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...My husband, who wrote a book about Alexander Hamilton, likes to remind me about how one of the great political compromises of all time was made over dinner when Hamilton and his antagonist, Thomas Jefferson...
...This year marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two of the most eminent composers of that time, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes....
...Your article on Cape Cod’s housing market (House & Home, FT Weekend, June 19) recalled the writing of Sir Thomas More, now over 500 years old....
...Rock Creek Park seemed poised to overrun the built environment, as though in emulation of some Thomas Cole landscape. How I hated it....
...(In a style favoured by the late 18th century gentry, the townhouses were originally designed to accommodate servants)....
...He promoted the hobby and encouraged much of the landed gentry to start collections of their own....
...A key character in the novel, Ezra Jennings, probably bi-racial, with “piebald” hair, is an opium user and references Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater....
...Sian Thomas as Mme Ranevsky rightly refuses to let her warmth forgive her complacency; Jude Akuwudike’s Lopakhin, too, is sympathetic to the family without being merciful and forgoing his opportunity to...
...He purchased at auction, for example, many items from Sir Thomas Browne’s collection of rarities....
...in Michigan during the Jazz Age as a high-class resort for prosperous and privileged African-Americans, but it has been dormant for some time when, in spring 2016, its owner Miss Anita (a majestic Ellen Thomas...
...Born into a Durham gentry family, John Lilburne was exposed to radical ideas while an apprentice in London, “the incubator and mainstay of the Leveller movement”....
...Decoration was not the only reason why the landed gentry felt compelled to spend considerable sums on ultimately useless buildings....
...An entrepreneurial small businessman called Thomas Sharpe purchased the wood of the mulberry and started making souvenirs from it....
...Furthermore, it stared straight into the face of St James’s Palace, as though the slimy politician were trying to eclipse the king, Thomas Wolsey-style....
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
...The values of Plato and Aristotle, intermediated by the 13th-century philosopher Thomas Aquinas, survived in Europe into the feudal era....
...This particular scarcity had caused another hardship to the gentry: a tax of a guinea was imposed on hair-powder....
...Only 3 per cent of the population had a vote, and a system of fiendish intricacy, evolved over centuries, meant that “pocket boroughs” were essentially in the gift of the landed gentry, while tiny “rotten...
...And the largest of them, Eaton Square as laid out by Thomas Cubitt in 1827, has about a 5.5:1 ratio....
...I am afraid that there has been a decline of the aristocracy and gentry in Britain owing to their snobbish aversion to commercialese....
...In fact, many of the most distinguished British radicals such as Thomas Paine, William Cobbett and Richard Cobden spent much of their energies attacking the state of their day....
...In the first two days, we would visit the surviving gentry houses of Stamford and the great palaces of the plutocrat nobility outside York, including Beningbrough and Castle Howard....
...Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist By Thomas Levenson Fabe5 £15.99, 299 pages FT Bookshop price: £12.79 Thomas Chaloner had a way with coinage....
...For many others, there was a spirit of going back to the land (or the landed gentry): Tom Ford featured windowpane check-meets-Perthshire reds; Ralph Lauren had plaid cashmeres faded as if by a few years...
...The star of the sale, ringing up $101,059, was the 1893 oil painting “Setters” by Thomas Blinks, who exhibited at London’s Royal Academy....
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