procuring the appointment of officers who supported his claims, and although decrees were issued in his favour, the tenants, who contended that they had profited nothing from what his grandfather had done or that they were on lands which Wheelwright had bought from the Indians, resisted the enforcement of those decrees.

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  • From 1676 to 1759 New Hampshire suffered greatly from the Indians, and the fear of them, together with the boundary disputes and Mason's claims, retarded settlement.

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  • His father, Sydney Smith Lee, was a fleet captain under Commodore Perry in Japanese waters and rose to the rank of commodore; his mother was a daughter of George Mason.

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  • See North-West Frontier Province Gazetteer (Calcutta, 1908); Sir Thomas Holdich, The Indian Borderland (1901) Paget and Mason, Record of Frontier Expeditions (1884).

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  • In 1784 Virginia agreed to the extension of the line and to the establishment of the western limit (the present boundary between Pennsylvania and Ohio) as the meridian from a point on the Mason and Dixon line five degrees of longitude west of the Delaware river.

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  • Mason of Michigan ordered out a division of Michigan militia, which near the end of March entered and took possession of Toledo.

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  • He was then dressed like a mason with hod and trowel, and so conveyed over the frontier.

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  • Norwich was settled in 1659 by colonists from Saybrook under the leadership of Captain John Mason (1600-1672), who had crushed the power of the Pequot Indians in Connecticut in 1637, and the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702), who became a missionary to the Mohegans."

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  • See the life (1874) by Professor James Mason Hoppin (1820-1906).

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  • The abbey, cruciform, is in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with pronounced French influence, due probably to the master mason John Morow, or Morreau, who, according to an inscription on the south transept wall, was born in Paris.

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  • Mason and Pierre Soule in issuing the Ostend Manifesto in 1854, he retained the good-will of the South."

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  • The father was by trade a mason, and afterwards a small farmer.

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  • He surrounded himself with men of low birth, such as Ireland, a scholar and diplomatist; Rogers, a great musician; and Cochrane, apparently an architect or sculptor - he is styled a mason or stone-cutter.

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  • Mason's Chapters from Illinois History (Chicago, 1901) is of interest 1 Mr French's service of seven years is due to the fact that the Constitutional Convention of 1848 ordered a new election of state officials.

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  • The Memoirs of his life and writings by his friend John Mason Good appeared in 1803.

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  • Among the solitary bees none has more remarkable nesting habits than the mason bee (Chalicodoma) represented in the south of France and described at length by Fabre.

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  • As yet the public was ignorant of its contents, and although the Senate had enjoined secrecy on its members even after the treaty had been ratified, Senator Mason of Virginia gave out a copy for publication only a few days later.

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  • There may be noticed Sackville College (an almshouse founded in 1608), and St Margaret's home and orphanage, founded by the Rev. John Mason Neale (1818-1866), warden of Sackville College.

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  • In 1775 he became chairman of the committee of public safety for Orange county, and wrote its response to Patrick Henry's call for the arming of a colonial militia, and in the spring of 1776 he was chosen a delegate to the new Virginia convention, where he was on the committee which drafted the constitution for the state, and proposed an amendment (not adopted) which declared that "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise" of religion, and was more radical than the similar one offered by George Mason.

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  • In the Virginia convention for ratifying the constitution (June 1788), when eight states had ratified and it seemed that Virginia's vote would be needed to make the necessary nine (New Hampshire's favourable vote was cast only shortly before that of Virginia), and it appeared that New York would vote against the constitution if Virginia did not ratify it, Madison was called upon to defend that instrument again, and he appeared at his best against its opponents, Patrick Henry, George Mason, James Monroe, Benjamin Harrison, William Grayson and John Tyler.

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  • Most important of all, he proposed nine amendments to the constitution, embodying suggestions made by a number of the ratifying states, especially those made by Virginia at the instance of George Mason; and the essential principles of Madison's proposed amendments were included in a Bill of Rights, adopted by the states in the form of ten amendments.

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  • The story of the hatchet and the cherry-tree, and similar tales, are undoubtedly apocryphal, having been coined by Washington's most popular biographer, Mason Weems.

