• Samuel Butler may refer to: Samuel Butler (poet) (1613–1680), English poet and satirist Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), English classical scholar...
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    Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the...
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    Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem...
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    Samuel Butler FRS (30 January 1774 – 4 December 1839) was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster of Shrewsbury School, and Bishop of Lichfield...
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  • Samuel Butler (February 2, 1825 – February 1, 1891) was an American politician who served as Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1880 to 1882. A member...
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    Graduate students have a membership to the JCR, but also belong to the Samuel Butler Room, which is the Middle Combination Room (MCR) of St John's College...
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  • Sir Samuel Butler Provis CH KCB (9 February 1845 – 11 July 1926) was a British civil servant, working at the Local Government Board for 37 years. Provis...
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    was Samuel Butler, who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and served as Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1880 to 1882. Butler's childhood...
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  • Samuel Evan Butler (15 April 1850 – 30 April 1903) was an English cricketer who attended St Alban Hall and Brasenose College, Oxford. In the University...
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    Alan Butler (22 November 1898 – 24 May 1987), born as Alan Samuel Butler, was a British aviator and, as claimed in his obituary in The Times, the first...
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    nor Fountain found much success into the 1970s. In 1972, guitarist Samuel Butler Jr. (son of the guitarist of the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi) joined...
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    solicitor and writer, known as the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. He was the son of Thomas Jones Q.C., and entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge...
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    Erewhon (category Novels by Samuel Butler (novelist))
    Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ɛrɛhwɒn/) is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered...
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  • name "Erewhon" is derived from the 1872 satirical novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler. In the novel, Erewhon, an anagram of "nowhere", is a utopia in which...
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    identity has attracted scholarly interest Odyssey IX, translated by Samuel Butler. A tribe of Libya which dwelt west of the Macae In A.D. Godley's translation...
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  • Darwin among the Machines (category Works by Samuel Butler (novelist))
    which references the work of Charles Darwin in the title. Written by Samuel Butler but signed Cellarius, the article raised the possibility that machines...
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  • The Way of All Flesh (category Novels by Samuel Butler (novelist))
    novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared...
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  • Ironweed, published in 1983; the oldest is The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, which was written between 1873 and 1884, but not published until 1902...
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  • delirium and hallucinations.[citation needed] In The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Ernest develops brain fever after being sent to prison for sexual assault...
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  • notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, many science fiction stories have presented...
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    and go straight on to the dark abode of Hades. — Odyssey 10.505, tr. Samuel Butler Homer describes Aeaea as covered with a mixture of pasture and dense...
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    Erewhon Revisited (category Novels by Samuel Butler (novelist))
    Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler, forming a belated sequel to his Erewhon (1872). The Cambridge History...
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  • with the families not on speaking terms. In Evolution Old and New Samuel Butler claimed that earlier evolutionists had correctly seen the mind as controlling...
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  • Goodall 1787 F. Wrangham 1792 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Samuel Butler 1793 J. Keate; Samuel Butler 1794 Samuel Butler 1796 W. Frere 1797 W. Frere 1800...
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  • Butler High School was a four-year public high school that served students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, Alabama. The school was named after Samuel...
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    offspring." Several other variations on this anecdotal response also exist. Samuel Butler proposed in his 1872 novel Erewhon that machines were already capable...
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    describes as "simple, faithful." An 1898 translation by Samuel Butler was published by Longmans. Butler had read Classics at Cambridge University, graduating...
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    Augsburg Fortress. Homer. The Iliad. The Project Gutenberg Etext. Trans. Samuel Butler. Hesiod. Works And Days[permanent dead link]. ll. 60–68. Trans. Hugh...
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    40a as cited in Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 2 Homer, translated by Samuel Butler. The Odyssey at Project Gutenberg. Book X. John Tzetzes. Chiliades,...
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    Institution. Owen's published sermons and biography provided the target for Samuel Butler's satirical novel The Fair Haven. Joseph Butterworth Owen was born at...
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