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“In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.”

Wells Interest Practice Majors England Raised Representation Objections

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Years School Born Summer England Raised Nigeria Switzerland Born And Raised Summer School

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.”

“The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.”

Thinking Years Humans Two Reality Literature Born Human Nature Tradition England Died Lifetime Raised Theology Classic Influential Renaissance Illuminating

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.”

“I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.”

People Ifs Sometimes Age School Left Church Behinds Wonder Sky Bird England Moved Raised Clouds Eight Distraction Kites Methodists

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me.”

Ifs World Children Country Wanted Values Girl Strong My Family England Raised Traditional Country Girl

Author:FKA twigs

“. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .”

Years Firsts Faces Sun Five Four Cold Spring Gun England Raised Winter Anxious Four Years Bursting Rumours Winter Cold Bursting Out

Book:The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

“Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.”

People Thinking Facts Natural Ready Eating England Raised Western Despite Boat Upset Islands Buying Chickens Farms Buried Taboo Batteries Ovens Think Twice Natural Life Buying Something

Author:Douglas Adams

“We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.”

Kind Mean Two Mother Father Born Views Example Band Members Tradition England Catholic Unity Raised Ireland Protestants Northern Ireland

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.”

Knows England Raised Moses Allison

Author:John Mayall