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Stuart

noun

United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828). Synonyms: Gilbert Charles Stuart, Gilbert Stuart.

A member of the royal family that ruled Scotland and England.

The royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714.

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"Stuart" Quotes from Famous Books

... and of Aunt Rachel; but the inferences he drew from them were different from what Waverley expected. They held the language of discontent with government, threw out no obscure hints of revenge, and that of poor Aunt Rachel, which plainly asserted the justice of the Stuart cause, was held to contain the open avowal of what the others only ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... the first Stuart king of England, Oxford became the town that we know. Even in Elizabeth's days, could we ascend the stream of centuries, we should find ourselves much at home in Oxford. The earliest trustworthy map, that of Agas (1578), is worth studying, if we wish to understand ...

— Oxford • Andrew Lang

... Mr. Stuart Mill writes: "The land of Ireland, the land of every country, belongs to the people of that country. The individuals called landowners have no right, in morality or justice, to anything but the rent, or compensation for its saleable value. When the inhabitants of a country quit the country ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... is due to Mr. R. Stuart Poole, the learned curator of the coins and gems in the British Museum, for his kind selection of the most suitable medals, and for procuring casts of them for me for the present purpose. These casts were, with one exception, all photographed ...

— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton

... of very religious kings, and made the good and the bad very much alike. Charles V. offered 5000 crowns for the murder of an enemy. Ferdinand I. and Ferdinand II., Henry III. and Louis XIII., each caused his most powerful subject to be treacherously despatched. Elizabeth and Mary Stuart tried to do the same to each other. The way was paved for absolute monarchy to triumph over the spirit and institutions of a better age, not by isolated acts of wickedness, but by a studied philosophy of crime and so thorough a perversion of the moral sense ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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