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…would go on to publish the novel Israel Potter (1855), The Piazza Tales (which contained the now famous stories "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno"), and The Confidence-Man (1857) before turning to poetry, giving up fiction and with hope of earning…

…advanced for their time. They harvested silk, and used it to weave fine fabrics. They used the potters wheel. They baked strong bricks in ovens, and used them to build their homes. They worked together on flood control and irrigation projects. They had great…

…and urbanization exist. David Potter says that Turner failed to see that technology and industry also produced abundance, which shaped the American character of individualism, egalitarianism and immense opportunities. Scholars say that the states of the upper valley…

…that was harmful and/or destructive to you? A common argument, which comes from Paul, states that because clay pots don't complain about what the potter does with them, people shouldn't complain…

…by public opinion against capital punishment. The following statement was made by Justice Potter Stewart who spoke for the majority, “In a nation less than half of whose people believe in the death penalty, a jury composed exclusively of such people cannot speak…

…be realized unless it is associated with surat, an association that God alone can make. The most poetic of images of Khayyam--the piece on the chessboard, the rose by the brook, the pot in the potter's shop, and the puppets of the puppeteer God--draw on this unique…

…gives considerable attention to the utilitarian. This should by no means be taken as a rigid scheme, however. Even within one form of art, motives may vary widely. Thus a potter or a weaver may create a highly functional work such as a salad bowl…

…faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being (19)." Another man who calls himself a "Humanist minister", Charles Francis Potter, says: "Education is thus a most powerful ally…

…it unconstitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan's line, "one man's vulgarity is another's lyric," sums up the impossibility of developing a definition of obscenity that isn't hopelessly vague and subjective. And Justice Potter Stewart's famous assurance, "I know…

…of growth, level of technology, growth of urbanization, the immigrant experience or the role of continuity and urbanization exist. David Potter says that Turner failed to see that technology and industry also produced abundance, which shaped the American…