How To Use Burgess In A Sentence

He ended up losing to Michael Burgess, a medical doctor and political novice.
In England the franchises enjoyed by burgesses, freemen and other consuetudinary constituencies in burghs, were dependent on the character of the burgage-tenure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
It appears that the burgesses as a group were responsible for payment of the Domesday custom and for later tallages and aids.
When we pray we admit defeat. Anthony Burgess
An interesting bit of backstory to the battle over Tim Burgess’ attempt to expand the definition of aggressive panhandling, which passed the city council 5-4 yesterday but faces a certain mayoral veto. After Giving Opponents Months to Organize Against Panhandling Proposal, Burgess Tried to Fast-Track Legislation « PubliCola

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. Anthony Burgess
Certainly the Cambrian record is deeply biased in favour of shelly fossils, as revealed by the exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas, where the vast majority of taxa and individuals were non-biomineralizing.
Bacon won election to the burgesses, Virginia's upper house, but was arrested when he tried to take his seat.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
Burgess-Dunne aeroboat, the property of Vincent Astor; also Mr. Astor's skilful services as pilot, which he generously offered through his interest in naval affairs and because of his desire to give the world this first account of a sea battle observed from the sky. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
Mrs Burgess said she had never kept a tally of how much money she had raised, but said it ran into thousands of pounds.
The film stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
The Return of the Names of Every Member… is the basic source for lists of parliamentary burgesses.
More numerous than the gentry-become-townsmen were the burgesses who fraternised with the gentry.
I think this ordinance is addressing a problem that doesn't exist ( "aggressive panhandling" is not my issue downtown) -- unless we're talking about Burgess 'mayoral ambitions (and, hey McGinn, way to set up a preview of the next election by vetoing this). Tim vs. Tim: The Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola
Using the visual, audio, kinetic and print forms, her new lingo reads like a wild blend of Chaucer, SMS-speak and Anthony Burgess's droog slang. This week's new exhibitions
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Anthony Burgess
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. Anthony Burgess
Second, the knights and burgesses soon realized that they held the purse strings: the Second Statute of 14 Edward III (1341), sometimes called the Statute de Tallagio non Concedendo (no taxation without representation) required that all nonfeudal levies receive parliamentary approval. 1347-55
Every man who strives to become a burgess of this town shall first be examined under oath upon a Book that he is no bondman, but free-born and of free status.
Sure it is time enough for decent burgesses to arm at the tolling of the common bell, which calls us out bodin in effeir of war.” The Fair Maid of Perth
Roman law, flocked into such centres; a tenacious and ambitious race of men issued from among the burgesses, who equally hated the naughtiness of the lords and what they called the lawlessness of the peasants. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
And the burgesses that were in their gowns and mantles had so great heat that they called their servants and bond men, of whom there were many that day in Amiens, and affranchised them for to bear their clothes into the city of Amiens. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
The burgesses, however, refused to enclose the surrounding open fields, and overcrowding became desperate.
The series adopted the clever ploy of presenting Philby, Burgess, McLean and Blunt not as black-hearted traitors but as men driven at least partially by ideals.
More than 260 townspeople now belong to the institution and there are four grades; commoner, landholder, assistant burgess and capital burgess.
Beginning in November the status of foreign burgess was granted to various lords who wished to acquire exemption from toll, for themselves and their villeins, on products grown on their estates and on goods bought for personal use.
Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of an elite using high culture as a "punitive slap on the chops" for low youth has come true.
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Anthony Burgess
Gelett Burgess (1866 – 1951) coined both blurb and tintiddle, though blurb is sometimes attributed to Brander Matthews. April « 2009 « Sentence first
Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
The other reason is that it’s a slim novel – I’d have liked to try a James Joyce novel, and I have a copy of Ulysses… but it’s huge I also own Anthony Burgess’ Here Comes Everybody, his study of, although there’s little point in reading about, unless I’ve read Joyce, Joyce, Joyce*. More Catching Up With The Challenge « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding. George Washington’s First War
The film stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
In the 12th cent. burgage tenure came to be seen as the normal characteristic of an English borough: each burgess held a burgage, usually a house with little other land, for a money rent.
First-term burgesses Hank Kuczenski and Mike Ciacciarella, Democrats who campaigned on promises to revamp Union City, will serve on the committee with veteran Republican Burgess Robert Neth, who lives in the area. News from www.rep-am.com
Biswell, at the end of this fine study, complains that there is no collected edition of Burgess's works.