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  • That he thought a great deal on public questions, and took full advantage of his legislative experience as a means of political education, is shown by his letter of the 5th of April 1769 to his neighbour, George Mason, communicating the Philadelphia non-importation resolutions, which had just reached him.

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  • He was succeeded as secretary of the navy by John Mason, who had previously held the office of attorneygeneral.

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  • Mason, governor of Michigan, and James Duane Doty, then U.S. district judge, who had visited the region as early as 1829, recorded a tract of land, including most of the present site of Madison.

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  • Under Wykeham, William of Wynford, who appears in 1360 as "appareller" under Sponle, in 1361 became chief mason and ordinator, and he was probably what we should call the architect of the Great Gate, the rest of which was built under Wykeham's supervision.

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  • He was chief mason for Wykeham's works at Winchester Cathedral and for Winchester College, where his portrait may be seen in the east window of the chapel, and where his contract with the clerk of the works, an ex-scholar of the college, for the building of the outer gate, is still preserved.

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  • Meanwhile on the 29th of September 1394 he had begun the recasting of the nave of the cathedral with William Wynford, the architect of the college, as chief mason, and Simon Membury, an old Wykehamist, as clerk of the works.

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  • Towards the close of 1629 Mason and Gorges agreed upon a division of the territory held jointly by them, and on the 7th of November 1629 Mason received from the Council a separate grant of the tract between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua, which he now named New Hampshire.

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  • A local stone mason should advise further on repairs.

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  • Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

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  • After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes.

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  • At that time, the young Mason traveled to London in order to attend teacher's college at an institution called The Home and Colonial School of Society.

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  • Social studies is best taught through what Miss Mason termed living books no matter what the grade level.

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  • Disick's continued efforts in therapy helped relations with the Kardashians thaw, and he even sought the advice of Kardashian stepfather Bruce Jenner, who he hoped would be a role model to help him become a better father to Mason.

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  • In 1822, under the influence of John Mitchell Mason (1770-1829), the Associate Reformed Synod combined with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, but the majority was too slender to make the union thorough.

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  • He was almost as bitter against Wyatt and Mason, whom he denounced as a "papist," and the violence of his conduct led Francis I.

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  • The making of the Chickering pianos goes back to 1823, and of Mason & Hamlin reed organs to 1854; these are to-day very important and distinctive manufactures of the city.

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  • With James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Mason carried through the Virginia legislature measures disestablishing the Episcopal Church and protecting all forms of worship. In politics he was a radical republican, who believed that local government should be kept strong and central government weak; his democratic theories had much influence in Virginia and other southern and western states.

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  • Mason of Virginia, and enacted on the 18th of September 1850 as a part of the Compromise Measures of that year.

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  • He is always and everywhere sentimental, though very frequently, as in his shorter prose tales (The Stone Mason of Saint-Point, Graziella, &c.), he is graceful as well as sentimental.

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  • He was made adjutant-general to Colonel Mason, military governor, and as such was executive officer in the administration of 'local government till peace came in the autumn of 1848 and the province was ceded to the United States.

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  • Adamson (Perth, 1638) are the lines "For what we do presage is riot in grosse, For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the Mason Word and second sight, Things for to come we can fortell aright."

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  • Littledale; and the Letters of John Mason Neale (1910), selected and edited by his daughter.

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  • Mason, who, in The Christian's Magazine, of which he was editor, had attacked the Episcopacy in general and in particular Hobart's Collection of Essays on the Subject of Episcopacy (1 806).

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  • Mason died in December of this year, and New Hampshire, unlike the other colonies from which the United States originated, New Jersey and Delaware excepted, never received a royal charter.

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  • Although Lake Champlain could not be reached by;boat up the Piscataqua, and although the enterprise was ulti mately a failure, the company sent over colonists who occupied the house left standing by Thomson, and, not far away, built " Mason Hall " or the " Great House " in what is now Portsmouth, a name (for the entire settlement) that replaced " Strawberry Banke " in 1653.

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  • The heirs of Mason protested, but little was done about the matter during the period of Puritan ascendancy in the mother country.

