#john lowell

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John Lowell-Evangeline Russell "The big show" 1926, de George Terwilliger.

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John Lowell - bigging up George Washington

No more let ancient times their heroes boast, Since all their fame in George’s praise is lost; Not Greece - her Alexanders; Cæsars - Rome For worth and virtue view our Monarch’s tomb. Restless ambition dwelt in Cæsar’s mind, He murder’d nations and enslaved mankind: He found a gen’rous people great and free, And gave them tyrants for their liberty. The glorious Alexander, half divine, Whose godlike deeds in ancient records shine, Dropt his divinity at every feast; And lost the god and hero in the beast. Shall then our monarch be with these compared, Or George’s glory with a Cæsar shared: No - we indignant spurn the unworthy claim: George shines unrivall’d in the lists of fame: For while he reign’d, each virtue, every grace Beam’d from his throne, and sparkled in his face: While justice, goodness, liberty inspired, And Britain’s freedom all his conduct fired. His people’s father was his highest boast; And in that name was all the sovereign lost. Justice which left the world since Saturn’s reign, In him returning blest these realms again; Even rigid justice with compassion join’d, Sweetly uniting in his generous mind. But why should we on separate features dwell, When the great picture does in each excel? No single virtues strike us with surprise; All come united to the admiring eyes.

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American Horror Story : Hotel | S05E07 | The Ten Commandments Killer

It's surprising how delicious a little cruelty can taste.

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American Horror Story : Hotel | S05E06 | Room 33

Looks like that breakdown is going well.

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American Horror Story : Hotel | S05E04 | Devil’s Night

Darling John, you're too drunk to see how ugly that woman is.

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I’m such a slut for John and Sally scenes.

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Forgotten secession: when the original 13 tried to split.

Forgotten secession: when the original 13 tried to split.

In 1812-13 there was a movement in the original thirteen states to secede from the rest of the nation—an idea first championed by a guy named John Lowell of Massachusetts. You have to admit there was some logic to this. As the United States expanded, the original 13 states had less and less influence. Even a third grader can do the math: in the late 1700s, the two Massachusetts senators made up nearly 8 percent of the US Senate. Today, it's just 2 percent.

Lowell thought his state had less and less control of its own affairs, so he advocated expelling the western states from the Union. The governors of both New York and Maryland liked the idea. Lowell laid out his argument in a tract with the less-than-snappy title: Thoughts in a series of letters, in answer to a question respecting the division of the states. By a Massachusetts farmer.

The idea was popular in certain influential circles, but eventually it died out. Maybe if Lowell had come up with a more catchy title... like "Think Small." You can read more about it  here  or read all of Lowell's original tract here.