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    Elizur Wright III (12 February 1804 – 22 November 1885) was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described in the United States...
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  • politician Elizur G. Webster (1829-1900), American silversmith Elizur Wright (1804–1885), American mathematician and abolitionist Elizur (biblical figure)...
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  • American singer Elias Wright (1830–1901), American army officer Elissa Wright (born 1946), American politician Elizur Wright (1804–1885), American mathematician...
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    (1875–1936) Founder and first president of the Casualty Actuarial Society. Elizur Wright (1804–1885) American actuary and abolitionist, professor of mathematics...
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    Jean de la Fontaine (1842), The Fables of La Fontaine, translated by Elizur Wright Jr., London: William Smith, p. 36 Mark Antony Lower (1860), "Onslow"...
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    Brown studied at the school of the abolitionist Elizur Wright, father of the famous Elizur Wright, in nearby Tallmadge. In a story he told to his family...
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  • subject of his La forêt et le bûcheron (Fables X11.16), translated by Elizur Wright as "The Woods and the Woodman". In his telling, the woodman breaks his...
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  • Williams Charles K. Williams Samuel Newitt Wood Lewis Woodson Elizur Wright Theodore S. Wright Levi Yale John J. Zuille Joseph Cilley representing New Hampshire...
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  • inner faiths are strong. (op. cit., page x) Ajesh Partalay interviewing Wright, 'Master of the Universe', The Observer, 14 September 2008 (accessed 15...
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    Among these may be mentioned the first U. S. collection in verse by Elizur Wright in 1841 and Frederick Colin Tilney's prose version in The Original Fables...
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  • insurance companies are legally required to hold. Actuarial reserves Elizur Wright Statutory accounting principles Beckley, Jeffrey A.; Scahill, Patricia...
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  • the Free Soilers. In Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse, Wright's biographer Lawrence B. Goodheart describes him as "an...
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  • published in 1996. In 1998, it was awarded the Clarence Arthur Kulp/Elizur Wright Memorial Book Award from The American Risk and Insurance Association...
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    has a blue-clad peasant peering at a large pumpkin in a wheelbarrow. Elizur Wright translation online Peter France, “The poet as a teacher” in Poetry in...
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    Mary Clark Green Wright. His grandfather was Elizur Wright, an abolitionist and pioneer of life insurance regulation. Philip Wright grew up in Medford...
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    Brill 2003, p. 895 Text online Aesopica site See the Elizur Wright translation online Wright's translation Miscellaneous poems and translations from...
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  • absence for health, and soon died. One of the two remaining professors, Elizur Wright, soon left to head the American Anti-Slavery Society. Western Reserve...
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    Massachusetts during the 19th century. In addition to collaborating with Elizur Wright in ambitious abolitionist projects, such as the American Anti-Slavery...
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  • Free American. Leavitt (New York) and Elizur Wright (Boston) served as co-editors until March 1844, when Wright left and the journal moved its headquarters...
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    Atlantic, from their example. This line provoked a reply from abolitionist Elizur Wright in the form of his own pamphlet, Perforations in the "Latter-Day Pamphlets"...
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  • Griffith Davies (1788–1855), Welsh Thomas Galloway (1796–1851), Scottish Elizur Wright (1804–1885), American, campaigned for valuation laws requiring life...
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  • (1940–2022) Woolhouse, Wesley S. B. Working, Holbrook Wright, Carroll D. Wright, Elizur Wright, Sewall Wrigley, E. A. Wu, Jeff C. F. Yates, Frank (1902–1994)...
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    President) Hiram Wilson (Canada) John Woolman (American Quaker) Elizur Wright (American) Frances Wright (American) Antônio de Castro Alves (Brazilian) Maria Tomásia...
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    ponere mores difficile, hoc nulla scilicet arte licet, Fable 52 Fable 71 Elizur Wright, Fables of La Fontaine, pp. 108–110 Poems and Translations, London 1727...
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    the faculty, that Green resigned, expecting that he would be fired. Elizur Wright, another professor, resigned soon afterwards and became the first secretary...
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    Abraham L. Cox (Recording Secretary), William Greene (Treasurer), Elizur Wright (Secretary of Domestic Correspondence), and William Lloyd Garrison (Secretary...
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  • little from La Fontaine's abbreviated version. Two pigeons (or doves in Elizur Wright's American translation) live together in the closest friendship and 'cherish...
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    Great Britain, Vol. 8, pp. 514–515 "The Dog and the Wolf", pp. 287–288 Elizur Wright's translation A performance on YouTube Old Testament Pseudepigrapha,...
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    l'Aisne, vol. XV 1969, p. 126 Fable 195 View on Wikimedia Commons "Elizur Wright's translation". Oaks.nvg.org. Retrieved 26 January 2011. Kriloff's Fables...
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    chapel, it is generally known, devolves upon me. As fellow professor Elizur Wright wrote, Green was "pastor of our college church". In his sermons, Green...
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