Burgess pleaded no contest and was fined $ 150.
In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there.
Two burgesses of Edinburgh were accordingly summoned to take their trial for “felony, hamesucken, and violent invasion of the Queen’s palace.” Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
Banstead Athletic were cruelly denied three points at play-off chasers Burgess Hill Town because of a late penalty on Saturday, writes Ray Best.
'Thank God,' Jody Burgess exclaimed, standing up, coming around the bed with a kind of buoyantly expectant expression and both arms outstretched. The Hearing
In Rye, he had employed Fanny the parlormaid, pretty and quiet and careful, and in Rye, too, he had found a treasure called Burgess Noakes, gnome-sized and not pretty, but making up for it in punctuality and the desire to please. The Master
Try as she might, she could not persuade the knights and burgesses of the Commons to leave such royal matters to her.
Scott Burgess has offered a counter to this column on depletion and it can be found here.
This placed an onerous tax burden on townsmen (taxation had been extended beyond burgesses to resident non-burgesses).
In 1619 the Virginians set up an elected legislative assembly, the house of burgesses, which is now the state legislature. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Many were slain on the field, and such a number in the pursuit, that above one-third of the Covenanters were reported to have fallen; in which number, however, must be computed a great many fat burgesses who broke their wind in the flight, and thus died without stroke of sword. named Alister, or Alexander M ` Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command assigned him in the Irish troops. A Legend of Montrose
Were you a twelve-month aulder, we would make a burgess of you, man. Redgauntlet
The film stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. Anthony Burgess
This new borough was also endowed with land, the income from which was used to pay the salaries of two burgesses at parliament.
How effective is the Burgess proposal - almost all elements of it result in subjective determination: abusive language; so the ticket scalper who asks me three times in a loud voice for my extra; does that fall under the abusive part of the ordinance. “No Matter How Many Moats You Have.” « PubliCola
The policists, that is, the burgesses inclined to peace, repaired on their side to the provost of tradesmen to ask for his authority to assemble at the Palace or the Hotel de Ville, and to provide for security in case of any public calamity. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
Dr Burgess was recognized for her work in the field of victimology.
Next, an absolute corker of a day was had in Burgess Park.
This placed an onerous tax burden on townsmen (taxation had been extended beyond burgesses to resident non-burgesses).
Curiously enough, so confident was the belief of the settlers that they were founding towns, that they called their representatives "burgesses," and down to 1776 the assembly continued to be known as the House of "Burgesses," although towns refused to grow in Virginia, and soon after counties were organized in 1634 the burgesses sat for counties. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
(Yoho National Park), Burgess Shale fossils occur along the basinal edge of a paleoescarpment within the "thick" Stephen Formation. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
But now it had been crushed by the knights of the shires and burgesses in Parliament assembled.
These include the most commonly studied groups: the executive (mayors and bailiffs) and parliamentary burgesses.
The location of the Burgess fauna is indicated by a star on the continent of Laurentia (western North America).
I fancy I had been making queer faces enough, and perhaps talking to myself, When I saw myself used in this manner, I held out my clenched fists straight before me, stooped my head, and, like a ram when be makes his race, darted off right down the street, scattering groups of weatherbeaten lairds and periwigged burgesses, and bearing down all before me. Redgauntlet
Henry sent Mrs. Ticknor to the kitchen, and, having briefed the doctor, dispatched him in the care of the parlormaid to the room behind the pantry where, he understood from Burgess Noakes, Mr. Smith lay. The Master
However, Mr Burgess admitted that policing the system had its difficulties, as did monitoring the auction sites where virtual weapons can be sold for hundreds of pounds.
From the diminutive to the rather large, something for fans of invertebrates, Hurdia victoria, a half-meter long predatory arthropod from the famous Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale of British Columbia. "So lose some sleep and say you tried."
The earl, on hearing the news, called the burgesses, who were still with him, and sent them back to Ghent with a message to the town that they should have neither peace nor treaty until he had struck off the heads of all those whom he chose. A March on London
The cityscape in this case is London; the three pastoralists are G.K. Chesterton in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange; and I believe the three mythoi, in order, are Romance, Tragedy, and (surprise!) Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses
If one burgess had a complaint against another, he was expected to bring it before the town court, not to resort to any external legal authority.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess
Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength — And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state’s use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Despite the praise given to Burgess's powers of invention, much of his work derives from real-life scenarios.
