Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I neither read books nor studied other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens for the American expedition against Quebec...
...rising bell still rings at 5 every morning, and the daily routine of prayer, recitation and study continues uninterrupted. But as news of the Continental Congress trickles in from Philadelphia, the scholarly discipline of the 150 young men at the College of New Jersey in Princeton increasingly gives way to patriotic enthusiasm...
...pages. Archibald Bell...
...idea for the Britannica was conceived back in 1768 by Colin Macfarquhar, a young (then 22) bookseller and printer. Needing capital, he enlisted the aid of Andrew Bell, some 20 years his senior, who had begun his career engraving dog collars and progressed to the eminence of Edinburgh's leading printer-engraver. Bell stands only 4 feet 6 inches tall and has a huge nose, but he disarms the mockery of others by making mock of himself. He mounts his giant horse with the aid of a ladder, carrying with him a papier-mache nose to enlarge...
...entry on "Sex," for instance, dismisses it as "something in the body which distinguishes male from female." Yet the persevering reader will discover, under the large heading of "Anatomy," sex organs of both the human male and female described at length and illustrated in five admirable engravings by Bell. In the 43 pages devoted to "Midwifery," the text could instruct the most distraught young husband snowbound in the country. All of it is illustrated by Bell's drawings?drawings so explicit that many subscribers have clipped them out of their volumes and destroyed them. Equally explicit is a drawing...