The first meeting in Norfolk of the National Agricultural Union promoted by Lord Winchilsea was held at the Corn Hall, Harleston, under the presidency of Mr. J.
The Bill, which was promoted by the City of Norwich Waterworks Company for raising additional capital and for obtaining powers to make additional works, came before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on March 15th.
Browne was shortly afterwards promoted to the post of Acting Sergt.
In 1830 he was promoted to be General Marechal de Camp.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited Norwich, with the object of furthering an important scheme promoted by the governing body of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital for enlarging the institution.
In 1830, though still wearing the stuff gown, he waspromoted an additional puisne judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and received the honour of knighthood.
In 1890, on the retirement of Sir Henry Cotton, Mr. Justice Kay was promoted to the Court of Appeal.
The grade of lieutenant general had been immediately revived by act of Congress, and the President had promptly promoted him to the new rank, and made him general in chief of all the armies of the United States.
He was one of the oldest colonels in the volunteer service, but because he had always been an antislavery man all the others were promoted before him.
Dutocq kept his place therefore solely through Rabourdin's generosity, and was very certain that he could never be promoted if the latter succeeded La Billardiere.
The charms which particularly distinguished this woman were the Italian ease of her artistic nature, her ready comprehension, and the grace with which she welcomed and promoted the least appearance of a wish on the part of others.
There the graces protected and promoted him; for while he was Ensign of the Guards, the Duchess of Cleveland, then favourite mistress of Charles II.
I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance.
Lord Bruce could not remain a governor after this humiliation; resigned his office, and, to soothe his feelings, was actuallypromoted to be an earl!
Next week my Lord Marlborough was promoted to the Garter, and to be captain-general of her Majesty’s forces at home and abroad.
This Sergeant Higgins had been promoted for valour in France, and had been, in spite of his reckless tongue, a pretty decent subordinate.
In the month of October, 1776, Jones was promoted to the rank of captain and ordered to cruise between Boston and the Delaware.
The ketch was renamed the Intrepid, and Decatur, for his daring exploit, was promoted to the rank of captain and presented with a sword by Congress.
For his superb work Cushing received a vote of thanks from Congress and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Now came long and trying weeks and months to Rear Admiral Dewey, he having been promoted upon receipt of news of his great victory.
Philip, promoted to the rank of commodore for his superb work with the Texas off Santiago, is brave, modest, devout and fond of practical joking.
He was rewarded for this service by a gold medal from Congress and promoted by President Arthur to chief of the Bureau of Equipment and made captain in 1888.
After an extended cruise in the Pacific, he returned east in 1833, and was promoted to past midshipman.
He received the thanks of Congress and was promoted to be a commander for his services with the Monitor.
Thus "Commodore" Perry, who won the remarkable victory on Lake Erie, was promoted from that rank to "captain.
Unquestionably he promoted it with all his power, and made it a part of a great policy.
He had promoted none but such as served about the King to bring to pass his purposes, or were of his council in such things as an honest man would not vouchsafe to be acquainted with.
His administration greatly promoted the prosperity of the country.
He was a patron of letters, and promoted peace among the Italian states.
Among the instruments which have promoted the extension of science, the microscope, with its modern improvements, is one of the most interesting.
Pythagoras was sparing in his diet, promoted an earnest culture, in which music was prominent, and gave rise to a mystical school, in which moral reform and religious fueling were connected with an ascetic method of living.
In early times their moral influence in the nation promoted justice and fraternal feeling.
By constructing canals, roads, and harbors, he promoted trade and commerce.
The royal letter was a kind of promise that if they conducted themselves well, they should be promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Promoted from commander to captain in the navy; a word no longer officially used.
Aloysius had improved the interval by sweeping the roundhouse as it never had been swept before; and when Johnnie Horigan returned, morally disfigured, Aloysius McGrath was already promoted to be wiper over his old superior.
Chris presented the remodelled root to Callahan as a surprise; Callahan, in a burst of gratitude, promoted him on the spot: he made little Chris foreman.
Mr. Johnson served in the war, being promoted to sergeant; after the war he returned to Newark.
The necessary counterpart to the assumption of administrative duties by the princeps was the development of an imperial civil service, the officials of which were nominated by the princeps, and promoted or removed at his pleasure.
In this way Caesar promoted the romanization of the provinces, a policy which he had begun with his conferment of the franchise upon the Transpadane Gauls in 49, and continued in the case of many Spanish communities.
He is stationed in the Philippines, where she is to join him and live in some jungle with him whenever he is sufficiently promoted to marry.
I have not told you, yet--I was promoted to a new position to-day.
This process, which is known by the name of nitrification, is greatly promoted by the presence of lime or some other substance, with which the nitric acid may combine in proportion as it is formed.
The access of air to the soil is also greatly promoted by draining.
The rapidity of action of bones is still more promoted by solution in sulphuric acid, by which they are converted into the form of dissolved bones or superphosphate.
Thus the only person to whom Pierre could turn for comfort was Victorine Bosquet, the old Beauceronne servant who had been promoted to the rank of housekeeper, and who still retained a French heart after thirty years' residence in Rome.
His second film, The Jerk, is now being heavily promoted for its December 14 opening.
At 16, she became the youngest person ever to join George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, and at 19, she was promoted to the rank of principal dancer.
On the side of these was recorded the fact that it had been the handiwork of Wang Hsi-feng, specially promoted to the rank of Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent, and formerly Chancellor of the Imperial Academy.
My maternal uncle was at the end of the year promoted to be High Commissioner of the Nine Provinces!
She said that I was dreadful, and that she meant to poison me so as to get me out of the way and enable P'ing Erh to be promoted to be first wife.
Anne, the placid and imperturbable, was promoted to take the place that Gerty had rejected, in the gentle home of the good sisters.
Yet probably no one reared within the smell of sawdust ever quite outgrew all taste for "the profession," and Anne, even when promoted to good society, never missed seeing a performance when her wandering friends came by.
Coulton, 1372) he waspromoted to be an Esquire of the royal household.
For the first ten years the glamour of his name, the skill with which he promoted the material prosperity of France, and the successes of his early wars, promised to build up a lasting power.
Under his weak successors that imposing league rarely promoted peace among its peoples, while the splendour of its chief elective dignity not seldom conduced to war.
Thus, once again, the complexities of the general situation promoted the cause of freedom in the Balkans; and the way was cleared for a resolute man to mount the throne at Sofia.
Shefket Pasha, whose punishment was also promised, was afterwards promotedto a high command.
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