The award-winning film and stage actress recounts the telling events of her life--from her Catholic childhood, to her Hollywood successes and troubles, to her nightmare of alcoholism-and comments upon heroes and villains met along the way
Author: Mercedes McCambridge
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: UOM:39015003851881
Category: Actors
Page: 245
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The award-winning film and stage actress recounts the telling events of her life--from her Catholic childhood, to her Hollywood successes and troubles, to her nightmare of alcoholism-and comments upon heroes and villains met along the way
William Dean Howells The Quality of Mercy 1st Edition | ISBN: 978-3-75237-641-
8 Place of Publication: Frankfurt am Main, Germany Year of Publication: 2020
Outlook Verlag GmbH, Germany. Reproduction of the original. THE QUALITY OF
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Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9783752376418
Category: Fiction
Page: 288
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Reproduction of the original: The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
THE QUALITY OF MERCY . PART FIRST . I. NORTHWICK's man met bim at the
station with the cutter . The train was a little late , and Elbridge was a little early ;
after a few moments of formal waiting , he began to walk the clipped horses up ...
Also by D. G. Compton Katherine Mortenhoe The Continuous Katherine
Mortenhoe (1974) Windows (1979) Other Novels The Quality of Mercy (1965)
Farewell, Earth's Bliss (1966) The Silent Multitude (1967) Synthajoy (1968) The
Palace ...
Author: D.G. Compton
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9780575117969
Category: Fiction
Page: 168
View: 755
The time: 1979 The place: a top-secret US Air Force base in the Cotswolds The actors: carefully selected, healthy-living personnel The missions: long-range reconnaissance flights The problem: is there any connection between these flights and the growing menace of a strange blood-cancer disease that is spreading through the world? Several of the more intelligent and intuitive realise that there is. There are those who retain their integrity, and doing so, lose their lives; and there are those who live silently in their knowledge, condemned to lives of emotional death.
He was looking in the direction of the sea, which at that distance was no more
than a change in the quality of the light, a pale suffusion low in the sky. At his
back, little more than half a mile away, was the colliery village of Thorpe, where
he ...
Author: Barry Unsworth
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780385534789
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
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Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel opens, a blithe Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can. His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived: he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end. In this village, Billy's sister, Nan, and her miner husband, James Bordon, live with their three sons, all destined to follow their father down the pit. The youngest, only seven, is enjoying his last summer aboveground. Meanwhile, in London, a passionate anti-slavery campaigner, Frederick Ashton, gets involved in a second case relating to the lost ship. Erasmus Kemp wants compensation for the cargo of sick slaves who were thrown overboard to drown, and Ashton is representing the insurers who dispute his claim. Despite their polarized views on slavery, Ashton's beautiful sister, Jane, encounters Erasmus Kemp and finds herself powerfully attracted to him. Lord Spenton, who owns coal mines in East-Durham, has extravagant habits and is pressed for money. When he applies to the Kemp merchant bank for a loan, Erasmus sees a business opportunity of the kind he has long been hoping for, a way of gaining entry into Britain's rapidly developing and highly profitable coal and steel industries. Thus he too makes his way north, to the very same village that Sullivan is heading for . . . With historical sweep and deep pathos, Unsworth explores the struggles of the powerless and the captive against the rich and the powerful, and what weight mercy may throw on the scales of justice.
Montaigne argues that the choice whether to yield belongs not only to the
defeated but to the conqueror, whose accommodation takes the form of showing mercy to those he might otherwise punish. And he seeks to persuade his French
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Author: David Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400864805
Category: History
Page: 192
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In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse. From the first essay, Montaigne places the reader in a world of violent political conflict reminiscent of the French Wars of Religion through which he lived and wrote. Quint shows how a group of interrelated essays, including the famous one on the cannibals of Brazil, explores the confrontation between warring adversaries: a clement or vindictive victor and his suppliant or defiant captive. How can the two be reconciled? In a climate of hatred and obstinacy, Montaigne argues not only for the political necessity but also for the moral imperative of trusting and submitting to others and of extending mercy to them. For Quint, this ethical message informs other topics of the Essais: Montaigne's criticism of stoic models of virtue, his project to reform the cruel behavior of his noble class, his self-portrait that depicts his relaxed and unstudied nature, and his measuring of his own behavior against the classical virtue of Socrates. Quint's reading, attentive to Montaigne's verbal artistry and to his historical and cultural context, shows the essayist always aware of the other side of the issue. The moral thought of the Essais emerges as startlingly modern, both in the perennial urgency of Montaigne's concerns and in the self-questioning open-endedness of his doctrine. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
OR THE QUALITY OF MERCY By RICHARD DOWLING AuTHoR of “THE
MystERy of KILLARD,” “THE weird sistERs,” “An Isle of surrey,” “A BAFFLING
quest,” etc. LONDON AND EDINBURGH ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK The
present Story ...
More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful learning and coping tool when a struggling reader connects with credible characters and a compelling storyline.
Author: Anne Schraff
Publisher: Saddleback Pub
ISBN: 1616510064
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 183
View: 556
When an unpopular teacher is the victim of escalating acts of vandalism and a classmate is accused, Oliver and Alonee attempt to find the true culprit.
In this sprawling tale of Elizabethan England, the heroine, Rebecca Lopez, is the gifted, shapely daughter of the Queen's court physician.
Author: Faye Kellerman
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: UOM:39015050312779
Category: Fiction
Page: 531
View: 178
In this sprawling tale of Elizabethan England, the heroine, Rebecca Lopez, is the gifted, shapely daughter of the Queen's court physician. The Lopezes are conversos, Spanish Jews posing as Anglicans, and they're involved in a dangerous mission to smuggle Jews out of Spain.
I chose The Quality of Mercy as my title because of Portia ' s nowfamous lines
from The Merchant of Venice : The quality of mercy is not strained , It droppeth as
the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath . It is twice blestIt blesseth
him ...
Author: Keith Harper
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: UOM:39015037777193
Category: Religion
Page: 167
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Contrary to popular perception, turn-of-the-century Southern Baptists had an identifiable social ethic that compelled them to minister to society's dispossessed. Although Southern Baptists never deviated from their primary goal of saving souls, they believed biblical stewardship had broader implications than wealth management. Baptists eagerly engaged in social ministries for which they found scriptural mandates, especially orphanages. The key to enlisting support for such expanded social ministries was missions. Baptist leaders synthesized evangelical concern with social compassion and convinced church members that the Bible sanctioned social ministries and that such endeavors were worthy of support. The effect was twofold: Baptists built institutions to relieve the needy, and they also used these institutions to propagate the Gospel and teach Baptist doctrine.
Release on 1925 | by Mrs. Beatrice Cameron Mansfield
It is not cold , human justice that my boy needs , but mercy — oh , Billy — The quality of mercy is not strained - it droppeth as the gentle dew from Heaven upon
the place beneath , it is twice blessed , it blesseth him that gives , and him that ...
