militia for 7 years‚ holding the rank of major 2 or 3years more. Somewhere near the end of his life he was a Governor in the New River Company. He was very interested in art. He was friends with Samuel Cooper a miniaturist and of John Hayls the painter. He was also an important collector. Samuel Pepys ’ diary describes his prints as "indeed the best collection of anything almost that ever I saw‚ there being the prints of most of the greatest houses‚ churches and antiquitys in Italy and France‚ and
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The Great Fire off London Did you know that the Great Fire of London of September 1666 was one of the most famous incidents in Stuart England. It was the second tragedy to hit the city in the space of 12 months. Just as the city was recovering from the Great Plague‚ the inhabitants had to flee the city once again – this time not as a result of a disease‚ but the result of as human accident. The Great Fire of London‚ arguably‚ left a far greater mark on the city when compared to the plague.
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This essay attempts to compare‚ analyse and contrast two texts. Text A being an adaptation of a dairy entry of Samuel Pepys about the Great Fire of London in 1666‚ text B being a news article on a fire that devastated Tasmania a few year ago. Do the texts have similarities? Despite there being about a 300-year difference between the two articles written there are actually quite a few similarities. Firstly‚ both the texts are written in first person and in a personal way. They use the same pronouns
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everywhere. A diary gives us an intimate glimpse of the writer‚ his feelings and the workings of his mind. A diary may even be a sort of historical record if the writer has noted down events of national importance. Such‚ for instance was the diary of Samuel Pepys‚ a writer who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century. His famous diary gives us a picture of contemporary events like the coronation of the king‚ the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. It is of great interest and importance
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Samuel Adams "The Father of the American Revolution" Samuel Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was one of the leaders of the movement that became known as the American Revolution. He changed American history just from signing the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Adams was born in Boston in the year of 1722‚ September the 16th. He was born along with 12 other children‚ three of them who died shortly after 3. When Samuel Adams was younger he attended the Boston Latin
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Samuel Adams Samuel Adams is one of America’s founding fathers and helped the nation come together at its beginnings. He was born on September 27‚ 1722 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Adams was one of twelve children born to Samuel Adams‚ Sr.‚ and Mary Adams; in an age of high infant mortality‚ only three of his siblings lived past their third birthday‚ luckily Samuel Adams was one of them to survive. Adams’s parents were devout Puritans‚ and members of the Old South Congregational Church. The family
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that ’if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty‚ we encourage it‚ and involve others in our doom. ’ It is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Samuel Adams Thesis: Few people realize the effect Samuel Adams has had on our country‚ they know of him only that he was a politician at the time of the revolution‚ but he is indeed the father of American independence. "Among those who signed the Declaration of Independence
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Samuel Slater Samuel Slater was born in Belper‚ Derbyshire‚ England on June 9‚ 1768. He became involved in the textile industry at the age 14. Samuel Slater worked in the industry for 8 years‚ which is why he is an English-American industrialist. Mr. Slater is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution”‚ a phrase brought up by Andrew Jackson. He also was known as “Father of the American Factory System” and “Slater the Traitor” (In the UK) because he brought the British textile
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SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689 – 1761) [pic] Samuel Richardson (1689 – 1761) was a self-educated tradesman who had little formal literary training‚ yet he made an impact on English literature which is nothing the less remarkable. He expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel through an inventive use of the letter form (thus contributing to the emergence of the so-called “epistolary novel”) and was the promoter of sentimentalism[1]. Together with Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding‚ he is credited
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Samuel Colt By: Chase Gauthier Samuel Colt was born on July in 1816‚ in Hartford‚ Connecticut. He was born an important man. He invented the revolver. It is one of history’s most important weapons. Colt was not the best student in school. He usually had some troubles in while at school. One day‚ he brought a pistol into school and fired it in school. Instead of being expelled‚ he dropped out of school. After that he made a town gathering and made them pay money to see a raft blow up. When
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