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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Carlyle, OBE (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish film and television actor.Carlyle was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, the son of Elizabeth, a bus company employee, and Joseph Carlyle, a painter and decorator. He was raised by his father after his mother left when Carlyle was four years old. He left school at 16 without qualifications and went to work for his father as a painter and decorator, however he continued his education by attending night classes at Cardonald College in Glasgow. ... Read more

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Kapitel: John Barrowman, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Lawrence, Robert Carlyle, Peter Capaldi, Helen Macinnes, James Mccarthy, Liste Der Erzbischöfe Von Glasgow, Earl of Glasgow, Liste Der Söhne Und Töchter Der Stadt Glasgow, Tommy Flanagan. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Robert Carlyle, OBE (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish film and television actor. He is most known for his work in Trainspotting, The World is Not Enough, and The Full Monty. He is currently starring as Doctor Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe. Carlyle was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, the son of Elizabeth, a bus company employee, and Joseph Carlyle, a painter and decorator. He was brought up by his father after his mother left when Carlyle was four years old. He left school at 16 without qualifications and went to work for his father as a painter and decorator, however he continued his education by attending night classes at Cardonald College in Glasgow. Carlyle is a supporter of Glasgow Rangers FC Carlyle became involved in drama at the Glasgow Arts Centre at the age of 21 (having been inspired by reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible), and subsequently graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 1991, he and four friends founded an acting company and guest starred in The Bill. His first high profile role came as murderer Albie Kinsella in an October 1994 episode of Cracker opposite Robbie Coltrane (in which he killed five people, including the character DCI David Bilborough, played by Christopher Eccleston). He soon landed the role of Highland policeman Hamish Macbeth in the eponymous BBC comedy-drama. In 1994, he played the gay lover of Father Greg in the film Priest. In 1996 and 1997, he appeared in the two most high-profile roles of his career to date: that of the sociopathic Francis Begbie in Trainspotting and Gaz, the leader of a group of amateur male strippers, in The Full Monty, the latter earning Carlyle a BAFTA Award for Bes...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:NOTES.To The Student. — The question has been seriously mooted as to whether classic books, edited for the use of students, are too much or too little annotated. To this question, so conditional in character, no satisfactory answer has been given; nor, from the very nature of the question, can there be. Perhaps the nearest approach to an answer may be made by allowing each student to be his own an- notator — on somewhat the same principle as "every man his own lawyer." Then, if he thinks a book over-annotated, he may reject the work of other "hands," even when "eminent," and construct his own notes; if under.-annotated, he may enlarge the structure reared by another. Now, in a certain sense, and seriously speaking, that is exactly what every critical reader of Carlyle's Essay on Burns may, and ought to be, — his own annotator. For in the Essay are few recondite references to be explained, few obscure allusions to be illumined. The main purpose of the student should be to seize upon the spirit of the Essay, and, like Jacob wrestling with the angel, not let go till a blessing shall have been bestowed. It is for the student himself to read the poems which the author of the Essay analyses, — his own consciousness agreeing or differing; for the student, to mark with approving pencil the passages in the Essay ttiat most strongly appeal to him; for the student, to catch the swing and rugged rhythm of Carlyle's English, and note the sturdy vigor of his thought: beyond all, for the student to apprehend the nobleness of sentiment expressed, —remembering also that" the proper office of literature is to take note of sentiment, and the higher the sentiment the higher the literature." By that right standard judged, how lofty is the place of the Essay on Burns! But that sentiment, mark, must... ... Read more

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Dated at head of the drop-head title: August 2. 1770.

[Edinburgh, 1770]. 14p. ; 4° ... Read more

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“Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. Voyage to the First of December has true distinction … A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny—an abortive one at that—in our country’s naval history … the story is told with close adherence to the records, but using the novelist’s license to probe into the psychology of the actors in this drama, and to fill in the tantalizing spaces between the spare lines of fact.”—The Wall Street Journal

Drawn from the facts of a notorious episode in U.S. naval history, the Somers Mutiny Affair of 1842, Carlisle has crafted a stunning novel in the tradition of great stories of the sea. The story of the conflict between eighteen-year-old Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of President Tyler’s Secretary of War, and the man of necessities, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, commander of the Somers, provides an existential excursion to the center of a tragedy in our past which brilliantly illuminates the present.

On the first of December in 1842, Philip Spencer was hanged at sea along with two sailors, the three having been charged with leading a conspiracy to capture their ship, the brig of war Somers. Voyage to the First of December re-creates this controversial incident through the journal of the ship’s surgeon. Was there a real mutiny which nothing less than execution could check—or had the officers acted in panic, the commander for perhaps darker reasons? What happened at sea that the court-martial chose to overlook?

Voyage to the First of December effortlessly unites the taste of the sea with the relentless drama of men sitting in judgment of one another; a conflict between authority and rebellion, and ultimately one man’s quest for meaning.

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Fictional account of a little-known real-life naval tragedy
The USS Somers, a swift two-masted ship, was the site of an experiment intraining young people to be sailors.Unfortunately, one of the officers, aMr. Midshipman Spencer, son of the then secretary of war, was unhappy atbeing in the navy and liked to fantasize about being a pirate, which wasthe subject of the fiction he liked the best.His fantasies, combined witha harsh captain, the presence on the ship of at least one man who hadserved previously on a slave ship (considered piracy by the laws of thetime) and Mr. Spencer's unpopularity with his fellow-officers andpropensity to fraternize with and buy the affections of the crew, led to atragic scandal and indirectly to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy. ... Read more