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BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS (186o– )

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BRYAN, See also:WILLIAM JENNINGS (186o– ) , See also:American a weekly See also:political See also:journal, The Commoner, which attained a wide political See also:leader, son of See also:Silas Lillard Bryan, a native of Culpeper circulation. In igo4 although not actively a See also:candidate for the See also:county, See also:Virginia, who was a lawyer and from 186o to 1897 a Democratic nomination (which eventually went to See also:Judge See also:state See also:circuit judge, was See also:born at See also:Salem, See also:Marion county, See also:Illinois, See also:Parker), he was to the very last considered a possible nominee; on the 19th of See also:March 186o. He graduated from Illinois See also:College and he strenuously opposed in the See also:convention the repudiation as valedictorian in 1881, and from the See also:Union College of See also:Law, by the conservative See also:element of the stand taken in the two See also:Chicago, in 1883; during his course he studied in the law See also:office previous See also:campaigns. The decisive defeat of Parker by See also:President of Lyman See also:Trumbull. He practised law at See also:Jacksonville from See also:Roosevelt did much to bring back the Democrats to Mr Bryan's 1883 to 1887, when he removed to See also:Lincoln, See also:Nebraska. There banner. In 1905-1906 he made a trip See also:round the See also:world, and he soon became conspicuous both as a lawyer and as a politician, in See also:London was cordially received as a See also:great American orator. attracting particular See also:attention by his speeches during the He was again nominated for the See also:presidency by the Demo-presidential See also:campaign of 1888 on behalf of the candidates of cratic party in 1908. The See also:free-See also:silver theory was now dead, the Democratic party. From 1891 to 1895 he represented the and while the See also:main question was that of the attitude to be First Congressional See also:District of Nebraska, normally Republican, taken towards the See also:Trusts. it was much confused by See also:personal in the See also:national See also:House of Representatives, and received the issues, Mr Roosevelt himself intervening strongly in favour of unusual See also:honour of being placed on the important See also:Committee the Republican nominee, Mr See also:Taft. After a heated contest Mr on Ways and Means during his first See also:term. He was a hard and Bryan again suffered a decisive defeat, President Taft securing conscientious worker and became widely known for his ability 321 electoral votes to Mr Bryan's 162. in debate.

Two of his speeches in particular attracted attention, BRYANSK, a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Orel, one against the policy of See also:protection (16th of March 1892), and 83 M. by See also:rail W.N.W. of the See also:city of that name, in 530 15' N. and the other against the See also:repeal of the silver See also:purchase clause of the 340 10' E. on the See also:river Desna. It is mentioned in 1146, being See also:Sherman See also:Act (16th of See also:August 1893). In the latter he advocated then also known as Debryansk. It afterwards formed a See also:separate the unlimited coinage of silver, irrespective of See also:international principality, which came to an end in 1356 with the See also:death of agreement, at a ratio of 16 to 1, a policy with which his name the See also:prince. After the Mongol invasion of 1241, Bryansk See also:fell was afterwards most prominently associated.. In a campaign into the See also:power of the See also:Lithuanians; and finally became incorlargely restricted to the question of free-silver coinage he was porated with the See also:Russian See also:empire in the beginning of the 17th defeated for re-See also:election in 1894, and subsequently was also See also:century. Bryansk was taken by the followers of the first false defeated as the Democratic candidate for the See also:United States See also:Demetrius, but it successfully resisted the attacks of the second See also:Senate. As editor of the See also:Omaha World-See also:Herald he then cham- impostor of that name. Under the empress See also:Anne a See also:dock was pioned the cause of See also:bimetallism in the See also:press as vigorously as he constructed for the See also:building of See also:ships, but it was closed in 1739. had in See also:Congress and on the See also:platform, his articles being widely In 1783 an See also:arsenal was established for the See also:founding of See also:cannon. quoted and discussed. The See also:cathedral was built in 1526, and restored in the end of the The Democratic party was even more radically divided on 17th century. There are two high See also:schools; and the See also:industrial the question of monetary policy than the Republican; and establishments include See also:iron, rope, See also:brick and See also:tallow-boiling President See also:Cleveland, by securing the repeal of the silver purchase See also:works, saw-See also:mills and See also:flour-mills, See also:tobacco-factories and a brewery. clause in the Sherman Act by Republican votes, had alienated Some distance See also:north of the town are the Maltsov iron-works, with a great See also:majority of his party.

In the Democratic national See also:

glass factories and rope-walks, employing 20,000 men. A convention at Chicago in 1896, during a See also:long and heated debate considerable See also:trade is carried on, especially in See also:wood, See also:tar, See also:hemp, with regard to the party platform, Bryan, in advocating the See also:pitch, hemp-See also:seed-oil and See also:cattle. In 1867 the See also:population num-" See also:plank " declaring for the free coinage of silver, of which he was bered 13,881, and in 1897 23,520. the author, delivered a celebrated speech containing the passage, See also:BRYANT, See also:JACOB (1715-1804), See also:English antiquarian and You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this See also:crown writer on mythological subjects, was born at See also:Plymouth. His of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a See also:cross of See also:gold." See also:father had a See also:place in the customs there, but was afterwards This speech made him the idol of the ; ` silver " majority of the stationed at See also:Chatham. The son was first sent to a school. near See also:Rochester, whence he was removed to See also:Eton. In 1736 he was elected to a scholarship at See also:King's College, See also:Cambridge, where he took his degrees of B.A. (1740) and M.A. (1744), subsequently being elected a See also:fellow. He returned to Eton as private See also:tutor to the See also:duke of See also:Marlborough, then See also:marquess of See also:Blandford; and in 1756 he accompanied the duke, then See also:master-See also:general of See also:ordnance and See also:commander-See also:ill-See also:chief of the forces in See also:Germany, to the See also:continent as private secretary. He was rewarded by a lucrative See also:appointment in the ordnance See also:department, which allowed him ample leisure to indulge his See also:literary tastes. He twice refused the mastership of the See also:Charterhouse.

Bryant died on the 14th of See also:

November 1804 at Cippenham near See also:Windsor. He See also:left his library to King's College, having, however, previously made some valuable presents from it to the king and the duke of Marlborough. He bequeathed £2000 to the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel, and £i000 for the use of the superannuated collegers of Eton. His See also:principal works are: Observations and Inquiries See also:relating to various Parts of See also:Ancient See also:History (1767); A New See also:System, or an See also:Analysis, of Ancient See also:Mythology, wherein an See also:attempt is made to divest Tradition of See also:Fable, and to reduce Truth to its See also:original Purity (1774-1776), which is fantastic and now wholly valueless; Vindication of the Apamean See also:Medal (1775), which obtained the support of the great numismatist See also:Eckhel; An Address to Dr See also:Priestley upon his See also:Doctrine of Philosophical See also:Necessity (178o) ; Vindiciae Flavianae, a Vindication of the Testimony of See also:Josephus concerning Jesus See also:Christ (178o) ; Observations on the Poems of See also:Thomas See also:Rowley, in which the Authenticity of those Poems is ascertained (1781); See also:Treatise upon the Authenticity of the Scriptures, and the Truth of the See also:Christian See also:Religion (1792) ; Observations upon the Plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians (1794); Observations on a Treatise, entitled Description of the See also:Plain of See also:Troy, by Mr de See also:Chevalier (1795); A Dissertation concerning the See also:War of Troy, and the Expedition of the Grecians, as described by See also:Homer, with the view of showing that no such expedition was ever undertaken, and that no such city as See also:Phrygia existed (1796); The Sentiments of See also:Philo Judaeus concerning the Abyos or Word of See also:God (1797).

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