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  • In 1674 Mason offered to surrender his rights to the Crown in return for one-third of the customs, rents, fines, and other profits derived therefrom, but although the offer was at first favourably considered it was finally declined.

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  • Mason then petitioned again, and this time Massachusetts was requested to send agents to England to answer his complaints.

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  • Mason presented no claim to the right of government, and as to the title to the lands claimed by him the court decided that this was a question between him and the several tenants to be determined by the local court having jurisdiction in such matters.

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  • Thereupon Mason, in January 1679, petitioned the king to appoint a governor who should have jurisdiction over all the lands which he claimed, and on the 18th of September of this year New Hampshire was constituted a separate province with a government vested in a president and council appointed by the king and an assembly chosen by the people.

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  • Upon the failure of this attempt, a temporary nominal union with Massachusetts was formed, but in 1692 Samuel Allen, the assign of Mason, caused a royal government to be established with his son-in-law, John Usher, as lieutenant-governor, and during the remainder of the colonial era New Hampshire was separate from Massachusetts except that from 1699 to 1741 the two had the same governor.

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  • Chachanobori (about 7382 ft.) is described by Messrs Chamberlain and Mason as "a cone within a cone, the inner and higher of the two being - so the natives say - surrounded by a lake."

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  • William Mason the poet (1725-1797) was the son of a rector of the parish.

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  • The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam.

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  • You may ask your memorial mason for a workmanship guarantee or in fact details of insurance.

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  • With Austin Phelps and Lowell Mason he prepared The Sabbath Hymn Book (1858).

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  • The minor importance of his Memoir of John Mason Good (1828) is due to the narrower fame of the subject.

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  • Now the Pompilidae or mason wasps provision their cells with insects of many different kinds, as well as with spiders; but, of the hundreds of species of these wasps that have been described from different parts of the world, only one is known to use ants for this purpose; and this species is not one that preys upon spiders.

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  • Opposition to Masonry was taken up by the churches as a sort of religious crusade, and it also became a local political issue in western New York, where early in 1827 the citizens in many mass meetings resolved to support no Mason for public office.

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  • In this effort they were aided by the fact that Jackson was a high Mason and frequently spoke in praise of the Order.

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  • Under the name of "Anti-Masons" able leaders united those who were discontented with existing political conditions, and the fact that William Wirt, their choice for the presidency in 1832, was not only a Mason but even defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him, indicates that simple opposition to Masonry soon became a minor factor in holding together the various elements of which the party was composed.

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  • Mason was a near neighbour and a lifelong friend of George Washington, though in later years they disagreed in politics.

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  • Indeed, like most of the prominent Virginians of the time, Mason was strongly in favour of the gradual abolition of slavery.

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  • Having worked first as a mason and then as a compositor, he joined P. Dubois in the foundation of Le Globe which became in 1831 the official organ of the Saint-Simonian community, of which he became a prominent member.

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  • Amongst these were Giovanni Costa, Robert Browning, James Knowles, George Mason and Sir Edward Poynter, then a youth, whom he allowed to work in his studio.

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  • The industry was rapidly developed by distillers, who immediately after the suppression of the Whisky Insurrection, in 1794, removed from Pennsylvania and settled in what is now Mason county and was then a part of Bourbon countythe product is still known as " Bourbon " whisky.

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  • The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering.

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  • The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee.

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  • Carriere's researches (1897) on the make its appearance simultaneously throughout the whole length of embryology of the mason bee (Chalicodoma) agree entirely with the the plate; the anterior parts are segmented before the posterior.

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  • There was from the first much trouble between its Anglican settlers sent over by Mason and the Puritans from Massachusetts, and in 1641 Massachusetts extended her jurisdiction over this region.

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  • It was the work of Mathieu de Layens, master mason, who worked at it from 1448 to 1463.

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  • Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him a slipper for his left foot.

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  • Talking of my family affairs he said to me, the chief duty of a true Mason, as I have told you, lies in perfecting himself.

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  • Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to.

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  • Brine wells have been mentioned above; the salt industry is still carried on in Mason county, and in 1908 145,157 bbls.

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