He explained to the company that the butler was not well and hoped they would not be offended by the parlormaid serving luncheon with the assistance of young Burgess Noakes. The Master
When we pray we admit defeat. Anthony Burgess
At Lynn in 1340 John de Swerdestone and Adam de Walsoken were elected collectors of the wool custom by the mayor and burgesses, as specified by the king.
While Dinwiddie and the Burgesses jousted with each other, on February 17 Trent and less than fifty men reached the Forks. George Washington’s First War
For a modest rent, the holders of these burgages, the burgesses, became free men, and were released from any feudal services to an overlord.
* Note M. Sir William Dick of Braid. the Kirk, walking hand in hand with the real noble Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength -- And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
When IPA sales representatives first solicited their business, Doug Hassell and Kim Hudlow knew nothing about John Burgess or his company.
The film stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
He told me that in 1964 he had read an English novel called A Clockwork Orange, written by the well-known author Anthony Burgess, and a year later he had ponied up the thousand dollars needed to option the film rights. Jay Weston: Kubrick's Clockwork Orange Celebrates 40th Anniversary
There was a moment of unpleasantness when Yorkshire thought Parthiv was caught behind on 98 but umpire Graham Burgess gave him not out and some chuntering between the sides continued throughout the remainder of the day.
To finish this post I will leave you with an excerpt and a nonsense poem from his introduction to Burgess Unabridged, which is available online in scanned and text versions: April « 2009 « Sentence first
As guarantee of this, the burgess was expected to own a house which could be distrained in the event of default of payment.
In the 15th century the Yelde Hall was erected and used by the bailiffs and burgesses of the town as a council chamber.
How effective is the Burgess proposal - almost all elements of it result in subjective determination: abusive language; so the ticket scalper who asks me three times in a loud voice for my extra; does that fall under the abusive part of the ordinance. “No Matter How Many Moats You Have.” « PubliCola
What is so harmful about this mixture of real-life street-tragedy and low-rent entertainment is that "COPS" and its brethren reduce our resistance to the kind of dehumanized "ultra-violence" Anthony Burgess hypothesized in his then-seemingly satiric 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange. Dying and Living in COPS America
Brighton Argus reported that workers at the Burgess Hill and Shoreham factories of the Edwards company were told in the video - deemed "tactless" by the Unite union - that manufacturing was being moved to South Korea and the Czech Republic. The First Post: Latest
These unsegmented worms have been found in Cambrian rocks, such as the legendary Burgess Shale.
In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there.
Paul Burgess and Randy Olson are train enthusiasts and amateur photographers.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.Sentence dictionary Anthony Burgess
If your concealer is in a lipsticklike form, Burgess recommends cleaning it by occasionally shaving the top layer.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. Anthony Burgess
Trouble flared on the third and final day of the match with Burgess wagging his finger at Lehmann, who was fielding at mid-wicket when James Middlebrook had an appeal for lbw rejected by the umpire.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
DETROIT, Michigan (CNN) -- Jeremy Burgess likes the location and layout of the three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath home in the Grandmont neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. Rep. Barney Frank: Is There an Antidote to the Republican Amnesia?
Best wishes to Clive Burgess and Trish Connolly on their forthcoming nuptials.
KATHERINE ARIEL BURGESS, "KATE-: Kate is a native Auroran, banished from her homeworld because of an incurable disease. Suspicion
Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
The Book of Margery Kempe, the spiritual autobiography of the wife of a Lynn burgess, exemplified the virtues which lay men and women sought, and the revelations, visions, and ecstasies by which they came to possess them.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. Anthony Burgess
For example, Hughes said of the Cambrian arthropod Burgessia: ‘what is apparent from this restudy is that Burgessia did possess a mixture of characters… many of which are to be found in modern arthropods of various groups’.
Readers will be especially impressed by the Burgesses' unflagging commitment to the struggle for justice.
The summit is piled with granite, and out of the rock was hewn 'a warden's or president's chair, seats for the jurors, and a high corner stone for the crier of the court, and a table, 'says Polwhele; and here the' hardy mountain council '-- twenty-four burgesses from each of the stannary towns -- assembled. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.
Benjamin [freeholder, Williams Town, burgess for Lonsdale Ward], A [Alexander]. Archive 2009-05-01
Those of Maldon, it is stated in the sixteenth century recension of the custumal, were customarily made by bailiffs, burgesses, freemen, and commonalty.
