He did not consider giving offence to constitute "harm"; an action could not be restricted because it violated the conventions or morals of a given society.Mill, John Stuart. [1859] 2001. On Liberty.
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The three make love. Outside, the four servants restrain themselves for fear of giving offence to a royal residence. The three bathe, eat a meal, and swear undying love. The princesses and their maids leave to return to Song before evening falls.
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Without the benefit of Henry's dialogue, the real-life Max seems superficial. By contrast, his wife Annie is, according to the script, "very much like the woman Charlotte has ceased to be." Annie is a devoted activist on behalf of an imprisoned soldier, Brodie, who has been arrested for setting fire to the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Henry mocks her as a sentimental do-gooder, giving offence to Max.
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Some of his pinned-up drawings were noticed by an "eminent medical gentleman", a "Mr Von Sechendorf" (who was visiting another family member), and a place was procured for him at Dresden Polytechnic, an institute of technical education (it was said that his parents were poor and had no money to send their son to college, but were afraid of giving offence to the civil servant). Beyer supplemented a meagre state scholarship by doing odd jobs (a philanthropic lady was in the habit of giving Sunday dinner to the student with the highest marks that week. Beyer relied on the meal, and consequently made sure that he out-performed everyone else). Upon completing his studies at the Dresden Academy, Beyer took a job in a machine works at Chemnitz, and he obtained a state grant from the Saxon Government to visit the United Kingdom to report on weaving machine technology.
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King Leopold II's determination to conquer a piece of Africa sent Stanley back to establish the Congo Free State It is at this point that Leopold II of Belgium took a part. In Peter Forbath's words, Leopold was: > A tall, imposing man ... enjoying a reputation for hedonistic sensuality, > cunning intelligence (his father once described him as subtle and sly as a > fox), overweening ambition, and personal ruthlessness. He was, nevertheless, > an extremely minor monarch in the realpolitik of the times, ruling a totally > insignificant nation, a nation in fact that had come into existence barely > four decades before and lived under the constant threat of losing its > precarious independence to the great European powers around it. He was a > figure who, one might have had every reason to expect, would devote himself > to maintaining his country's strict neutrality, avoiding giving offence to > any of his powerful neighbours, and indulging his keenly developed tastes > for the pleasures of the flesh, rather than one who would make a profound > impact on history.
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He was a townsman and presumably a native of Hull; but his name does not appear in any list of naval officers during the civil war or until 26 September 1650, when an order was sent by the parliament to the council of state to appoint him `as commander of the ship now to be built at Woolwich, or any other ship that they think fit.´ This is the earliest mention of him as yet known. That his appointment was irregular and gave offence to his subordinates, officers of some experience at sea, and that he had neither the knowledge nor the ability to enforce obedience to his orders, appears throughout his whole correspondence, which gives an account of his sailing in the Leopard of 50 guns, of his arrival at Smyrna with the convoy, of his sailing thence in April 1651, and of his successive arrivals at Zante, Messina, Naples, and Genoa. In November 1651 he went to Leghorn, and immediately off that port captured, or permitted the ships with him to capture, a French vessel; thus, at the outset, giving offence to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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He possesses talents of a very superior order, > and acquirements that do great credit to his industry; is mild and > conciliating in his manners, forcible in his arguments, yet possessing a > sufficient degree of zeal, never giving offence to the government, nor > creating dislike by being over-zealous, and thereby disgusting the natives; > but the bad state of his health would not permit him to remain on this good > missionary ground, which may be made, in a few years, ready for the harvest. Rev. Jones' proselytizing work was primarily with the Chinese in Bangkok. He founded a Chinese Baptist church in 1835. His first baptism was the re-baptism of Boon Tee, a Chaozhou Chinese who had previously been baptized by Gutzlaff, but not by immersion.Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei (2004). The Chinese Christian Transnational Networks Of Bangkok-Hong Kong-Chaozhou in the 19th Century . Retrieved on February 21, 2009. Eliza Jones died of cholera at Bangkok on March 28, 1838. Rev. Jones remarried in November 1840, to Judith Leavitt. She died at sea on March 21, 1846, while en route back to the US with her husband and daughter.
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