A review in " Gentleman's Magazine " of Lord Erskine's speech in support of the Bill for Preventing Malicious and Wanton Cruelty to Animals " ( 1809 ) said of Pratt, " Certainly [ no living author has ] expatiated more on this subject [ cruelty to animals ] than the Author of " Sympathy, " both in his poetical and prose writings.
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A systematic exposition of gurmat principles was for the first time undertaken by Bhai Gurdas ( d . 1636 ), who in his Varan expatiated upon terms such as gurmukh, one attuned to the Gurus'teaching, sangat, fellowship of the holy, and seva, humble acts of service in the cause of the community and of fellow men in general, besides evolving a framework for the exegetics of gurbani.
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Austin was said to have played a pivotal role in the Atkinson switch and there was some speculation that Austin's connections to The White House might propel him in a future run for Congress . " The Pittsburgh Press " wrote, " Somehow, all of the television network commentators, the syndicated political columnists and the Capitol Hill pundits who rushed to analyze, dissect and expatiate upon the Atkinson political drama neglected to point out the McKeesport connection.
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On the following morning the king assembled the leading nobles, and expatiated before them on the attack made by the Burhagohain which he characterized as unfriendly and unprovoked, as the premier himself had brought the prince from his ancestral home and seated him on the throne . I could have killed the Burhagohain, said the king, but I refrained from taking his life as we are co-disciples and have thus jointly attained companionship under the spiritual teachings of the Guru .
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Romer was described by a near-contemporary, the Irish writer Richard Robert Madden, as a " shrewd, lively, mystery-loving, and'a leetle conceited,'occasional authoress, prone to expatiate rather extensively on themes merely personal, and regarding her own feelings, but always redeeming slight defects of that nature by vivid delineations, and smart, interesting, and entertaining descriptions . " The same author said that her descriptions of Palestine were " abounding more in sprightliness than spirituality ."
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Besides these, Elliot and Dowson assert that he was the author of'several other treatises, a Biography of the Poets, ancient and modern, and', quoting the " Zubdatu-l Gharaib " of Muhammad Riza,'" himself indulged in versification, especially on the subject of the females of England, who aspire to equality with the Angels of Paradise, and he was always expatiating on the heart-ravishing strains of the women of that country, who used to sing at the public assemblies " '.
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Stephen Gaselee was already at the age of twenty what he never ceased to be, a Cambridge Personality; Gaselee, with almost as many friends as interests, a first-class classical scholar, a bibliophile, a bibliographer, a liturgiologist; Gaselee, who when playing tennis wore his hair in a net; who kept Siamese cats, fed with a revolting portion of cow s lung preserved on a plate above his bookshelf; who had a fire every day in the year because England has a cold climate; who founded the Deipnosophists dining club, where the members, robed in purple dinner-jackets lined with lilac silk and preluding dashingly on Vodka, would launch forth into an uncharted ocean of good food and even better talk; Gaselee, who read, wrote and spoke Ancient Coptic ( which the Copts themselves had not done for 300 years ); Gaselee, nightly puffing his long churchwarden whilst he expatiated on Petronius, vestments, Shark s Fin and cooking problems; a lay Prince of the Church, Ecclesiastic Militant and Gastronomer Royal.
