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...child's eternal fate and more on his making it in this world. Paintings mirrored the change. Children began to look more like-well, children, and were depicted as members of affectionate families. In his portrait of The Strobel Children and Their Servant Boy (1813-14), John Wesley Jarvis shows a young boy tenderly holding his sister. Hers is an expression of contentment, his of protectiveness. Such depictions of sentimentality echoed the views of transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, who went beyond Locke's tabula rasa theory to proclaim that children were innately pure and good, corrupted...
...state with a special surtax to pay for the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant. Thomson had refused to veto a bill prohibiting that special charge and was suddenly cast as a less vigilant opponent of added taxation than his opponent, Democrat Hugh Gallen. An independent candidate, former Republican Governor Wesley Powell, drained some 12,000 Republican votes away from the Governor, contributing to Gallen's 10,400-vote victory margin and helping to end Thomson's rule...
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...Wesley J. Christensen, director of public relations at B.U., said Monday the university's budget is available to the public in the B.U. library...
...First, each civil servant has a flat 7% deducted from his or her gross salary. Second, after having retired and received an amount equal to that contributed, usually about 18 to 24 months after retirement, the annuitant pays full federal (and in most cases, state) income tax. Howard R. Wesley Blue Ridge Summit...