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  • * [http://www.lessontutor.com/bf_borodin.html Lesson Tutor: Biography of classical composer Alexander Borodin] by Betty Fry Category:Musicians ...
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  • hiring the Stoic philosopher Cornutus to be his tutor. Later, with help once again of his uncle, Lucan was sent to Athens to complete his education ...
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  • wrangler, became fellow in 1766, and in 1768 tutor of his college. He lectured on Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler, and John Locke, and also delivered a systematic ...
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  • where he studied logic and philosophy. He became a tutor at the University of Cambridge in 1909, and his interest gradually, mostly due to the influence ...
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  • already a well-known orientalist. He worked as a tutor and translator for the next six years, during which he published, on the request of King Christian ...
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  • outbreak of World War I, he worked as a private tutor at the Berlitz School in Bordeaux, France. === War service === On October 21, 1915, Owen ...
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  • Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook ...
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  • He was also chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to the future King Edward VII. ... to Queen Victoria. He also became a private tutor to the Prince of Wales, in ...
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  • English as a second language by her mother and tutor. She was encouraged to write at an early age. In 1910, she left for America to attend Randolph ...
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  • world as the king who appointed Anna Leonowens as tutor and governess for his children. Thailand Gateway [http://www.thailandgateway.com/about_thailand/rama3 ...
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  • accorded this title during his lifetime. He was the tutor and a close ally of the 5th Dalai Lama, "The Great Fifth," as he is known, pronounced ...
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  • King of Samos. He is said to have acted as tutor to Polycrates; that he enjoyed the king's confidence we learn on the authority of Herodotus ...
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  • Japanese shogunate, and in 1870 became a private tutor to the emperor. He was appointed to many government posts in education and foreign affairs, including ...
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  • allowed to attend lessons with her brother's tutor. She published her first poem, anonymously, at the age of fourteen. In 1826, she published anonymously ...
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  • negative reports from Roderick's abusive tutor. Roderick ends up finding his maternal uncle, Tom Bowling, a sailor who attempts to support Roderick ...
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  • He became Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford from 1864 to 1866, but soon left for the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow (1866 ...
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  • that must be completed and submitted to the tutor within specified time frames. Courses conclude with a final examination, which may be taken ...
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  • brought Abelard to arrange to become her tutor. From Heloise's letters ... He laid a plan to become Heloise's tutor and seduce her. He arranged ...
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  • to afford his education, so he became a tutor to other children in his ... Confucians. In 1844, Hong lost his job as tutor after he destroyed the tablets ...
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  • two years in Richmond, Virginia, working as a tutor for a wealthy family. His health suffered from this time onward in his life, and he struggled ...
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  • College, Oxford. In 1890, he became assistant tutor at Corpus Christi, and in 1894 was elected fellow of the college. While there, he published his first ...
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  • with her mother, younger sister Josephine, and a tutor. Upon her return to Chicago at the age of 19, Alicia was debuted at a grandiose Chicago ...
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  • scholars. Philometer VI had a Jewish tutor, the famous Aristobulus. During the reign of Ptolemy V, new critical editions of Homer, Hesiod and ...
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  • trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what ...
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  • brother al-Mu'tasim, who employed al-Kindī to tutor his son Ahmad. Al-Mu'tasim died in 842 and was succeeded by al-Wathiq who, in turn, was ...
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  • Countess of Warwick to whose son he had been tutor, and his political career continued to flourish. However, his political newspaper, The Freeholder, ...
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  • He left the university in 1748, becoming a private tutor in the family of a relative at Langensalza. Here unrequited love for a cousin (the "Fanny ...
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  • father was James Cassini, who first assigned a tutor to assist in Cassini's education, and later sent the young man to study theology and law under ...
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  • from Catherine II to go to Russia as a tutor for her son. In his later life, d'Alembert turned his efforts to literature and philosophy. ...
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  • After leaving Oxford and spending some time as a private tutor, Blackmore decided on a career in law. He entered the Middle Temple in 1849, and ...
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  • Connecticut, then went with a private tutor on a six-month tour of France, England, Italy, Greece, and the Middle East to study the masters ...
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  • After the war, Hampshire returned to his studies as a tutor and lecturer in philosophy at Oxford, where he spent five years as domestic bursar ...
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  • Malusha's brother Dobrynya was Vladimir's tutor and most trusted adviser. Hagiographic tradition also connects his childhood with the name ...
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  • and became his lifelong patron, making him tutor to his grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Italian humanist ...
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  • Having heard the teachings of the gospel by means of a tutor, however, she contemplated life's meaning from her luxurious prison, meditating ...
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  • secure a position at Wellesley College as a Greek tutor. Soon after she was offered a position teaching psychology, with the requirement that she study ...
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  • is also a philosopher.) He was elected fellow and tutor in philosophy at Balliol from 1947–1996; honorary fellow at Balliol from 1974-2002; and was ...
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  • Composer Biography: Jacques Offenbach] Lesson Tutor *[http://www.musicals101.com/operetta.htm A History of The Musical European Operetta: 1850 ...
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  • He lived in Corinth until his death, and became tutor to the two sons of Xeniades and manager of the household. Lives relates that he educated the two ...
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  • view of adult education. He worked for years as a tutor, giving lectures to manual workers and all those who were interested in different political and ...
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  • and was placed under the care of a tutor. He was also trained by his ... The reminiscences of his son's tutor, Mr. Smyth, show anxious ...
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  • despite the fact that he had been Leo's tutor. Photius went into exile--some say he retired voluntarily, being already old--to the monastery of ...
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  • Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury in about 1521, and tutor to his children. His opinions involved him in controversy with his fellow clergymen, and around ...
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  • When he had reached the third class, Mme Rimbaud hired a tutor, Father Ariste Lhéritier, for private lessons. Lhéritier succeeded in sparking ...
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  • advisor to Marshal Gouvoin Saint Cyr and as a tutor to his son. In 1829, Cournot acquired a doctorate in sciences, focusing on mechanics and astronomy. ...
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  • and Bristol). He also worked as a teacher and tutor, gave public lectures and sermons, and almost single handedly wrote and published two periodicals ...
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  • and a young Jewish physician was his tutor in Latin, but he was mainly self-educated. With his scanty earnings he bought a Latin copy of John ...
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  • Esaias, a diplomat in the Swedish service, became a tutor in the family of Petrus Julius Coyet, one of the resident ministers of King Charles X of Sweden ...
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  • for medical studies, worked as a private tutor, and was an extra at the Royal Theater in Stockholm. He returned to Uppsala in January 1870, and ...
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  • East Lothian, where he became the tutor of Jane Welsh, afterwards famous as wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle. He was engaged in 1812, to Isabella ...
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