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OSH , a See also:town of See also:Russian See also:Turkestan, in the See also:government of See also:Ferghana, 31 m. S.E. of See also:Andijan railway See also:terminus, at an See also:altitude of 4030 ft. Pop. (19oo) 37,397. It consists of two parts, native and Russian. Here begins a See also:good road up to the See also:Pamirs, practicable for See also:artillery. The See also:trade with See also:China is considerable.
O'SHANASSY, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1818-1883), See also:British colonial states-See also:man, was See also:born in 1818 at Holycross See also:Abbey, near See also:Thurles, See also:Tipperary, his See also:father being a See also:land surveyor. He married in 1839, and the same See also:year emigrated to the See also:Port See also:Phillip See also:district of New See also:South See also:Wales, where he was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time engaged in farming, and subsequently commenced business in See also:Melbourne. Dr Geoghegan, afterwards See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop of See also:Adelaide, induced him to take See also:part in public affairs. He was one of the founders, and later the See also:president, of the St See also:Patrick's Society of Melbourne, and represented the Roman Catholic See also:body on the denominational See also:board of See also:education. When Port Phillip was separated from New South Wales in 1851 and became the See also:colony of See also:Victoria, O'Shanassy was returned to the Legislative See also:Council as one of the members for Melbourne. A few See also:weeks after the new colony began its See also:independent existence See also:gold was discovered, and the See also:local government had to solve a number of difficult problems. The legislature was composed partly of elected representatives, and partly of nominees appointed by the See also:governor in council. The See also:great natural ability of O'Shanassy forced him to the front, and for some time the policy of the See also:country was virtually shaped by him and by Mr (afterwards Sir) W. F. See also:Stawell, the See also:attorney-See also:general. It was very much owing to the strong position taken by O'Shanassy that the Legislative Council was allowed to See also:control not only the See also:ordinary See also:revenue raised by See also:taxation, but also the territorial revenue derived from the See also:sale and occupation of See also:crown lands. From that date the Legislative Council, led by O'Shanassy, became virtually supreme. After the See also:Ballarat riots in 1854, O'Shanassy was one of the members of a See also:commission appointed to inquire into the See also:condition of the gold-See also:fields. The commission's See also:report was the See also:foundation of the See also:mining legislation which, initiated in Victoria, was gradually followed by all the Australasian colonies. O'Shanassy, together with Sir See also:Andrew See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke, was one of the framers of the responsible government constitution. Under this constitution O'Shanassy was returned in 1856 to the Legislative See also:Assembly for Melbourne and Kilmore, but took his seat for the latter See also:constituency. See also:Early in 1857 the Haines See also:ministry, the first formed after the concession of responsible government, was defeated, and O'Shanassy formed a ministry of which he became the premier. But he was defeated after holding See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office for little more than six weeks. He returned to See also:power in 1858 as See also:chief secretary and premier. One of the first duties of the new ministry was to inaugurate the See also:system of See also:railways, and to raise the necessary funds for their construction. O'Shanassy decided to See also:- FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect
float a See also:loan of eight millions See also:sterling through the instrumentality of six of the Melbourne See also:banks, and he began the See also:series of borrowings by the Australian governments which subsequently attained such large proportions. In 1859 the ministry resigned, but in See also:August 1861 O'Shanassy formed his third See also:administration. During the two years that it held office the government passed an Education, a Local government, a See also:Civil Service and a Land See also:Act. The See also:object of this last act was to abolish the system of selling the crown lands by See also:auction, and to substitute another which insisted rather upon See also:residence and cultivation than upon obtaining the highest possible See also:price. The act did not carry out all the intentions of its framers, but it was a step in the right direction. The O'Shanassy government was defeated in See also:June 1863, and its chief never again succeeded in regaining office. He did not stand at the general See also:election of 1866, and paid a visit to See also:Europe. In 1867 he returned to Victoria, and was elected to the Legislative Council. In 1870 he was created C.M.G., and in 1874 K.C.M.G. In the latter year he resigned his seat in the council, and did not re-enter public See also:life until 1877, when he was returned to the
Assembly for See also:Belfast. His strongly expressed Conservative opinions and his devotion to the interests of the Roman Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church impaired his See also:influence in the legislature, which had become extremely democratic during the eleven years that he had been absent from it; and although Sir John was a fearless critic of the policy of the government, he never succeeded in defeating it. He had a singularly comprehensive grasp of all constitutional questions, was an eloquent See also:speaker and an ardent See also:free-trader. He retired from See also:parliament in 188o, and died in 1883.
O'SHAUGHNESSY, See also:ARTHUR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:EDGAR (1844-1881), See also:English poet, was born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:March 1844, and at the See also:age of seventeen obtained through the first See also:Lord See also:Lytton, who took a See also:peculiar See also:interest in him, the See also:post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum. Two years later he was appointed to be an assistant in the natural See also:history See also:department, where he specialized in See also:ichthyology. But his natural See also:bent was towards literature. He published his Epic of See also:Women in 1870, See also:Lays of See also:France, a free version of the Lais of See also:Marie de France, in 1872, and See also:Music and Moonlight in 1874. In his thirtieth year he married a daughter of John Westland See also:Marston, and during the last seven years of his life printed no See also:volume of See also:poetry. Songs of a Worker was published posthumously in 1881, O'Shaughnessy dying on the 3oth of See also:January in that year from the effects of a chill upon a delicate constitution. O'Shaughnessy was a true See also:singer; but his poems lack importance in theme and dignity in thought. His melodies are often magnificent; and, as in The See also:Fountain of Tears, the richness of his imagery conceals a certain vagueness and indecision of the creative See also:faculty. He was very felicitous in bold uses of repetition and See also:echo, by which he secured effects which for haunting See also:melody are almost inimitable. His spirit is that of a mild See also:melancholy, drifting helplessly through the realities of life and spending itself in See also:song.
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