Glidemaster, trained by Blair Burgess, won the Hambletonian in stakes-record time and added the Kentucky Futurity and Yonkers Trot to sweep the Triple Crown. Glidemaster chosen 2006 harness racing Horse of the Year
Luncheon would be served by the parlormaid with assistance from Burgess Noakes, who should be found a jacket which fitted him. The Master
Ever since I had to look up the word 'catamite' when I read that famous first line of Earthly Powers in 1981," he says, "I have been a Burgess fan. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
Although it gave no additional powers, it did change the title of inhabitants from burgesses to citizens.
In 1974, only a couple of years after Kubrick abandoned "Napoleon" to the snows of time, Burgess wrote a novel, "The Napoleon Symphony," that might have been devised as a reproach to Kubrick for never calling him to enliven his unmade chef-d'oeuvre. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
`As our good clerk knows, they do some good work amongst the poor, like other merchants, tailors, tradesmen and burgesses. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
This has some interesting implications not only with respect to long-term morphological stasis, but also with respect to long-term stasis of an ecology as represented by the Burgess Shale type fauna. Common ancestry passes another test. News at 11. - The Panda's Thumb
Writers such as John Fowles, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess have also seen dips in their posthumous reputations, but are likely to be reassessed. Bibliophilia for Beginners
It consisted of the governor, council, and deputies, or "burgesses," as they were called, chosen from the various plantations, or A Brief History of the United States
The married mother-of-five had been about to go into a haberdashery shop in Burgess Road when she felt a sharp sting on the back of her left leg.
I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. Notes on the State of Virginia
That year the school was in British Columbia near the site of the now-famous Burgess Shale fossil beds.
To many fans of Canadian music, the name Michael Burgess evokes an appreciation bordering the iconic.
And also I shall have within a year and a day a freehold within the town (as a burgess should), at which I may be summoned, or else lose my burgess status forever.
The poet in him meant that he would be able to turn out a satire in an age of corruption and abuse, but the self-promoter in him kept him busy as a letter-writer eager to please the burgesses of Hull.
Originally, the equestrians were a burgess cavalry; but gradually all who possessed estates of four hundred thousand sesterces were liable to cavalry service, and became enrolled in the order, which thus comprehended the whole senatorial and non-senatorial noble society of Rome. Ancient States and Empires
If a foreign burgess impleads a resident burgess of debt, regardless of the amount of the debt, then either is to be at his law.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football. Anthony Burgess
The burgesses are entitled, by the charter of Henry II., to have a GUILD MERCHANT, with the usual franchises annexed, of safe transit through the kingdom, exemption from toll, pontage, and stallage; liberty to buy and sell peaceably; and power to hold a guild for the renewal of freedom to the burgesses, the confirming of by-laws, and other purposes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
He became a burgess, and supported the government during Bacon's Rebellion.
The title, as enigmatic as most of the images we get to see during the movie, is actually a few words from the Cockney slang term "as queer as a clockwork orange," which Burgess decided to use to illustrate the oddity of a conditioned person ( "orang" being the Malay word for "man"). Film School Rejects
It is not to be allowed that any son of a burgess sit down or remain at a common council of the town if he is not sworn to conceal the counsel and secrets of the town.
Mr Burgess was a known heroin addict in the town who had a string of criminal convictions.
Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt spied out of political conviction.
Note M. Sir William Dick of Braid. the Kirk, walking hand in hand with the real noble Scottish-hearted barons, and with the magistrates of this and other towns, gentles, burgesses, and commons of all ranks, seeing with one eye, hearing with one ear, and upholding the ark with their united strength --- And then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the state's use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
NEWPORT - For the next Blue Monday concert in Newport Monday, KASU Radio presents a band that was founded in Newport in the 1950s and made their first Sun recording in 1956 - Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers. Arkansas Online stories
The film stars Mark Burgess-Ashton as the gung-ho young fighter pilot.
Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
Considerations such as the above serve to explain why writers and film directors ‎ since George Orwell's 1984 have depicted the future, not as paradise regained, but as a ‎ series of dystopias and cacotopias (perhaps the most memorable, after Orwell's haunting ‎ novel, was Anthony Burgess's more 'lyrical' cacotopia, "A Clockwork Orange", which ‎ found the perfect director in Stanley Kubrick, the misanthrope of the twentieth century). ‎ The Incoherence of Progress
We are glad to see that Evesham Town Council is making an effort to obtain concessions from the railway companies which, if granted, will be of great benefit to the burgesses.
