Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tablet may be divided into four parts, the introduction, the temple restoration, the ending and the date. The introduction, occupying ten lines, relates the military and religious titles of BudIl, the father of Ramman-nirari his gradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgradfather, Bel-nirari, and his greatgrandfather, Asshur-uballit. The account of the restoration of the temple is eleven lines long. It is written over an erasure and is in a different handwriting from the rest of the tablet. The ending consists of a blessing (4 lines) on future princes who should preserve the tablet, and a curse (23 lines...
March 1. Rev. Father Huntington...
...Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter to tend his bookstall. The boy refused from pride...
...Rodney Smith, better known perhaps as "Gypsy" Smith was born in a Gypsy wagon and brought up as a Gypsy boy, an outcast from society. The remarkable conversion of his father formed the beginning of his own active and successful career. He combines with the fire of his nomadic reace, the strength of a Christian education, and is now generally considered to be one of the most persuasive pulpit orators in England...
...engrossing worldly occupations and unrestrained passions. There is also a danger in an ill-directed intellectual life. whoever has, nevertheless, thought or dreamed like Richter what the world would be without its God will wake to say with new fervor and gratitude the wonderful prayer of His Son, "Our Father who art in Heaven...