In 1974, only a couple of years after Kubrick abandoned "Napoleon" to the snows of time, Burgess wrote a novel, "The Napoleon Symphony," that might have been devised as a reproach to Kubrick for never calling him to enliven his unmade chef-d'oeuvre. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
Henry and Catharine were married within four months after the battle of the North Inch, and never did the corporations of the glovers and hammermen trip their sword dance so featly as at the wedding of the boldest burgess and brightest maiden in Perth. The Fair Maid of Perth
Burgess was 21, and an apprentice upholsterer in Christchurch when he was called up in 1942.
To some, the huge variety of life in the Burgess shale has been an inspiration.
The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. Anthony Burgess
Up the aisle she flashed, and none but Mary Cavendish could have made that little journey under the eyes of the governor in his pew and the governor's lady and all the burgesses, and the churchwarden half starting up as if to exercise his authority, and the parson swelling with a vast expanse of sable robes over the Book, with no abashedness and yet no boldness nor unmaidenly forwardness. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
No resident burgess is in anger to call a bailiff or wardemen by any name such as thief, knave, backbiter, whoreson, false, foresworn, cuckold, or bawd.
BTW, what did Burgess do, read that issue of Preacher where they had they retarded hillybilly inbred hicks that were supposed to be the untainted line of Jesus, and have a brainfart idea for a movie? JESUS MARRIED MARY, MAYBE HAD A BABY
In it the king sets forth that he has made a burgh (burgum fecisse) at his new castle upon Are, and has granted to the burgh and its burgesses all the liberties and free consuetudes which his other burghs and burgesses through his kingdom enjoy.
It seems to me to demonstrate only a lamentable lack of any informed thought in a matter which, however unimportant it may have seemed to the Bank, was and is of real importance to Mrs Burgess.
But Dolan and Burgess have not signed up for the fan club.
Sharks are equipped with organs on the underside of their snouts - gel filled pits called ampullae of Lorenzini - that allow them to detect electromagnetic fields from their intended food, Burgess said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Both McLean and Burgess have denied that they forced soil and debris into the victim's mouth, choking her to death.
The mediaeval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
These meetings of the burgesses were the great social as well as political event of the Old Dominion, and gave a gathering signal to the Virginian gentry scattered far and wide on their lonely plantations. Montcalm and Wolfe
Typically, Burgess says, forecasters err on the side of caution by issuing a severe storm warning.
This act declared that those elected should be called burgesses, and should supply the place of the freemen who chose them, as do the representatives in the The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
One weekend in a fortnight is what's commonly awarded and it's not a meaningful time," said Adrienne Burgess, director of research at the Fatherhood Institute. Childhood casualties of the family courts
But what would the burning of a borrel ignorant burgess like me serve? The Fair Maid of Perth
In 1619, Virginia set up the House of Burgesses, the first elected legislative assembly in America.
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. Anthony Burgess
‘It has happened too many times to be fluky,’ Burgess said.
By modern, cult-of-youth standards, Burgess was a late bloomer as a writer, not getting published until he was 35.
I have also been having a desultory email discussion of some issues with moral philosopher Keith Burgess-Jackson lately.
And will Burgess promise "morning in Seattle"? hobgoblin McGinn’s Budget Briefing: Gloom, Doom, and Reorganization « PubliCola
As a burgess, "Loudoun" Lee served on committees dealing with "Propositions and Grievances," "encouraging Arts and Manufactures" and "Privileges and Elections."
And I think there's a tradition of writers from Defoe to Burgess who see the business of writing as communicating, and turn their hands to different forms.
Burgess' treatment of transpositions deserves some discussion.
He assembled the burgesses of La Rochelle, and laid before them the pitiable condition of the kingdom, the wicked designs of people who were their enemies as well as his own: he called upon them to come and help; he promised to be aidful to them in all their affairs, and, "as a pledge of my good faith," said he, "I will leave you my wife and children, the dearest and most precious jewels I have in this world. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
Although illiterate, he was named one of the chief burgesses, then chamberlain, then alderman in 1565, and finally High Bailiff in 1568.
There were 276 burgesses in 1086 under the direct lordship of the king, and about 450 households in all within the borough's boundaries.
A large area of somewhat marshy ground west of the Gipping belonged to the burgesses in common; the northern part in particular, being drier, was used for pasturage.
This created a form of town council (the corporation), made up of aldermen and chief burgesses, headed by a high bailiff.
A bewigged clerk read out a royal welcome to 'our right, trusty and right well-beloved' lords, knights, citizens and burgesses. Times, Sunday Times
Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of an elite using high culture as a "punitive slap on the chops" for low youth has come true.

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